Who was the Man Hitler selected as the second Fuhrer in 1945?
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Karl Donitz was appointed as Hitler's successor.\n\nIn his last testament, Adolf Hitler surprisingly designated Dönitz as his successor as Head of State (Staatsoberhaupt), expelling both Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler from the Nazi Party. Significantly, Dönitz was not to become Führer, but rather President (Reichspräsident), a post Hitler had abolished years earlier. Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels was to become Head of Government and Chancellor of Germany (Reichskanzler). Hitler committed suicide on 30 April 1945, and Goebbels followed suit a day later.\n\nDönitz became the sole representative of the crumbling Reich. The rapidly advancing Allied forces limited his government's jurisdiction to an area around Flensburg near the Danish border, where Dönitz's headquarters were located, along with Mürwik. Accordingly his administration was referred to as the Flensburg government. On 7 May 1945, he authorized the Chief of Staff of the German Armed Forces, Colonel-General Alfred Jodl, to sign the instrument of unconditional surrender of all German forces to the Allies. The surrender documents included the phrase, "All forces under German control to cease active operations at 2301 hours Central European Time on 8 May 1945." The next day, shortly before midnight, Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel repeated the signing in Berlin at Zhukov's headquarters and at the time specified the end of World War II in Europe occurred.\n\nDönitz appointed Ludwig von Krosigk as Chancellor (Reichskanzler) and they attempted to form a government. During his brief period in office Dönitz devoted most of his efforts to ensuring the loyalty of the German armed forces and trying to ensure German troops would surrender to the British or Americans and not the Soviets, fearing vengeful Soviet reprisals (correctly, as it turned out). However, his government was not recognized by the Allies, was for some days more or less ignored, and was dissolved when its members were captured and arrested by British forces on 23 May 1945 at Flensburg.
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Adolf Hitler. "Der Fuhrer" means simply "the leader" and that was eventually his title. Mussolini, his Italian counterpart, was "Il Duce," or the boss.
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Hitler, he has a gorgeous and charismatic characteristic ...
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Yes Hitler was a horrible dictator in Germany . Who caused so much death and fear .
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Adolf Hitler\nHermann Goring\nJoseph Goebbels\nHeinrich Himmler
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http://www.historychannel.com did several documentaries on him and may have more information.  I believe one of his grandparents were Jewish (father's side).  I also know he was a failed artist, a corporal in the German Army in WWI, very into the occult, dispised Christianity almost as much as he did the Jewish faith (the concentration camp/execution squads killed about 6 million of each), was a socialpathic control freak, and very into animal rights and environmental issues.\n\nHe was also an avowed marxist but believed if he controlled people's minds, he didn't need to control their property (The theory behind the National Socialist Movement).  He persecuted German Communists, but only because they were competition.  Hitler actually liked Stalin and conspired with him to destroy Poland in 1939.  He hated the Russian people with a passion though, and also desired the resource rich areas of the Ukrain, Romania (Germany's ally), Moldovia, and the Caususes.\n\nHis micromanagement style in military affairs helped lead to Germany's defeat in WWII.  His intervention in Guderian's attack against France allowed the BEF and Free French forces to escape at Dunkirk.  Hitler's lack of forsight in Africa lead to Rommel eventually running out of supplies and vehicles.  Hitler's interference in the Battle of Britton allowed the UK to repell the air attacks, fortify its islands, and rearm its troops.  His ill timed attack into Russia and interference with Army operations (move the two armies south instead of maintaining momentum to hit Moscow in the late summer) allowed the USSR to recover and go on the offensive.  Hitler's interference, and falling for the Allied deception operations, in Normandy allowed the Allies time to establish a beachhead and overwhelm the Germans with superior numbers.  And finally, his unwillingness to fully mobilize the German economy for war meant his units were often short of supplies.\n\nHitler was sometimes refferred to as the best "ally" the Allies had, militarily speaking.
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Stalin was definitely worse than Hitler. I think he killed around 20 - 30 million people.
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Adolf lead Germany during World War II. Adolf also  clung to supremisist beliefs and extermination of "undesirable" races in order to create a so-called "perfect" race.
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I don't have a set religion, but I would have to say Jesus. Hitler had mental issues, and he had his own Secret Soldiers kill a group of Nazis called Stormtroopers killed in an inn because they were deemed ineffective. Jesus has the help of God, who could just smote Hitler down with a terrible bowel movement, and Jesus could die but he would just be ressurected again.
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I vote for hitler. I mean, hitler is the most famous person of all time nonreligious. Not like I would vote for him. He wasn't even republican.
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Hi Jordan B,\n\nHere you go:\n\nHitler relocated to the Führerbunker on January 16, 1945, where he presided over the rapid disintegration of his Third Reich as the Allies advanced from both east and west. By late April, Soviet forces had entered Berlin itself and were battling their way to the center of the city where the Chancellery was located. Realizing that defeat was imminent, Hitler began making preparations for his suicide.\n\nHitler, having dictated his last will and testament to secretary Traudl Junge, signed them at 4 am on April 29. Shortly after midnight on April 30, 1945, Hitler married Eva Braun in a small civil ceremony in a map room within the bunker complex, before finally retiring to bed at around 4:00 am.\n\nShortly after noon on April 30, Hitler had a short meeting with Party Secretary Bormann before eating a small lunch consisting of spaghetti with a light sauce. Hitler and Eva Braun then said their personal farewells to members of the Führerbunker staff and fellow occupants, including the Goebbels family, Bormann, the secretaries, and several military officers. At around 2:30 pm, as Soviet forces raised their banner over the neighboring Reichstag, Adolf and Eva Hitler went into Hitler's personal study.\n\nSome witnesses later reported hearing a loud gunshot at around 3:30 pm (the Goebbels' young son is said to have declared, "A direct hit!" thinking it was a bomb overhead). After waiting a few minutes, Hitler's valet, Heinz Linge, with Bormann at his side, opened the door to the study. Linge later stated he immediately noted a scent of burned almonds in the small study, a common observation made in the presence of prussic acid, a form of cyanide. The Hitlers were both sitting on a small sofa, Eva on the left, Adolf to the right. Eva's body slumped away from Adolf's. Hitler appeared to have shot himself in the right temple with a 7.65 mm pistol which lay at his feet. Blood was dripping from the wound to his right temple and had made a large stain on the left arm of the sofa. Eva had no visible physical wounds and Linge assumed she had poisoned herself.\n\nSeveral witnesses stated the two bodies were carried to a small, bombed-out garden outside the bunker complex, where they were doused with petrol and set alight by Linge and members of Hitler's personal SS bodyguard. The SS guards and Linge later noted the fire did not completely destroy the corpses, but Soviet shelling of the bunker compound made further cremation attempts impossible and the remains were later covered up in a shallow bomb crater.\n\nSoviet troops stormed the Chancellory at approximately 11:00 pm. Hitler and Braun's badly burned and hastily buried remains were recovered by a SMERSH unit which was subsequently assigned to locate the Führer's body (it was attached to the 79th Rifle Corps of the Soviet Third Shock Army and is frequently referred to as 79th SMERSH).\n\nHope this helps
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Hitler was almost aborted. Enough said.
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Jews. There isn't even any call for second place, by comparison.\n\ntracy - Hitler didn't "persecute" the Jews. He built factories specially designed to gather them together, extract things like gold fillings, hair, all their property, work them to exhuastion, starve them, then exterminate them in large numbers as quickly as possible and dispose of their remains efficiently. So tell me again, how did Saul persecute the Christians compared to that?\n\nChristians just WISH they had some of the persecution of the Jews because of their masochistic obsession with martyrdom. Truth is, most of the time Christians were being persecuted, it was by other Christian sects.
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Hitler was Austrian yet he was able to become Chancellor (President) of Germany. Hmmm.........
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Hitler would embrace the Democrats and their way of thinking. He would be voted in as the next Democrat President.
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Yes.  He was a German jew that arrived in America shortly after the Nazis came to power in the 1930s.  He is not well known for his religious observance, but he was friendly with many Zionists and they actually offered him the job as Prime Minister of Israel.  he turned it down as he felt his previous profile, and especially his work with the atomic bomb, may have caused problems if he were to take office in Israel.  (Considering the cold war and the fact that nuclear technology was still secret it could well have been a major issue in international relations)
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adolf hitler?\n oh and you just said it lol