One of the Nazi regime's most powerful tools at destroying it's domestic opposition was by taking away civil rights and freedoms, through laws passed through the Reichstag, and the severe, brutal, and strict enforcement of these laws by the SA, SS, and Gestapo. ... The law, which over saw this transformation, was called the Law for the Reconstruction of the Reich. ... It was officially called the Law for Removing the Distress of the People and the Reich. ... The Nazis had secretly caused confusion in order to create an atmosphere in which the law seems necessary to restore order. ......

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Hitler volunteered for the German Army and in his first engagement against the British and Belgians near Pyres, 2,500 of the 3,000 men in Hitler's regiment were killed, wounded or missing. ... Using force, Hitler got Hindenburg to pass a law that abolished freedom of speech, of the press, and of assembly. ... This law gave Hitler the power of a dictator for the next four years. ...

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Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau- am -Inn, Austria. The town is located near the Austrian- Germany border. His father Alois, worked as a customs officer on the border crossing. His mother Klara, had previously given birth to two other children...

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A gas shell struck near him, and he was blinded two days after Germany signed an armistice that brought World War I to an end. ... Near the end of February, barely a week before new elections were to be held, an event offered in Berlin that had made a lot of controversy: The Reichstag building was badly damaged in a fire. ... In September of 1935, at the Nazi Party's annual November Rally, the Nazis made public a new set of laws dealing with citizenship and race. ...

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A gas shell struck near him, and he was blinded two days after Germany signed an armistice that brought World War I to an end. ... Near the end of February, barely a week before new elections were to be held, an event offered in Berlin that had made a lot of controversy: The Reichstag building was badly damaged in a fire. ... In September of 1935, at the Nazi Party's annual November Rally, the Nazis made public a new set of laws dealing with citizenship and race. ...

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Right after Dieppe, things began to go better for the Allies. in the fall of 1942 the British 8th army, commanded by General Bernard Law Montgomery, defeated the Germans and Italians in Egypt- the first in a series of defeats that was to drive them out of the North African desert. And farther west, nearer to the Atlantic side of Africa, a 1000-ship British and American invasion force had landed. ...

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