This is a partial list of streets and squares named after

Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Germany from 1933 until his death in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and the ...

during the era of

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. The zeal with which German municipal authorities attempted, immediately after the

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, to play their part in the "National Rising" (german: Nationale Erhebung) is shown by the practice of conferring honorary municipal citizenship on Hitler, and even more by naming a street (''Straße''), a square or place (''Platz''), a promenade (''Anlage''), an avenue (''Damm'', ''Allee''), a stadium (''Kampfbahn''), or a bridge (''Brücke'') after the new chancellor. As early as March and April 1933, a wave of renamings swept through Germany's cities. Most of the examples in the list come from this period.

Places

Brazil

Before 1931, there are records of a street named Rua Adolpho Hitler in the Campo Belo district of Santo Amaro,

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– notably at a time when the Nazis had not yet come to power in Germany. Its name was changed in 1931 to Rua Almirante Barroso, but when Santo Amaro was merged into

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the next year, the street was again renamed Rua Gil Eanes, due to a homonymous street in

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. The street still retains

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's name.

United States

The

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German Gardens in

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, was built on the former site of

Camp Siegfried Camp Siegfried, a summer camp which taught Nazi ideology, was located in Yaphank, New York, on Long Island. It was owned by the German American Bund, an American Nazi organization devoted to promoting a favorable view of Nazi Germany, and wa ...

, which was owned and operated by the pro-Nazi

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. Until 1941, several streets were named after prominent Nazis, such as Adolf Hitler Street (renamed Park Street), Goering Street (renamed Oak Street), and Goebbels Street (renamed Northside Avenue).

Notes

References

*Christian Zentner, Friedemann Bedürftig (1991). ''

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