His hand has made us a nation again. His hand has led us back to the Fatherland. He is always right. He is above us all. He is always like a great star above us. Myths grew about Hitler that bordered on the absurd but no one dared question them in a police state like Nazi Germany. Even during the bombing campaign of World War Two, the rumour was allowed to spread that the bombs that were dropped were incapable of destroying a portrait of Hitler even in a bombed out house. The house may have been destroyed but the portrait was not.
Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler killed himself on April 30th, - just days before Germany's unconditional surrender.
German remilitarization and state-sanctioned anti-Semitism drew criticism from abroad, but the foreign powers failed to stem the rise of Nazi Germany. In , Hitler implemented his plans for world domination with the annexation of Austria, and in Germany seized all of Czechoslovakia. By early , the British and Americans were closing in on Germany from the west, the Soviets from the east, and Hitler was holed up in a bunker under the chancellery in Berlin awaiting defeat.
On April 30, with the Soviets less than a mile from his headquarters, Hitler died by suicide with Eva Braun, his mistress whom he married the night before. Hitler left Germany devastated and at the mercy of the Allies, who divided the country and made it a major battlefield of Cold War conflict. His regime exterminated some six millions Jews and an estimated , Romani in the Holocaust , and an indeterminable number of Slavs, political dissidents, disabled persons, homosexuals, and others deemed unacceptable by the Nazi regime were systematically eliminated.
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