An amateur photographer and Olympic sailor, he was an early supporter of Nazism among German industrialists, joining the SS in 1931, and never disavowing his allegiance to Hitler.

Hitler and Nazism, ( 2000 ) 97 pages

Despite ideological differences and holding territorial claims on the Soviet Union, Adolf Hitler admired Stalin and his politics and believed that Stalin was in effect transforming Soviet Bolshevism into a form of Nazism.

[...] I cannot abide in Nazism -– the regimentation -– cruelty -– oppression of Jews -– attitude towards religion, etc., but Hitler, him –- the peasant -– will rank some day with Joan of Arc among the deliverers of his people.

With the rise of Nazism and the ascent to power of Adolf Hitler in 1933, many German intellectuals and cultural figures, both Jewish and non-Jewish, fled Germany for the United States, the United Kingdom, and other parts of the world.

After Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, a right-facing and rotated swastika was incorporated into the Nazi party flag, which was made the state flag of Germany during Nazism.

Hitler and Nazism.

Ossietzky continued to be a constant warning voice against militarism and Nazism when, in January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor and the Nazi dictatorship began.

While he feared Nazism and the rise of Hitler, he also feared Communism.

The wide use of sweeping reserve powers by Adolf Hitler, contained in Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, has often been cited as an important factor in the failure of the Weimar Republic and the decisive attainment of totalitarian power by Nazism in Germany in the 1930s.

Koppel, an only child, was born in Nelson, Lancashire, England, after his German Jewish parents fled Germany due to the rise of Adolf Hitler and Nazism.

Opposing Adolf Hitler because of his germanophobia, Maurras himself criticized the racist policies of Nazism in 1936, and requested an integral translation of Mein Kampf – some of its passages had been censored in the French edition.

It was united by its abhorrence of Nazism and its desire to conceive of a new Germany after the fall of Hitler.

Disenchanted with German culture after the shock of World War I, Iorga also had strong views on Adolf Hitler, Nazi Germany and Nazism in general, taking in view their contempt for the Versailles system, but also their repressive politics.

With the rise of Adolf Hitler and Nazism, the Rhön community moved its draft-age men and children to Liechtenstein around 1934 because of their conscientious refusal to serve in the armed forces and to accept Nazi teachers.

In West Germany, the " Luther to Hitler " interpretation was almost universally rejected in favor of the view that Nazism was simply one instance of totalitarianism that arose in various countries.

In Germany, following World War I, Nazism arose as a political movement incorporating antisemitic ideas, expressed by Adolf Hitler in his book Mein Kampf ().

After the war, his two books on Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler were believed to favour Nazism.

An admirer of German National Socialism, Savitri Devi was also an animal-rights activist who authored the book The Impeachment of Man in 1959 and was a proponent of Hinduism and Nazism, synthesizing the two, proclaiming Adolf Hitler to have been sent by Providence, much like an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu.

Hitler stated once that Nazism was cool-headed and realistic.

In addition to the " Black Front ", Strasser at this time headed the Free German Movement outside Germany which sought to enlist the aid of Germans throughout the world in bringing about the downfall of Hitler and Nazism.

He also became disenchanted with Hitler and Nazism, often refusing to broadcast and going on strike, sometimes for months at a time.

In 1933, when Hitler came to power, the newspaper, whose editors were Revisionist Party members, praised Nazism as a German national liberation movement and said that Hitler had saved Germany from Communism.

The name was borrowed from a different Austrian party active at the time ( Deutsche Nationalsozialistische Arbeiterpartei, German National Socialist Workers ' Party ), although Hitler earlier suggested the party to be renamed the " Social Revolutionary Party "; it was Rudolf Jung who persuaded Hitler to follow the NSDAP naming.

This opposition to " Jewish finance capitalism ," which they contrasted to " productive capitalism ," was shared by Adolf Hitler himself, who borrowed it from Gottfried Feder.

He is especially indebted to the Jungian theory of collective racial archetypes, borrowed heavily from Julius Evola in supporting a spiritual consideration of race, as opposed to a solely biological one, and followed Savitri Devi in recognizing Adolf Hitler as an avatar who battled against the demonic materialistic hosts of the Kali Yuga.

There were street gangs ( Meuten ) of working class youths who borrowed elements from socialist and communist traditions to forge their own identities, and there were less politically motivated groups, such as the Edelweiss Pirates ( Edelweißpiraten ), who acted in defiance of Hitler Youth norms.

Milne did not speak out much on the subject of religion, although he used religious terms to explain his decision, while remaining a pacifist, to join the army: " In fighting Hitler ", he wrote, " we are truly fighting the Devil, the Anti-Christ ... Hitler was a crusader against God.

In fact Hitler intended to start an unlimited war, at a much later date than 1939.

In any case, Hitler was too busy elsewhere in Europe to give this much priority.

The ultimate responsibility for this lay with Hitler, as Goebbels well knew, referring in his diary to a " crisis of leadership ," but Goebbels was too much under Hitler ’ s spell ever to challenge his power.

In particular, Ribbentrop acquired the habit of listening carefully to what Hitler was saying, memorizing the Führer's pet ideas, and then later presenting Hitler's ideas as his own – a practice that much impressed Hitler as proving Ribbentrop was an ideal National Socialist diplomat.

This diplomatic success did much to increase Ribbentrop's prestige with Hitler, who called the day the A. G. N. A.

Hitler turned down this idea of Ribbentrop's, but nonetheless during his meeting with Lord Halifax, Ribbentrop spent much of the meeting demanding that Britain sign an alliance with Germany and return the former German colonies.

In the aftermath of Munich, Hitler was in a violently anti-British mood caused in part by his rage over being " cheated " out of the war to " annihilate " Czechoslovakia that he very much wanted to have in 1938, and in part by his realization that Britain would neither ally herself nor stand aside in regard to Germany's ambition to dominate Europe.

This degree of unity within the German government with both the diplomats and the military united in their support of Hitler's anti-Polish policy, which stood in contrast to their views the previous year about destroying Czechoslovakia, very much encouraged Hitler and Ribbentrop with their chosen course of action.

The Sudeten Crisis highlighted German unprepardness to conduct a strategic air war ( although the British and French were in a much weaker position ), and Hitler ordered the Luftwaffe be expanded by five times.

Cook said it was a satirical venue modelled on " those wonderful Berlin cabarets ... which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the outbreak of the Second World War "; as a members-only venue it was outside the censorship restrictions.

Samuel Eliot Morison wrote that had Marshall carried out his constitutional duties, assumed the presidency, and made the concessions necessary for the passage of the League of Nations treaty in late 1920, the United States would have been much more involved in European affairs and could have helped prevent the rise of Adolf Hitler, which began in the following year.

The challenge came from dictators, first Benito Mussolini of Italy, then Adolf Hitler of a much more powerful Nazi Germany.

At the time, Adolf Hitler was not particularly impressed by the V-2 ; he pointed out that it was merely an artillery shell with a longer range and much higher cost.

* June 29 – WWII: Hitler, s second-in-command Reichsmarshall Hermann Göring appointed as Hitler, s successor in a written decree. The decree will come into effect should Hitler die in the middle of the war. The decree later became void after Göring tried to assume power while Hitler was very much alive leading to Göring being expelled from the party.

Raeder himself was personally pleased by the sinking of the Bismarck, feeling this had won the Kriegsmarine some much needed glory on the high seas and was consistent with his goal of " full engagement " where the Kriegsmarine capital ships were to sent into action until they all were sunk to win his service glory, but Hitler was more than annoyed at the loss of the Bismarck.

Until the war with the Soviet Union was finished, Hitler was reluctant to have a war with the United States, and insisted upon avoiding " incidents " with the U. S. Navy as much as possible, whereas Raeder was all for a war with the United States.

Neither Raeder or Hitler could quite make up their minds about what was the primary purpose of the German fleet in Norway, which led to much command confusion, and in turn led ultimately to the defeat in the Battle of the Barents Sea.

By 1942, Dönitz had emerged as Hitler's favourite admiral ( whom Hitler liked so much that he eventually named him as his successor ), and that to sack Dönitz would probably lead Hitler to sack him in turn.