Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday
adolf hitler th birthday celebrated national holiday throughout nazi germany april minister propaganda joseph goebbels made sure event organised berlin lavish spectacle focusing hitler festivity included military parade german troop taking part along luftwaffe airplane flying overhead parade intended part warning allied power nazi germany military capability parade lasted four hour official guest along several hundred thousand spectator present april german government declared adolf hitler birthday april national holiday festivity took place municipality throughout country well free city danzig british historian ian kershaw comment event organised berlin propaganda minister joseph goebbels astonishing extravaganza führer cult lavish outpouring adulation sycophancy surpassed previous führer birthday festivity began afternoon day birthday hitler rode lead car motorcade fifty white limousine along architect albert speer newlycompleted eastwest axis central boulevard planned welthauptstadt germania new name renovated berlin victory world war ii hitler anticipating speer would give speech amused evaded briefly announcing work speak next event torchlit procession delegation germany hitler reviewed balcony reich chancellery midnight hitler courtier congratulated presented gift including statue bronze cast meissen porcelain oilpaintings tapestry rare coin antique weapon mass present many kitsch hitler admired made fun others ignored speer presented hitler scale model gigantic triumphal arch planned rebuilding berlin hitler pilot han baur gave model führer plane fourengined fockewulf fw condor went service later year hitler official airplane key part birthday celebration large demonstration nazi germany military capability display intended part warning western power parade lasted four hour included company luftwaffe company army company navy unit schutzstaffel s total german troop took part warplane also flew berlin grandstand comprised official guest parade watched several hundred thousand spectator feature parade large longrange airdefence artillery gun emphasis motorised artillery development airdefence unit joseph goebbels declared broadcast address german people reich stand shadow german sword trade industry cultural national life flourish guarantee military force name herr hitler political programme imagination realism harmoniously combined führer military leader throughout country gave address troop celebrate occasion major general later generalfeldmarschall erich von manstein especially effusive praise supreme commander official guest representing country took part celebration papal nuncio cesare orsenigo slovak state president jozef tiso head branch nazi germany armed force mayor german city offered birthday congratulation chancellery hitler italian dictator benito mussolini exchanged telegram assuring friendship germany italy ruled fascist regime could disturbed enemy ambassador united kingdom france united state present parade since withdrawn germany occupied czechoslovakia u represented troop review chargé daffaires raymond h geist u president franklin roosevelt congratulate hitler birthday accordance practice sending birthday greeting anyone ruling monarch british king george vi dispatched message congratulation hitler strained relation two country made advisor consider whether ignore birthday altogether polish representation parade luxury edition hitler political manifesto autobiography mein kampf published honour th birthday known jubiläumsausgabe anniversary issue came dark blue sharp red board gold sword cover german author photographer heinrich hoffmann wrote book hitler th birthday ein volk ehrt seinen führer nation honour leader composer han rehberg wrote hymn occasion film birthday celebration hitler geburtstag hitler th birthday regarded important example nazi propaganda subsequently shown packed audience youth film hour held sunday free city danzig made hitler honorary citizen city birthday gift hitler received 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