Oath sworn by members of the Wehrmacht and German civil service from 1934
"Soldier's Oath" redirects here. For the 1915 film, see A Soldier's Oath.
This article is about the oath sworn by members of the Wehrmacht and German civil service from 1934. For other uses, see Oaths to Hitler.
Reichswehr soldiers swearing the Hitler oath in 1934, with hands raised in the traditional schwurhand gesture
The Hitler Oath (German: Führereid or Führer Oath)—also referred in English as the Soldier's Oath[1]—refers to the oaths of allegiance sworn by officers and soldiers of the Wehrmacht and civil servants of Nazi Germany between the years 1934 and 1945. The oath pledged personal loyalty to Adolf Hitler in place of loyalty to the constitution of the country. Historians view the personal oath of the Third Reich as an important psychological element to obey orders for committing war crimes, atrocities, and genocide.[2] During the Nuremberg trials, many German officers unsuccessfully attempted to use the oath as a defence against charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.[3]
The HitlerOath (German: Führereid or Führer Oath)—also referred in English as the Soldier's Oath—refers to the oaths of allegiance sworn by officers...
swear oaths to Adolf Hitler by name, rather than to the German state or an officeholder. Such oaths were intended to increase personal loyalty to Hitler and...
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Society of the Catholic Apostolate who refused to take the so-called Hitleroath, for which he was executed. Franz Reinisch was born on 1 February 1903...
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took the Hitleroath, an oath of personal loyalty to Hitler. Hitler was most surprised at the offer; the popular view that Hitler imposed the oath on the...
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'tame' the Nazis, had the Reichswehr swear its oath personally to Hitler. Under the Weimar Republic the oath had been to the constitution. On 1 March 1935...
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state with Hitler at its head. As head of state, Hitler became Supreme Commander of the armed forces. The new law provided an altered loyalty oath for servicemen...
adventure and propaganda. Recruits were required to swear a version of the Hitleroath: "In the presence of this blood banner which represents our Führer, I...
reswear his loyalty oath, by name, to Hitler and on 24 July 1944 the military salute was replaced throughout the armed forces with the Hitler Salute in which...
disobeying Ebert's orders to suppress the putsch were later to claim that the Hitleroath made it impossible for them to resist the Nazi regime. Right from the...
to have shot down 156 Soviet aircraft. On 31 July, after taking the HitlerOath, the Blue Division was formally incorporated into the German Wehrmacht...
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once Hitler had been assassinated in the 20 July plot. Hitler's death (as opposed to his arrest) was required to free German soldiers from their oath of...
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German professors (the other one being Karl Barth) to refuse to swear the HitlerOath in 1934, and was dismissed. He then held posts at Corpus Christi College...
to remove Hitler at this point would ensure that the blood of millions would be on his hands. Halder told Goerdeler that his oath to Hitler and his belief...
the Hitleroath in replacement of the former oath to uphold the constitution, as a strict condition of remaining employed. Those that swore the oath (even...
last moment, however, he had second thoughts and refused to swear the HitlerOath. Surprisingly, he was still allowed to join the Wehrmacht. In 1938, he...
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