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\"Hitler\" and \"The F\u00fchrer\" redirect here. For other uses, see Hitler (disambiguation) and F\u00fchrer (disambiguation).

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Adolf Hitler
$\"Portrait$ Official portrait, 1938

F\u00fchrer of Germany
In office 2 August 1934 \u2013 30 April 1945
Preceded by	Paul von Hindenburg (as President)
Succeeded by	Karl D\u00f6nitz (as President)
Chancellor of Germany
In office 30 January 1933 \u2013 30 April 1945
President	Paul von Hindenburg (1933\u20131934)
Vice Chancellor	Franz von Papen (1933\u20131934)
Preceded by	Kurt von Schleicher
Succeeded by	Joseph Goebbels
F\u00fchrer of the Nazi Party
In office 29 July 1921 \u2013 30 April 1945
Deputy	Rudolf Hess (1933\u20131941)
Preceded by	Anton Drexler (Party Chairman)
Succeeded by	Martin Bormann (Party Minister)
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Personal details
Born	(1889-04-20)20 April 1889 Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary
Died	30 April 1945(1945-04-30) (aged 56) Berlin, Nazi Germany
Cause of death	Suicide by gunshot
Citizenship	Austria (until 1925) Stateless (1925\u20131932) Germany (from 1932)
Political party	Nazi Party (from 1920)
Other political affiliations	German Workers' Party (1919\u20131920)
Spouse	\n Eva Braun \n (m. 1945; died 1945)
Parents	Alois Hitler Klara P\u00f6lzl
Relatives	Hitler family
Cabinet	Hitler cabinet
Signature	$\"Signature$
Military service
Allegiance	German Empire Weimar Republic Nazi Germany
Branch	\n Imperial German Army\n Bavarian Army \n Reichswehr \n
Years of service	1914\u20131920
Rank	Gefreiter
Commands	German Army (from 1941) Army Group A (1942)
Wars	\n World War I\n Western Front\n First Battle of Ypres \n Battle of the Somme (WIA) \n Battle of Arras \n Battle of Passchendaele \n World War II \n
Awards	List of awards
\n \n \n Adolf Hitler's voice \n \n Hitler's last recorded speech Recorded January 1945 \n

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Health\n
- possible monorchism
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Columbus Globe for State and Industry Leaders

Rise to power

F\u00fchrer of Germany

World War II

Anschluss
Occupation of Czechoslovakia
Western Front
Eastern Front
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Death\n
- conspiracy theories
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Adolf Hitler^[a] (20 April 1889 \u2013 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party,^[c] becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of F\u00fchrer und Reichskanzler in 1934.^[d] His invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 marked the start of the Second World War. He was closely involved in military operations throughout the war and was central to the perpetration of the Holocaust: the genocide of about six million Jews and millions of other victims.\n

Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn in Austria-Hungary and was raised near Linz. He lived in Vienna in the first decade of the 1900s before moving to Germany in 1913. He was decorated during his service in the German Army in World War I, receiving the Iron Cross. In 1919, he joined the German Workers' Party (DAP), the precursor of the Nazi Party, and in 1921 was appointed leader of the Nazi Party. In 1923, he attempted to seize governmental power in a failed coup in Munich and was sentenced to five years in prison, serving just over a year of his sentence. While there, he dictated the first volume of his autobiography and political manifesto Mein Kampf (My Struggle). After his early 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. He frequently denounced communism as being part of an international Jewish conspiracy.\n

By November 1932, the Nazi Party held the most seats in the Reichstag, but not a majority. No political party was able to form a majority coalition in support of a candidate for chancellor. Former chancellor Franz von Papen and other conservative leaders convinced President Paul von Hindenburg to appoint Hitler as chancellor on 30 January 1933. Shortly thereafter, the Reichstag passed the Enabling Act of 1933, which began the process of transforming the Weimar Republic into Nazi Germany, a one-party dictatorship based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology of Nazism. Upon Hindenburg's death on 2 August 1934, Hitler succeeded him, becoming simultaneously the head of state and government, with absolute power. Domestically, Hitler implemented numerous racist policies and sought to deport or kill German Jews. His first six years in power resulted in rapid economic recovery from the Great Depression, the abrogation of restrictions imposed on Germany after World War I, and the annexation of territories inhabited by millions of ethnic Germans, which initially gave him significant popular support.\n

One of Hitler's key goals was Lebensraum (lit. 'living space') for the German people in Eastern Europe, and his aggressive, expansionist foreign policy is considered the primary cause of World War II in Europe. He directed large-scale rearmament and, on 1 September 1939, invaded Poland, causing Britain and France to declare war on Germany. In June 1941, Hitler ordered an invasion of the Soviet Union. In December 1941, he declared war on the United States. By the end of 1941, German forces and the European Axis powers occupied most of Europe and North Africa. These gains were gradually reversed after 1941, and in 1945 the Allied armies defeated the German army. On 29 April 1945, he married his longtime partner, Eva Braun, in the F\u00fchrerbunker in Berlin. The couple committed suicide the next day to avoid capture by the Soviet Red Army. In accordance with Hitler's wishes, their corpses were burned.\n

The historian and biographer Ian Kershaw described Hitler as \"the embodiment of modern political evil\".^[3] Under Hitler's leadership and racist ideology, the Nazi regime was responsible for the genocide of an estimated six million Jews and millions of other victims, whom he and his followers deemed Untermenschen (lit. 'subhumans') or socially undesirable. Hitler and the Nazi regime were also responsible for the deliberate killing of an estimated 19.3 million civilians and prisoners of war. In addition, 28.7 million soldiers and civilians died as a result of military action in the European theatre. The number of civilians killed during World War II was unprecedented in warfare, and the casualties constitute the deadliest conflict in history.\n

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Election\n	Total votes\n	% votes\n	Reichstag seats\n	Notes\n
May 1924\n	1,918,300\n	6.5\n	32\n	Hitler in prison\n
December 1924\n	907,300\n	3.0\n	14\n	Hitler released from prison\n
May 1928\n	810,100\n	2.6\n	12\n	\n
September 1930\n	6,409,600\n	18.3\n	107\n	After the financial crisis\n
July 1932\n	13,745,000\n	37.3\n	230\n	After Hitler was candidate for presidency\n
November 1932\n	11,737,000\n	33.1\n	196\n	\n
March 1933\n	17,277,180\n	43.9\n	288\n	Only partially free during Hitler's term as chancellor of Germany\n

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World War I

Entry into politics

Beer Hall Putsch and Landsberg Prison

Rebuilding the Nazi Party

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Br\u00fcning administration

Appointment as chancellor

Reichstag fire and March elections

Day of Potsdam and the Enabling Act

Dictatorship

Nazi Germany

Economy and culture

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World War II

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Alliance with Japan

Austria and Czechoslovakia

Start of World War II

Path to defeat

Defeat and death

The Holocaust

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