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The regime prioritized economic recovery through state intervention, massive public works, and — above all — rearmament. Hitler pursued territorial expansion by annexing Austria (the Anschluss) in March 1938 after orchestrating internal political pressure. Appointed Chancellor in 1933, he rapidly consolidated power, established a totalitarian dictatorship, and pursued aggressive policies.

This law granted Hitler’s cabinet the power to legislate without parliamentary or presidential oversight, rendering the Reichstag irrelevant and parliamentary democracy extinct. As his inheritance ran out in 1909, he experienced real poverty, living in homeless shelters and men’s dormitories, earning a meager living by painting watercolors, often with the help of Jewish art dealers.

Vienna, with its cosmopolitan mix of ethnicities and religions, was a stark contrast to Linz, and during his years there (1908-1913), Hitler became intensely interested in politics.

The Allied D-Day landings in Normandy opened a major Western Front and led to the liberation of France, while the Soviet Red Army advanced relentlessly from the east, pushing German forces into retreat across Poland and the Balkans. The putsch failed; Hitler fled, was arrested, and charged with high treason.

At his trial, Hitler exploited the proceedings as a national stage to broadcast his ideas, portraying himself as a patriot fighting against those he held responsible for Germany’s humiliation.

Hitler grew ever more isolated, receiving fragmented war news, and holding stormy military conferences. The invasion of the Soviet Union marked the beginning of systematic mass murder by mobile killing squads (Einsatzgruppen), who targeted Jews, Soviet prisoners of war, and others deemed undesirable. Hitler’s decision to halt the Panzers before Dunkirk allowed the Allies to evacuate a large force, a significant strategic mistake.

This brutal operation destroyed the SA’s power, secured the loyalty of the military, greatly empowered Himmler’s SS, and left Hitler unchallenged as supreme leader, now openly employing state-sanctioned murder against enemies.

The death of President Hindenburg in August 1934 allowed Hitler to merge the offices of President and Chancellor, abolishing the presidency and declaring himself Führer und Reichskanzler.

Adolf Hitler

Tried for treason, Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison, but would serve only nine months in the relative comfort of Landsberg Castle. The household also included half-siblings from Alois’s previous marriage. In June 1941, Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, the largest land invasion in history, seeking to destroy the Soviet Union.

After Hitler became infatuated with his beautiful blonde niece, Geli Raubal, his possessive jealousy apparently led her to commit suicide in 1931.

Devastated by the loss, Hitler would consider Geli the only true love affair of his life. The Wannsee Conference in January 1942 coordinated the administrative details of genocide, including mass deportations to extermination camps established primarily in occupied Poland.

Hermann Göring’s Four Year Plan shifted the economy to war footing, aiming for autarky and military preparedness. (After 1929, under the leadership of Heinrich Himmler, the SS would develop from a group of some 200 men into a force that would dominate Germany and terrorize the rest of occupied Europe during World War II.)

Eva Braun

Hitler spent much of his time at Berchtesgaden during these years, and his half-sister, Angela Raubal, and her two daughters often joined him.

The armed forces swore unconditional personal loyalty to Hitler, and a plebiscite provided a veneer of legitimacy to this unprecedented concentration of power.