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| “ | Eva? | „ |
| ~ Adolf Hitler's last words. |
Adolf Hitler is the overarching antagonist of The New Order: Last Days of Europe and the villainous protagonist if the player choses to play as Germany.
is a German politician, who has served as the Führer and Reichschancellor of the Greater Germanic Reich since 1934. He rose to power within the National Socialist German Worker's Party, becoming its leader, before taking power in Germany in 1933. Acting with near-absolute power, he turned Germany into a totalitarian fascist state, and led the Reich into the Second World War. Since the war's end and Germany's victory, he has ruled Germany for almost three decades at game start, though has become increasingly incapable of ruling as he has aged.
Biography[]
Early Life (1889-1918)[]
Adolf was born on April 20, 1889 in the town of Braunau am Inn (Braunau on the Inn) in what was the Austro-Hungarian empire to Alois and Klara Hitler. He and his two siblings were raised near the town of Linz. Alois, his father, was a strict parent who very much disapproved of the young Hitler's life decisions, died when he was young, as did his mother. He spent his early adult years in Vienna, attempting to become an artist - but was rejected twice by the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. As a result, he moved into a poorhouse, living off the sale of paintings and generous donations from his surviving family members. While some historians claim that Hitler became first exposed to the radical antisemitic rhetoric that would define his career in Vienna, evidence exists to suggest that, at the time, he was in fact repulsed by the idea.
In 1913, Adolf Hitler moved to Munich, the largest city in Bavaria, the southeasternmost province of the German Empire. At the outbreak of the first world war in 1914, through a lucky accident (as an Austrian, he should not have been allowed to serve in the Bavarian army) Hitler was able to enlist and serve in the "List Regiment", the first group of volunteer conscripts from Bavaria.
Hitler served with distinction in the First World War as a message runner, bringing communications from command outposts to the front line. He was decorated for bravery, receiving the Iron Cross in 1914 and 1918. At the end of the war, he was briefly blinded by a gas attack, which led to him being sent to a hospital. While there, he learned that Germany had surrendered to the Entente and flew into a fit of rage.
Rise to Power (1919-1933)[]
Following the war he was among the millions of Germans who felt betrayed by the German surrender to the Entente, deeming it as the "Stab in the Back". Meeting right-wing agitator Anton Drexler, Hitler was exposed to anti-semitic ideology once again, and found it to be a satisfactory answer to solving the despair of the German people following their supposed 'defeat' in the First World War. He joined the small German Workers' Party (Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, DAP) in 1919, as member #555. (the DAP began counting its members at #500 to give the impression of a larger party.) Hitler's loud and grand speaking manners attracted greater crowds than the DAP had seen in any capacity before, and soon, Hitler rose to become its leader by 1921, renaming it the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) to gain attention from other political radicals, as socialism was a predominant ideology in Germany at the time. It was here that he would also organize a private militia for the party, the Sturmabateilung or SA (later to become the Schutzstaffel, or SS).
In 1923, Hitler attempted to take control of the Bavarian government through a coup d'état now known as the Beer Hall Putsch. While Hitler and the NSDAP did successfully take the leaders of the Bavarian government prisoner, they were able to escape and Hitler was sentenced to a relatively light six years in prison. He would only serve one of those three.
While in prison, he wrote most of his book Mein Kampf, a whitewashed history of himself that has since become textbook literature in most schools in the Reich, though it is known to be a whitewashed version of Hitler's political background designed to paint him in a messianic light.
After his release from prison, Hitler took a political backwater role as the Weimar Republic seemed to stabilize itself. However, in 1929, the stock exchange on Wall Street crashed, causing the Great Depression. Hitler seized on the window and began fervently campaigning across Germany. In 1923, the NSDAP held just 3 seats in the Reichstag. A decade later in 1933, the NSDAP controlled 288 seats, a majority.
In 1932, Adolf Hitler ran against Paul von Hindenburg in the German election. He finished second - though the control Hitler exacted over the country was so great that von Hindenburg appointed Hitler as chancellor in order to temper the demagogue's ambitions. This idea, tragically, backfired, and with his new influence, Hitler instead turned the deal on von Hindenburg, seizing on the fissile political climate in Germany to secure power.
In February of 1933, the Reichstag caught fire. In the aftermath of the fire, Dutch communist Marinus van der Lubbe was arrested as the sole perpetrator. Hitler used this to force Oresident von Hindenburg to sign the Reichstag Fire Decree, allowing the Nazi party to crack down on political dissidents in Germany by suspending the right to trial. Historians agree that, while van der Lubbe was indeed responsible, there is no sign that it was an organized plot by any communist party in Germany.
The Enabling Act of 1933 granted Adolf Hitler, the Chancellor, the right to make decisions without running them through the Reichstag for what was initially set to be a time limit of four years. Using his supreme authority, Hitler dismantled the opposition parties or forced them into submission, and eventually the Nazi Party was the only legal party in the Weimar Republic - even its coalition mate was dismantled.
After Hindenburg's death in 1934, Hitler became president of the Weimar Republic.
Ascent to the control of Europe (1934-1945)[]
After Hitler's ascension to the presidency, the Weimar Republic was effectively dismantled. Though the sham republic continued to exist only in framework, it had given way to a fascist dictatorship. Hitler initiated sweeping initiatives to lift Germany out of the Great Depression, including printing money, seizing the assets of people arrested as enemies of the state, and initiating state-built projects to curb unemployment.
Under Hitler, the Reich also perpetrated a genocide of minority groups, especially Jewish minorities, which began with a series of harsh and brutal acts of repression that have since been widely regarded as the beginning of the Holocaust. The Führer, as he was known, would begin to flagrantly break the treaty of Versailles, including rearming the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine, remilitarizing the Rhineland which had been disarmed as part of the treaty, and initiating wide-scale rearmament as part of a four-year plan headed by Hermann Göring.
In 1938, Adolf Hitler annexed Austria in a manipulated referendum. A direct breach of the Treaty of Versailles, the Entente powers of France and Britain refused to intervene. Shortly after, Adolf Hitler demanded the German-majority Sudentenland from Czechoslovakia, which was awarded to him as part of the 'Appeasement' agreement.
Adolf Hitler then claimed Danzig (then Gdansk), which was not granted to him, leading to the invasion of Poland on September 1st, 1939, and the start of the Second World War. It was, to Hitler's expectations, a complete and overwhelming victory.
Post-war (1946-1962)[]
Following the end of the war, Hitler ascended to international levels of fame for taking an impoverished, punished state and turning it into a model war machine that humiliated the world's greatest powers. The wealth plundered from the Second World War supported Hitler's visions for a "greater German reich", including Germanization of conquered lands in accordance with Generalplan Ost, the lining of the pockets of not only his generals but the corporations that made Endsieg possible, and the construction of various massive projects, the crown jewel of which being the retooling of Berlin into a "World Capital" named for the Latin term for the Germanic lands. Welthaupstadt Germania was the brainchild of Albert Speer, an impressive project that built impressive megastructures - particularly the Volkshalle - into the landscape of the city. However, the immense spending these projects commanded dried up as the German economy began to sour following Demobilisierung. Around this time, Adolf Hitler began growing more and more erratic, likely due to a combination of Parkinson's Disease and syphilis. Due to Hitler's known aversion to the female sex - often seized upon by OFN propagandists - it is unknown from where he contracted syphillis from.
During the West Russian War, Hitler often slipped into fits of rage, shouting at his generals and, on multiple occasions, firing otherwise competent generals for the slightest of offenses-- most of whom were swiftly re-hired by his subordinates either for financial benefit or political posturing. Following the SS attempted coup d'etat, Hitler ordered the SS to be split into the Burgundian and German sections.
Despite his extensive planning for victory, Hitler has not planned for the ultimate defeat he may suffer: his death. The Führer does not have any outlined plans to select an heir, and consequently the destiny of the Reich remains intertwined with his. If Hitler is to die, there is nobody to replace him, and even while he lives, his subordinates squabble with each other like wild dogs, tearing at the fragments of power slowly crumbling from the Führer.
At game start in 1962, Hitler has entered the 29th year of his reign as Führer of the nation, although it is clear to most that his days are numbered, and should he die, the competition between factions in the NSDAP could possibly tear the Reich - the masterpiece that he spent his life painting - apart.
In-Game Description[]
How does one begin to define Adolf Hitler, Führer and Reichskanzler of the Greater German Reich, the undisputed tyrant of 19 countries, the architect of Welthauptstadt Germania, Supreme Commander of the Wehrmacht, Führer of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, and Time Magazine's Man of the Year in 1938, 1946, and 1961?
A man of humble beginnings, the son of Austrian Innkeepers, he was educated in Munich and Vienna, and served with distinction with the German Army during the First World War. His rise to power was meteoric, none can deny, and even failed attempts like the Beer Hall Putsch served only to further his ambitions. His combination of violence and showmanship drove the communists and democrats out of the Reichstag and placed him into its highest office. Under his leadership, Germany broke the chains of the Versailles Treaty, developed a terrifying new military, and forced the other nations of Europe to their knees until the Swastika flew over all of Europe, from the shores of the Atlantic Ocean to the Black Sea. Under his guidance, the Reich built wonders such as Germania, and under his watchful eye, the Undesirables of Europe were viciously exterminated and fed to the flames.
But the lord and master of all Germany, of all Europe between the Urals and the Pyrenees, has grown old. Where his voice could once command a crowd's rapt attention there is now only quiet rasping, and a cold calculating mind of steel has gone to rust. The hands that penned Mein Kampf constantly tremble now, as he adds the final touches to a watercolor of those long-dead faces slipping from his memory. The greatest conqueror the world has ever known since Alexander and Napoleon is an old and frail man. In 1962, he is 73 years of age, and some dare to whisper that he is not long for this world. The fear of all the world is that once the Führer's funeral pyre is lit, it will spread the great conflagration of war all across Europe once more.
Sentences[]
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| “ | Germany will on her side never break the peace. Germany wishes to be on an honorable footing with the neighbor peoples. | „ |
| ~ Adolf Hitler, 1935. |
| “ | It is thus necessary that the individual should finally come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of the nation. | „ |
| ~ Adolf Hitler, 1939 |
| “ | We do not want any other god than Germany itself. It is essential to have fanatical faith and hope and love in and for Germany. | „ |
| ~ Adolf Hitler, 1935 |
| “ | Once I really am in power, my first and foremost task will be the annihilation of the Jews. | „ |
| ~ Adolf Hitler, 1922 |
| “ | Eternal Nature inexorably avenges the infringement of her commands. | „ |
| ~ Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, 1924 |
| “ | The victor will never be asked if he told the truth. | „ |
| ~ Adolf Hitler, 1939 |
| “ | We only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down. | „ |
| ~ Adolf Hitler, 1941 |
Super Event epigraphs[]
| “ | It is thus necessary that the individual should finally come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of the nation. | „ |
| ~ Adolf Hitler, 1933 (accompanies the German Civil War) |
| “ | Life does not forgive weakness. | „ |
| ~ Adolf Hitler (accompanies the Second Night of the Long Knives) |
| “ | Mutinies are crushed in accordance with eternal and unchanging iron laws. | „ |
| ~ Adolf Hitler (accompanies Fall Schwarz) |
Russian Reunification epigraphs[]
| “ | In a hundred years time, perhaps, a great man will appear who may offer them a chance at salvation. He'll take me as a model, use my ideas, and follow the course I have charted. | „ |
| ~ Adolf Hitler (accompanies Vagner's Aryan Brotherhood reuniting Russia as the Russkiy Reykh) |
Cut Content Super Event epigraphs[]
| “ | Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live. | „ |
| ~ Adolf Hitler (accompanies Fall Rot) |
Trivia[]
- If you use console commands to complete the first focus of Hitler's focus tree, an event titled "A Meeting With The Führer", where Hitler himself scolds the player for cheating.
- There's a hidden superevent called "hitler_die" in reference to a meme. This superevent doesn't appear in the actual mod, but was added in to the game's files for a joke in one of Pink Panzer's vlogs.
External Links[]
- Adolf Hitler on the TNOpediA
- Adolf Hitler on the Near Pure Evil Wiki.
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