Word: hitlers
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Politics suddenly became interesting for Earth in 1933, after Adolf Hitler established the Third Reich. Barth spoke out in anger against Naziism when it attempted to create new "German Christian" churches in which National Socialist political theories were given the same sanctity as theological dogma. "This was a nationalist heresy,"he says, "confusion between God and the spirit of the German nation." He launched a new magazine to attack the "heresy" and in 1934 wrote nearly all of the Barmen Declaration-an anti-Nazi protest that claimed the autonomy of the church from all temporal power. The declaration was signed...
...counting, as most Austrians do not, Adolf Hitler's triumphal arrival in the Austrian capital after the Anschluss, on March...
This is Taylor's last paragraph, and probably the most important in the book. For Hitler's frenzy did cause the World War (in this sense; Taylor's title is misleading); but that was when he had abondoned the course which produced only the limited explosion...
Taylor's intention as a professional historian is to reclaim the Second World War from the journalist popularizers, sensationalists and memoir-writers who have, with astonishingly few exceptions, provided us with our view of the origins. The concurrent influences their inaccuracies and simplification and the moral revulsion inspired Hitler's domestic order, have been disastrous for our understanding the War, Taylor feels. His book convinces me he is right...
...origins of the war." The adoption of this format is, in effect, a part of his thesis. For Taylor rightly regards the War that began on 1 September 39 as a European war, and the result of traditional patterns of European diplomacy. The Second World War began when Hitler forgot that his success depended on the isolation of Europe from the rest of the world. He gratuituously destroyed the source of his success. In 1941 he attacked Soviet Russia and declared war on the United States, two World Powers who liked only to be left alone. In this...