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On 16 December 1941, Adolf Hitler issued his controversial Haltbefehl (halt order). As Germany’s Army Group Center reeled under the Soviet counterattack during the battle for Moscow, the Haltbefehl forbade the army to retreat. Scholars have argued that this order ended the Prussian-German method of command called Auftragstaktik. Under this concept, German field commanders enjoyed wide command discretion within the intent of their superiors. This thesis argues that Auftragstaktik did survive at and below the German Army’s divisional level during its defensive struggles in the battle for Moscow. The case studies illustrate that field commanders kept their command independence and withdrew their units against Hitler’s halt order. / History

Historiography of the National Socialist Volksgemeinschaft, or people’s community, has traditionally been divided between historians surmising its construction under the Third Reich as a genuine undertaking meant to uplift German society, and those who view the project as a propaganda effort which assisted the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in retaining legitimacy. Utilizing the plethora of works written on the topic, and a handful of primary sources from pre-Nazified Germany, NSDAP officials, and average citizens alike, this work will demonstrate that, as early as 1807, German philosophers, statesmen, and eventually a large majority of the population yearned for the national unity of Volksgemeinschaft; that the National Socialists adapted the concept for their own ideology. Furthermore, this study finds that, although Adolf Hitler indeed exploited the Volksgemeinschaft for his retention of power, the Third Reich’s efforts in its development were certainly authentic, thus combining both schools of thought in the historiographical debate.

L'arrivée de Hitler au pouvoir et la mise en œuvre de la politique du IIIème Reich provoquent l'arrivée en France de plusieurs vagues successives de réfugiés provenant d'Allemagne et de tous les pays nouvellement conquis par le nazisme. Lyon, véritablecitadelle contre l'obscurantisme, allait s'élever comme un rempart pour les protéger et venir en aide aux nouveaux arrivants, parmi lesquels les Juifs.Le 26 août 1942, 1016 juifs étrangers, entrés en France après le 1er janvier 1936, des dix départements de la Région de Lyon, situés en zone dite libre, avaient été arrêtés et dirigés au camp de Vénissieux, situé dans la proche banlieue de Lyon, par les forces de police et de gendarmerie françaises afin d'être livrés par Vichy à l'occupant nazi. En utilisant la couverture de l'Amitié Chrétienne et grâce au soutien des membres résistants des services de Vichy, des combattants sans armes et de toutes obédiences, qui avaient déjà entrepris d'autres actions de sauvetage et qui se connaissaient, participèrent au travail de la commission de criblage de Vénissieux afin de plaider chaque dossier des internés dans un sens favorables aux exemptions.Trois jours plus tard, le 29 août 1942, 545 d'entre eux ont été conduits à la gare de St Priest pour être livrés à l'occupant en vue de leur déportation à Auschwitz tandis que les 470 restants viennent d'être libérés dont une centaine d'enfants, et prennent le chemin de la liberté. Ceux que nous avons pu retrouver nous livrent le récit de cet épisode tragique.L'affaire emblématique de Vénissieux restera dans l'histoire de la Shoah en France comme la plus grande opération de sauvetage entreprise dans un camp en France. Elle a été le résultat d'une conjonction d'éléments favorables saisis avec brio par les meilleurs du sauvetage, des résistants sans arme membres des œuvres charitables de toutes confessions qui agirent de concert avec Gilbert LESAGE du Service des Etrangers (SSE) et sous le couvert de l'Amitié Chrétienne avec l’appui du Service Social d'Aide aux Etrangers (SSAE), en coopération avec des membres de l'œuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE) et avec le soutien des Eclaireurs Israélites de France (EIF), du Consistoire, des rabbins. / The arrival of Hitler to power and the installation of the policy of the 3rd Reich lead to the arrival in France of several successive waves of refugees coming from Germany and all the countries conquered by the Nazis. Lyon, a real citadel against obscurantism , was going to rise like a rampart to protect them and come to the rescue of the newcomers, among them the Jews.On August 26th, 1942, 1016 foreign Jews, who arrived in France after January 1st, 1936, of the ten departments of the area of Lyon, located in the so called "free zone", had been arrested by the French police and sent to the Vénissieux camp, located in the outskirts of Lyon, in order to be handed over to the nazi occupant.Under the cover of the Christian Friendship and thanks to the help of the resistant members inside the Vichy regime, fighters without weapons and of all denominations, who had already undertaken other rescue actions and who knew each other, took part in the screening commission in Vénissieux, in order to save as many internees as possible. Three days later, on August 29th, 1942, 545 prisoners where led to the train station of St Priest, handed over to the occupant and deported to Auschwitz, while 470 others, among which 100 children, and set off to freedom.The survivors we could find after the war, gave us the account of this epic. Still, the emblematic case of Vénissieux, will remain in the history of the Shoah in France. It was the result of an environment of favourable elements seized with brilliance by the best of the rescuers, unarmed partisans, members of charitable organisations of all faiths who acted in liaison with Gilbert LESAGE from the SSE ( Service des Etrangers ) and under the cover of the Christian Frienship together with the SSAE (Service Sociald’Aide aux Etrangers), in cooperation with members of the OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants ) and the help of the Eclaireurs Israélites de France, the Consistoire and rabbis.

Adolf Hitler advocated total control of the press for many years before he was elected Führer. Almost immediately after he assumed power in 1932, Hitler began writing new laws and regulations that totally exorcised all freedoms from the German press. This study follows the path that Hitler took to control the German press from 1920 until the end of World War II. It utilized translations of documents and statements by men whom Hitler appointed to control the press and books written by experts in the fields of communications as well as men who prosecuted Nazi war criminals after World War II. The study found that the control of the press was indeed a very necessary ingredient in Hitler's climb to power and remained crucial during his reign as Führer.

The right of national independence, which came to be called the principle of self-determination, is, in general terms, the belief that each nation has a right to constitute an independent state and determine its own government. It will be the thesis of this paper to show that the Nazi regime under the rule of Adolph Hitler took this principle as its own insofar as its relations with other nations were concerned, but while they paid lip service to the principle, it was in fact being prostituted to the fullest degree in the case of Austria and the Anschluss of 1938.

The thesis are concerned with the project Erweiterte Kinderlandverschickung at the area of Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in term of the organisation, the everyday life and the educational strategy of National Socialism. The authoress is interested in war experience of the children in the KLV camps and the post-war comemoration of KLV as well.

This is an analysis of the contributions of Richard Wagner's ideas to the development of Adolf Hitler as seen by various historians. This author has consulted the works of many different authors to attempt to find the ideological roots of Adolf Hitler. The ideology of Richard Wagner, as seen by some of the most pre-eminent historians of this period, has been applied to the ideas of Hitler to find any continuity between these two men. All historians consulted thought Wagner was, for some more, others, less, a contributor to the development of Adolf Hitler and National Socialism. This author has concluded that Wagner was a contributor, but that Hitler's personal environment was more important to the development of National Socialism. This thesis explores an area into which no one has really delved in depth. Hopefully, this thesis can be a springboard for further research into this area.

Dilemma -- Decision -- Onslaught -- Whirlwind -- Reckoning -- All or nothing -- Total war -- Scorched earth -- Disintegration -- Death throes. On June 22, 1941, Germany launched the greatest land assault in history on the Soviet Union, an attack that Adolf Hitler deemed crucial to ensure German economic and political survival. As the key theater of the war for the Germans, the eastern front consumed enormous levels of resources and accounted for 75 percent of all German casualties. Despite the significance of this campaign to Germany and to the war as a whole, few English-language publications of the last thirty-five years have addressed these pivotal events. In Ostkrieg: Hitler's War of Extermination in the East, Stephen G. Fritz bridges the gap in scholarship by incorporating historical research from the last several decades into an accessible, comprehensive, and coherent narrative. His analysis of the Russo-German War from a German perspective covers all aspects of the eastern front, demonstrating the interrelation of military events, economic policy, resource exploitation, and racial policy that first motivated the invasion. This in-depth account challenges accepted notions about World War II and promotes greater understanding of a topic that has been neglected by historians. / https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu_books/1007/thumbnail.jpg

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