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Adolf Hitler

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Born April 20, 1889
Died April 30, 1945 (56 years old)
Braunau am Inn, German Reich
Also known as: Adlof Hitler, Adolfo Hitler
21 books
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Adolf Hitler (German pronunciation: [ˈadɔlf ˈhɪtlɐ]) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, abbreviated NSDAP), commonly known as the Nazi Party. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and, after 1934, also head of state as Führer und Reichskanzler, ruling the country as an absolute dictator. Hitler ultimately wanted to establish a New Order of absolute Nazi German hegemony in continental Europe. To achieve this, he pursued a foreign policy with the declared goal of seizing Lebensraum ("living space") for the "Aryan race"; directing the resources of the state towards this goal. This included the rearmament of Germany, which culminated in 1939 when the Wehrmacht invaded Poland. In response, the United Kingdom and France declared war against Germany, leading to the outbreak of World War II in Europe.

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My new order

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"A collection of Hitler's speeches set in a running commentary ... Millions of words have had to be eliminated, so as to retain only such speeches, or parts of speeches, as make a readable and instructive book."--Introduction.

Hitlers zweites Buch

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Product Description: In May, 1945, an American officer in Germany confiscated the manuscript of an unpublished book ascribed to Adolf Hitler and sent it to the United States. The book had been dictated in the summer of 1928, and then placed in a safe at the Nazi party central publishing house with strict orders that it was not to be published or shown to anyone. After its confiscation by the U.S. Army, the manuscript was kept in the World War II Records Division of the United States National Archives, and in the summer of 1958, it was identified beyond any question as a second book by Hitler, devoted entirely to foreign policy.