Adolf Hitler ▶ (help·info) (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 and Führer (Leader) of Germany from 1934 to his death by suicide. He was leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP), better known as the Nazi Party. Under Hitler's charismatic leadership Germany emerged from the depths of defeat to rebuild its economy and its decimated military. At the height of their power during World War II, ...

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"I would have preferred it if he'd followed his original ambition and become an architect." — Paula Hitler, Hitler's younger sister, during an interview with a U.S. intelligence operative in late 1945. At the time of Hitler's death most of Germany's infrastructure and major cities were in ruins and he had left explicit orders to complete the destruction. Millions of Germans were dead with millions more wounded or homeless. In his will he dismissed other Nazi leaders and appointed Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz as Reichspräsid ...

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Most of Adolf Hitler's biographers assert that he was a vegetarian from 1931 until his death in 1945. However, a few reports indicate that he occasionally ate meat during the 1930s. Vegetarianism of Adolf Hitler - The evidence. Biographers believe that Adolf Hitler's diet was influenced by essays of composer Richard Wagner which promoted vegetarianism.[1] Writing in 1881, Wagner argued that the original human diet ...

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Adolf Hitler's medical health has long been a subject of popular controversy. There has also been speculation regarding his mental health. Adolf Hitler's medical health - Doctors and drugs. Unbeknownst to most people today, and especially to many Germans at the time, Hitler suffered from several medical ailments. In 1934, the young Schutzstaffel officer and surgeon Dr. Karl Brandt, assisted by Professor Werner Haase, was assigned as his escort physician. Professor Theodore Morell, who was reputed for ...

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Corporal Adolf Hitler was ordered in September, 1919 to investigate a small group in Munich known as the German Workers' Party. The use of the term "workers" attracted the attention of the German Army which was now involved in crushing Marxist uprisings. On September 12, dressed in civilian clothes, Hitler went to a meeting of the German Workers' Party in the back room of a Munich beer hall, with about twenty-five people. He listened to ...

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August Schleicher (February 19, 1821 - December 6, 1868) was a German linguist. His great work was A Compendium of the Comparative Grammar of the Indo-European Languages, in which he attempted to reconstruct the Proto-Indo-European language. August Schleicher was born in Meiningen (Duchy Saxe-Meiningen, southwest of Weimar in the Thuringian Forest). He began his career studying theology and Indo-European, especially Slavic languages. Influenced by Hegel, he formed the theory that a language is an organism, with periods o ...

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Adolf von Harnack (May 7, 1851–June 10, 1930), was a German theologian and science administrator. Adolf Harnack - Biography. He was born at Tartu (then Dorpat) in Livonia (then a province of Russia, now in Estonia) where his father, Theodosius Harnack, held a professorship of pastoral theology. Harnack studied at the local University of Tartu (1869–1872) and at the University of Leipzig, where he took his degree; and soon afterwards (1874) began lecturing as a Privatdozent. These l ...

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The Berghof was Adolf Hitler's home in the Obersalzberg of the Bavarian Alps near Berchtesgaden, Germany. Berghof Hitler - History. The Berghof was developed in stages from a much smaller house Hitler had originally acquired during the late 1920s with funds he received through the sale of his political book Mein Kampf. The site is breathtakingly scenic. The valley below appears by illusion to be a lake almost at one's feet. It was located lower down the same mountain as the Kehlsteinhaus, or Eagle's ...

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Angela Raubal Hamitsch, born Angela Hitler (July 28, 1883 - October 30, 1949), was the elder half-sister of Adolf Hitler. She was born in Braunau, Austria, the second child of Alois Hitler and his second wife, Franziska Matzelberger. Her mother died the next year. She and her brother Alois Hitler, Jr. were raised by their father and his third wife Klara Hitler. Her half-brother Adolf Hitler was born six years after her and they grew very close. She is the only ...

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Alois Hitler, born Aloys Schicklgruber (7 June 1837 - 3 January 1903) was the father of Adolf Hitler. Alois Hitler - Birth. In the tiny and rustic farming village of Strones, in the Waldviertel, a hilly forested area in the northwest part of Lower Austria just north of Vienna, a forty-two year old unwed Catholic peasant woman named Maria Anna Schicklgruber (1), whose family had lived in the area for generations, gave birth to an illegitimate boy and named him Alois. His father's identity remains a my ...

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William Patrick Hitler (March 12, 1911–November 1987), nicknamed Willie, was the nephew of Adolf Hitler. He was the son of Alois Hitler, Jr., Adolf's half-brother. Alois had moved to Dublin, met an Irish woman, Bridget Dowling, and eloped to Liverpool where William Patrick was born in 1911. Alois soon abandoned the family to return to Germany leaving William Patrick to be raised by his mother. Alois remarried, bigamously, but re-established contact in the mid-1920s writing to Bridget asking her to send William Patrick to Germany to visit. She finally agreed in 1929 and William Patrick we ...

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Claus Philipp Maria Graf Schenk von Stauffenberg (born November 15, 1907 in Jettingen, Bavarian Swabia; died July 21, 1944 in Berlin) was a German aristocrat and army colonel during World War II. He was one of the leading figures of the July 20 Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Prior to being posted in Germany, he served with distinction in North Africa, where he lost an eye and an arm in action. As a senior staff officer in the Wehrmacht, with regular access to Hitler at his briefing meetings, Stauffenberg took a central role ...

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A Cabinet is a body of high-ranking members of government, typically representing the executive branch. It can also sometimes be referred to as the Council of Ministers or the Executive Council. In some countries, particularly those under the Westminster system, the cabinet collectively decides the government's policy and tactical direction, especially in regards to legislation passed by the parliament. In countries with a presidential system, such as the United States, the cabinet does not function as a collective legis ...

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Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen (July 6, 1818 - March 13, 1879) was a famous German chess master, one of the most renowned of the classic masters of 19th century chess. He had a long and distinguished chess career, at times considered the leading player in the world, and world famous for his sparkling play even today. Adolf Anderssen - Background and early life. Anderssen was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) in 1818. He lived in the city of his birth for most of his life, never married, living wit ...

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Alois Hitler, Jr., born Alois Matzelberger (January 13, 1882 – May 20, 1956), was the son of Alois Hitler and Franziska Matzelsberger and the half-brother of Adolf Hitler. He was born while his father was still married to his first wife. After she died he and his mother married, Alois was legitimised and his name was changed to Alois Hitler, Jr. He was soon joined by a sister, Angela Hitler. When he was two years old his mother died and his father married Klara Pölzl, a niece with whom he had a long-standing affa ...

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Adolf Otto Eichmann (March 19, 1906 – June 1, 1962), born Karl Adolf Eichmann, was a high-ranking official in Nazi Germany and served as an Obersturmbannführer in the S.S. He was largely responsible for the logistics of the extermination of millions of people during the Holocaust, in particular Jews, which was called the "final solution" (Endlösung). He organized the identification and transportation of people to the various concentration camps. Therefore, he is often referred to as the 'Chief Executioner' of the Thi ...

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Adolf Bernhard Philipp Reinach (December 23, 1883, Mainz, Germany - November 16, 1917, Diksmuide, Belgium), German philosopher, phenomenologist (from the Munich phenomenology current) and law theorist. Adolf Reinach - Life and Works. Adolf Reinach studied at the Ostergymnasium in Mainz (where he became at first interested in Plato) and later entered the University of Munich in 1901 where he studied mainly psychology and philosophy under Theodor Lipps. In the circle of Lipps' students he came in conta ...

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The period of German history from 1919 to 1933 is known as the Weimar Republic (German Weimarer Republik, IPA: [ˈvaɪ̯marər repuˈbliːk]). It is named after the city of Weimar where a national assembly convened to produce a new constitution after the German Monarchy and German Empire were abolished following the nation's defeat in World War I. This first attempt to establish a liberal democracy in Germany happened during a time of civil conflict, and failed with t ...

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Adolf Fredrikskyrkan ("The Church of Adolf Frederick") is a church in central Stockholm, Sweden. Its cemetery is where Rene Descartes was first buried in 1650, before his remains were moved to France. Inside the church a memorial to the memory of Descartes was installed by Gustav III. Other famous people buried in the church cemetery include Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme who was assassinated only a block from the church, as well as Prime Minister Hjalmar Branting. Other related archives16

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