All posts tagged "Adolf Hitler"
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47HistoryOn this day, August 19, 1934, Adolf Hitler becomes president of Germany
On August 19, 1934, Adolf Hitler, already chancellor, is also elected president of Germany in an unprecedented consolidation of power in the...
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58HistoryOn this day July 21st 1944, Adolf Hitler takes to the airwaves to announce that the attempt on his life has failed and that “accounts will be settled.”
Hitler had survived the bomb blast that was meant to take his life. He had suffered punctured eardrums, some burns and minor...
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32HistoryOn this day April 30, 1945 Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his underground bunker
Der Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany, burrowed away in a refurbished air-raid shelter, consumes a cyanide capsule, then shoots himself with a...