what european countries were taken over by Hitler?
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Germany\nItaly\nand other
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there were 6 major European powers that sat out WWII while 13 others were overrun and occupied. Switzerland, Sweden, Ireland, Spain and portugal and Turkey were so called neutrals during the war. For an interesting look into these please check out this article: http://www.thehistorynet.com/wwii/letters_10_04/
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Italy under Mussolini was one of the Axis powers (with Germany and Japan).
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No way. Hitler stole that land and it did not belong to Germany in the first place.
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It was Hitler and the Nazi Party's "Final Solution" to restore Germany to a prominant position in Europe. This included the extermination of many minorities, including Jews, Homosexuals, Gypsies, Greeks, Jahova's Witnesses, and many others.
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Adolph Hitler\n\nHitler controlled Germany from 1933–45. His fascist maneuverings for world domination, his dream of a Teutonic master race subjugating all non-Germanic peoples, led to a criminality unmatched by any leader this millennium. Responsible for the genocide of six million Jews, the slaughter of Gypsies, Slavs, homosexuals, Communists, and other "undesirables" and "decadents," as well as the invasion of Europe and the preposterous ambition to rule the world, Hitler defies any more sophisticated explanation than categorical evil.\n\n\nJoseph Stalin\n\nTotalitarian leader of the U.S.S.R. from 1929–53, Stalin crushed the Soviet peoples with his megalomania and repressive version of communism. His adopted name meant "man of steel," and the term Stalinism has become the definition of a cruel, draconian socialism. He sent millions of Soviets not conforming to the Stalinist ideal to forced-labor camps, and he persecuted his country's vast number of ethnic groups—reserving particular vitriol for Jews and Ukranians. Soviet historian Roy Medvedev estimated that about 20 million died from starvation, executions, forced collectivization, and life in the labor camps under Stalin's rule. Another 20 million survived imprisonment and deportation.\n\nMao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung)\n\nA despotic ideologue who controlled China from 1949–76, Mao subjected the Chinese people to his massive social experiments, all of which went catastrophically amok. Early in his reign, he encouraged free speech in an attempt to avoid the mistakes of Stalinism. When criticism of his regime arose, however, his true sentiments—absolute intolerance of dissent and opposition—emerged, and he retaliated savagely. When he launched the Great Leap Forward—his economic plan to forge an industrial revolution in China—it resulted in the worst famine of the century, described as a "totally unnecessary, entirely man-made holocaust that claimed between 23 million and 30 million lives." He then masterminded the Cultural Revolution, which, despite its ideological claim to "purify" communism of bureaucrats and elitists, was a vehicle for settling Mao's personal scores and shoring up power. During the nightmarish decade when culture was equated with depravity, millions—most of whom were guilty of the crime of belonging to the bourgeoisie—were imprisoned, tortured, and murdered as suspected class enemies.\n\n\nPol Pot\n\nRadical Marxist leader of Cambodia from 1975–79, who butchered his own people. The four years of nightmarish Khmer Rouge rule led to the state-sponsored extermination of citizens by its own government. Between 1 million and 2 million people were massacred on the "killing fields" of Cambodia or were worked to death through forced labor. Pol Pot's radical vision of transforming the country into a Marxist agrarian society led to the virtual extermination of the country's professional and technical class—anyone wearing glasses, for example, was murdered. Pol Pot died in 1998 without remorse, declaring, "My conscience is clear."\n\nTamerlane (Timur)\n\nTamerlane's life (c. 1336–1405) was spent conquering the inhabitants of Asia. A Turkik Mongol, his goal was to make his capital, Samarkand, the most impressive in Asia. Yet he rarely stayed at home, preferring to vanquish and destroy additional lands. Legendary for his ruthless savagery and lack of mercy, Tamerlane massacred entire populations—including the 80,000 residents of Delhi— and razed whole cities, leaving behind nothing but rubble. And he had a macabre sense of architecture—building towers out of the skulls of his victims.\n\nMaximillien Robespierre\n\nRobespierre was the mastermind of the Reign of Terror (1793–1794), the dark underside of the French Revolution that perverted its lofty ideals of democracy with fanaticism and inhumanity. Robespierre, leader of the infamous Committee of
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No, that's pretty accurate. The other 4% were Jews and other Christian faiths. Hitler was Austrian, and raised a Catholic.\nOne little side-bar, as long as we're discussing Nazi Germany: One of the first things Hitler did when coming to power was to ban all abortions, citing them as an "abomination." Thought that was interesting, considering what happened later.
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All of them. Finland took the easy way out and sided with the Germans. Sort of.
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uk, spain , france, germany. and italy
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Adolph Hitler, leader of the Nazi party in Germany, became Chancellor under President von Hindenberg in 1933, and began his official reign of terror against the Jews, and many other groups of people.  When von Hindenberg died, Hitler assumed the presidency also, and became the sole ruler of Germany.  Soon after, he ordered implementation of THE FINAL SOLUTION, which meant murdering every Jew he could get his hands on.
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totally ignore Kails, he has no clue what he is talking about, Italy was knocked out of the war before Germany, then the allies moved in on Germany, Russia from the East and UK etc from the West and met in Berlin where Hitler shot himself before the bunker that the high command were sheltering was captured. and that was the day we celebrate as V.E day (victory in Europe) then in the Pacific it continued for a while until America dropped 2 nuclear bombs on civilian centres and Japan surrendered. the allied soldiers would of known it was over cos their commanding officers would of told them. although there are some rumours that Japanese soldiers remained in Korea till this day fighting on in the mountains cos they did  not know the war was over \nhope that helps
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Nazi Germany and the third reich. Hitler
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germany,Japan,Italy (Axis powers)
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Italy versus Britain then Germany joined in. Theoretically Vichy France then joined Germany against Britain.\nFinally the USA joined Britain by which time Italy had virtually dropped out.
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The Nazis wanted the Jews out of Europe. Three basic reasons.\n I) they were not Christians and Hitler was a good Christian. \n2) they were not Germans and Hitler wanted a Germany for the Germans (master race and all that stuff)\n3) The idea of deportation and the creation of a Jewish homeland fell through. (Hitler and the Nazis pressured England and other countries to create a place for a Jewish State. Those negotiations fell apart at the start of the second world war. Then the need for ships to transport them became an impossible requirement to match. The process of gathering them up and sending them somewhere was already in place and proceeding. Hitler was shipping them East to Poland and the Sudeten Lands, but there really was no place to put them. So they were   "resettled" in the death camps. It was not the first option, it was the final solution.\n\nI would suggest that you find a copy of "Eichman in Israel" by Hanna Arendt. It is an excellent read.
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Adolf Hitler (help·info) (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of Germany from 1933, and "Führer" (leader) of Germany from 1934 until his death. He was leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), better known as the Nazi Party.\n\nHitler gained power in a Germany facing crisis after World War I. Using propaganda and charismatic oratory, he was able to appeal to the economic need of the lower and middle classes, while sounding resonant chords of nationalism, anti-Semitism and anti-communism. With the establishment of a restructured economy, a rearmed military, and a totalitarian fascist dictatorship, Hitler pursued an aggressive foreign policy with the intention of expanding German Lebensraum ("living space"), which triggered World War II when Germany invaded Poland. At the height of its power, Nazi Germany occupied most of Europe, but it and the Axis Powers were eventually defeated by the Allies. By then, Hitler's racial policies had culminated in a genocide of approximately eleven million people, including about six million Jews, in what is now known as the Holocaust.\n\nIn the final days of the war, Hitler committed suicide in his underground bunker in Berlin with his newlywed wife, Eva Braun.
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Wow. That list could be pretty long. Germany conquered most of Europe with a little help from Italy and France. Japan conquered a piece of China,  most of the Pacific coastal countries on the Asian continent and most of the island nations in the Pacific. And then the Allies conquered Germany, Italy, and Japan.\n\nYeah, that list could get pretty long.