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A shorter recent biography by a German historian is Helmut Heiber, Adolf Hitler: A Short Biography (1961). Konrad Heiden, Der Fuehrer: Hitler's Rise to Power (1944), is the classic biography written during the Nazi years, which contains important insights for the period up to 1934.
Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria, on April 20, 1889, the son of a fifty-two-year-old Austrian customs official, Alois Schickelgruber Hitler, and his third wife, a young peasant girl, Klara Poelzl, both from the backwoods of lower Austria. The young Hitler was a resentful, discontented child.
Adolf Hitler: Early Years, 1889–1913. Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) was born on April 20, 1889, in the Upper Austrian border town Braunau am Inn, located approximately 65 miles east of Munich and nearly 30 miles north of Salzburg. He was baptized a Catholic. His father, Alois Hitler (1837–1903), was a mid-level customs official.
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. During his dictatorship, he initiated the European theatre of World War II by invading Poland on 1 September 1939. He was ...
Berlin, Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler, chancellor and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, committed suicide via a gunshot to the head on 30 April 1945 in the Führerbunker in Berlin [a] after it became clear that Germany would lose the Battle of Berlin, which led to the end of World War II in Europe. Eva Braun, his wife of one day, also ...
HITLER, ADOLF (1889–1945) German chancellor and Führer. No single figure, except perhaps the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, had as great an impact on the history of the twentieth century as Adolf Hitler, the man who became Germany's chancellor in 1933, who led his country into history's largest war six years later, and whose defeat in 1945 ...
Mar 18, 2023 · Carefully chronicling in great detail the early years of Hitler's life and the events that shaped him into the zealous leader of Germany. This documentary of...
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