Born: 20 April 1889
Birthplace: Braunau am Inn, Austria
Died: 30 April 1945 (suicide)
Best Known As: Nazi leader during World War II
Adolf Hitler's dictatorial rule of Germany, which led to the deaths of millions in World War II, has placed him among history's most hated villains. A decorated veteran of World War I, Adolf Hitler joined the German Workers' Party in 1919, later renaming it the National Socialist German Workers Party (which was shortened to the Nazi Party). By 1921 he was the leader of the group, and in 1923 led an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the ruling German Weimar Republic. Sentenced to prison for his role, Hitler wrote his manifesto, Mein Kampf, and emerged less than a year later as a populist spokesman for economically depressed and nationalistic Germans. Made chancellor in 1933, he suspended the constitution, forcibly suppressed all political opposition and brought the Nazis to power. He enforced policies with a brutal secret police (the Gestapo) and formed concentration camps for the organized murder of Jews, Gypsies and political opponents. Hitler's aggressive foreign policy precipitated World War II in 1939. Although he had remarkable early success in the war, by 1942 the tide had turned. Hitler apparently committed suicide in an air-raid shelter in Berlin in 1945, after the Allied forces had invaded Germany.
Hitler survived a 1944 assassination attempt led by Claus von Stauffenberg... One of Hitler's concentration camp victims was Anne Frank... Other WWII leaders include: Britain's Winston Churchill, America's Franklin Roosevelt, Italy's Benito Mussolini, the Soviet Union's Joseph Stalin, Japan's Hideki Tojo and France's Charles de Gaulle... One day before his death, Hitler finally married his longtime girlfriend Eva Braun; she committed suicide with him by swallowing cyanide on 30 April 1945. Hitler apparently swallowed cyanide and then shot himself.
2006-12-03 01:47:33
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answered by Rae-May 3
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Adolf Hitler was able to raise Germany from the depths od despair following her defeat in WW I. Germany's economy was hyper-inflated, communists fought with republicans, monarchists, socialists....and they all fought with each other, threatening to rip Germany to shreds. When Hitler became " Der Fuhrer" of Germany, he stabilized the economy and rearmed Germany (both done in conflict with the conditions set after the war), saw that everybody in Germany was employed, set prices and wages, created the Autobahn and the Volkswagen(people's car), hosted the Olympic Games......as well as attempted the complete takeover of Europe, being personally responsible for the killing of 11 million people in death and work camps (6 million of which were Jews----the rest being Poles, Russians, gypsies, homosexuals, and the established intelligentia of the day, or anybody else he felt like killing), and launching a war that resulted in a death toll of about 40 to 50 million. He was as bad and as evil as they come.
But....maybe the most interesting fact about Adolf Hitler is that he, while one of the most despacible criminals of all time, may not have been even the most despicable of his day. The Soviet Union's Joseph Stalin was, because of no other reason than paranoia, responsible for the death of about 25 million people------and these were his OWN countrymen!!! Some were executed, some sent to work camps (gulags)----25 million of his fellow Soviets. Wow.
2006-12-03 10:56:34
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answered by Anonymous
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My links give exhaustive in formations
Born 21 April 1889 at Braunau -am-Inn (Austria)
cancelled from Austrian army. He signed in Munich for German army (1914)
Was 6 week blind after gaz attack (1917)
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1920 Was appointed lieder of NSDAP (national socialist German worker party)
1923 Tried to take power in Munich was jailed 18 months. During
this time he wrote his best-seller Mein Kampf (my fight)
30 January1933 was appointed first minister BY Hindenburg
1934 He seized the power, changed the law and begin a dictatorship of 12 years (Third Reich)
1935 laws against Jews
1936 occupied the left side of river Rhein and built a new army
1938 attached Austria to Germany
1938 Munich pact seized a part of Slovak
1939 march Took all Tchecoslovaky
September 1939 Attacked Poland and so begun World War
1940 may-June defeat of France
1941 22 june attacked soviet union whithout war declaration
1943 Stalingrad
30 april 1945 coomited suicide to avoid hanging
2006-12-03 10:58:57
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answered by maussy 7
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go to wikipedia.co.uk and type adolf hitler in the search engine
2006-12-03 09:42:49
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answered by Kash D 1
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An underestimated genius in the manipulation of people, the "Big Lie" principle is attributed to him. Author of Mein Kampf, perhaps very misguided but certainly not mad.
2006-12-03 09:58:17
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answered by David L 1
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Fact : 1
He was one of the biggest assholes in the history of the world, and never should have been born.
2006-12-03 11:40:11
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answered by fritz 2
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he was a germen asshole that tortered 6 million jews and wanted to take over the world in the 1940's that about wraps it
2006-12-03 09:47:44
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answered by Anonymous
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hitler had only one ball
the other was in the albert hall
his mother, the dirty bugger
chopped it off when he was small
2006-12-03 09:48:34
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answered by toni lee 3
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his mother's doctor talked her out of an abortion. and that baby was adolf >_<
2006-12-03 09:42:15
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answered by Japan_is_home 5
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He was a bastard, he wasn't entirely German, killed his family ( some were Jews ) was a coward, and a angry beeyatch.
2006-12-03 09:44:07
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answered by Anonymous
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