The War Path - Hitler’s Germany 1933-1939 pptx

[...]... astride the world markets by their diligence, uprightness and profundity This, indicated Hitler, was the real reason why Britain had fought the war; this was the reason  for the Treaty of Versailles It was the victory of naked force over justice – the same lawless means that Britain had used against China in the opium war of , and the means that had gained for Britain practically one-fifth of the earth’s... them as the Jews; and then he began to concentrate his venom on the Jews as a whole, on the Ostjuden from Russia, and on the “Polish-Jewish vermin” who had flooded into Vienna and Germany On  August , the police reports show, Hitler for the first time devoted his speech solely to the Jews First he  developed abstruse racial theories, far above the head of his beer-swilling listeners But then he... staff in the Great War, had just died, and his simple oak coffin was lying in the shadow of the Victory Arch, draped with the Kaiser’s colours Tall black-shrouded pylons flanked the coffin, topped with bowls of lingering fire High-ranking officers of the new Wehrmacht – the Nazi armed services – froze all night  at each corner of the bier, carrying on silken cushions the eighty medals of the departed warrior... Hitler is not the visionary, the utopian, the blind patriot that people take him for, but a really great politician, thinker and realist The terrible thing is that Hitler’s enemies know him better than anybody, and the press – which is of course wholly in Jewish hands – has defamed and ridiculed the man An old trick: first a deathly silence, then scorn, then all-out war – and then annexation (There are... come when there’ll be this minority on the one side and the majority on the other – but this minority will be the one that makes history, because the majority will always follow where there’s a tough minority to lead the way In power after , Hitler adopted the same basic methods to restructure the German nation and toughen his eighty million subjects for the coming ordeal His confidence in them was... surface In these outpourings Hitler’s envy of Britain became plain – his envy of the national spirit, master-race qualities and genius whereby the British had won their colonial empire Other themes emerged in these early, beerhall speeches He demanded that Germany become a nation without class differences, in which manual labourer and intellectual each respected the contribution of the other On one... grey-blue eyes, a petite nose and a generous mouth The couple departed immediately on their honeymoon, not knowing that their marriage would later be construed as having set Adolf Hitler on the final approach to absolute power in Germany The minute-by-minute sequence of the next few days can be reconstructed from the diaries of the adjutant of Blomberg’s chief of staff – General Wilhelm Keitel – and the. .. people.” Hitler asserted that if, nonetheless, history had witnessed the Germans repeatedly engulfed by the tide of human affairs, then it was because their feckless leaders had failed them The National Socialist movement, he was determined, would not fail Germany Just as Moscow’s leaders were reeducating the Russians to their creed, the Nazis would educate each German along the same lines, and inject a new... down Scheubner-Richter, shot through the heart, had staggered back and clutched Hitler to the ground Another bullet had struck Göring Al together a dozen of his followers had been killed, but Ludendorff had marched on, furious that the Bavarian police should be firing on him – Ludendorff, hero of the Great War The smoke of the ten pylons flanking the Feldherrnhalle curled languidly up into the windless... his followers trudged obstinately toward the carbines pointed at them by the cordon of Bavarian police Even now the boulevard is little changed The buildings are the same So are most of the people It was here in Ludwig Strasse that – unsuspected by the silent crowds lining the icy pavements as dawn rose on  December  – Nazi Germany jolted imperceptibly onto the course that was to lead it to ruination . man’s path to war – Adolf Hitler’s. The narrative ends at the precise moment when the com- panion volume, Hitler’s War, * begins: the evening of  Sep- tember. books, the best-known include Hitler's War; The Trail of the Fox: The Life of Field Marshal Rommel; Accident: The Death of General Sikorski; The Rise