Tag Archives: Adolf Hitler

Hitler Smiled at Me

Hitler mania, bordering on hysteria, was now sweeping Germany. It was late 1934, and at my impressionable age of 6 years, my father determined that I was old enough to share in the exciting times. For days, announcements on the radio exalted an important upcoming address to the German people by our new Chancellor, Adolf [...]

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A New World War

Like most of the German leaders who had come before him, Adolf Hitler had a fascination with the British. For the better part of three centuries, as the Germans duly noted, people from the small island nation of Britain had managed to rule a fifth of the world via an all-powerful navy, a well-trained army, [...]

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Poland is Crushed

At dawn on Friday morning, September 1, 1939, two decades of pent-up military frustration among the German officer corps was unleashed by Adolf Hitler as a million-and-a-half German soldiers roared into Poland via several gigantic mechanized formations, smashing all opposition in sight. It was first time the world had ever witnessed Blitzkrieg (lightning warfare) involving carefully coordinated [...]

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Hitler Runs for President

Just three weeks after the suicide of his beloved niece, Adolf Hitler met the 84-year-old President of Germany, Paul von Hindenburg, for the first time. Hitler pulled himself out of the severe depression he fell into after her death. Twice before he had sunk into the abyss of despair, only to emerge stronger – in [...]

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Success and a Suicide

The years 1930 and 1931 had been good for Hitler politically. The Nazis were now the second largest political party in Germany. Hitler had become a best-selling author, with Mein Kampf selling over 50,000 copies, bringing him a nice income. The Nazi Party also had fancy new headquarters in Munich called the Brown House. Money was flowing [...]

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Party Comrades!

We have recently heard the Führer speak twice. As always when the Führer speaks, his words fill our thoughts and feelings. They reach the individual as well as the nation. A Führer speech always has effects that last a long time, for weeks, and leaves citizens especially open to the great questions of the day. [...]

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Hitler Youth Training Material

  The cover theme of this issue is “The NSDAP demands.” The focus in on the Nazi Party’s 1920 platform. Source: Die Kameradschaft, #14 (13 October) 1937.     The cover theme of this issue is “Young men and women, one youth.” It has an interior quotation by Baldur von Schirach: “Just as a boy strives toward [...]

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Don’t Call NAER MATARON A Neo-Nazi Political Band Just Because Their Bassist Is One Or They’ll Sue You

NAER MATARON was ushered into the limelight this week after it was revealed that their bassist, Giorgos Germenis (aka Kaiadas) was elected to Greek parliament via the Golden Dawn Party. The Golden Dawn Party is known for their extremist ways in dealing with foreigners and also being nationalists. They also have a logo that many say resembles [...]

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Hitler — Papen — Hugenberg!

Thoughts on the Hitler Meeting in Dortmund on 30 October 1932 by Jos. Wagner, Member of the Reichstag   Even today, one can, without exaggerating, assert that the question of Hitler and his so-called opponents Papen-Hugenberg has already been decided in the Führer’s favor. Initially, clever press management and insidious agitation on the part of [...]

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Why the Name “National Socialists”?

Hitler says: “You cannot be a true nationalist without also being a socialist; you others cannot be true socialists without also being nationalists. To be a nationalist means loving ones own people more than all others, and worker to be sure that it can hold its own among them. If this people to hold its own against [...]

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