Thursday, May 1, 2008

ADOLF HITLER

Adolf Hitler
Leader of GermanyFührer3rd President of Germany (Weimar Republic)
In office-2 August 193430 April 1945
Preceded by - Paul Von Hindenburg(as President)
Succeeded by - Karl Dönitz (as President)
Born -20 April 1889 - Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary
Died - April 30, 1945 (aged 56) Berlin, Germany.
Nationality - Austrian until 1925;[1] after 1932 German.
Political party- National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP).
Spouse - Eva Braun (married on April 29, 1945).
Occupation - Writer, Politican, Head of State, Artist

Adolf Hitler (20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born politician who led the National Socialist German Workers Party. He was Chancellor of Germany (1933-1934) and Führer (1934-1945).
The Nazi Party gained power during Germany's period of crisis after World War I, exploiting effective propaganda and Hitler's charismatic oratory. The Party stressed nationalism, antisemitism and anti-communism, and murdered many of its opponents. The Nazis restructured the state economy, rearmed the armed forces (Wehrmacht), and established a totalitarian or fascist dictatorship. Hitler then pursued an aggressive foreign policy, with the goal of seizing Lebensraum. The German Invasion of Poland in 1939 drew the British and French Empires into World War II.
The Wehrmacht was initially successful and the Axis Powers occupied most of Mainland Europe and parts of Asia. Eventually the Allies defeated the Wehrmacht. By 1945, Germany was in ruins. Hitler's bid for territorial conquest and racial subjugation had caused the deaths of tens of millions of people, including the systematic genocide of an estimated six million Jews, not including various other "undesirable" populations, in what is known as the Holocaust.During the final days of the war in 1945, as Berlin was being invaded and destroyed by the Red Army, Hitler married Eva Braun. Less than 24 hours later, the two committed suicide in the Führerbunker.

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