Gregor Strasser (also Straßer, see ß) (31 May 1892 – 30 June 1934) was a German politician and prominent figure in the Nazi Party. He became a rival to Adolf Hitler, left the Party in late 1932, and was murdered in 1934, during the "Night of the Long Knives".
Gregor Strasser and his younger brother Otto were born into the family of a Catholic judicial officer who lived in the Upper Bavarian market town of Geisenfeld. He attended the local Gymnasium (grammar school) and after his final examinations, served an apprenticeship as a pharmacist in the Lower Bavarian village of Frontenhausen from 1910 until 1914.
In 1914 he began to study pharmacy at Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, suspending his studies in the same year to enlist as a volunteer in the German Imperial Army. Strasser served in World War I, rising to the rank of First Lieutenant, and won the Iron Cross, First and Second Class. In 1918, he resumed his studies at Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg. He passed his state examination in 1919 and in 1920 started work as a pharmacist in Landshut.
Adolf Hitler (German: [ˈadɔlf ˈhɪtlɐ] ( listen); 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP), commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany (as Führer und Reichskanzler) from 1934 to 1945. Hitler is commonly associated with the rise of fascism in Europe, World War II, and the Holocaust.
A decorated veteran of World War I, Hitler joined the German Workers' Party, precursor of the Nazi Party, in 1919, and became leader of the NSDAP in 1921. In 1923, he attempted a coup d'état, known as the Beer Hall Putsch, in Munich. The failed coup resulted in Hitler's imprisonment, during which time he wrote his memoir, Mein Kampf (My Struggle). After his release in 1924, Hitler gained popular support by attacking the Treaty of Versailles and promoting Pan-Germanism, antisemitism, and anticommunism with charismatic oratory and Nazi propaganda. After his appointment as chancellor in 1933, he transformed the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich, a single-party dictatorship based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology of Nazism. His aim was to establish a New Order of absolute Nazi German hegemony in continental Europe.
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The focus is on the years 1932-1933 the rise of Adolf Hitler as a politician, which eventually led to his dictatorship and the Nazi-Regime. Hitler had to fight many obstacles and setbacks, it almost seemed impossible for his party to ever gain power, but his ruthless determination and versatile diplomacy combined with his opponents dramatic mistakes and many coincidences finally led him to power. With Hitler's appointment as the 30th Chancellor January 1933 begins the end of the Weimar Republic. Within months he abolished press freedom, suspended fundamental rights, established the first concentration camps. With the Enabling Act he dis-empowers the Parliament, and the Nazi party is the only party. In June 1934, Hitler can kill his former comrades Röhm and his opponents Strasser and Schleicher. Five years it will take until the beginning of World War II and the way that led to the greatest crimes of the 20th Century has been prepared.
How the politician Adolf Hitler managed to gain dictatorship
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A young girl becomes the great love of the Nazi leader's life. It spans the years between 1929 and 1945, and focuses on Hitler's obsessive relationship with his niece Geli Raubal ('Elaine Cassidy' (qv)), which eventually led to the girl's suicide, then goes on to tell the story of how Eva Braun ('Christine Tremarco' (qv)) became his wife.
The Chilling Story Of Hitler's Darkest Passion
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The movie describes the life of Adolf Hitler from childhood to manhood, and how he became so powerful. It describes his poor childhood in Austria, it describes the first world war from his point of view, and how he became the strongest man in Germany. The movie show us how Hitler turned from a poor soldier into the leader of the Nazis, and how he survived the attempts to kill him. It describes his relationship with his mistress Eva Braun, and his decisions and enemies inside Germany and inside the Nazi party.
Keywords: 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, animal-abuse, anti-semitism, art-school, austria, beer-hall, brown-shirt, cabaret
"The only thing necessary for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
Adolf Hitler: If a thief takes your money and you take it back, does that make you also a thief?
Adolf Hitler: Pride is a weapon!
Adolf Hitler: Traitors are defined not by themselves, but by the people they betray.
Fritz Gerlich: [about Hitler] He's not human. He studies people in order to appear human, but all he has discovered is our fear and our hatred.
Adolf Hitler: [speaking about Hindenburg's death] Today, the old Reich and it's finest leader enter Valhalla. At the same time, we mark the beginning of a new era. A time of peace and prosperity awaits us. The thousand year Reich has began. Sieg Heil!::[Crowd repeats phrase]
Adolf Hitler: We were friends once, Ernst; you saw my potential before anyone else; you speak your mind unlike the others; and you love your men more than yourself, which is rare in a leader. But you refuse to bend. Why? You have power.::Ernst Röhm: I don't want power, I want justice. My men were promised...::Adolf Hitler: I don't care. I don't give a damn about promises! You know this!... you know this. Ernst, the SA are not now, nor will they ever be the official German army. You must stand down.::Ernst Röhm: You're right, Adolf. We were friends once; and I will *always* speak my mind; and I will *not* betray my men!
President Paul von Hindenburg: If I appoint you Chancellor, how will I answer to God?::Adolf Hitler: How will you answer to Germany if you don't?
Adolf Hitler: The SA are to be bridled, Ernst. They may sing, march, carry flags, but they are to keep calm unless I say otherwise.::Ernst Röhm: We're not a Sunday shooting club, Adolf. We're a militia.::Adolf Hitler: Not anymore. My personal security will now be handled by the SS. Your men give off the wrong impression.::Ernst Röhm: I don't give a damn about impressions, but without the SA, without us, our loyalty...::Adolf Hitler: The wheels of history have turned! The plan has changed.::Ernst Röhm: Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.::[clicks heels, salutes, turns and leaves without his dismissal]
Friedrich Hollaender: Everyone's depressed - bad for the economy but excellent for cabaret. German people don't need democracy, for God's sake, they need music, laughter, someone to tell them what to do so they can get in line and follow.::Ernst Hanfstaengl: Don't tell me you've become a nationalist?::Friedrich Hollaender: I'm a satirist, Ernst. The most dangerous politician of them all. Speaking of humor, I'm going to hear Hitler tomorrow - would you like to come?::Ernst Hanfstaengl: The anti-Semite?::Friedrich Hollaender: The National Socialist anti-Semite. Call them "Nazis" just to piss them off. I hear he's fascinating.::Ernst Hanfstaengl: Well, that's very open-minded of you.::Friedrich Hollaender: You mean for a Jew, yes? I'm not supporting him, for God's sake. I need new material.
Fritz Gerlich: He's insane. A complete psychotic. He may be a compelling speaker on stage, but in person I could see into his eyes and what I saw was... terrifying.::Gustav von Kahr: And I intend to shut him down.::Fritz Gerlich: With all due respect, Commissar Von Kahr, you need to handle him with care.::Gustav von Kahr: Don't worry, I will. I know how to deal with Adolf Hitler.
The private life of Hitler revealed for the first time!
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This movie shows us the rise of Adolf Hitler from a small radical political adventurer to the dictator of Germany in the way of a gangster film. Exept for some minor inaccuracies the historical facts are given in a correct way.
Keywords: 1920s, 1930s, anti-semitism, army, arrest, astrologer, berlin-germany, character-name-in-title, coup-d'état, dictator
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Rvhm: Gerlich has shot himself.::Streicher: He's the first man who shot himself in the head six times.