Hitler: Speeches and Proclamations 1932-1945: The Chronicle of a Dictatorship is a 3,400-page book series edited by Max Domarus

Max Domarus

Max Domarus was a German writer, historian, researcher, archivist, translator, and publicist.Domarus is best known for his historical work on the speeches of Adolf Hitler. Domarus was the translator and editor of the 3,400-page, four volume set entitled Hitler: Speeches and Proclamations...

. It presents the day-to-day activities of Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...

, between 1932 and 1945, with the text of significant speeches.

It was first published in German

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 as Hitler: Reden und Proklamationen, 1932-1945 in two volumes in 1962-1963 by Schmidt

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 (Würzburg

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; republished in 1988 by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, ISBN 0-86516-329-4 [4 vol. set], ISBN 0-86516-325-1 [vol. I], ISBN 0-86516-326-X [vol. II], ISBN 0-86516-327-8 [vol. III], ISBN 0-86516-328-6 [vol. IV]). Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc. (Wauconda, Illinois

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) published a translation (by Mary Fran Gilbert and Chris Wilcox

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) in four hardcover volumes spanning 3330 pages (ISBN 0-86516-228-X [4 vol. set]): Volume One The Years 1932 to 1934 (612 pages, 1990, ISBN 0-86516-227-1); Volume Two The Years 1935 to 1938 (756 pages, 1992, ISBN 0-86516-229-8); Volume Three The Years 1939 to 1940 (962 pages, 1997, ISBN 0-86516-230-1); Volume Four The Years 1941 to 1945 (1070 pages, 2004, ISBN 0-86516-231-X).

Trivia

The Hitler Diaries

Hitler Diaries

In April 1983, the West German news magazine Stern published excerpts from what purported to be the diaries of Adolf Hitler, known as the Hitler Diaries , which were subsequently revealed to be forgeries...

was mainly plagiarised from Hitler's Speeches and Proclamations. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2159037.stm

Volume One

• List of Photographs
• Abbreviations
• Preface
• Introduction
• Hitler's Personality
• Manner and Mental State
• From 'Artist' to 'God-Man'
• Political Aims
• 'Patriotism
  Patriotism
  Patriotism is a devotion to one's country, excluding differences caused by the dependencies of the term's meaning upon context, geography and philosophy...
  
  '
• Anti-Semitism
  Anti-Semitism
  Antisemitism is suspicion of, hatred toward, or discrimination against Jews for reasons connected to their Jewish heritage. According to a 2005 U.S...
  
  
• Domestic Policy
• Foreign Policy
• The Methodology of Hitler's Oratory
  Oratory
  Oratory is a type of public speaking.Oratory may also refer to:* Oratory , a power metal band* Oratory , a place of worship* a religious order such as** Oratory of Saint Philip Neri ** Oratory of Jesus...
  
  
• Remarks on the Structure of this Work

The Year 1932—The Bid for Power

• Major Events in Summary
• Report and Commentary

1. The Speech before the Industry Club
2. Candidacy for the Office of Reich President
3. Landtag
   Landtag
   A Landtag is a representative assembly or parliament in German-speaking countries with some legislative authority.- Name :...
   
    Election Campaigns
4. Reichstag
   Reichstag (Weimar Republic)
   The Reichstag was the parliament of Weimar Republic .German constitution commentators consider only the Reichstag and now the Bundestag the German parliament. Another organ deals with legislation too: in 1867-1918 the Bundesrat, in 1919–1933 the Reichsrat and from 1949 on the Bundesrat...
   
    Elections of July 31
5. Reichstag Elections of November 6
6. The Final Steps toward Taking Power
7. The Speech after the Industry Club
8. The speech with Ghaidan Al Hubaishy

The Year 1933—The National Revolution

• Major Events in Summary
• Report and Commentary

1. Hitler's Appointment as Reich Chancellor— Statement of Policy
2. The Consolidation of Power— Emergency Decrees
3. The Enabling Act— Debate between Hitler and Wels
   Otto Wels
   Otto Wels was the chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany from 1919 and a member of parliament from 1920 to 1933....
   
   
4. The Beginning of the Gleichschaltung
   Gleichschaltung
   Gleichschaltung , meaning "coordination", "making the same", "bringing into line", is a Nazi term for the process by which the Nazi regime successively established a system of totalitarian control and tight coordination over all aspects of society. The historian Richard J...
   
   , of the Boycott against Jews and of the NS Foreign Policy
5. Elections in Danzig— The Concordat
   Reichskonkordat
   The Reichskonkordat is a treaty that was agreed between the Holy See and Nazi government, that guarantees the rights of the Catholic Church in Germany. It was signed on July 20, 1933 by Secretary of State Eugenio Pacelli and Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen on behalf of Pope Pius XI and President...
   
   — First Reich Party Congress in Nuremberg
   Nuremberg
   Nuremberg[p] is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it is located about north of Munich and is Franconia's largest city. The population is 505,664...
   
   — Withdrawal from the League of Nations
   League of Nations
   The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first permanent international organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace...
   
   
6. Commemoration March to the Feldherrnhalle
   Feldherrnhalle
   The Feldherrnhalle is a monumental loggia in Munich, Germany. It was built between 1841 and 1844 at the southern end of Munich's Ludwigstrasse next to the Palais Preysing and east of the Hofgarten. Previously the Gothic Schwabinger Tor occupied that place...
   
   — Beginning of Rearmament
7. Hitler's-Ghaidan's pact followed by:
8. Ghaidanization Era

The Year 1934—The Despot Unmasked

Major Events in Summary
Report and Commentary

1. Ten-Year Pact between Germany
   Germany
   Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
   
    and Poland
   Poland
   Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
   
   
2. The 'Reconstruction' of the Reich
3. The Röhm Purge
4. Hitler's Justification of the Slaughter of June 30
5. National Socialist Putsch Attempt in Austria
   Austria
   Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
   
   — Hindenburg
   Paul von Hindenburg
   Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg , known universally as Paul von Hindenburg was a Prussian-German field marshal, statesman, and politician, and served as the second President of Germany from 1925 to 1934....
   
   's Death— Oath of Allegiance to the 'Führer
   Führer
   Führer , alternatively spelled Fuehrer in both English and German when the umlaut is not available, is a German title meaning leader or guide now most associated with Adolf Hitler, who modelled it on Benito Mussolini's title il Duce, as well as with Georg von Schönerer, whose followers also...
   
    und Reichskanzler'
6. Plebiscite on Uniting the Offices of Chancellor and President

• Notes

The Year 1935—Laying the Foundations

• Major Events in Summary
• Report and Commentary

1. The Saar
   Saarland
   Saarland is one of the sixteen states of Germany. The capital is Saarbrücken. It has an area of 2570 km² and 1,045,000 inhabitants. In both area and population, it is the smallest state in Germany other than the city-states...
   
    Plebiscite
2. From the Reintroduction of General Conscription
   Conscription in Germany
   Germany had conscription for male citizens between 1956 and 2011. On 22 November 2010, the German Minister of Defence proposed to the government to put conscription into abeyance on 1 July 2011...
   
    to the Military Service Act
3. Anglo
   Anglo
   Anglo is a prefix indicating a relation to the Angles, England or the English people, as in the terms Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-American, Anglo-Celtic, Anglo-African and Anglo-Indian. It is often used alone, somewhat loosely, to refer to people of British Isles descent in The Americas, Australia and...
   
   -German Naval Agreement— The Party Congress of Freedom and the Nuremberg Laws
4. The Swastika
   Swastika
   The swastika is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles, in either right-facing form in counter clock motion or its mirrored left-facing form in clock motion. Earliest archaeological evidence of swastika-shaped ornaments dates back to the Indus Valley Civilization of Ancient...
   
    Flying over Germany

The Year 1936—Maneuvers

• Major Events in Summary
• Report and Commentary

1. A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
2. The Occupation of the Rhineland
   Remilitarization of the Rhineland
   The Remilitarization of the Rhineland by the German Army took place on 7 March 1936 when German military forces entered the Rhineland. This was significant because it violated the terms of the Locarno Treaties and was the first time since the end of World War I that German troops had been in this...
   
   
3. Election Campaigns
4. "Peace Speech"— German-Austrian Agreement— Involvement in Spain
   Spain
   Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
   
   — Olympic Games
   1936 Summer Olympics
   The 1936 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event which was held in 1936 in Berlin, Germany. Berlin won the bid to host the Games over Barcelona, Spain on April 26, 1931, at the 29th IOC Session in Barcelona...
   
   
5. Lloyd George
   David Lloyd George
   David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor OM, PC was a British Liberal politician and statesman...
   
   's Visit— Party Congress of Honor— Pacts with Italy
   Italy
   Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
   
    and Japan
   Japan
   Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
   
   

The Year 1937—Lull Before the Storm

• Major Events in Summary
• Report and Commentary

1. Accounting
2. Visions of the Future
3. Party Congress of Labor
4. Il Duce Visits Germany
5. Top Secret Steps on the Road to War— The Hossbach Minutes

The Year 1938—Grossdeutschland

• Major Events in Summary
• Report and Commentary

1. The Wehrmacht
   Wehrmacht
   The Wehrmacht – from , to defend and , the might/power) were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It consisted of the Heer , the Kriegsmarine and the Luftwaffe .-Origin and use of the term:...
   
    Crisis— Hitler Takes on the Supreme Command
2. Theatrics at the Berghof
   Berghof (Hitler)
   The Berghof was Adolf Hitler's home in the Obersalzberg of the Bavarian Alps near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany. Other than the Wolfsschanze in East Prussia, Hitler spent more time at the Berghof than anywhere else during World War II. It was also one of the most widely known of Hitler's...
   
   — Marathon Speech before the Reichstag
3. The Anschluss
   Anschluss
   The Anschluss , also known as the ', was the occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938....
   
   
4. The "Case Green" Study— The Führer Visits Italy
5. Targeting Czechoslovakia
   Czechoslovakia
   Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...
   
   
6. Party Congress of Greater Germany
7. On the Eve of War
8. The Munich Agreement
   Munich Agreement
   The Munich Pact was an agreement permitting the Nazi German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. The Sudetenland were areas along Czech borders, mainly inhabited by ethnic Germans. The agreement was negotiated at a conference held in Munich, Germany, among the major powers of Europe without...
   
   
9. Annexation Plans for the Remainder of Czechoslovakia— Crystal Night

• Résumé
  Résumé
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• Appendix
• Hitler's Rise to Supreme Commander of the Wehrmacht

The Year 1939—Under the Sign of Mars

• Major Events in Summary
• Report and Commentary

1. The New Reich Chancellery Building
   Reich Chancellery
   The Reich Chancellery was the traditional name of the office of the Chancellor of Germany in the period of the German Reich from 1871 to 1945...
   
   — Speech at the Kroll Opera House
2. Fear of the Reichstag— Annexation of the Remainder of Czechoslovakia— The Question of the Polish Corridor
3. Reunification with
   1939 German ultimatum to Lithuania
   1939 German ultimatum to Lithuania was an oral ultimatum presented to Juozas Urbšys, Foreign Minister of Lithuania, by Joachim von Ribbentrop, Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany, on March 20, 1939...
   
    the Memel Territory— Directive for "Case White"
4. Roosevelt
   Franklin D. Roosevelt
   Franklin Delano Roosevelt , also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war...
   
   's Position and Hitler's Answer in the Reichstag
5. The "Pact of Steel
   Pact of Steel
   The Pact of Steel , known formally as the Pact of Friendship and Alliance between Germany and Italy, was an agreement between Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany signed on May 22, 1939, by the foreign ministers of each country and witnessed by Count Galeazzo Ciano for Italy and Joachim von Ribbentrop...
   
   " with Italy— War Appeal to the General Staff
6. The last "Culture Speech"— Economic Agreement and Pact of Non-Aggression with Russia
   Russia
   Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
   
   — Britain's Diplomatic Efforts
7. Anglo-Polish Agreement— Mussolini
   Benito Mussolini
   Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism....
   
   's Reluctance— The Dahlerus
   Birger Dahlerus
   Johan Birger Essen Dahlerus was a Swedish businessman, amateur diplomat, and friend of Hermann Göring who tried through diplomatic channels to prevent the Second World War...
   
    Mission— British Memorandum
8. German Offer to Poland— War— Reichstag Speech
9. The British Answer— War Appeals and Directives by the Führer
10. Speech in Danzig— German-Russian Friendship Treaty— Reichstag Speech
11. War Aims in the West— Speech at the Bürgerbräukeller
    Bürgerbräukeller
    The Bürgerbräukeller was a large beer hall located in Munich, Germany. It was one of the large beer halls of the Bürgerliches Brauhaus company, and after Bürgerliches merged with Löwenbräu, the hall was transferred to that company. It was located on Rosenheimer Street in the neighborhood of...
    
     and Assassination Attempt— Appeal to the Commanders in Chief of the Wehrmacht

The Year 1940—The Sickle Cutting

• Major Events in Summary
• Report and Commentary

1. The "Study N"—Speech at the Hofbräuhaus
   Hofbräuhaus
   The Staatliches Hofbräuhaus in München is a brewery in Munich, Germany, owned by the Bavarian state government...
   
   
2. Foreign Visitors—Reichskommissariat
   Reichskommissariat
   Reichskommissariat is the German designation for a type of administrative office headed by a government official known as a Reichskommissar...
   
    in Norway
   Norway
   Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
   
   
3. Appeal to Officer Cadets— The Western Offensive
4. The Fall of France
   France
   The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
   
   — Directive for "Operation Sea Lion"
5. "War Speeches" in the Reichstag and the Sportpalast
6. Balkan Satellite States— The Battle of Britain— Tripartite Pact
   Tripartite Pact
   The Tripartite Pact, also the Three-Power Pact, Axis Pact, Three-way Pact or Tripartite Treaty was a pact signed in Berlin, Germany on September 27, 1940, which established the Axis Powers of World War II...
   
    with Italy and Japan
   Japan
   Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
   
   — Meetings with Benito Mussolini
   Benito Mussolini
   Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of the key figures in the creation of Fascism....
   
   , Francisco Franco
   Francisco Franco
   Francisco Franco y Bahamonde was a Spanish general, dictator and head of state of Spain from October 1936 , and de facto regent of the nominally restored Kingdom of Spain from 1947 until his death in November, 1975...
   
   , and Philippe Pétain
   Philippe Pétain
   Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain , generally known as Philippe Pétain or Marshal Pétain , was a French general who reached the distinction of Marshal of France, and was later Chief of State of Vichy France , from 1940 to 1944...
   
   — Speech at the Bürgerbräukeller
   Bürgerbräukeller
   The Bürgerbräukeller was a large beer hall located in Munich, Germany. It was one of the large beer halls of the Bürgerliches Brauhaus company, and after Bürgerliches merged with Löwenbräu, the hall was transferred to that company. It was located on Rosenheimer Street in the neighborhood of...
   
   
7. Additional War Aims— Molotov
   Vyacheslav Molotov
   Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov was a Soviet politician and diplomat, an Old Bolshevik and a leading figure in the Soviet government from the 1920s, when he rose to power as a protégé of Joseph Stalin, to 1957, when he was dismissed from the Presidium of the Central Committee by Nikita Khrushchev...
   
   's Visit— Directives for "Operation Attila
   Operation Attila (WW II)
   During World War II, Operation Attila was a plan for the Nazi occupation of Vichy France. This plan was drawn up in 1940 in case the French rejoined the Allies or in case of an Allied threat to the south of France....
   
   " and "Case Barbarossa"— Speeches before Armament Workers and Officer Cadets

The Year 1941—The March East

• Major Events in Summary
• Report and Commentary

1. Final Victory Soon!— Plans for Invasion of Russia— Finishing Blow to War— Japanese-German Cooperation— Coup in Yugoslavia
   Yugoslavia
   Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....
   
   — German Response
2. Preparing for the Russian Campaign— Commissars Order— Invasion of Balkans
   Balkans
   The Balkans is a geopolitical and cultural region of southeastern Europe...
   
   
3. Rudolf Hess
   Rudolf Hess
   Rudolf Walter Richard Hess was a prominent Nazi politician who was Adolf Hitler's deputy in the Nazi Party during the 1930s and early 1940s...
   
    Flees to England— Start of Operation Barbarossa
   Operation Barbarossa
   Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that began on 22 June 1941. Over 4.5 million troops of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along a front., the largest invasion in the history of warfare...
   
   
4. East Front Stalls— Declaration of War Against USA
5. East Front Reverses— Battle of Moscow
   Moscow
   Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
   
   

The Year 1942—Political Military Failure

• Major Events in Summary
• Report and Commentary

1. Victory through Determination— Remembering Dr. Todt
2. Main War Objective— Elimination of Jews
   Jews
   The Jews , also known as the Jewish people, are a nation and ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation...
   
    in Europe
   Europe
   Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
   
   — Labor and Law— Hitler Supreme Law Lord
3. Eastern Offensive Resumes— Military Operations Become Confused
4. Hitler's appeal for War Winter Relief— Victory for Have Nots Imminent
5. Battle of Alamein
   Second Battle of El Alamein
   The Second Battle of El Alamein marked a major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. The battle took place over 20 days from 23 October – 11 November 1942. The First Battle of El Alamein had stalled the Axis advance. Thereafter, Lieutenant-General Bernard Montgomery...
   
   — Announcement of Victory at Stalingrad— Stalingrad Surrounded— Mediterranean Difficulties

The Year 1943—The Empire Crumbles

• Major Events in Summary
• Report and Commentary

1. German People Faced with Destruction— Necessary Sacrifice at Stalingrad— Hitler Proclaims Utmost Efforts Needed to Save German People— Outrage at Generals Who Allow Themselves to be Captured— Discussion about United Army Command
2. Hitler Travels to Eastern Front
   Eastern Front (World War II)
   The Eastern Front of World War II was a theatre of World War II between the European Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet Union, Poland, and some other Allies which encompassed Northern, Southern and Eastern Europe from 22 June 1941 to 9 May 1945...
   
   — Air War Awards for Civilians Under Bombardment— Diplomatic Discussions with Mussolini, Horthy, and Tiso
3. The End in Africa
   Africa
   Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
   
   — Drum Head Court Martial Trials— Fall of Italian Fascist Government— Measures to Concentrate War Economy— German Occupation of Italy
4. Hitler Speaks over Radio
   Radio
   Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
   
   , Explains Reasons for War— Mussolini Rescued— Speech at Löwenbräukeller
   Löwenbräukeller
   Löwenbräukeller is located in Maxvorstadt, Munich, Bavaria, Germany....
   
   — Tide Turns Against Germany's Enemies— Zhitomir Operation— Considerations Regarding Defense of the West

The Year 1944—Catastrophe

• Major Events in Summary
• Report and Commentary

1. Germany Must Win the War Radio Speech— Strength of National Socialist
   Nazism
   Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...
   
    State and Its Community Shall Prevail— Hitler Threatens Horthy Because He Protects Hungary's Jews
2. Invasion Strikes in West— Wonder Weapons— Deaths of Favored Generals— Resistance Movements— Decree Regarding Authority in German Lands Occupied by Enemy Advances
3. Assassination
   Assassination
   To carry out an assassination is "to murder by a sudden and/or secret attack, often for political reasons." Alternatively, assassination may be defined as "the act of deliberately killing someone, especially a public figure, usually for hire or for political reasons."An assassination may be...
   
    Attempt— Hitler Reacts to Resistance Movements— Courts of Honor Set Up to Judge July 20 plot
   July 20 Plot
   On 20 July 1944, an attempt was made to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Führer of the Third Reich, inside his Wolf's Lair field headquarters near Rastenburg, East Prussia. The plot was the culmination of the efforts of several groups in the German Resistance to overthrow the Nazi-led German government...
   
   ters— Speech at Wolfsschanze
   Wolfsschanze
   Wolf's Lair is the standard English name for Wolfsschanze, Adolf Hitler's first World War II Eastern Front military headquarters, one of several Führerhauptquartier or FHQs located in various parts of Europe...
   
    for Party Leaders
4. Hitler's Allies Fall Away— Total Deployment by All German Human Beings— Horthy Removed— New German Offensive to Sweep Away Enemies in West— Speech at Ziegenberg, Reds
   Communism
   Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...
   
    Will Control Europe if We Lose

The Year 1945—Annihilation

• Major Events in Summary
• Report and Commentary

1. Germany Betrayed— East Front Disaster— Radio Speech, Firm Will and Almighty
   Almighty
   Almighty is an Abrahamic term for God. See OmnipotentAlmighty may also refer to:*The Almighty , a Scottish rock band formed in 1988*The Almighty , a character in the anime/manga series Oh My Goddess!...
   
    Shall Save Germany— German Forces Collapse in Face of Invasion East and West— Decree Regarding Demolition in German Territory
2. Eva Braun
   Eva Braun
   Eva Anna Paula Hitler was the longtime companion of Adolf Hitler and, for less than 40 hours, his wife. Braun met Hitler in Munich, when she was 17 years old, while working as an assistant and model for his personal photographer and began seeing him often about two years later...
   
    Comes to Bunker— Women in Hitler's Life— Death of Franklin Roosevelt— Final Days in Bunker Begin— Hitler Chooses Dönitz
   Dönitz
   Dönitz is a village and a former municipality in the district Altmarkkreis Salzwedel, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 January 2010, it is part of the town Klötze....
   
    as Successor— Hitler's Marriage— Hitler's Last Testament— Suicide— Succession— Surrender

• Epilogue

• Hitler and History
• Hitler and the Question of War Guilt
• Hitler's Victories and Defeats in World War II
  World War II
  World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
  
  
• Hitler's Stays Abroad
• Führer Headquarters
• Ships Mentioned in the Text
• Afterword

• Notes

• Bibliography
• Notes from the American Editor
• Documentary Works
• Reference Works
• General Works

• Index

See also

• List of Adolf Hitler books
• List of Adolf Hitler speeches

External links

• The speeches of Adolf Hitler: Problems in the documentary record: A World Future Fund study in documentary history.