Sending it into the Rhineland became a “gamble of Hitler’s and he was successful,” Sichel said, because France and Great Britain didn’t mount a challenge. “The French had a very ...

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain sought to prevent war by appeasing a rising dictator. Adolph Hitler came to power vowing to restore German greatness. First to fall was the ...

Until then Hitler's personal hold on the Reichswehr cannot be regarded as absolutely secure in any and every emergency. He was proved right in relying on its obedience even when, against its advice, ...

On March 7th, 1936, less than three weeks after the Winter Olympics, Hitler sent some 30,000 troops into the Rhineland, a German region that had provided a buffer between Germany and France ...

I can’t believe it, but it’s only 10 days until my birthday comes around again! This year - please pinch me, is it really ...

Since the Rhineland was technically part of Germany ... and still to the surprise of France and England, Aggrandizer Hitler took the Sudetenland on Oct.1, 1938—area: some 10,800 square miles ...

During the First Crusade (1096), crusaders massacred Jewish populations in the Rhineland, targeting ... its falsehoods to a wide audience. Adolf Hitler later incorporated its themes into ...

His fist landed squarely on Adolph Hitler’s jaw. What better way to ... and the newly re-armed Nazi Germany occupied the Rhineland. While the speech called for an international “quarantine ...

The other nations were never faced with any single act so menacing as to provoke retaliation; and at last, in one delicious gulp, Hitler was able to swallow the fond d'artichaut in the shape of the ...

The situation changed when Hitler attained power in January 1933 ... only to be confronted with negotiations which made it plain that the inter-Allied occupation of the Rhineland would soon terminate.