Hitler

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Adolf Hitler

Führer of Germany
In office
2 August 1934 – 30 April 1945
Preceded by Paul von Hindenburg
(as President)
Succeeded by Karl Dönitz
(as President)
Reichskanzler (Chancellor) of Germany
In office
30 January 1933 – 30 April 1945
Preceded by Kurt von Schleicher
Succeeded by Joseph Goebbels
Born 20 April 1889
Braunau am Inn, Austria–Hungary
Died 30 April 1945 (aged 56)
Berlin, Germany
Citizenship Austrian (1889–1932)
German (1932–1945)
Nationality Austrian citizen until 1925[1] German citizen after 1932
Political party German Workers' Party (1920–1921)
National Socialist German Workers' Party (1921–1945)
Spouse(s) Eva Braun
(married on 29 April 1945)
Occupation politician, soldier, artist, writer
Religion See Adolf Hitler's religious beliefs
Signature
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 and Second Class
Wound Badge
The Holocaust
Early elements
Racial policy · Nuremberg Laws · Nazi eugenics · Action T4
Jews
German Jews
Pogroms: Kristallnacht · Bucharest · Dorohoi · Iaşi · Kaunas · Jedwabne · Lviv (Lvov)
Ghettos: Budapest Ghetto · Lublin · Lviv (Lvov) · Łódź · Kraków · Kovno Ghetto · Minsk · Warsaw · Vilnius · (List of ghettoes)
Einsatzgruppen: Babi Yar · Rumbula · Ponary · Odessa · Erntefest · Ninth Fort
Final Solution: Wannsee · Operation Reinhard · Holocaust trains · Extermination camps · Madagascar Plan
Resistance: Jewish partisans · Ghetto uprisings (Warsaw · Białystok · Łachwa)
End of World War II: Death marches · Berihah · Surviving Remnant
Other victims
Romani people (Gypsies)   · Homosexuals · People with disabilities · Slavs in Eastern Europe · Poles · Soviet POWs · Jehovah's Witnesses
Concentration and
extermination camps
Nazi concentration camps   ·
Nazi extermination...