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Hitler, Adolf (1999) [1925]. Mein Kampf. Trans. Ralph Manheim. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 978-0-395-92503-4. So, the seventh instalment sees us at the end of the war, but there’s still some fall out to investigate so I’m pleased that there’s likely to be a few more stories to come in this great series. In August 1934, Hitler appointed Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht as Minister of Economics, and in the following year, as Plenipotentiary for War Economy in charge of preparing the economy for war. [191] Reconstruction and rearmament were financed through Mefo bills, printing money, and seizing the assets of people arrested as enemies of the State, including Jews. [192] Unemployment fell from six million in 1932 to one million in 1936. [193] Hitler oversaw one of the largest infrastructure improvement campaigns in German history, leading to the construction of dams, autobahns, railroads, and other civil works. Wages were slightly lower in the mid to late 1930s compared with wages during the Weimar Republic, while the cost of living increased by 25 per cent. [194] The average work week increased during the shift to a war economy; by 1939, the average German was working between 47 and 50 hours a week. [195] Haffner, Sebastian (1979). The Meaning of Hitler. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-55775-8.

Mitcham, Samuel W. (1996). Why Hitler?: The Genesis of the Nazi Reich. Westport, Conn: Praeger. ISBN 978-0-275-95485-7. The fall of Poland was followed by what contemporary journalists dubbed the " Phoney War" or Sitzkrieg ("sitting war"). Hitler instructed the two newly appointed Gauleiters of north-western Poland, Albert Forster of Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia and Arthur Greiser of Reichsgau Wartheland, to Germanise their areas, with "no questions asked" about how this was accomplished. [262] In Forster's area, ethnic Poles merely had to sign forms stating that they had German blood. [263] In contrast, Greiser agreed with Himmler and carried out an ethnic cleansing campaign towards Poles. Greiser soon complained that Forster was allowing thousands of Poles to be accepted as "racial" Germans and thus endangered German "racial purity". [262] Hitler refrained from getting involved. This inaction has been advanced as an example of the theory of "working towards the Führer", in which Hitler issued vague instructions and expected his subordinates to work out policies on their own. [262] [264] Day of Potsdam". Landeshauptstadt Potsdam. December 2004. Archived from the original on 6 June 2012 . Retrieved 13 June 2011. Since German is a language with grammatical gender, Führer refers to a male leader; the feminine form is Führerin.De Jong, Louis (1974) (in Dutch). Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in de tweede wereldoorlog: Maart '41 – Juli '42, p. 181. M. Nijhoff. Germany: Second Revolution?". Time. 2 July 1934. Archived from the original on 17 April 2008 . Retrieved 15 April 2013. Murray, Williamson; Millett, Allan R. (2001) [2000]. A War to be Won: Fighting the Second World War. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-00680-5.

Early October 1945. Off the east coast of England, a Japanese submarine surfaces On 23 March 1933, the Reichstag assembled at the Kroll Opera House under turbulent circumstances. Ranks of SA men served as guards inside the building, while large groups outside opposing the proposed legislation shouted slogans and threats towards the arriving members of parliament. [169] After Hitler verbally promised Centre party leader Ludwig Kaas that Hindenburg would retain his power of veto, Kaas announced the Centre Party would support the Enabling Act. The Act passed by a vote of 444–94, with all parties except the Social Democrats voting in favour. The Enabling Act, along with the Reichstag Fire Decree, transformed Hitler's government into a de facto legal dictatorship. [170] Dictatorship Main article: Military career of Adolf Hitler Hitler (far right, seated) with his army comrades of the Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment16 ( c. 1914–18)Weber, Thomas (2010a). "New Evidence Uncovers Hitler's Real First World War Story". BBC History Magazine. UK: Immediate Media Company. Archived from the original on 21 November 2012 . Retrieved 19 November 2016. Brüning's austerity measures brought little economic improvement and were extremely unpopular. [143] Hitler exploited this by targeting his political messages specifically at people who had been affected by the inflation of the 1920s and the Depression, such as farmers, war veterans, and the middle class. [144] Wilt, Alan (December 1981). "Hitler's Late Summer Pause in 1941". Military Affairs. 45 (4): 187–191. doi: 10.2307/1987464. JSTOR 1987464.

I was particularly pleased to see Tom’s wife, Lydia, playing a prominent part in the story. She’s a woman trying to balance the responsibilities of motherhood with her ambition to become a doctor as well as battling to overcome the obstacles still in place for women wishing to pursue a career, in particular married women. We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin. Kershaw, Ian (2000b). Hitler, 1936–1945: Nemesis. New York; London: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-32252-1. Dollinger, Hans (1995) [1965]. The Decline and Fall of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan: A Pictorial History of the Final Days of World War II. New York: Gramercy. ISBN 978-0-517-12399-7.Kellogg, Michael (2005). The Russian Roots of Nazism White Émigrés and the Making of National Socialism, 1917–1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-84512-0. Between 1939 and 1945, the Schutzstaffel (SS), assisted by collaborationist governments and recruits from occupied countries, were responsible for the deaths of at least eleven million non-combatants, [350] [336] including the murders of about 6million Jews (representing two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe), [351] [g] and between 200,000 and 1,500,000 Romani people. [353] [351] The victims were killed in concentration and extermination camps, ghettos, and through mass executions. Many victims of the Holocaust were murdered in gas chambers, while others died of starvation or disease or while working as slave labourers. [354] In addition to eliminating Jews, the Nazis planned to reduce the population of the conquered territories by 30million people through starvation in an action called the Hunger Plan. Food supplies would be diverted to the German army and German civilians. Cities would be razed, and the land allowed to return to forest or resettled by German colonists. [355] Together, the Hunger Plan and Generalplan Ost would have led to the starvation of 80million people in the Soviet Union. [356] These partially fulfilled plans resulted in additional deaths, bringing the total number of civilians and prisoners of war who died in the democide to an estimated 19.3million people. [357] Germany withdrew from the League of Nations and the World Disarmament Conference in October 1933. [202] In January 1935, over 90 per cent of the people of the Saarland, then under League of Nations administration, voted to unite with Germany. [203] That March, Hitler announced an expansion of the Wehrmacht to 600,000 members— six times the number permitted by the Versailles Treaty— including development of an air force ( Luftwaffe) and an increase in the size of the navy ( Kriegsmarine). Britain, France, Italy, and the League of Nations condemned these violations of the Treaty but did nothing to stop it. [204] [205] The Anglo-German Naval Agreement (AGNA) of 18 June allowed German tonnage to increase to 35 per cent of that of the British navy. Hitler called the signing of the AGNA "the happiest day of his life", believing that the agreement marked the beginning of the Anglo-German alliance he had predicted in Mein Kampf. [206] France and Italy were not consulted before the signing, directly undermining the League of Nations and setting the Treaty of Versailles on the path towards irrelevance. [207] Richard J. Evans (2005) The Third Reich in Power. New York: Penguin Books. p. 44. ISBN 0-14-303790-0