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Adolf Hitler, ( April 20, 1889-Berlin, April 30, 1945). He was a German politician, military man, painter, writer of Austro-Hungarian origin, he was leader of Germany from 1934 until his death.
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In Vienna (1907-1913) he failed in his vocation as a painter, he pass as a tramp and saw his racist prejudices growed then at that time his conversion to Germanic nationalism and anti-Semitism came to light.
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In 1913 Adolf Hitler fled of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to avoid military service; took refuge in Munich and joined the German army during the First World War (1914-1918).
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The defeat brought him to politics, carrying out a nationalist reaction ideology, marked by the rejection of the new democratic regime of the Weimar Republic, whose politicians he accused of having betrayed Germany by accepting the humiliating peace conditions of the Treaty of Versailles ( 1919).
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Hitler joined a small far-right party, of which he would soon become the main leader, renamed it as the National Socialist Party of German Workers (NSDAP). This party declared itself nationalist, anti-Semitic, anti-communist, anti-liberal, anti-democratic, anti-pacifist
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In 1923 he failed in a first attempt to seize power from Munich, relying on Ludendorff's armed militias, he was arrested, tried and imprisoned, although he only spent nine months in jail, time he took to capture his extremist political ideas in a book. which was titled My fight that designed the broad lines of his later performance.
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Hitler (who had never obtained a majority) was appointed head of government by President Hindenburg in 1933. From the Chancellery, Hitler destroyed the constitutional regime and replaced it with a single-party dictatorship based on his personal power. Those began the so-called Third Reich, which was nothing but a totalitarian regimen of racial superiority.
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The "Night of the Long Knives" (1934) establishing full police control of society, while the persecution against the Jews began with the racist Nuremberg Laws (1935) and with the pogrom known as the "Night of the Broken Crystals "(1938), would lead to the systematic extermination of European Jews from 1939 (the" Final Solution ").
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When the conflict around the free city of Danzig led him to invade Poland, France and Great Britain reacted and World War II (1939-45) broke out. Adolf Hitler had prepared his forces for this great confrontation, which according to him was to allow the expansion of Germany until achieving world hegemony (Hossbach Protocol, 1937);
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Beginning with the Battle of Stalingrad (1943), the course of the war was reversed, and Soviet forces began a counteroffensive that would not stop until taking Berlin in 1945.
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After to shake the world with his dream of world hegemony of the German 'race', sparking a global war on a planetary scale and unprecedented genocide in the concentration camps, Hitler committed suicide in the Chancery bunker where he had taken refuge a few days after the Russians entered Berlin.
