England certainly is an island, and it was water, as much as will, that stopped Hitler.
"Five hundred years from now, it won't be Hitler we remember, " says theologian Martin Marty.
Four years later, just after Hitler came to power, Pius XI signed another treaty with Germany.
That, in turn, made possible the rise of Adolf Hitler and World War II.
Despite a history of tolerance, proportionately fewer Amsterdam Jews than Berlin Jews survived the Hitler years.
The Romanoffs, Hitler, Mussolini and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke all reputedly stayed here.
At Bletchley Park, the original Colossus cracked messages sent by Hitler's generals during World War II.
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Hitler built a military academy here, but it was destroyed at the end of the war.
Hitler and Mussolini governed atop turbulent fascist parties in uneasy collaboration with existing elites.
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.
Just before World War II, the Nazi regime planted flags on the continent for Hitler.
Similar sentiments had been expressed by Hitler and the architects of fascist Italy and Vichy France.
Once Hitler had gained power in Germany in 1933, Toscanini never conducted there again.
Hitler and Hess had crossed paths before, serving in the same infantry unit during World War I.
Claus von Stauffenberg, another officer from an aristocratic family, and presented with a plan to kill Hitler.
It was Germany under Hitler that changed the course of history for Egypt and the Middle East.
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The German offensive against the Allies that May was shatteringly swift, achieving a success that stunned Hitler himself.
Hitler came out of the most civilized society on Earth, the land of Beethoven and Goethe and Schiller.
Colossus was built during World War II to decrypt the high-level messages sent between Hitler and his generals.
Many of the Germans had supported Hitler, and thus contributed to the destruction of the pre-war Czechoslovak state.
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They opposed isolationism in America: a notable essay by George Orwell gave warning of German expansionism under Hitler.
It negotiated compensation for victims of the Nazi period during Austria's union within the German Reich under Hitler.
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But the United States had unified around its goal of freeing the world from Hitler and his odious policies.
In 1940, Hermann Goering assured Adolf Hitler that invading England was unnecessary: the Luftwaffe would bomb Britain into submission.
They hated Hitler and if his plane shortened the war by a minute it was worth losing their house.
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As the increasingly diminishing effect of analogies to Hitler suggests, over time overstatement usually undermines rather than advances argument.
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"Before Hitler, we thought we had sounded the depths of human nature, " argues Ron Rosenbaum, author of Explaining Hitler.
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