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A secret weapon is either a concealed weapon, or a weapon that is not officially confirmed by the owner.
In terms of large-scale weapons, a secret weapon may refer to a newly-designed or invented weapon that the government denies the existence of. For example, during its development, the atomic bomb was considered a secret weapon.
In terms of personal weapons, a secret weapon is a weapon that is hidden, or a weapon of unexpected design. Examples include umbrellas that fire bullets (Penguin in the Batman series) and watches that fire lasers. The concept of secret weapons was widely popularized by the James Bond novels and movies.
The very nature of secret weapons is special, as they tend to not stay secret for very long, if they are actually used as weapons. The German WWII V1 flying bomb, for example, only stayed secret until they were fired against Allied targets. The secrecy factor relies on how many people know of the weapons development and ultimately, how many people remain alive to report about the weapon's existence in the first place once the weapon is used.
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.