When Henrich Himmler took over the SS in 1929 they began wearing the distinctive black uniforms and Death's head symbols and became the party's police force. ... When Hitler became Chancellor in 1932 the SS contained 52000 men, up from 280 in 1925, and they became not only the party's police and security force but also Germany's. By the start of 1934 most of Germany's police forces were co-ordinated under Himmler's SS. In April 1934 the Gestapo - Prussia's secret police force, where co-ordinated form Hermann GÖring to the SS. ... Clearly by the end of 19...

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But it was the rightist gangs who secretly received crucial weapons and support from the army leaders. ... Through Captain Hernst Rohm, political leis an officer, the army secretly sent Hitler money and recruits. ... When he reached his destination he was greeted by police. ...

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With the use of his secret police or the Gestapo, Hitler eliminated the leaders of his S.A. and all the other leaders that were seen as a threat to his leadership. ... Rule of Law was also rejected because even when suspected of going against the Nazis the secret police had the right to execute them. ...

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Groups, which were often linked with the political Left, which advocated birth control or presented contraceptive advice were dissolved by the police and attempts were made to stop the supply of contraceptives to chemist and doctors. ... As the war continued women began to play an important role in the employment sector Hermann Goring and Albert Speer, they were both in charge of the Gestapo (German Secret Police), they requested to Hitler the mobilization of the female reserve army for so that the women of Germany could work in the weapons factories. ...

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Nazism, or National Socialism, was born at the end of World War One. The war had ended on the 11th of November 1918, when Germany had signed an armistice. The myth prevailed that Germany had been "stabbed in the back- by Marxists and Jews. Nowhere was this stronger than in the surviving soldiers, of...

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After many secret alliances between various countries in Europe were made in the early 1900s, Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated. ... This was an attempted coup to take over Bavaria, but it fails when a brawl with the German police resulted in the groups arrest including Hitler. ...

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Adolf Hitler did not live a very long life, but during his time he caused such a great deal of death and destruction that his actions still have an effect on the world nearly 50 years later. People ask what could've happen to this small sickly boy during his childhood that would've led him do such h...

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A leader is someone who uses his or her intellect to guide others. Some leaders change the lives of people drastically and go down in history, whereas other leaders cause little change and fade into history and are forgotten forever. Adolf Hitler started out as an ordinary solider in World War I. ...

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