The War Path: Hitler's Germany, 1933-1939
Language: English
Pages: 301
ISBN: 0670749710
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
This is an account of the years of Hitler's power and the build up to the Second World War. The author explores Hitler's achievements in rebuilding the economy and the armed forces, with the concurrent growth of racism and nationalism. This is the first of a 3-volume work on the subject. The companion volumes are "Hitler's War 1939-1942" and "Hitler's War 1942-1945". David Irving has also written "The Death of General Sikorski", "The Rise and Fall of the Luftwaffe" and "The Trail of the Fox - The Life of Field Marshall Erwin Rommel".
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him in 1923 and served in Landsberg prison. From his private papers, Brückner appears of strongly religious, almost eccentric leanings. Another senior personal adjutant was former druggist Julius Schaub, aged forty, an undistinguished cripple but also a Landsberg veteran. Hitler had noticed Schaub painfully hobbling into the Party meetings on his crutches, given him a job and – like most of the household – grown to esteem him. From 1925 to the end there are few photos of Hitler which do not have
navy rallied round Raeder: social invitations went to Albrecht – but not to his new wife, Grete. She completed the farce by returning to her other lover, and in 1940 the unfortunate adjutant had to divorce her.* He never forgot Hitler's loyalty to him. He became a convinced National Socialist and put duty above all else, as his moving last letters from Berlin show. Albrecht is believed to have died with a machine-gun in his hands when the Russians took the Reich Chancellery in 1945. Raeder also
submarines permitted under the 1935 Anglo-German agreement as soon as he gave the word, and rapid development of an artillery U-boat. The 500-ton (type VII) submarine was to go into mass production. The admiralty again asked for the closing down of non-military construction projects like the Munich subway (which Hitler had initiated as recently as May 22) and the Volkswagen factory (of which he had laid the foundation stone four days later) to release skilled labour. Hitler refused. As for the
monstrous bluff. It was his resentment over May 22 – when the British jeered at him for “climbing down” – that was propelling him along the path to war.’ But it is equally possible that Hitler knew from the FA wiretaps that Weizsäcker was conniving with the British diplomats, and the words were intended for their benefit. We still cannot be sure. In the coming hostilities, Hitler wanted the SS to play an important part. In Berlin he had several talks with Himmler, arranging for two Death's Head
Germany and Italy would then each tackle the western democracies in a different theatre – Italy's being the Mediterranean and North Africa. Hitler would take on France first, by a southwesterly thrust between the Moselle and the Rhine. The defeat of France would deny Britain a strategic foothold on the European mainland. Swiss, Belgian and Dutch neutrality would, said Hitler, be respected. He was unimpressed by France's fortifications. ‘It is quite possible to penetrate her Maginot Line. We have
