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"Hitler" redirects here. For other uses, see Hitler (disambiguation).
Adolf Hitler
Hitler in 1937
Führer of Germany
In office
2 August 1934 – 30 April 1945
Preceded by
Paul von Hindenburg
(as President)
Succeeded by
Karl Dönitz
(as President)
Chancellor of Germany
In office
30 January 1933 – 30 April 1945
President
Paul von Hindenburg
Deputy
Franz von Papen
Position vacant
Preceded by
Kurt von Schleicher
Succeeded by
Joseph Goebbels
Reichsstatthalter of Prussia
In office
30 January 1933 – 30 January 1935
Prime Minister
Franz von Papen
Hermann Göring
Preceded by
Office created
Succeeded by
Office abolished
Personal details
Born
20 April 1889
Braunau am Inn, Austria–Hungary
Died
30 April 1945 (aged 56)
Berlin, Germany
Nationality
Austrian citizen until 7 April 1925[1]
German citizen after 25 February 1932
Political party
National Socialist German Workers' Party (1921–1945)
Other political
affiliations
German Workers' Party (1920–1921)
Spouse(s)
Eva Braun
(29–30 April 1945)
Occupation
Politician, soldier, artist, writer
Religion
See: Religious views of Adolf Hitler
Signature
Military service
Allegiance
German Empire
Service/branch
Reichsheer
Years of service
1914–1918
Rank
Gefreiter
Unit
16th Bavarian Reserve Regiment
Battles/wars
World War I
Awards
Iron Cross First Class
Iron Cross Second Class
Wound Badge
Adolf Hitler (German: [ˈadɔlf ˈhɪtlɐ] ( listen); 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP); National Socialist German Workers Party). He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany (as Führer und Reichskanzler) from 1934 to 1945. He was at the centre of the founding of Nazism, World War II, and the Holocaust.
A decorated veteran of World War I, Hitler joined the German Workers' Party (precursor of the NSDAP) in 1919, and became leader of the NSDAP in 1921. In 1923, he attempted a coup d'état, known as the Beer Hall Putsch, in Munich. The failed coup resulted in Hitler's imprisonment, during which time he wrote his memoir, Mein Kampf (My Struggle). After his release in 1924, Hitler gained popular support by attacking the Treaty of Versailles and promoting Pan-Germanism, antisemitism, and anti-communism with charismatic oratory and Nazi propaganda. After his appointment as chancellor in 1933, he transformed the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich, a single-party dictatorship based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology of Nazism. His aim was to establish a New Order of absolute Nazi German hegemony in continental Europe.
Hitler's foreign and domestic policies had the goal of seizing Lebensraum ("living space") for the Germanic people. He directed the rearmament of Germany and the invasion of Poland by the Wehrmacht in September 1939, resulting in the outbreak of World War II in Europe. Under Hitler's rule, in 1941 German forces and their European allies occupied most of Europe and North Africa. By 1943, Hitler's military decisions led to escalating defeats. In 1945 the Allied armies successfully invaded Germany. Hitler's supremacist and racially motivated policies resulted in the systematic murder of eleven million people, including an estimated six million Jews, and in the deaths of between 50 and 70 million people in World War II.
In the final days of the war, during the Battle of Berlin in 1945, Hitler married his long-time mistress, Eva Braun. On 30 April 1945, less than two days later, the two committed suicide to avoid capture by the Red Army, and their corpses were burned.
Contents
[hide] 1 Early years 1.1 Ancestry
1.2 Childhood and education
1.3 Early adulthood in Vienna and Munich
1.4 World War I
2 Entry into politics 2.1 Beer Hall Putsch
2.2 Rebuilding the NSDAP
3 Rise to power 3.1 Brüning administration
3.2 Appointment as chancellor
3.3 Reichstag fire and March elections
3.4 Day of Potsdam and the Enabling Act
3.5 Removal of remaining limits
4 Third Reich 4.1 Economy and culture
4.2 Rearmament and new alliances
5 World War II 5.1 Early diplomatic successes 5.1.1 Alliance with Japan
5.1.2 Austria and Czechoslovakia
5.2 Start of World War II
5.3 Path to defeat
5.4 Defeat and death
5.5 The Holocaust
6 Leadership style
7 Legacy
8 Religious views
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