Hitler oak

This article describes the Hitler oaks planted in honor of Hitler; for the oaks awarded at the 1936 Olympic Games, see Olympic Oak

The former Adolf Hitler oak in the Rosarium Uetersen , it was planted in 1934 for the 700th birthday of the city and the opening of the new rosarium.

During the time of National Socialism , Hitler oaks were planted in many places in honor of Adolf Hitler . After the end of the National Socialist regime, these trees were soon forgotten.

In 1883, on the occasion of Martin Luther's 400th birthday, oaks were planted as so-called Luther oaks in many places . They are comparable with the Bismarck oaks , which were supposed to honor or commemorate the Reich Chancellor Otto von Bismarck , and the imperial kingdoms . After the seizure of power in 1933, the National Socialists used the same instrument. In 1933 Luther's 450th birthday was celebrated. The planting of further Lutheran oaks was now combined with the planting of Hitlerian oaks in some places. The National Socialists tried to create a connection between their ideology and Christian traditions.

The multitude of Hitler empires corresponded with a large number of renamed Adolf Hitler streets and squares, and they were part of the personality cult around Hitler.

In addition to oaks, newly planted linden trees were also named after Hitler. The Hitler lime tree planted in the Baden forest on May 1, 1933 was demolished twice in the following weeks; the second time there was a note with the lines on it

In this place
no linden tree should grow,
and if she is guarding Hitler himself,
the deed is done.

The perpetrators were not identified. The third Hitler linden tree in Forst was excavated and destroyed at the end of the war on the orders of the Allies.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Björn Küllmer: The staging of the Protestant Volksgemeinschaft: Luther pictures in the Luther year 1933. 2012, ISBN 978-3-8325-3085-3 , p. 109. (online)
2. ↑ Marcel Atze : "Our Hitler": The Hitler Myth in the Mirror of German-Language Literature after 1945. Wallstein, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-8353-2051-3 , p. 378. (online)
3. ↑ Thomas Mergel: Führer, Volksgemeinschaft und Maschine. In: Wolfgang Hardtwig (Ed.): Political cultural history of the interwar period 1918–1939. (= History and Society. Special Issue. Volume 21). 2005, ISBN 3-525-36421-0 , p. 123. (online)
4. ↑ Ian Kershaw : The Hitler Myth: Popular Opinion and Propaganda in the Third Reich. (= Series of the quarterly books for contemporary history. Volume 41). With an introduction by Martin Broszat. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-486-70339-0 , p. 51. (online)
5. ↑ Konrad Dussel : Forst 1161-2011. History and present of the Speyer-Baden community. Verlag Regionalkultur, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89735-673-3 , p. 87.