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Adolf Hitler (born April 20, 1889, Braunau am Inn, Austria—died April 30, 1945, Berlin, Germany) was the leader of the Nazi Party (from 1920/21) and chancellor (Kanzler) and Führer of Germany (1933–45).
- Hitler's Place in History
Adolf Hitler - Nazi Leader, WW2, Holocaust: At the turn of...
- Rise to Power
Adolf Hitler - Nazi Leader, WW2, Germany: Discharged from...
- World War II
Adolf Hitler - Nazi Leader, WW2, Germany: Germany’s war...
- Walther Funk
Walther Funk (born August 18, 1890, Trakehnen, East Prussia,...
- Eva Braun
Eva Braun (born February 6, 1912, Munich, Germany—died April...
- Louis III
Louis III (born Jan. 7, 1845, Munich [Germany]—died Oct. 18,...
- Joachim Von Ribbentrop
Ribbentrop met Adolf Hitler in 1932 and joined the National...
- Paul Von Hindenburg
Paul von Hindenburg was a German field marshal during World...
- Hitler's Place in History
Adolf Hitler - Nazi Leader, WW2, Holocaust: Once in power, Hitler established an absolute dictatorship. He secured the president’s assent for new elections. The Reichstag fire, on the night of February 27, 1933 (apparently the work of a Dutch Communist, Marinus van der Lubbe), provided an excuse for a decree overriding all guarantees of ...
Adolf Hitler - Nazi Leader, WW2, Germany: Discharged from the hospital amid the social chaos that followed Germany’s defeat, Hitler took up political work in Munich in May–June 1919. As an army political agent, he joined the small German Workers’ Party in Munich (September 1919).
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.
Yet, a small group of officers and politicians who did not support Hitler formed a clandestine anti-Nazi underground. Retrospectively known as the German Resistance Movement, it began its activity in 1938 with a desperate attempt to prevent war in Europe and culminated in the coup d’état and failed assassination attempt on Hitler of July 20 ...
Political views of Adolf Hitler. Hitler dictated his autobiographical political manifesto in Mein Kampf, published in 1925. The political views of Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945, have presented historians and biographers with some difficulty. Hitler 's writings and methods were often adapted to need and circumstance ...
The word most commonly associated with Hitler is ‘evil’ and commentators have been quick to emphasize his role an d personal responsibility for the undeniable crimes committed by the Nazi regime. Invariably Hitler is seen as a man who achieved power through the exercise of his own demonic will.
