December 2003      

         As far as economic, political, and defense organizations go today,  Germany remains Europe's key member of the continent. Germany is also Europe's largest economy and most populous nation.   
      Benito Musssolini, Italy's dictator and Adolf Hitler, Germany's dictator followed a new type of political form of government which was called fascism.( this means that a nation is seeking for more power, so supporters cooperate with the dictator and in order to gain more power they take away individuals rights.) Both rulers formed a totalitarian state which meant that every nation totally controlled that life of it's people. Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 and lived until 1945. He was the founder of and leader of National Socialism (Nazism), and German dictator.
Hitler joined the what was known as the German Workers party, which was later renamed the Nationalist Socialist German Workers, or Nazi party.
In 1921 Hitler was elected chairman. On November 8, 1923, Adolf tried to overthrow the republican government. The Nazi party was elected the the
 largest party in Reichstag in 1932. Hitler later took office on January, 30, 1933. Adolf invaded Poland on September 1st, 1939 and started World War 2. Hilter downfall started in 1944, and that is also when he escaped a bomb explosion with small injuries. In the early year of 1945 the war was hopelessly lost but Hilter insisted that all the German troops and supporters of the Nationalist Socialist German Workers Party fight until death. On Apr. 29 Hitler married his mistress and on Apr. 30 they committed suicide together in an underground bunker of the chancellery building. His presence before he died was one of the worst because of all the dreadful things that people who weren't like him went through. 






 

German Army in Russia, April 1942
Two German soldiers are shown here pulling sleds through a snowy street.

                American and           German 

       The terror of Nazi dictatorship, the annulment of human rights and not least the Nazi attacks against the Jewish population, which were clearly condemned by the American president FDR, let German-American relations cool rapidly. After the November 9, 1938 anti-Jewish riots known as „Kristallnacht“ ( „Night of Broken Glass“), the American ambassador was recalled from Berlin to Washington. Hitler then recalled the German ambassador as well. Neutrality was the official American response to the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939. Legislation, enacted from 1935 to 1937, had prohibited trade with or credit to any of the warring nation. The United States joined Canada in a Mutual Board of Defense, and aligned with the Latin American republics in extending collective protection to the nations in the Western Hemisphere. Congress approved immense sums for rearmament and in early 1941 passed the Lend-Lease Program, which enabled President Roosevelt to transfer arms and equipment to any nation (notably Great Britain, the Soviet Union and China) deemed vital to the defense of the United States. By 1941, there was an undeclared war between the United States and Germany in the Atlantic - with U.S. warships protecting supply convoys from attacks by German submarines.