Just before World War II, the Nazi regime planted flags on the continent for Hitler.
It is unclear whether the Prussian landowner much cared for Hitler, who came to power in Germany in 1933.
And the story at times comes off as a loopy cross between "Springtime for Hitler" and Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte.
His jaunty little number, "Springtime for Hitler, " was the title tune from the show-within-a-show that Brooks created for his musical, The Producers.
The Broadway adaptation still contains the movie's centrepiece musical number Springtime For Hitler, a wonderful piece of cinematic kitsch, which has been artfully recreated for the stage.
Allan Bloom, in the "Closing The American Mind, " said that we can no longer conceive of evil because the only word we have for evil is Hitler, and that's become much of the political discourse.
Not only did Austria fail to atone for its share in Hitler's rise, the coming of war and the Holocaust.
The mayor, known as Red Ken for his left-leaning ways, invoked the "warmth and sympathy" Britons feel for an old ally against Hitler.
In 1936, Adolf Hitler opened the first factory for the production of the "People's Car, " the Volkswagen, in Saxony.
Eisenhower's men smoked a million packs of cigarettes a day, rising to 84 million packs for December 1944, the month of Hitler's doomed but trauma-imposing Bulge offensive.
But when Jews, threatened in the 1930s with Hitler's Final Solution for European Jewry needed most urgently support to find refuge, Britain imposed stringent restrictions on Jewish emigration into Palestine.
But whatever the merits, it helps put the Slovik execution in some perspective to mention that during the course of the eleven-month campaign in Northwest Europe, when Eisenhower had one deserter put to death, Hitler had 50, 000 executed for desertion or cowardice.
With almost no hope left, the nation turned to Winston Churchill, the one man who had spoken the truth for years, saying nasty things about Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, even though it cost him in terms of political success and personal reputation.
The poster boy for off-the-rails, disastrous optimism is Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister who met with Hitler in 1938 and handed him a big chunk of Czechoslovakia in exchange for the Fuhrer's word.
Speer was Adolf Hitler's chief architect and minister for armaments during World War II.
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In 1943, Adolf Hitler mobilized the entire German adult population for the country's war effort.
It was Germany under Hitler that changed the course of history for Egypt and the Middle East.
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Even though exceptions were made for people who could prove that they had opposed Hitler, the expulsion policy was still an example of collective guilt or, as many pointed out, ethnic cleansing.
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The decision was opposed by leaders of the Czech underground, who feared rightly that Hitler would take out on them his thirst for revenge.
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Mr Varney played the perky Cockney survivor making life hell for the lugubrious Blakey, the bus-inspector, a Hitler lookalike who swore at the end of every episode to get even with him, and never did.
Although the Czech coalition government has persuaded itself that the joint declaration will forestall financial and property claims by Sudeten Germans -- whose welcoming of Hitler's "liberators" was directly responsible for this ethnic minority's subsequent relocation to Bavaria -- it seems unlikely to have that effect.
France at its revolution and Germany when Hitler assumed power were respectively the most sophisticated nations in Europe for their eras.
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For most of the politicians and opinion-makers who wanted to appease Hitler, the Nazis were not much more than a raucous expression of German nationalism.
After studying journalism in London, Mrs Wake became a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune in Paris and reported on the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany.
For Jewish Americans, there are many reasons for remembering the dead, and one of the best is to deny Hitler the posthumous victory that would be assimilation.
Though this might seem a terrible toll, it was a trifling price for a critical strategic breakthrough, the last moment of the war when Hitler might credibly have stemmed the tide in the West.
Russel Tarr, who runs Active History from France, where he works as a teacher said the lesson plan was a revision tool for the end of a six-week course on the rise of Hitler, during which the 15- and 16-year-old pupils would have written a 1, 000-word essay on the topic.
There are great expectations for what the German Pope, who served - although unwilling - in the Hitler Youth, will say.
Indeed, for a long time the international community has also tended to see Austria as Hitler's first victim, thus creating the popular myth of Austrian innocence.
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