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Hitler Adolf. . Grandmother's maiden name and father's original surname Schicklgrüber. 1889--1945, German dictator, born in Austria. After becoming president of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi party), he attempted to overthrow the government of Bavaria (1923). While in prison he wrote Mein Kampf, expressing his philosophy of the superiority of the Aryan race and the inferiority of the Jews. He was appointed chancellor of Germany (1933), transforming it from a democratic republic into the totalitarian Third Reich, of which he became Führer in 1934. He established concentration camps to exterminate the Jews, rearmed the Rhineland (1936), annexed Austria (1938) and Czechoslovakia, and invaded Poland (1939), which precipitated World War II. He committed suicide How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| And I think he overestimates just what decent Germans were morally obliged to do to oppose the policies of Hitler. Pope Benedict XVI does not perhaps the ugliest moment of Ratzinger's past--his enlistment as a child into the Hitler Youth--and goes on to cover the risks he took by choosing to cease attending Hitler Youth meetings, and by deserting military service near the end of World War II. Set in Germany as Hitler comes to power, this story records how one Jewish family is pressured to immigrate to the United States. |
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