it was also at this time that Gauleiters adopted the two leaf collar insignia which is most often historically associated with the rank.

He was accused of keeping Jewish property seized after Kristallnacht in November 1938 ; he was charged with spreading untrue stories about Göring – such as alleging that his daughter Edda was conceived by artificial insemination, and he was confronted with his excessive personal behaviour, including unconcealed adultery, several furious verbal attacks on other Gauleiters and striding through the streets of Nuremberg cracking a bullwhip ( this last is portrayed in the 1944 Hollywood film ' The Hitler Gang '.

As an example of how Hitler's power functioned in practice, Kershaw used Hitler's directive to the Gauleiters Albert Forster and Arthur Greiser to " Germanize " the part of north-western Poland annexed to Germany in 1939 within the next 10 years with his promise that " no questions would be asked " about how this would be done.

Adolf Hitler instructed the Gauleiters, namely Forster and his rival Arthur Greiser, in the Warthegau to Germanize the area, promising that " There would be no questions asked " about how this " Germanization " was to be accomplished.

The fact that Himmler was Interior Minister only increased the power of Bormann, as the Gauleiters feared that Himmler, who was General Plenipotentiary for the Administration of the Reich, would curb their power and set up his higher SS and police leaders as their replacement.

In October 1940, Gauleiters Josef Bürckel and Robert Wagner oversaw the almost total expulsion of the Jews into unoccupied France not only from the parts of Alsace-Lorraine that had been annexed that summer to the Reich, but also from their Gaues as while.

His defense that he was only following orders did not hold up as it was shown that other Gauleiters had not followed a similar policy.

Rival interests and the influence the Gauleiters wielded with Hitler prevented any reform from being undertaken in the " Old Reich " itself, and the Reichsgau scheme was therefore implemented only in newly acquired territories.

In April 1933, after Nazi control of the German state apparatus gave the Gauleiters enormous power, Streicher organised a one-day boycott of Jewish businesses which was used as a dress-rehearsal for other anti-Semitic commercial measures.

* Reichsstatthalter – " Stadtholder of the Realm ", i. e. Reich Governor ; after the seizure of power in 1933, local governments were dissolved and the Gauleiters were appointed to govern the states with full powers.

In December, he was present when Hitler addressed a meeting of Gauleiters and other senior Nazis, discussing among other things the " Jewish question.

The German historian Hans Mommsen in a 1997 interview claimed that a major motive for the pogrom was the desire of the Gauleiters of the NSDAP to seize Jewish property and businesses.

Upon receiving it, he requested to be given exclusive power to implement the plan, instead using his power to convince the generals and Gauleiters to ignore the order.

Lohse and Koch objected to these breaches of their supposed responsibilities, seeking to administer their territories with the independence and authority of Gauleiters.

In the earliest days of the term's existence, Gauleiters were heads of election districts during a time period when the Nazis were attempting to gain political representation in the Weimar Republic.

Gauleiters oversaw several Politische Leiters ( Political Leaders ) who assisted the Nazis with election campaigns and hosted senior Nazis ( such as Hitler ) on campaign tours.

In 1930, as the Nazis attempted to organize on a national level, Gauleiters were themselves subordinated to a new official known as a Landesinspektor, in charge of all Nazi Gaus in a particular German state.

The Gauleiters were now heads of the Gauleitung, which were Nazi political regions set up to mirror the German states.

In practice, Gauleiters were the unquestioned rulers of their particular areas of responsibility.

In 1925, Strasser founded the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Nordwest (" Working Group Northwest "), a federation of north and west German NSDAP Gauleiters under his leadership ( with Goebbels as managing director ); it was an instrument to enforce the sociopolitical and economic ideas of the NSDAP left wing.

Martin Bormann, the Reichsleiter of the National Socialist Party, whose Gauleiters had in most cases stopped the evacuation of women and children until it was too late, never mentions in his diary those fleeing in panic from the eastern regions.

As Kershaw notes, the completely different ways Forster and Greiser sought to " Germanize " their Gaue with Forster simply having the local Polish population in his Gau signing forms saying they had " German blood " and Greiser carrying out a program of brutal ethnic cleansing of Poles in his Gau showed both how Hitler set events in motion, and how his Gauleiters could carry out totally different policies in pursuit of what they believed to be Hitler's wishes.

The conference had been called by Martin Bormann to bring together the Reichleiters and Gauleiters to discuss wartime strategy, including that of Total War.

He'd started a fire and put coffee on, and now was busy at the work board of his chuck wagon.

Andy Ross had just started swinging an ax at his second willow when the distant blast of a rifle sounded.

Curt caught him flush on the nose with a blow which started at the floor.

Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.

Hitching his cartridge belt around, Pat glanced upward briefly at the Palace and started that way with Cobb at his side.

When he started school at the age of five-and-a-half, he could not understand why the alphabet begins with the letter A, instead of C, as in the scale.

The plane should have started at the scheduled time and left Sinatra and Martin to guzzle.

At the same time he started walking the streets, peering at the people passing or shopping at the stalls, storing up fresh impressions of what they looked like, how they moved.

The men in the boats had started yelling happily at first sight of the officer, two of them calling him Billy.

She took a good look at herself in the mirror before she turned and, walking with very small steps, started toward the door.

`` You look like that picture I have at the office '', Mr. Jack had started.

This project was started at a time when there was a critical need for a high-energy fuel to provide an extra margin of range for high performance aircraft, particularly our heavy bombers.

I like to shear half my plants at a time, leaving one half of them to blossom while the second half is getting started on its new round of blooming.

I started my tour of them at the Turkish Government Tourist Office, next to Pan American's office on the left as you enter the driveway that leads to the Hilton Hotel.

`` I have come to talk with you about the future of humor and comedy '', I told him, at which he started slightly, and then made us each a stiff drink, with a trembling hand.

This operation was started at 5:00 p.m. and lasted for 29 minutes.

Discussions of the giants one by one will include, as far as possible, data on these aspects of growth: size at which life is started and at which sexual maturity is reached ; ;

The suds box drain is arranged at the start to deliver into the raised main drain pipe ( thus returning suds to soap box ) and the machine is started.

Drain off the soap solution of the suds cycle at such a time that the wheel has become substantially empty of soap and water at the end of the time shown in Column A of Table 2,, measured from the time the wash wheel was started.

Drain off the water at such a time that the wheel has become substantially empty of water at the end of the sum of the times shown in Columns A and C, measured from the time the wash wheel was started.