Adlof Hitlar

Adolf Hitler.

Führer of Germany

Personal details

Born 20 April 1889

Braunau am Inn , Austria–Hungary

Died 30 April 1945 (aged 56)

Berlin, Germany

Nationality

*. Austrian citizen until 7 April 1925

*. German citizen after 25 February 1932

Political party National Socialist German Workers' Party (1921–1945)

Other political

affiliations German Workers' Party (1920–1921)

Spouse(s)-Eva Braun

(29–30 April 1945)

Occupation- Politician, soldier, artist, writer.

Military service-

Allegiance German Empire

Service/branch Reichsheer

Years of service 1914–1918

Rank Gefreiter

Unit 16th Bavarian Reserve Regiment

Battles/wars World War I

Awards

*. Iron Cross First Class

*. Iron Cross Second Class

*. Wound Badge

Adolf Hitler ( German: [ˈadɔlf ˈhɪtlɐ] (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian -born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party ( German : National sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP), commonly referred to as the(Nazi Party). He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and dictator of Nazi Germany (as Führer und Reichskanzler ) from 1934 to 1945. Hitler is commonly associated with the rise of fascism in Europe, World War II , and the Holocaust .

A decorated veteran of World WarI , Hitler joined the German Workers' Party , precursor of theNazi Party, in 1919, and became leader of the NSDAP in 1921. In 1923 he attempted a coup d'état , known as the Beer Hall Putsch , in Munich. The failed coup resultedin Hitler's imprisonment, during which time he wrote his memoir, Mein Kampf ( My Struggle ). After his release in 1924, Hitler gained popular support by attacking the Treaty of Versailles and promoting Pan-Germanism , antisemitism , and anticommunism with charismatic oratory and Nazi propaganda . After his appointment as chancellor in 1933, he transformed the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich , a single-party dictatorship based onthe totalitarian and autocratic ideology of Nazism . His aims were to establish a New Order of absolute Nazi German hegemony incontinental Europe.

Hitler's foreign and domestic policies had the goal of seizing Lebensraum ("living space") for the Germanic people . He directed the rearmament of Germany and the invasion of Poland by the Wehrmacht in September 1939, leading to the outbreak of World War II in Europe . Under Hitler's rule, in 1941 German forces and their European allies occupied most of Europe and North Africa. These gains were gradually reversed after 1941, and in 1945 the Allied armies defeated the German army. Hitler's supremacist and racially motivated policies resulted in the systematic murderof eleven million people, including nearly six million Jews .

In the final days of the war, during the Battle of Berlin in 1945,Hitler married his long-time mistress, Eva Braun . On 30 April 1945—less than two days later—the two committed suicide to avoid capture by the Red Army , and their corpses were burned.