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Führer (/ ˈ f jʊər ər / FURE-ər; German: ⓘ) (spelled Fuehrer when the umlaut is unavailable) is a German word meaning "leader" or "guide". As a political title, it is strongly associated with Adolf Hitler , the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.
Hitler was born to a practising Catholic mother and an anti-clerical father; after leaving home, Hitler never again attended Mass or received the sacraments. [384] [385] [386] Albert Speer states that Hitler railed against the church to his political associates, and though he never officially left the church, he had no attachment to it. [387]
Rudolf Walter Richard Hess (Heß in German; 26 April 1894 – 17 August 1987) was a German politician and a leading member of the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany.Appointed Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler in 1933, Hess held that position until 1941, when he flew solo to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate the United Kingdom's exit from the Second World War.
Hitler was born to a practicing Catholic mother, Klara Hitler, and was baptized in the Roman Catholic Church; his father, Alois Hitler, was a free-thinker and skeptical of the Catholic Church. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In 1904, he was confirmed at the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Linz , Austria , where the family lived. [ 8 ]
Hitler moved quickly to eliminate political Catholicism. Amid harassment of the Church, the Reich concordat treaty with the Vatican was signed in 1933, and promised to respect Church autonomy. Hitler routinely disregarded the Concordat, closing all Catholic institutions whose functions were not strictly religious.
After securing their support by promising to respect the rights of the Catholic Church, it passed 441–94. [7] With its passage, Hitler had effectively become a dictator. [8] However, Hindenburg technically retained the ability to dismiss Hitler. [9]
It may be too flippant to say Adolf Hitler is having yet another moment. Scarlett Johansson and Sam Rockwell are making the satire “Jojo Rabbit,” in which writer-director-star Taika Waititi ...
Hitler and Hindenburg at the opening ceremony for the 1933 Reichstag at the Garrison Church in Potsdam, 21 March 1933. Hitler soon obtained Hindenburg's confidence, promising that after Germany regained full sovereignty, the monarchy would be restored; after a few weeks Hindenburg no longer asked Papen to join their meetings.