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Adolf Hitler

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Adolf Hitler, 1889–1945

Adolf Hitler led the National Socialist German Workers' Party and became Chancellor of Germany in 1933. His dictatorship destroyed Germany's democratic institutions, pursued racial persecution and genocide, drove territorial expansion and war across Europe, and ended with Germany's defeat in 1945.

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171places

16roles

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1889BirthBorn on 20 April.
1914First World WarServes in the German army during the war.
1921NSDAP leadershipBecomes leader of the Nazi Party.
1923Beer Hall PutschFailed coup attempt in Munich.
1933Appointed ChancellorAppointed Chancellor on 30 January.
1933Enabling ActParliamentary government is dismantled under dictatorship.
1934Führer and ChancellorCombines supreme political authority after Hindenburg's death.
1935Nuremberg LawsRacial laws intensify persecution of German Jews.
1938AnschlussGermany annexes Austria.
1939Invasion of PolandGermany invades Poland on 1 September, beginning the European war.
1941Operation BarbarossaGermany invades the Soviet Union.
1942Wannsee ConferenceNazi officials coordinate implementation of the mass murder of European Jews.
194420 July PlotSurvives an assassination attempt at military headquarters.
1945Death in BerlinDies in Berlin on 30 April as Nazi Germany collapses.

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