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Rise to Power: Night of the Long Knives

Adolf Hitler: Rise and Downfall

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The Nazis and the Austrian National Socialists

Hitler makes amends with Pappen. The house arrest, the killing of his press officer is speech writer. It was all a dreadful mistake. His continued existence is now at Hitler's personal whim. On July the 13th, when the Reichstag reconvenes, Hitler makes an impassioned speech about how the fatherland was saved from destruction. In Mine Kampf’s opening paragraph, Hitler had declared his wish to fold Austria into Germany as a single entity via a political union,. This notion is gaining momentum, championed by the Austrian national socialists.

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