Person
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
- Alternative Names
- Hitler; Führer; Adolph Hitler; A. H.; Der Führer; Wolf; Onkel Wolf; Der Führer; Führer und Reichskanzler
- Life dates
- 1889 - 1945
- Active
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Führerbau, Munich
Vienna
Linz
Berlin
- Occupation
- Führer, politician, Nazi leader
Adolf Hitler was the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazis) since 1921. In 1923 he was arrested for attempting to overthrow the German government and placed in prison. During his imprisonment, which lasted until 1924, Hitler laid out his ideological goals in his autobiography entitled Mein Kampf and published it two years later. In January 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Hitler Chancellor, the head of the German government. After Hindenburg's death in 1934, Hitler abolished the presidency and declared himelf the Führer of the German people.
In 1935, Hitler abandoned the Versailles treaty, and began to build up Germany's army. A year later, he occupied the demilitarized Rhineland and in 1938 annexed his home country Austria. By September 1939, World War II broke out with Hitler's invasion of Poland.
In his position as Führer, Hitler also oversaw the Linz Museum project, and personally took an interest in the acquisition of the Schloss collection for the Sonderauftrag Linz and expressed his dissatisfaction that parts of the collection were lost to France.
In April 1945, Hitler committed suicide.
Sources:
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. "Adolf Hitler." Holocaust Encyclopedia. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/adolf-hitler. Accessed 19 June 2021.
Kershaw, Ian. Hitler. Abingdon: Routledge, 2013._ _
Volker, Ulrich._ Hitler. Downfall 1939-1945_. New York: Knopf, 2020.