Curated playlist
Adolf Hitler
- German–Soviet Axis talksIn November 1940, Berlin greeted Molotov with an orchestra playing The Internationale.
- Adolf HitlerAdolf Hitler was rejected twice by Vienna's art academy. He later became dictator of Germany.
- Joseph GoebbelsJoseph Goebbels was Chancellor of Germany for a single day.
- Death of Adolf HitlerA skull fragment long thought to be Hitler's turned out to belong to a woman. DNA testing settled it in 2009.
- AppeasementAppeasement was once a respectable word for peaceful settlement. After 1939 it came to mean cowardice and surrender.
- SturmabteilungThe Sturmabteilung, or SA, was the first paramilitary force of Hitler's Nazi Party, and its name loosely means stormtroopers. On the 2nd of October 1933, its chief of staff, Ernst Röhm, sent a letter to General Walter von Reichenau of the…
- FührerIn 1921 Hitler quit the Nazi Party to block a merger, then demanded dictatorial powers to return.
- Beer Hall PutschAdolf Hitler fired a pistol into a Munich beer hall ceiling and declared a revolution.
- Plan ZAlmost every ship in Hitler's Plan Z fleet existed only on paper. Only two battleships were laid down before war began.
- Night of the Long KnivesA music critic died in Hitler's 1934 purge because his name was confused with a target's.