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Adolf Hitler [a] (20 April 1889 – 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 Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.
The cult of leader was evidenced in Nazi propaganda films by Leni Riefenstahl, such as 1935's Triumph of the Will, which Hitler ordered to be made.The film showed the 1934 Nuremberg Rally, which was attended by over 700,000 supporters, and is one of the first examples of the Hitler myth filmed and put into full effect during Nazi Germany. [27]
A fascinating newly uncovered report details some of the personality quirks and shortcomings the brutal dictator allegedly suffered.
In Hitler's Shadow: West German Historians and the Attempt to Escape from the Nazi Past. Pantheon Books. ISBN 978-0-394-57686-2. Evans, Richard J. (2001). Lying About Hitler: History, Holocaust Holocaust And The David Irving Trial. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-02152-9. Guttenplan, D. D. (2001). The Holocaust on Trial. New York: W. W. Norton ...
What Hitler’s personal life tells us . Hitler’s personal history paints a picture of someone who desired to be famous from a very young age. Born in Austria, he dreamed of becoming a renowned ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. ... Hitler: A Short Biography is a short biography of Adolf Hitler by A. N. Wilson, ...
The other thing you know is that it’s trying for something audacious, placing itself on the […] ‘The Meaning of Hitler’ Review: A Look At Why the Icon of 20th-Century Hate Lives on in the 21st
The Allies seized vast masses of documents in 1945, which British historian Alan Bullock (1914–2004) used with a brilliant writing style. Bullock's biography Hitler: A Study in Tyranny (1952) depicts Hitler as the product of the chaos in Germany after 1918, where uncertainty and anger inflamed extremism and created the ideal setting for Hitler's demagoguery to succeed.