Adolf Hitler - Hitler's entry and rise. After the war, Hitler remained in the army, which was mainly engaged in suppressing socialist uprisings breaking out across Germany, including Munich (Bavarian Soviet Republic), where Hitler returned in 1919. He took part in "national thinking" courses organised by the Education and Propaganda Department (Dept Ib/P) of the Bavarian Reichswehr Group, Headquarters 4 under Captain Mayr. A key purpose of this group was to create a scapegoat for the outbreak of the ...

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Adolf Hitler, Adolf Hitler - Early years, Adolf Hitler - Early adulthood in Vienna and Munich, Adolf Hitler - World War I, Adolf Hitler - The early years of the Nazi Party, Adolf Hitler - Hitler's entry and rise, Adolf Hitler - The Hitler Putsch, Adolf Hitler - The Rebuilding of the Party, Adolf Hitler - The Road to Power, Adolf Hitler - The Brüning administration, Adolf Hitler - The cabinets von Papen and Schleicher, Adolf Hitler - Hitler's appointment as Chancellor, Adolf Hitler - Reichstag Fire and the March election, Adolf Hitler - The Enabling Act, Adolf Hitler - Removal of remaining limits, Adolf Hitler - The Third Reich, Adolf Hitler - Economics and culture, Adolf Hitler - Repression, Adolf Hitler - Rearmament and new alliances, Adolf Hitler - The Holocaust, Adolf Hitler - World War II, Adolf Hitler - Opening moves, Adolf Hitler - Path to defeat, Adolf Hitler - Defeat and death, Adolf Hitler - Legacy, Adolf Hitler - Medical health, Adolf Hitler - Hitler's family, Adolf Hitler - The origin of the name Hitler, Adolf Hitler - Trivia, Adolf Hitler - People associated with Hitler, Adolf Hitler - Documentaries, Adolf Hitler - Dramatizations, Adolf Hitler - Media, Adolf Hitler - Hitler's speeches

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Adolf Hitler, Adolf Hitler - Early years, Adolf Hitler - Early adulthood in Vienna and Munich, Adolf Hitler - World War I, Adolf Hitler - The early years of the Nazi Party, Adolf Hitler - Hitler's entry and rise, Adolf Hitler - The Hitler Putsch, Adolf Hitler - The Rebuilding of the Party, Adolf Hitler - The Road to Power, Adolf Hitler - The Brüning administration, Adolf Hitler - The cabinets von Papen and Schleicher, Adolf Hitler - Hitler's appointment as Chancellor, Adolf Hitler - Reichstag Fire and the March election, Adolf Hitler - The Enabling Act, Adolf Hitler - Removal of remaining limits, Adolf Hitler - The Third Reich, Adolf Hitler - Economics and culture, Adolf Hitler - Repression, Adolf Hitler - Rearmament and new alliances, Adolf Hitler - The Holocaust, Adolf Hitler - World War II, Adolf Hitler - Opening moves, Adolf Hitler - Path to defeat, Adolf Hitler - Defeat and death, Adolf Hitler - Legacy, Adolf Hitler - Medical health, Adolf Hitler - Hitler's family, Adolf Hitler - The origin of the name Hitler, Adolf Hitler - Trivia, Adolf Hitler - People associated with Hitler, Adolf Hitler - Documentaries, Adolf Hitler - Dramatizations, Adolf Hitler - Media, Adolf Hitler - Hitler's speeches

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Having secured supreme political power without an electoral mandate from the majority of Germans, Hitler went on to gain their support by persuading most Germans he was their saviour from the Depression, the Communists, the Versailles Treaty, and the Jews along with other "undesirable" minorities. Adolf Hitler - Economics and culture. Hitler oversaw one of the greatest expansions of industrial production and civil improvement Germany had ever seen, mostly based on debt flotation and expansion of the milita ...

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Adolf Hitler, Adolf Hitler - Early years, Adolf Hitler - Early adulthood in Vienna and Munich, Adolf Hitler - World War I, Adolf Hitler - The early years of the Nazi Party, Adolf Hitler - Hitler's entry and rise, Adolf Hitler - The Hitler Putsch, Adolf Hitler - The Rebuilding of the Party, Adolf Hitler - The Road to Power, Adolf Hitler - The Brüning administration, Adolf Hitler - The cabinets von Papen and Schleicher, Adolf Hitler - Hitler's appointment as Chancellor, Adolf Hitler - Reichstag Fire and the March election, Adolf Hitler - The Enabling Act, Adolf Hitler - Removal of remaining limits, Adolf Hitler - The Third Reich, Adolf Hitler - Economics and culture, Adolf Hitler - Repression, Adolf Hitler - Rearmament and new alliances, Adolf Hitler - The Holocaust, Adolf Hitler - World War II, Adolf Hitler - Opening moves, Adolf Hitler - Path to defeat, Adolf Hitler - Defeat and death, Adolf Hitler - Legacy, Adolf Hitler - Medical health, Adolf Hitler - Hitler's family, Adolf Hitler - The origin of the name Hitler, Adolf Hitler - Trivia, Adolf Hitler - People associated with Hitler, Adolf Hitler - Documentaries, Adolf Hitler - Dramatizations, Adolf Hitler - Media, Adolf Hitler - Hitler's speeches

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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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• Adolf Hitler - Early years
• Adolf Hitler - Early adulthood in Vienna and Munich
• Adolf Hitler - World War I
• Adolf Hitler - The early years of the Nazi Party
• Adolf Hitler - Hitler's entry and rise
• Adolf Hitler - The Hitler Putsch
• Adolf Hitler - The rebuilding of the party
• Adolf Hitler - The road to power
• Adolf Hitler - The Brüning administration
• Adolf Hitler - The cabinets von Papen and Schleicher
• Adolf Hitler - Hitler's appointment as Chancellor
• Adolf Hitler - Reichstag Fire and the March election
• Adolf Hitler - The Enabling Act
• Adolf Hitler - Removal of remaining limits
• Adolf Hitler - The Third Reich
• Adolf Hitler - Economics and culture
• Adolf Hitler - Repression
• Adolf Hitler - Rearmament and new alliances
• Adolf Hitler - The Holocaust
• Adolf Hitler - World War II
• Adolf Hitler - Opening moves
• Adolf Hitler - Path to defeat
• Adolf Hitler - Defeat and death
• Adolf Hitler - Legacy
• Adolf Hitler - Medical health
• Adolf Hitler - Hitler's family
• Adolf Hitler - The origin of the name Hitler
• Adolf Hitler - Trivia
• Adolf Hitler - Hitler's associates
• Adolf Hitler - Documentaries
• Adolf Hitler - Dramatizations
• Adolf Hitler - Media
• Adolf Hitler - Hitler's speeches

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The Beer Hall Putsch was a failed coup d'état which occurred in the evening of Thursday, November 8 to the early afternoon of Friday, November 9, 1923, when the nascent Nazi party's Führer Adolf Hitler, the popular World War I General Erich Ludendorff, and other leaders of the Kampfbund, unsuccessfully tried to gain power in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. (A putsch is the German equivalent of a coup d'état, or the revolt of a small number of people, e.g. a military coup.) Beer Hall Putsch - Back ...

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• Beer Hall Putsch - Background
• Beer Hall Putsch - The Putsch
• Beer Hall Putsch - Counterattack
• Beer Hall Putsch - Aftermath
• Beer Hall Putsch - Nazi supporters who died in the putsch
• Beer Hall Putsch - Miscellany
• Beer Hall Putsch - Bibliography

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Anton Drexler (June 13, 1884 - February 24, 1942) was a machine-fitter before becoming a railway locksmith in Berlin in 1902. He was a poet and a member of the völkisch agitators who, together with journalist Karl Harrer, founded the German Workers' Party (DAP) in Munich with Gottfried Feder and Dietrich Eckart in 1919. At the behest of Adolf Hitler, who had joined the party shortly afterwards, Drexler changed the name to the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) early in 1920. When Hitler finally wrested control of the party from Drexler in the autumn of 1921, Drexler had to ...

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Winifred Wagner, born Winifred Williams (June 23, 1897 - March 5, 1980) was born in Hastings, England. She lost both her parents before the age of two and was initially raised in a series of homes. Eight years later she was adopted by a distant German relative of her mother's, Karl Klindworth, a musician and a friend of Richard Wagner. Winifred Wagner - Role in Bayreuth. The Bayreuth Festival was envisioned as a family business, with the leadership to be passed from Richard Wagn ...

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• Winifred Wagner - Post Bayreuth Years

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Nazi organizations National Socialist German Workers Party Sturmabteilung Schutzstaffel Hitler Youth Lebensborn National Socialist Motor Corps Nazism in history Early Nazi Timeline Beer Hall Putsch Nuremberg rally Third Reich Night of the Long Knives Nur für Deutsche Nazi concepts Glossary of the Third Reich National Socialist Program Racial policy of Nazi Germany Führerprinzip Lebensraum ...

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• Sturmabteilung - History
• Sturmabteilung - Leaders of the SA
• Sturmabteilung - SA Maxims
• Sturmabteilung - Modern usage

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Wilhelm Franz Canaris (January 1, 1887 in Aplerbeck near Dortmund – April 9, 1945 at Flossenbürg concentration camp) was head of the German military intelligence service, the Abwehr, for much of World War II. He was born in Aplerbeck, in Westphalia. Wilhelm considered himself to be a distant descendent of the Greek Admiral, freedom fighter and politician Constantine Kanaris but the exact genealogical connection remains uncertain. Wilhelm Canaris - Early career. He joined the navy in 1905 a ...

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• Wilhelm Canaris - Early career
• Wilhelm Canaris - Nazi era

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The Hitler Youth was founded in 1922 as the Jungsturm Adolf Hitler. The group was based in Munich, Bavaria, and served as a recruiting ground for new Stormtroopers of the SA. The group was disbanded in 1923 following the abortive Beer Hall Putsch but was re-established in 1926, a year after the Nazi Party had been reorganized. The second Hitler Youth began in 1926 with an emphasis on national youth recruitment into the Nazi Party. Kurt Gruber, a law student and admirer of Hitler from Plauen in Saxony, home to many blue-c ...

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Hitler Youth, Hitler Youth - Origins, Hitler Youth - Doctrine, Hitler Youth - Organization, Hitler Youth - The flags for the Hitler Youth, Hitler Youth - The flags for the Deutsches Jungvolk DJ, Hitler Youth - Membership, Hitler Youth - Hitler Youth in World War II, Hitler Youth - Post World War II

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He was assigned to infiltrate the small, nationalist German Workers' Party (DAP). He soon held sway over its affairs and joined as member number 555 (numbering began at 500 to make the party seem larger) in September 1919. He was supported by Dietrich Eckart, an anti-Semite and key early member. That same month Hitler wrote what is often deemed his first anti-Semitic text, requested by Mayr for one Adolf Gemlich, who participated in the same "educational courses" Hitler had taken part in. In this report Hitler argued for a "rational a ...

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Hitler's political beliefs, Hitler's political beliefs - V-Mann for the army, Hitler's political beliefs - German Workers Party, Hitler's political beliefs - The Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler's political beliefs - Mein Kampf, Hitler's political beliefs - Distrust of democracy, Hitler's political beliefs - Laying blame on the November Criminals

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As, especially after World War II, Nazism became for many of its followers a spiritual path akin to a religion, it naturally had some sites of pilgrimage, which one might call "holy sites". Savitri Devi visited many of them during her pilgrimage in 1953. Berchtesgaden, home of the Berghof. Braunau am Inn, birthplace of Adolf Hitler. Feldherrnhalle, site of, the end of, the failed Munich Putsch Leonding, where the parents of Adolf Hitler were buried. Linz, where Hitler went to school. ...

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Nazism, Nazism - Ideological theory, Nazism - Nazi Theory, Nazism - Key elements of the Nazi ideology, Nazism - Nazism and romanticism, Nazism - Nazi mysticism, Nazism - Ideological competition, Nazism - Support of anti-Communists for Fascism and Nazism, Nazism - Nazism and Persians, Nazism - Economic practice, Nazism - Effects, Nazism - Backlash effects, Nazism - People and history, Nazism - Nazism in relation to other concepts, Nazism - The role of the nation, Nazism - Factors which promoted the success of Nazism, Nazism - Nazi / Third Reich terminology in popular culture, Nazism - Holy sites, Nazism - Notes

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Republican institutions replaced royal ones in Bavaria during the upheavals of November 1918. Provisional National Council Minister-President Kurt Eisner declared Bavaria to be a free state on November 7, 1918. Munich became a hotbed of extremism: a Bavarian Soviet Republic, the Münchner Räterepublik, had a short-lived existence, but inspired fearful reactions: the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch involving Erich Ludendorff and Adolf Hitler took place in the same city. For most of the Weimar Republic, though, Bavaria was dominated by the relat ...

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History of Bavaria, History of Bavaria - Early settlements and Roman Raetia, History of Bavaria - Migrations and early Medieval Period, History of Bavaria - Bavaria and the Agilolfings under Frankish Overlordship, History of Bavaria - Christianity, History of Bavaria - The Duchy during the Carolingian Period, History of Bavaria - The Duchy during the Ottonian and Salian Periods, History of Bavaria - The Welfs, History of Bavaria - Geographic Fluctuations, History of Bavaria - The Wittelsbach Dynasty, History of Bavaria - Partitions, History of Bavaria - The Reunited Duchy, History of Bavaria - The Electorate, History of Bavaria - Revolutionary and Napoleonic, History of Bavaria - The Kingdom, History of Bavaria - German Empire, History of Bavaria - Modern Times, History of Bavaria - Bibliography, History of Bavaria - Notes

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Pressure was being applied to Hitler from the youth and young men to do something. They were getting restless. Gustav von Kahr meanwhile on 5 October 1923 closed the Nazi paper, Völkischer Beobachter for ten days. On top of this, von Kahr announced a surprise speech at the Bürgerbräu Keller. Afraid that von Kahr was going to define the struggle without him, Hitler decided to act and "coax these people into complicity". The putsch was planned on 7 November in a hasty decision in Kreibel's apartment. Not all members wer ...

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Kampfbund, Kampfbund - Member Affiliations, Kampfbund - Putsch Planning, Kampfbund - SA Unit & Leaders

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The Bayreuth Festival was envisioned as a family business, with the leadership to be passed from Richard Wagner to his son Siegfried Wagner, but Siegfried, who was secretly homosexual, showed little interest in marriage. It was arranged that Winifred Klindworth, as she now was called, aged 17, would meet Siegfried Wagner, aged 45, at the Bayreuth Festival in 1914. A year later they were married. It was hoped that the marriage would end Siegfried's homos ...

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Winifred Wagner, Winifred Wagner - Role in Bayreuth, Winifred Wagner - Post Bayreuth Years

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Owing to his understanding of German Foreign Policy, and after being appalled at Kristallnacht, Elser realized that Hitler would plunge Germany into a major war and that only Hitler's death could stop this move into catastrophe. Since it was public knowledge that Hitler annually gave a speech in Munich in the Bürgerbräukeller on the evening before the anniversary of his failed Putsch, November 9th, 1923, Elser decided to hide a time bomb in the pillar behind the speaker's desk. He succeeded in overcoming the difficulties in troublesome, cl ...

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Georg Elser, Georg Elser - Career and social life, Georg Elser - Political and philosophical thinking, Georg Elser - The assassination attempt, Georg Elser - Arrest and custody, Georg Elser - Death

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The primary aspect of the Nuremberg Rallies was the almost religious focus on Adolf Hitler, portraying Hitler as Germany's savior, chosen by providence. The gathered masses listened to the Führer's speeches, swore loyalty and marched before him. Representing the Volksgemeinschaft as a whole, the rallies served to demonstrate the might of the German people. The visitors of the rallies by their own free will were subordinate to the discipline and order in ...

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Nuremberg Rally, Nuremberg Rally - The Nuremberg Rallies, Nuremberg Rally - Procedure, Nuremberg Rally - Propaganda movies

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The leader of the SA was known as the Oberster SA-Führer, translated as Supreme SA Leader. The following men held this position throughout the existence of the SA: Emil Maurice (1920–1921) Hans Ulrich Klintzsche (1921–1923) Hermann Göring (1923) None (1923–1925) Franz Pfeffer von Salomon (1926–1930) Adolf Hitler (1930–1945) In 1930, to centralize the loyalty of the SA, Adolf Hitler personally assumed command of the entire organization and remain ...

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Sturmabteilung, Sturmabteilung - History, Sturmabteilung - Leaders of the SA, Sturmabteilung - SA Maxims, Sturmabteilung - Modern usage

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With all these groups aligned against Röhm, Hitler decided to act. He ordered all SA leaders to attend a meeting at the Hanselbauer Hotel in Bad Wiessee near Munich. On June 30 Hitler took personal command of Röhm's arrest. He then ordered Göring's Landespolizeigruppe General Göring and Himmler's Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler into action. Alfred Rosenberg's diary provides an account: With an SS escort detachment the Führer drove to Bad Wiessee and knocked softly on Röhm's door: “Message from Munic ...

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Night of the Long Knives, Night of the Long Knives - Background, Night of the Long Knives - The purge, Night of the Long Knives - Popular culture

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In 1919 Streicher helped to establish Wistrich, an anti-Semitic organization, which became part of the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) in 1922. In 1923 Streicher founded and edited the racist newspaper, Der Stürmer (1923–45), which he used to build up a deep hatred of the Jewish race. Eventually the newspaper reached a circulation of 800,000. Streicher argued in the newspaper that the Jews were responsible for the depression, unemployment, and inflation in Germany. He claimed that Jews were white-slavers and were responsible for over 90 ...

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Julius Streicher, Julius Streicher - Early life, Julius Streicher - Nazism, Julius Streicher - Trial and execution, Julius Streicher - Influence

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