| |
| | Columbia Encyclopedia- Hitler Adolf - AOL Research & Learn |
 | | His vicious anti-Semitism (perhaps influenced by that of Karl Lueger) and political harangues drove many acquaintances away. |
 | | As the tide of war turned against Hitler, his mass extermination of the Jews, overseen by Adolf Eichmann, was accelerated, and he gave increasing power to Heinrich Himmler and the dread secret police, the Gestapo and SS (Schutzstaffel). |
 | | By July, 1944, the German military situation was desperate, and a group of high military and civil officials (including Field Marshal Erwin von Witzleben and Karl Goerdeler) attempted an assassination. |
| reference.aol.com /columbia/_a/hitler-adolf/20051206051409990014 (1308 words) |
|