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With Germany lying in ruins after six devastating years of war, and with defeat imminent, Hitler decided to take his own life. Early on the morning on April 29, 1945, in a civil ceremony in his bunker, Hitler married his mistress of many years, Eva Braun. The next day at a little after 3:30 P.M., they bit into thin glass vials of cyanide. As he did so, Hitler also shot himself in the head with a 7.65 mm Walther pistol. The handful of remaining Nazi faithfuls trooped uneasily into his underground study, surveyed his still-warm remains-slouched on a couch, with blood trickling from the sagging lower jaw, and a gunshot wound in the right temple-and sniffed the bitter-almonds smell hanging in the air.

Wrapped in a gray army blanket, he was carried up to the shell-blasted Chancellery garden. Gasoline was slopped over him in a crater and ignited while his staff hurriedly saluted and backed down into the shelter. Hitler knew that he had lost the war, and knew if he got captured that he would be tortured or killed.

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5 ft and 6 inches?

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The area of Germany is 357,021 sq km, or 137,847 sq miles - slightly smaller than Montana.

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May 7th 1945, between 2:39 and 2:41am

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It is neighbouring Germany from the East.

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An "ace" was an Allied pilot who shot down five or more enemy planes. The German equivalent was a "Kanone", but a German pilot had to shoot down ten or more to be considered a "Kanone". This was all the invention of newspaper writers.

The Red Baron eventually ran his score up to 80 enemy planes destroyed. Most of his victims were two-seater recon planes. These were not necessarily easy targets, because the observer in the back seat had a machine gun to use in fighting off attacks from the rear. But they were generally slower and less maneuverable than single-seat fighter planes. A true dogfight was between single-seat fighter planes.

One of the Baron's hard-fought victories came over British ace Lanoe Hawker, who had around 11 kills to his credit when he fell before the Baron's guns.

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Kaiser wilhelm II was 5 foot and 7 inches

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The colours represent the Uniforms of the Lützow Freikorps.The Lützower Freikorps were fighters to free Germany from napoleons occupation. Those fighters were mostly students.

They had black uniforms with red borders and golden buttons.

Those students made flags with the colors black, red and gold in order to demonstrate for freedom and democracy.

Those colors became the symbol of Germany's uprising.

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It is believed that Hitler (or the group behind the name) traced all origins of the Europe population (meaning white race), resulting that it had only 3 sources of true European "blood". The theory is based on the stream of Germanic cultures (Germany, Scandinavians, etc) and Latin cultures (France, Spain, Italy, etc), to make a point, one needs to understand that all those cultures have a Latin based language, and Latin itself is mysteriously birth located in ancient Greece. Greece comes up surprisingly but there was always a lack of connection between present and ancient Greeks, also late researches say that the Latin language was created as a key for enter the Senate or Parliament, in other words, it was only spoken there (call it a political language), meaning that the whole area (from present Greece to Slovenia) must have spoken a different language, this is where Albania comes into part.

Hitler's indirect respect for population came also from German linguistics who were fascinated by the Albanian language and concluded that the language inherits more mystery than it is known, some researches even describe it as a melodically language, and i can confirm from personal experiences, Albanian speaking people can learn any language at least twice faster than any other language speaking person, they do have all the notes and tones a language world wide consists, therefore even Hitler must have been surprised how old this Language could have been.

Also, with all due respect, Hitler contained a good amount of history documentation, for example he had a copy of the Qu'ran which dated back to 800 (AD). He also had documents confirming that Scotland, Ireland, Welsh (all the Anglo culture) have mysterious songs and belief that their ancestors, the Celts, were pushed away from home by the Romans. Now to clear this out, Celts and other small tribes were neighbors of the Illyria, and you don't need more information than the history of war itself to see who co-lived in peace. It was only Rome who always created problems in Europe, meaning that Illyria somehow had relations with the other tribes, which, again, opens a theory that the Ancient Pelasgia must have been split into tribes, tribes like the giant Illyria, Celtics, Traci's, Hellenic's and later Macedonians and Epirots (note, all of these tribes spoke a 99% similar language, and the only language on that area that never died is Albanian).

This answers the race question though nothing remained pure on it due to Ottoman and Slavic offensives (keep in mind, those two cultures have very far away locations from where they keep saying they own land). Unfortunately i cannot answer the DEFEND part since Hitler never defended someone else rather then himself and Germans, but what i can tell you is that he wanted the nationalism of Albanians in Germans, but i must say he misunderstood that nationalism, again let me talk personally, i have never met people more kind and hospital than Albanians, they define Patriotism/Nationalism in such a peaceful way but only due to being remembered and having a safe future, they are people who would never ever declare war nor hurt other nations, i am very proud of having children with half of their DNA from their Albanian mother.

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Howard Hughs

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Adolf Hitler rose to power when he was released from jail, becoming the spokesperson for the poor and nationalistic German. He then became Chancellor and brought the Nazi Party to power and enforced his rules and laws.

Hitler was a brilliant speaker and politician (however he was disorganized). He was a driven, unstable man, who believed that he had been called by God to become the dictator of Germany and rule the world. This kept him going when other people might have given up. His self-belief persuaded people to believe in him. However, I do not think it was solely the brilliance of Hitler's leadership which brought the Nazis to Power.

The Treaty of Versailles, which was a peace settlement in which the Germans had no choice and were forced to sign after WW1, was an important reason why the Nazis came to power. The German general public were so angry over the Treaty and found it hard to accept the terms of it because it became a symbol of Germany's humiliation and defeat. This made the new Weimar government, who signed the Treaty, extremely unpopular and there was a lot of opposition to the government. Deep anger about the First World War and the Treaty of Versailles created an underlying bitterness to which Hitler's viciousness and expansionism appealed, so they gave him support. Hitler promised to get rid of the Treaty.

After the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the US called in its loans to Germany, and the German economy collapsed. The Number of unemployed grew; people starved on the streets. In the crisis, people wanted someone to blame, and looked to extreme solutions - Hitler offered them both, and Nazi success in the elections grew. Germans turned to Nazism because they were desperate. The number of Nazi seats in the Reichstag rose from 12 in 1928 to 230 in July 1932. To Hitler, this depression was like a gift because for every problem the Nazi Party had come up with an explanation or promise.

These included; promise to get rid of the hated Weimar government and replace it with a strong leader-Hitler, a promise to get people back to work on road building and public works, and a promise to deal with a communist take-over. In a time of chaos (the depression) people chose to support Hitler because of his discipline and his promises he inflicted on the German general public. The organization of the Weimar government also helped Hitler's rise to power because of its many weaknesses; it had many enemies, it had proportional representation.

Article 48, the president had too much power and the states could be hostile to the national government. Most importantly the proportional representation helped Hitler. Proportional representation meant that the governments had to be coalitions. In November 1932, Hitler, in the Reichstag elections, the Nazi Party won 37.3% of the votes (230 seats) proving the Nazi party to be the most popular party. President Hindenburg however, despised Hitler and appointed Franz Von Papen as his chancellor.

General Von Schleicher stopped supporting Von Papen and decided he himself should become chancellor. This triggered off a power struggle between Von Schleicher and Von Papen, which ended up with them handing power to Hitler.

In the end I do not think Hitler took power at all- he was mostly given it! Hitler was not elected to the position of Chancellor in Germany. He was chosen by von Hindenburg because he had more popular support than the current Chancellor, Von Schleicher (Who only was chancellor for a short time before being forced to resign). Hitler come to power in many ways. He promised to undo the Versailles Treaty which Germany had to reparation to England and France. He also promised to to restore hope and the deal with the depression. Hitler also blamed the Jews for inflicting tragedy to Germany. Hitler was not elected , indeed he had the largest party in the reichstag but as unable to form the majority needed to become chancellor. His ascension to Premiership was due to a bitter feud between the chancellor von Papen and the army general von Schleicher. Von Schleicher declared that Von Papen had no army support and so was sacked and Von Schleicher appointed but Von Schleicher had no popular support. Meanwhile Von Papen with the support of Hindenburg's son convinced the president to make Hitler chancellor and make him Vice chancellor as Hitler had popular support. Hitler came to power as chancellor and after the death of Hindenburg he managed to pass the "enabling Act " through bribing other parties or terrorizing them. This enabling act made him legal dictator of Germany for the next 4 years. Hitler was legally elected by the German people in a legitimate election November 1932. The Nazi Party won 34.1% (a drop of 4.2% since the previous election in July 1932) of the vote, largest of any of the parties in the election. The German people had lost faith in the parties of the political center because Germany had suffered great hardships during the 1920s and was hit even harder by the Great Depression which started in 1929. The German people had lost faith in the democratic process and wanted firm leadership. They knew full well that the Nazis wanted to establish a dictatorship (so did the communists). Thus, in the election of November 1932, the German electorate polarized to the extreme right and extreme left (the communist and socialist had a strong showing during this election). Hitler obtained the support of the German Nationalist Party, another right-wing party, which had won about 8.5% of the vote and was able to form a coalition government. President Hindenburg approved the arrangement and Hitler became Chancellor. Franz von Papen, a former chancellor and a leader of the Nationalist Party, became Vice Chancellor. The cabinet posts were divided with the Nationalists getting more posts than the Nazis. Hitler came to power in 1933 in Germany, Hitler and the Nazi party changed Germany completely, not for better, but for worse. He killed many innocent people and scared many peoples life's with horrid images. We learn about these events to educate people and show them, what happened shouldn't have happened, but we have to insure it doesn't happen again.

There are many reasons why Hitler come have come to power. Germany had just been through a war and had lost. The Treaty of Versailles made a contract for Germany which made living in Germany very hard. The people of Germany were poor and were upset with the Treaty. They wanted someone to help them out of the hole they were in.

Hitler offered them everything they wanted, the people of Germany were brainwashed with posters, radio, newspapers and leaflets. Hitler's speeches were strong and effective, the Germans liked the idea of having one strong leader. The Nazis were organised and people liked that.

Adolf Hitler never won a single election. The Nazi party had the most representatives in the Reichstag after the 1932 elections, but not a majority; it wasn't a two-party system. Hitler had run for president and lost, and he himself was never a member of the Reichstag. As leader of the most powerful party, he was named Chancellor. The Treaty of Versailles was very harsh on Germany, but they had been the aggressors in WW I, invading Belgium in 1914 as part of the Schlieffen Plan to attack France. Hitler and others promulgated a number of scapegoat myths, claiming that Germany had been sold out by the Jews and the Communists and also by Kaiser Wilhelm, who abdicated in 1918. The German military, with its aristocratic officer corps, could never admit that it had been beaten, nor could the German people, but in fact the army had sued for peace when the high command realized they needed 15,000 new recruits every month to continue fighting, but could only muster about 12,000. In four years of devastating trench warfare, they had run out of young men. To a defeated, demoralized Germany struggling through an extraordinary economic depression, Hitler seemed like a savior.

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A mandate is when the federal government forces that states to comply to something they want done.

For example: When the federal government wanted to raise the drinking age to 21 years old there was a state (Michigan i think) that refused. The government then said that they would not give them the money to pay for a project they needed to complete, but the state said they did not care, they would not raise the drinking age. then the government said they did not care what the state thought, they would have to raise the drinking age, no matter what.

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In numbers 21 it is God destroying the land and saving those who are worthy.

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the 100 000 man German army of the weimar republic

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The Reichswehr was the name of the German armed forces (as a whole) from 1919-1936, when they were renamed the Wehrmacht.

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Autarky means economic self-sufficiency. Throughout World War 2 Germany had major problems with food, oil, rubber and several metals, as these commodities could not be imported. The Nazi regime spent vast sums of money on industrial plants for producing substitutes, especially oil from coal.

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Pretty much what the Britons and Americans were doing. They were all developed societies, so therefore the upper class would have been hunting, joining rowing clubs, having picnics. And the lower classes would have been getting drunk and gambling in bars/ale houses. Ever been to Munich? It has the most brewerys in any one city in the world. Most of them were probably in existence at the time.

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The Treaty devastated Germany. It limited the army, squashed nationial pride and forced them to pay reparations that were outrageous and impossible to pay in the state Germany was in.

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They inspired the Russian Revolution and their uprising highlighted the instability of the Wiemar Republic