Adolf
                  Hitler:
                  
                  
Dictator
                  of Germany
                  
                  
(1889-1945)
               
            
         
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Adolf
                  Hitler- (April 20, 1889-April 30,
                  1945)
                  
                  
 Adolf
                  Hitler is known in history as an evil, warmongering
                  dictator whose leadership of Germany plunged the
                  world into the most deadly and destructive war in
                  history. He is responsible for the deaths of tens
                  of millions of war casualties, and is actually best
                  known as the force behind the Holocaust, the
                  genocide of Europe's Jewish population.
                  
                  
Hitler
                  was born in 1889 in Austria, a german-speaking
                  natin south of Germany. When World War One broke
                  out in 1914, Adolf Hitler joined the German Army
                  and served with distinction on the Western Front.
                  After the war ended, he settled into a life of
                  political activism in the so uthern German state of
                  Bavaria, where he soon took over leadership of the
                  small National Socialist German Workers’
                  Party. Under his leadership, the fledgling Fascist
                  party grew and began attracting large numbers of
                  Germans unhappy with the miserable condition
                  Germany found itself in as the losing power from
                  World War One.
                  
                  
Hitler's
                  ambitions were on display for the world to see, as
                  he had written a book, titled Mein Kampf (My
                  Struggle), which laid out his hatred of Jews and
                  his plans for conquest. His actions and political
                  and military fantasies led to the German invasion
                  of Poland, which launched World War Two in Europe.
                  
                  
                  
                  
                  
Hitler
                  and Mussolini
                  
                  
 
                  
                  

                     

                        

                           
Family
                        
                     
                     

                        

                           

                              

                                 

                                    
Alois
                                    Hitler
                                    (1837-1903)--Father
                                 
                              
                              

                                 

                                    
Klara
                                    Polzl Hitler
                                    (1860-1907)
                                    --Mother
                                 
                              
                              

                                 

                                    
Eva
                                    Braun
                                    (1912-1945)--Wife
                                 
                              
                              

                                 

                                    
Alois
                                    Hitler, Jr.
                                    --Half-Brother
                                 
                              
                              

                                 

                                    
Angela
                                    Hitler
                                    --Half-Sister
                                 
                              
                              

                                 

                                    
Paula
                                    Hitler
                                    (1896-1960)--Sister
                                 
                              
                           
                            
                           

                              

                                 

                                    
Education:
                                    
                                    
High
                                       School dropout
                                    
                                    
Career/Occupation:
                                    
                                    
pre-world
                                       War One: Artist
                                       
                                       
1914-1920:
                                       Soldier in the German Army
                                       
                                       
                                       
1920-1945:
                                       Politician
                                    
                                     
                                    
                                    
Military
                                    Service:
                                    
                                    
Years
                                          of service: 1914-1920
                                          in the Imperial German
                                          Army
                                          
                                          
Highest
                                          Rank:
                                          Corporal
                                          
                                          
Unit:
                                          16th Bavarian Reserve
                                          Regiment 
                                          
                                          
 
                                          
                                          
 
                                       
                                       
Hitler's
                                       Service Medals and
                                       Citations:
                                       
                                       
--Iron
                                          Cross First and Second
                                          Class
                                          
                                          
--Wound
                                          Badge 
                                          
                                          
  
                                    
                                    
Political
                                    Career:
                                    
                                    
1921:
                                       Joined the National Socialist
                                       Worker's Party and soon
                                       becomes its leader
                                       
                                       
1933:
                                       Becomes Chancellor of
                                       Germany
                                       
                                       
 
                                    
                                    

                                 
                              
                           
                            
                        
                     
                     

                        

                           
Associates,
                           Contemporaries &
                           Connections
                        
                     
                     

                        

                           

                              

                                 

                                    
Hermann
                                    Goering-German
                                    Air Force Commander
                                 
                              
                              

                                 

                                    
Heinrich
                                    Himmler--Gestapo
                                    Leader
                                 
                              
                              

                                 

                                    
Rudolf
                                    Hess---German
                                    Planner
                                 
                              
                              

                                 

                                    

                                 
                              
                              

                                 

                                    
Benito
                                    Mussolini-Fascist
                                    dictator of Italy-Hitler's
                                    ally
                                 
                              
                              

                                 

                                    
Joseph
                                    Stalin-Hitler's
                                    sometime ally and eventual
                                    enemy
                                 
                              
                              

                                 

                                    
Franklin
                                    Roosevelt-American
                                    President-enemy of
                                    Hitler
                                 
                              
                              

                                 

                                    

                                 
                              
                           
                            
                           
                           

                           
                            
                           
                           

                        
                     
                  
                   
                  
                  
 

                        

                           

                              

                           
                           

                              
Citation
                           
                           

                              

                           
                        
                     
                      Lee, R. "World War Two: Adolf Hitler
                     (1889-1945)"
                     
                     
http://www.historyguy.com/worldwartwo/hitler_adolf.html