Adolf Hitler

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• Adolf Hitler

• The Holocaust

  • The German government led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party was responsible for the Holocaust, the killing of approximately 6 million Jews, as well as 2.7 million ethnic Poles, and 4 million others who were deemed "unworthy of life" as part of a program of deliberate and systematic extermination.
  • The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah (Hebrew for "the catastrophe"), was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed approximately six million Jews.

• The Holocaust

  • The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million Jews during World War II.
  • The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million Jews during World War II. 
  • The latter were first established as prison camps to hold Hitler's opponents in Germany immediately after the Nazi Party took over power.
  • Explain the costs inflicted by the Holocaust and Hitler's Final Solution.

• Hitler's Germany

  • Nazi Germany is the common English name for the period in German history from 1933 to 1945, when the country was governed by a dictatorship under the control of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.
  • Opposition to Hitler's rule was ruthlessly suppressed.
  • Hitler thus became head of state as well as head of government.
  • Germany was now a totalitarian state with Hitler at its head.
  • As head of state, Hitler became Supreme Commander of the armed forces.

• Italy and Germany

  • While Benito Mussolini's rise to power was linked to a chaotic struggle for political power that took place in Italy in the aftermath of World War I, Adolf Hitler took advantage of the disastrous economic situation in Germany.
  • Hitler proclaimed that the arson marked the start of a communist uprising.
  • Hitler knew that reviving the economy was vital.
  • Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Munich, Germany, ca. 1940, Part of Eva Braun's Photo Albums, ca. 1913 - ca. 1944, seized by the U.S. government.
  • Mussolini and Hitler in 1940.

• Operation Barbarossa

  • The operation was driven by Adolf Hitler's ideological desire to destroy the Soviet Union, as outlined in his 1925 manifesto Mein Kampf.
  • As early as 1925, Adolf Hitler vaguely declared in his political manifesto and autobiography Mein Kampf that he would invade the Soviet Union, asserting that the German people needed to secure Lebensraum ("living space") to ensure the survival of Germany for generations to come.
  • Hitler claimed in Mein Kampf that Germany's destiny was to "turn to the East" as it did "six hundred years ago."
  • Hitler by now had lost faith in battles of encirclement as large numbers of Soviet soldiers had escaped the pincers.
  • Analyze the significance of Hitler's decision to invade the Soviet Union

• The Battle of Britain

  • By preventing the Luftwaffe's air superiority over UK, the British forced Adolf Hitler to postpone and eventually cancel Operation Sea Lion, a proposed amphibious and airborne invasion of Britain.
  • Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war.
  • From the outset of his rise to power, Hitler expressed admiration for Britain, and throughout the Battle period he sought neutrality or a peace treaty with Britain.
  • Adolf Hitler's and Hermann Goering's plans to destroy the Royal Air Force to allow an invasion of Britain were failing, and in response to an RAF raid on Berlin, which itself was prompted by an accidental German bombing of London, they changed their tactics to the sustained bombing of civilian targets.
  • By May 1941, the threat of an invasion of Britain had ended, and Hitler's attention turned to Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union.

• The United Kingdom and Appeasement

  • Under the guise of seeking self-determination for the Sudeten Germans, Hitler planned to launch a war of aggression on 1 October 1938.
  • In a letter to his sister, Chamberlain wrote that he would contact Hitler to tell him “The best thing you [Hitler] can do is tell us exactly what you want for your Sudeten Germans.
  • The purpose of the conference was to discuss the future of the Sudetenland in the face of ethnic demands made by Adolf Hitler.
  • On 30 September after some rest, Chamberlain went to Hitler and asked him to sign a peace treaty between the United Kingdom and Germany.
  • After Hitler's interpreter translated it for him, he happily agreed.

• The Collapse of Nazi Germany

  • On July 20, 1944, Hitler narrowly survived a bomb attack. 
  • Hitler's refusal to admit defeat and his repeated insistence that the war be fought to the last man led to unnecessary death and destruction in the closing months of the war. 
  • Hitler also ordered the intentional destruction of transport, bridges, industries, and other infrastructure—a scorched earth decree—but Armaments Minister Albert Speer was able to keep this order from being fully carried out.
  • The units consisted of several depleted, disorganized Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS divisions, along with poorly trained Volkssturm and Hitler Youth members.
  • Before the battle was over, German Führer Adolf Hitler and some of his followers committed suicide.

• Hitler's Rise to Power