During World War II, in order to protect it from advancing allied forces, Hitler ordered the king ’ s coffin, as well as those of Frederick the Great and Paul von Hindenburg, into hiding, first to Berlin and later to a salt mine outside of Bernestrode.

Hitler ’ s imprisonment following the failed November 1923 " Beer Hall Putsch " left the party temporarily leaderless, and when the 27-year-old Goebbels joined the party in late 1924 the most important influence on his political development was Gregor Strasser, who became Nazi organizer in northern Germany in March 1924.

The conflict was not, so they thought, with Hitler, but with his lieutenants, Rudolf Hess, Julius Streicher and Hermann Esser, who, they said, were mismanaging the party in Hitler ’ s absence.

" He was horrified by Hitler ’ s characterisation of socialism as " a Jewish creation ", and his assertion that private property would not be expropriated by a Nazi government.

Hitler, however, recognized Goebbels ’ talents.

Where Hitler ’ s style was hoarse and passionate, Goebbels ’ was cool, sarcastic and often humorous: he was a master of biting invective and insinuation, although he could whip himself into a rhetorical frenzy if the occasion demanded.

But his outstanding talents, and the obvious fact that he stood high in Hitler ’ s regard, earned Goebbels the grudging respect of the anti-intellectual brawlers of the Nazi movement, who called him " our little doctor " with a mixture of affection and amusement.

Goebbels, although he continued to show " leftish " tendencies in some of his actions ( such as co-operating with the Communists in supporting the Berlin transport workers ' strike in November 1932 ), was totally loyal to Hitler in his struggle with the Strassers, which culminated in Otto ’ s expulsion from the party in July 1930.

Despite his revolutionary rhetoric, Goebbels ’ most important contribution to the Nazi cause between 1930 and 1933 was as the organizer of successive election campaigns: The Reichstag elections of September 1930, July and November 1932 and March 1933, and Hitler ’ s presidential campaign of March – April 1932.

He proved to be an organizer of genius, choreographing Hitler ’ s dramatic airplane tours of Germany and pioneering the use of radio and cinema for electoral campaigning.

He commandeered the state radio to produce a live broadcast of the torchlight parade that celebrated Hitler ’ s assumption of office.

The role of the new ministry, which took over palatial accommodation in the 18th-century Leopold Palace on Wilhelmstrasse, just across from Hitler ’ s offices in the Reich Chancellery, was to centralize Nazi control of all aspects of German cultural and intellectual life, particularly the press, radio and the visual and performing arts.

But Goebbels always had to bow to Hitler ’ s views.

By the mid-1930s, Hitler ’ s most powerful subordinates were Hermann Göring, as head of the Four Year Plan for crash rearmament, and Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS and police apparatus.

" Fest also suggests a psychological motive: " A man who conformed so little to the National Socialist image of the elite ... may have had his reason, in the struggles for power at Hitler ’ s court, for offering keen anti-Semitism as a counterweight to his failure to conform to a type.

These events were well-timed from the point of view of Goebbels ’ relations with Hitler.

These events damaged Goebbels ’ standing with Hitler, and his zeal in furthering Hitler ’ s anti-Semitic agenda was in part an effort to restore his reputation.

Goebbels, like all the Nazi leaders, could not afford to defy Hitler ’ s will in matters of this kind.

By 1938, they had all become wealthy men, but their wealth was dependent on Hitler ’ s continuing goodwill and willingness to turn a blind eye to their corruption.

Whatever the loss of real power suffered by Goebbels during the middle years of the Nazi regime, he remained one of Hitler ’ s intimates.

Since his offices were close to the Chancellery, he was a frequent guest for lunch, during which he became adept at listening to Hitler ’ s monologues and agreeing with his opinions.

The fact that Hitler was fond of Magda Goebbels and the children also gave Goebbels entrée to Hitler ’ s inner circle.

The Goebbels family regularly visited Hitler ’ s Bavarian mountain retreat, the Berghof.

With Hitler preoccupied with the war, Himmler focusing on the " final solution to the Jewish question " in eastern Europe, and with Hermann Göring ’ s position declining with the failure of the German Air Force ( Luftwaffe ), Goebbels sensed a power vacuum in domestic policy and moved to fill it.

Adolf Hitler was opposed to egalitarian and universal social welfare because, in his view, it encouraged the preservation of the degenerate and feeble.

The Reductio ad Hitlerum attempts to refute a view because it has been held by Hitler.

But Hitler, supported by Göring, resisted these demands, which he feared would weaken civilian morale and lead to a repetition of the debacle of 1918, when the German army had been undermined ( in Hitler's view ) by a collapse of the home front.

After Stalingrad, Hitler increasingly withdrew from public view, almost never appearing in public and rarely even broadcasting.

Ribbentrop supported his analysis of the situation by only showing Hitler diplomatic dispatches that supported his view that neither Britain or France would honour their commitments to Poland.

Soviet sources have claimed that soon after the pact was signed, both the UK and US showed understanding that the buffer zone was necessary to keep Hitler from advancing for some time, accepting the ostensible strategic reasoning ; however, soon after World War II ended, those countries changed their view.

On the following day, 31 July 1944, in view of the likely invasion by German forces, the state sent three letters of protest: one to Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister, one to Adolf Hitler and one to Benito Mussolini, the latter delivered by a delegation to Serafino Mazzolini, a high-ranking diplomat in the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

His view of the war was that with Hitler gone, the German army could be rebuilt into an ally in a potential war against the Russians, whom Patton notoriously despised and considered a greater menace than the Germans.

The entire execution and multiple resuscitations was filmed for Hitler to view at his leisure.

In the first edition of Hitler's War, Irving footnotes, " I cannot accept the view … there exists no document signed by Hitler, Himmler or Heydrich speaking of the extermination of the Jews ".

Irving also took the view that Hitler often tried to help the Jews of Europe.

Moreover, in a partial break with his view of German history advocated in The Course of German History, he argued that Hitler was not just a normal German leader but also a normal Western leader.

The Nazi government that led Germany into World War II appears to have had the support of the majority of Germans, and this view holds that it was not until much later, after Germany's losses began to mount, that support for Hitler began to fade.

Hitler accepted this view, and on 24 May issued what became known as the Halt Order, preventing the German armour from rapidly capturing Calais and Dunkirk.

Hitler was not persuaded: his view was that the invasion must be defeated on the beaches.

Furthermore, officers like Rundstedt who argued that a coup against Hitler would not have won support in the Army or among the German people were, in the view of most historians, correct.

Using rarely seen photographs from Guderian's private collection, the documentary provides an inside view into the life and career of Guderian and draws a profile of Guderian's character and the moral responsibility of the German general staff under Hitler.

According to Amin's account, when Hitler expounded his view that the Jews were responsible for WW1, Marxism and its revolutions, and this was why the task of Germans was to persevere in a battle without mercy against the Jews, he replied :-

The men would infiltrate the Berghof compound before moving to a spot where they were concealed, were within effective rifle range ( 300 metres or less ), and had a good view of the path used by Hitler on his morning walk.

This has become a widely accepted view of Hitler, particularly in relation to the Holocaust.

Decades later, Adolf Hitler, a Vienna citizen from 1907 to 1913, saw him as an inspiration for his own view on Jews.

Winston Churchill claims in his memoirs that had this crisis ended differently Chamberlain may have been called upon as a respected statesman to form a government of his own, but this view is not widely supported, and may be in part due to Chamberlain ’ s position as the first public champion of what later became Churchill ’ s great cause – opposition to the German Nazi government of Adolf Hitler.

Alternately, Hitler also made attempts to Germanize those who were considered ethnically or racially close enough to Germans to be " worth keeping " as part of a future German nation, such as the population of Luxembourg ( officially, Germany considered these populations to actually be German, but not part of the Greater German Reich, and were thus the targets of propaganda promoting this view in order to integrate them ).