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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 first began as the Jungsturm Adolf Hitler and the Jugendbund der NSDAP; they would later become the Hitler Youth. [43] [44] The other was the Stabswache (Staff Guard), which in May 1923 was renamed the Stoßtrupp-Hitler (Shock Troop-Hitler). [45] This early incarnation of a bodyguard unit for Hitler would later become the Schutzstaffel (SS ...
The first important biography was written in exile in Switzerland by Konrad Heiden (1901–1966), Hitler: A Biography (2 vol Zürich, 1936–1937); an English version appeared as Der Führer – Hitler's Rise to Power (1944). Heiden was a journalist for a liberal newspaper who witnessed Hitler's rise to power and fled to exile when he realized ...
Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 and grew up in a poor family in Braunau am Inn, a small Austrian village on the border with the Germany. [2] 3 of his siblings —Gustav, Ida, and Otto— died in infancy due to common childhood diseases. [3] Hitler's mother, Klara, was a homemaker; his father, Alois, unsuccessfully tried to establish a farm. [4]
Jahn spent nearly four years tracking down Hitler's early works, until he was called into military service. [13] Jahn became the Art Consultant to the German Embassy in Vienna in 1937, where he would then search for, purchase, and collect individual pieces of Hitler's art, allegedly in order to destroy a majority of the paintings.
Hitler is widely thought to have been the fourth of six siblings, but records from his hometown prove otherwise, according to a historian. Hitler's older brother was in fact younger and died early ...
17 July: Adolf Hitler saves the life of the 9th Company Commander. 4 August: Adolf Hitler awarded the Iron Cross, 1st Class. 13 October: Adolf Hitler gassed near Ypres. 3 November: Kiel mutiny triggered the German revolution. 7 November: 100,000 workers march on the Royal House of Wittelsbach. Kaiser Wilhelm II flees.
Beside her on the mat is a pair of dirty boots – to the left is a portrait of Adolf Hitler. It is 30 April 1945, the day that the Fuhrer killed himself in his bunker in Berlin, and Miller, her ...