That, in turn, made possible the rise of Adolf Hitler and World War II.
When Adolf Hitler swept to power, the future pontiff was only five years old.
Speer was Adolf Hitler's chief architect and minister for armaments during World War II.
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In 1943, Adolf Hitler mobilized the entire German adult population for the country's war effort.
In 1940, Hermann Goering assured Adolf Hitler that invading England was unnecessary: the Luftwaffe would bomb Britain into submission.
In 1939, the German army crossed the Czech frontier and Adolf Hitler proclaimed the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
In 1936, Adolf Hitler opened the first factory for the production of the "People's Car, " the Volkswagen, in Saxony.
Jesse Owens was the star of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, winning four gold medals under the glare of Adolf Hitler.
It is believed Adolf Hitler, then a corporal in the Bavarian reserve infantry, ran messages behind the German lines during the battle.
In 1987, Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess was found dead in his cell in Spandau Prison, after hanging himself with an electric cord.
Only in recent years have we begun to appreciate how close Adolf Hitler came to winning World War II in the spring of 1940.
In 1943, German paratroopers, on the orders of Adolf Hitler, seized former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini who was being held prisoner by the government.
In the 1940s, Mussolini had the windows in the centre of corridor (the section that lies over the Ponte Vecchio) widened to impress his guest, Adolf Hitler.
In 1987, Rudolf Hess, the last member of Adolf Hitler's inner circle, died at a hospital near Spandau Prison at age 93, an apparent suicide.
After studying journalism in London, Mrs Wake became a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune in Paris and reported on the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany.
Only in the last decade or so have we begun to appreciate how close Adolf Hitler came to winning World War II in the spring of 1940.
It involved trying to appease Adolf Hitler by encouraging Britain's principal continental ally, France, to disarm - even as Nazi Germany was remilitarizing in increasingly offensive ways.
On these grounds, any attempt to fictionalise Adolf Hitler should be anathema, yet he is the oblique subject of Norman Mailer's latest novel, his first in a decade.
Reputedly he threw a watch, that had been given to him by Adolf Hitler when he performed in Munich, off one of the resort's piers when war broke out.
Ceija Stojka - pronounced "Chaya Stoyka" - was a Roma from the Lovari tribe, born in Austria in 1933 - the year Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany.
You would think that by now, people would know that of all the idiotic things to think, say or act out, the one guaranteed to expose and confirm your idiocy is pretty much anything involving Adolf Hitler.
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With almost no hope left, the nation turned to Winston Churchill, the one man who had spoken the truth for years, saying nasty things about Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, even though it cost him in terms of political success and personal reputation.
That question, of course, is often posed with respect to what the West's leaders and their peoples could possibly have had in mind as first they ignored, then tried to appease, the rising power and growing malevolence of Adolf Hitler and his fellow totalitarians.
The idea of hospitality provides a link, often quite tenuous, between a series of entertaining historical anecdotes, as Mr Browner ranges broadly from Petronius to Adolf Hitler via the court of Louis XIV, the log cabin of John James Audubon and the Paris salon of Gertrude Stein.
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