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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.
At the time of Hitler's birth, the building was a modest guest house, where Hitler's parents rented rooms in connection with his father's job as a minor customs official at the nearby Austrian–German border. The Hitlers lived in the building only until Adolf was three years old, when his father was transferred to Passau.
Before Adolf Hitler's birth, his family used many variations of the family surname "Hitler" almost interchangeably. Some of the common variants were Hiedler, Hüttler, Hytler, and Hittler. [3] Adolf Hitler's sister Paula, who died in 1960 and did not have children, was the last member of the family still bearing the Hitler surname on their ...
Hitler's birthplace with memorial stone for victims of fascism. Adolf Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 in Braunau am Inn where his father Alois Hitler served as a customs official since 1875. He and his family left Braunau and moved to Passau in 1892. [3]
The conceptual challenge surrounding the birthplace of Adolf Hitler roots in the fact that the place is neither a “perpetrator’s site”, such as the Obersalzberg, the Brown House or the Reichsparteitagsgelände; nor is it a “victim’s site”, such as Auschwitz, Mauthausen or Hartheim, since Adolf Hitler was merely born in that house and lived there for only two months as an infant.
Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times reviewed a new biography about Adolf Hitler and the contents of the review has started to make some serious waves.
Alois Hitler (né Schicklgruber; [1] 7 June 1837 – 3 January 1903) was an Austrian civil servant in the customs service, and the father of German dictator Adolf Hitler.. Alois Schicklgruber was born out of wedlock.
Celebration of Hitler's 50th birthday in a German club in Australia. On 18 April 1939, the German government declared that Adolf Hitler's birthday (20 April) was to be a national holiday. [1] Festivities took place in all municipalities throughout the country as well as in the Free City of Danzig.