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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.
File:Hitler in the Odeonsplatz Munich 2 August 1914 by Heinrich Hoffmann.jpg File:Hitler with other German soldiers.jpg File:Hitler, Göring, Goebbels and Hess.jpg
Britain Needs You At Once at History of the United Kingdom during the First World War, unknown artist (restored by Adam Cuerden) A Hannover CL.III shot down on 4 October 1918 , by J. E. Gibbon (restored by Keraunoscopia )
The military career of Adolf Hitler, who was the dictator of Germany from 1933 until 1945, can be divided into two distinct portions of his life. Mainly, the period during World War I when Hitler served as a Gefreiter (lance corporal [A 1]) in the Bavarian Army, and the era of World War II when he served as the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht (German Armed Forces) through his ...
When the stock market in the United States crashed in 1929, the effect in Germany was dire. [17] Millions were thrown out of work and several major banks collapsed. Hitler and the Nazis prepared to take advantage of the emergency to gain support for their party. They promised to strengthen the economy and provide jobs. [18]
The first permanent installation which became a Führer Headquarters was the Felsennest, which was used by Hitler during the Battle of France in May, 1940. Hitler actually spent very little time in Berlin during the war, and the dwellings he most frequently used were the Berghof and the Wolfsschanze, spending more than 800 days at the latter.
The Berghof was Adolf Hitler's holiday home in the Obersalzberg of the Bavarian Alps near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany.Other than the Wolfsschanze ("Wolf's Lair"), his headquarters in East Prussia for the invasion of the Soviet Union, he spent more time here than anywhere else during his time as the Führer of Nazi Germany.
During the war, Hitler remarked in his "Table Talk" that people should only be Germanised if they were to improve the German blood line: Nazi Germany in 1940 (dark grey) after the conquest of Poland together with the USSR , showing pockets of German colonists resettled into the annexed territories of Poland from the Soviet "sphere of influence ...