Nazi Germany: History in an Hour
Rupert Colley
Language: English
Pages: 41
ISBN: B0074EZBN6
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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Read about Hitler's experience as a soldier during World War One, the Nazi Party's climb to power, the elimination of their political opponents and the Weimar constitution. Learn about life in Nazi Germany, for women, the family, the Jews, and the use of state control, propaganda and security. See how Hitler manipulated foreign policy to achieve his aims, and how he brought the world into war.
Nazi Germany in an Hour tell you everything you need to know about Germany under Nazi rule, in just one hour.
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Point Hitler postponed his plans for invasion indefinitely. In June 1940, Mussolini entered the war and attacked Greece and then Libya, but was soon forced into retreat. Hitler sent forces to aid the situation, conquering Greece, Crete and also Yugoslavia, and committing to a long struggle in North Africa. In June 1941, Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa – the invasion of the Soviet Union, less than two years after the signing of the Non-Aggression Pact and its agreement of ten years of peace.
Goebbels tried one last time to persuade the Führer to leave Berlin. At just before four o’clock, after a series of farewells, Hitler and his wife of forty-eight hours retired to his study. Hitler wore upon his tunic his Iron Cross (First Class) and his Wounded Badge of the First World War. A shot was heard. Hitler had shot himself through the right temple. Braun was also dead. She had taken the cyanide. The bodies, covered in blankets, were carried out into the Chancellery garden. There, with.
Elections – the Nazis poll almost 40 per cent of the vote. 1933 30 January Hitler appointed chancellor within a coalition government. 27 February The Reichstag Fire. 20 March Dachau, the first concentration camp, is opened. 23 March Passing of the Enabling Act. 26 April The Gestapo, the Nazi secret police, is formed. 10 May 25,000 ‘un-German’ books burnt across Germany. 14 October Germany withdraws from the League of Nations. 1934 30 June–1 July ‘Night of the Long Knives’. 2 August.
1932 Reichstag elections the Nazi Party polled almost 40 per cent of the vote, making it the most powerful party. There was a slight dip in the elections four months later but the party still had enough electoral clout that Hitler, as dictated by the Weimar constitution, should have been appointed chancellor. But the Weimar president, the 84-year-old Paul von Hindenburg, was reluctant to appoint the former corporal: ‘That man a chancellor?’ he said, ‘I’ll make him a postmaster and he can lick.
And gave his air force, still very new, the chance to test its wings in combat, most notoriously in April 1937 when the Luftwaffe bombed the Basque town of Guernica. The civil war also brought about, in October 1936, the alliance of Germany and Italy and the signing of the Rome-Berlin Axis Pact. The following month, Germany signed the Anti-Comintern Pact with Japan, a mutual declaration against communist expansion, to which Mussolini added his signature a year later. There were those in the.