Historians now say that Hitler took no notice at all of astrological forecasts.
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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But when news spread that Hitler had survived, the plot crumbled and von Stauffenberg, von Kleist's father, and scores of others were arrested and executed in an orgy of revenge killings.
Eventually the big Botticelli pictures were so identified with the soul of their country's heritage that Hitler buried them in a salt-mine with orders to destroy them if he lost the war.
The Germans did not have the combat power to achieve the war-winning breakthrough that Hitler sought from the surprise offensive, but the panzers' sweep through the Ardennes thoroughly traumatized the Allied high command.
Rumour, myth and innuendo have it that Hitler was so impressed by both the view down the Arno and the collection of art that it was the only bridge not blown up by German troops as they retreated during World War II.
And after 1938, Franklin Roosevelt decided that Hitler posed a threat to the United States, but he was unable to convince an isolationist American public to enter World War II until the Japanese solved his problem by attacking Pearl Harbor at the end of 1941.
England certainly is an island, and it was water, as much as will, that stopped Hitler.
The German offensive against the Allies that May was shatteringly swift, achieving a success that stunned Hitler himself.
De Wohl claimed that as Hitler relied heavily on Krafft's predictions, which were based on mathematics surrounding birthdates, the British could gain a unique insight into his thinking if they knew the astrological advice he was receiving.
Szypulska said that while Polish media reaction to the campaign had been 80% positive, some "extreme right-wing" commentators had argued that detesting homosexuals did not make someone a Hitler and that its message was an exaggeration.
It was Germany under Hitler that changed the course of history for Egypt and the Middle East.
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In 1940, Hermann Goering assured Adolf Hitler that invading England was unnecessary: the Luftwaffe would bomb Britain into submission.
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.
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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It had been snatched up by a member of the U.S. Airborne division that liberated the Berghof, Hitler's headquarters.
His consultancy helped elect two mayors in rough-and-tumble Chicago, and he can deliver a punch: he was once accused of producing an ad that made an opponent resemble Hitler.
This background helps to explain why Mr Fischer feels passionately that the misery caused by Hitler's war has landed the Germans with a special responsibility to help unite the continent.
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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.
Hitler and his generals perceived that the weakness of their otherwise powerful enemies resided in habits and routines that made their reaction times slow.
As a result of the first world war it had been reduced to a small, impoverished country that was later to be absorbed by Hitler's Germany.
Way back in 1983, just days before Newsweek published the Hitler Diaries (does anyone remember that journalistic triumph-turned-disaster?), I accepted a job at the magazine.
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Reputedly he threw a watch, that had been given to him by Adolf Hitler when he performed in Munich, off one of the resort's piers when war broke out.
To defeat Hitler we mobilized all of the strength that we could muster, and in that effort we witnessed many of our finest hours as a military and indeed, as a country.
That was never in doubt, but the Allies hoped the stand against Germany's naked aggression would persuade Hitler to step back from the brink of all-out war, a motive that was neither base nor ridiculous.
That was after his ideological fling with the Nazis (Hitler already had his architect, Albert Speer), and before he became the architect of choice of big business.
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As for Cornelius Ryan, he was the Stephen Ambrose of his time, in the sense that he wrote massively popular books about the war against Hitler's Germany.
That, in turn, made possible the rise of Adolf Hitler and World War II.
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