Hitler’s suicide was on April 30, 1945.
"In his will, Hitler tapped his successors for the cabinet. He appointed the head of the German navy, Admiral Karl Dönitz, as his heir and president of Germany. He passed over party leaders like Heinrich Himmler and Herman Göring, who were seen as traitors for having tested the possibility of surrender to the Americans and the British. Hence the appointment of Dönitz, who had been unflaggingly loyal.Throughout, Dönitz thought he had bargaining chips. As May began, parts of Norway and Denmark were still under Nazi occupation; he thought he could use them in negotiations to preserve the Nazi regime. Astonishingly, certain high-ranking Nazis who hadn’t fled or committed suicide, but who weren’t named to Dönitz’s cabinet, tried to nab portfolios.
From the start of May, the new Nazi cabinet met every day, its members slave to the illusion that they still wielded influence. It was dubbed the Flensburg Cabinet after the town in northern Germany where it met.
In the end, the Nazis surrendered to the Western Allies on May 8 and to the Soviet Union on May 9, with zero bargaining power. Even so, the Allies let the Dönitz cabinet remain in place, even tapping certain civilian ministers to be the ministers of food and transportation and help the Americans manage the new situation. But on May 23, 1945, the Allies arrested Dönitz and others, formally bringing Nazi Germany to an end."
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What Happened to Nazi Germany After Hitler's Suicide? - Jewish World - haaretz.com
Dor Saar-Man / Great History in a Nutshell
Nov 15, 2017
Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer[b] (5 January 1876 – 19 April 1967) was a German statesman who served as the first chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949 to 1963. From 1946 to 1966, he was the first leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), a newly founded Christian-democratic party, which became the dominant force in the country under his leadership."
Many former Nazis were in Adenauer’s government. Some were needed to keep Communism out of West Germany.
For a time we could have a one political party country. But something will rise out of the ashes.
"Former Republican Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney has said that conservatives may have to start a new party after the GOP has grown “corrupted” by former President Donald Trump.
Cheney, who has said that she and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, will vote for Vice President and Democrat Kamala Harris in November, spoke to Peter Baker of The New York Times at the 2024 Cap Times Idea Fest on Saturday.
During the event, hosted by The Capital Times in Madison, Wisconsin, Cheney revealed that she thinks the Republican Party may have outlived its usefulness after devoting its existence to Trump.
“It’s hard for me to see how the Republican Party survives because it’s been so corrupted,” she told Baker on stage.
Cheney said that the US needs two “strong” parties, adding that the Republican Party may no longer be a welcome home for traditional conservatives.
Baker asked if the party might be able to “purge itself of Trump.”
“We need our political system to reflect the goodness of the American people,” Cheney argued. “Whether it’s organizing a new party ... it’s hard for me to see how the Republican Party, given what it has done, can make the argument convincingly or credibly, that people ought to to be voting for Republican candidates until it recognizes what it’s done.”
She added: “I think making sure that on an individual basis, we’re casting votes for serious, responsible people, that we’re encouraging people to get involved and run.”
“There is certainly going to be a big shift I think in how our politics work. I don’t know exactly what that will look like,” Cheney admitted.
“I don’t think it will just simply be, ‘Well, the Republican Party is gonna put up a new slate of candidates and off to the races,’” she said. “I think far too much has happened. It’s too damaging.”
Baker asked if a new party would be required, such as the Republicans came after the Whigs in the 1850s.
“It may well be because again, so much of the Republican Party today has allowed itself to become a tool for this really unstable man,” Cheney said.
Her comments come after more than 100 former Republican administration officials endorsed Harris in a letter stating that Trump is “unfit to serve again as President, or indeed in any office of public trust.”
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‘So much of the Republican Party today has allowed itself to become a tool for this really unstable man,’ former top House Republican says
September 22, 2024
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