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Adolf Hitler , Leader of Nazi Party , the initiator of world war ll and one of the cruelest man in History. [1]

Adolf Hitler was a German politician and leader of the Nazi Party. He rose to power as the chancellor of Germany in 1933 and then as Führer in 1934. During his dictatorship from 1933 to 1945, he initiated World War II in Europe by invading Poland on 1 September 1939. [2]

Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau am Inn, a small Austrian town near the Austro-German frontier. After his father, Alois, retired as a state customs official, young Adolf spent most of his childhood in Linz, the capital of Upper Austria.[3]

Not wanting to follow in his father’s footsteps as a civil servant, he began struggling in secondary school and eventually dropped out. Alois died in 1903, and Adolf pursued his dream of being an artist, though he was rejected from Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts.[4]

After his mother, Klara, died in 1908, Hitler moved to Vienna, where he make painting for a living. Lonely, isolated and a voracious reader, Hitler became interested in politics during his years in Vienna, and developed many of the ideas that would shape Nazi ideology.[5]

In 1913, Hitler moved to Munich, in the German state of Bavaria. When World War I broke out the following summer, he successfully petitioned the Bavarian king to be allowed to volunteer in a reserve infantry regiment. Deployed in October 1914 to Belgium. [6]

Hitler served throughout the Great War and won two decorations for bravery, including the rare Iron Cross First Class, which he wore to the end of his life. Hitler was wounded twice during the conflict: He was hit in the leg during the Battle of the Somme in 1916, [7]

and temporarily blinded by a British gas attack near Ypres in 1918. A month later, he was recuperating in a hospital at Pasewalk, northeast of Berlin, when news arrived of the armistice and Germany’s defeat in World War I. [8]

Like many Germans, Hitler came to believe the country’s devastating defeat could be attributed not to the Allies, but to insufficiently patriotic “traitors” at home—a myth that would undermine the postwar Weimar Republic and set the stage for Hitler’s rise. [9]

Hitler returned to Munich in late 1918, he joined the small German Workers’ Party, which aimed to unite the interests of the working class with a strong German nationalism. His oratory & charismatic energy helped propel him in the party’s ranks, and in 1920 he took charge. [10]

In one of Hitler’s strokes of propaganda genius, the newly renamed National Socialist German Workers Party, or Nazi Party, adopted a version of the ancient symbol of the hakenkreuz, or hooked cross, as its emblem. Printed in a white circle on a red background, [11]

Hitler’s swastika would take on terrifying symbolic power in the years to come, By the end of 1921, Hitler led the growing Nazi Party, capitalizing on widespread discontent with the Weimar Republic and the punishing terms of the Versailles Treaty. [12]

On the evening of November 8, 1923, members of the SA and others forced their way into a large beer hall where another right-wing leader was addressing the crowd. Wielding a revolver, Hitler proclaimed the beginning of a national revolution and led marchers, to [13]

the center of Munich, where they got into a gun battle with police.Hitler fled quickly, but he and other rebel leaders were later arrested. Even though it failed spectacularly, the Beer Hall Putsch established Hitler as a national figure, and a hero of right-wing nationalism.[14]

Tried for treason, Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison, but would serve only nine months in the relative comfort of Landsberg Castle. During this period, he began to dictate the book that would become "Mein Kampf" (“My Struggle”), which was published in 1925. [15]

Hitler would finish the second vol. of "Mein Kampf" after his release, while relaxing in the mountain village of Berchtesgaden. It sold modestly at first, but with Hitler’s rise it became Germany’s bestselling book after the Bible. By 1940, it had sold some 6 million copies.[16]

By the time Hitler left prison, economic recovery had restored some popular support for the Weimar Republic, and support for right-wing causes like Nazism appeared to be waning. Over the next few years, Hitler laid low and worked on reorganizing the Nazi Party.  [17]

He established the Hitler Youth to organize youngsters, and created the Schutzstaffel(SS) as a more reliable alternative to the SA the SS would develop from a group of some 200 men into a force that would dominate Germany and terrorize the rest of Europe during World War II) [18]

Hitler spent much of his time at Berchtesgaden during these years, and his half-sister, Angela Raubal,and her two daughters often joined him.After Hitler became infatuated with his beautiful blonde niece, Geli Raubal, his possessive jealousy led her to commit suicide in 1931.[19]

In 1932, Hitler ran against the war hero Paul von Hindenburg for president, and received 36.8% of the vote. With the govt in chaos, 3 successive chancellors failed to maintain control, and in late January 1933 Hitler became chancellor, capping the rise of an unlikely leader. [20]

Though the Nazis never attained more than 37 percent of the vote at the height of their popularity in 1932, Hitler was able to grab absolute power in Germany largely due to divisions and inaction among the majority who opposed Nazism.[21]

On March 23, the Reichstag passed the Enabling Act, giving full powers to Hitler 
That July, the government passed a law stating that the Nazi Party “constitutes the only political party in Germany,” and within months all non-Nazi parties cease to exist. [22]

His autocratic power now secure within Germany, Hitler turned his eyes toward the rest of Europe. On June 29, 1934, the infamous Night of the Long Knives, Hitler had Röhm, former Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher & hundreds of other problematic members of his own party murdered.[23]

On September 15, 1935, passage of the Nuremberg Laws deprived Jews of German citizenship, and barred them from marrying or having relations with persons of “German or related blood.” Much of the Nazi persecution of Jews and other targets occurred at the hand of the SS [24]

Germany’s invasion of Poland in 1939 led to the outbreak of World War II, and by 1941 Nazi forces had occupied much of Europe. Hitler’s virulent antisemitism fueled the murder of some 6 million Jews,

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