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Adolf Hitler Facts
Born
4/20/1889 Austria
Died
4/30/1945 Berlin (Suicide)
Commands
Führer of Germany
Spouse
Eva Braun
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Adolf Hitler summary: Born on April 20, 1889, Adolf Hitler was Austrian by birth but became the leader of the German Nazi Party. He ruled the party from August 2, 1934 to April 30, 1945. He came into German politics and eventually was named chancellor by President Paul Von Hindenburg in January of 1933.
He served in the Bavarian Army (a part of the German military) during World War I. He rose to the rank of lance corporal and was awarded the Iron Cross First Class, an unusually high honor for one of his rank. He was wounded and was temporarily blinded by a British gas attack. He was recuperating in hospital when the war ended. In 1919, Hitler became part of the German Worker’s Party, later named the National Socialist Party (NSDAP, or Nazi
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Adolf Hitler cements his position of supreme power
On August 19, 1934, Germany holds a plebiscite vote, in which Adolf Hitler wins a 90 percent majority. Already made chancellor more than a year earlier, and unofficially made president after the death of German President Paul von Hindenburg two weeks earlier, Hitler is now officially elected the country's president. He quickly abolishes the title of president in favor of "Führer and Reich Chancellor," culminating his rise to a position of supreme, and unlimited, power.
The moment reflects an unprecedented consolidation of power in the short history of the German republic—and a turning point in world history.
In 1932, President von Hindenburg, old, tired, and a bit senile, had won re-election as president but had lost a considerable portion of his right/conservative support to the Nazi Party. Those close to the president wanted a cozier relationship to Hitler and the Nazis. Hindenburg had contempt for the Nazis’ lawlessness, b
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Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” is published
On July 18, 1925, Volume One of Adolf Hitler’s philosophical autobiography, Mein Kampf, is published. It was a blåkopia of his agenda for a Third Reich and a klar exposition of the mardröm that will envelope europe from 1939 to 1945. The book sold a total of 9,473 copies in its first year.
Hitler began composing his tome while sitting in Landsberg prison, convicted of treason for his role in the infamous Beer ingång Putsch in which he and his minions attempted to scen a coup and grasp control of the government in Bavaria. It ended in disaster, with some allies deserting and others falling into the hands of the authorities. Hitler was sentenced to fem years’ imprisonment (he would serve only nine months). His time in the old fortress at Landsberg was hardly brutal; he was allowed guests and gifts, and was treated as something of a cult hero. He decided to put his leisure time to good use and so began dictating Volume One of his opus magnus