Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rudolf Hess, No. 3 Nazi and deputy leader of the party, the hirsute anti-Semite who in 1923 was Hitler's beer-hall Putsch-mate...
When he was a young man Adolf Hitler tried to get into the Vienna Art Academy, was rejected because his sketches were "below standard." For the rejection he blamed the Jews. Two days after his Reichstag speech he addressed a proclamation to the German people, saying: "It is that Jewish plutocratic and democratic upper crust which . . . hates our new Reich." Then he prepared to leave for the Eastern Front, where his Army and that of Smigly-Rydz, an able if academic landscapist, were locked in a painters...
That night, the blackest night in Europe since Adolf Hitler was a corporal, he stepped into a black car with all its lights out and sped through Berlin's blackened streets toward the East, still muttering against the Jews...
Thirty-six hours before the German Army marched, Adolf Hitler organized his country for war. To run the internal affairs of Germany he named a six-man "Cabinet Council for the Defense of the Reich" empowered to issue decrees without even the signature of the Führer. Personnel...
...high-ranking Nazi. Sickly Wilhelm Frick did not serve in the last War. As chief of the Munich Political Police he took a hand in the 1923 Putsch, earned a 16-month prison sentence for his trouble. In 1930, as Minister of the Interior of Thuringia, he appointed Hitler a police officer, thereby made him a German citizen...