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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]
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and the Breaking of the Nazi Economy. New York: Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-03826-8. Turner, Henry A. (1985). German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler. Oxford University Press. Further reading. Abt, Parker (2017). "The Nazi Fiscal Cliff: Unsustainable Financial Practices before World War II".
Once the war had begun, the foreign subsidiaries were seized and nationalized by the Nazi-controlled German state, and work conditions deteriorated, as they did throughout German industry. About 12 million forced labourers, most of whom were Eastern Europeans , were employed in the German war economy inside Nazi Germany during the war. [ 13 ]
Like Swiss banks, American car companies deny helping the Nazi war machine or profiting from forced labor at their German subsidiaries during World War II. [9] "General Motors was far more important to the Nazi war machine than Switzerland," according to Bradford Snell. "The Nazis could have invaded Poland and Russia without Switzerland.
Hitler presented the Nazis as a form of German fascism. [149] [150] In November 1923, the Nazis attempted a "March on Berlin" modelled after the March on Rome, which resulted in the failed Beer Hall Putsch in Munich. [151] Hitler spoke of Nazism being indebted to the success of Fascism's rise to power in Italy. [152]
Nazi march of the German American Bund on East 86th St., New York City, 30 October 1939. Nazism in the Americas has existed since the 1930s and continues to exist today. The membership of the earliest groups reflected the sympathies some German-Americans and German Latin-Americans had for Nazi Germany.
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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.