Adolf Hitler
Occupation: Military leader, dictator, politician
Best known as: leader of Nazi Germany who instigated World War II
Nationality: German, of Austrian descent
Religion: Catholic
Political party: National Socialist German Workers' Party, A.K.A. the NSDAP or the Nazi Party
Home: the Berghof, in Bavaria, Germany
Born: April 20, 1889, in Braunau am Inn, Austria
Died: April 30, 1945, in Berlin, Germany, by suicide
Remains: This is a mystery. At his orders, his body was burned after he died. The Russians took his body and performed an autopsy, but it is unknown exactly what happened after that. The Russian government has fragments of a skull that are probably, but not definitely, Hitler's.
Education: Completed high school, but was denied admission twice to the art college in Vienna
Military service:
Served as a Corporal in World War I, winning an Iron Cross.
Commander-in-Chief of Germany's armed forces during World War II
Offices held: Fuhrer of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of the Third Reich, Commander-in-Chief of the German armed forces
Short biography:
Adolf Hitler was born in Austria and aspired to be an artist. However, he was refused admission to art school and spent his early adulthood in Vienna, poor and homeless. World War I changed the course of Hitler's life. He decided to fight on the side of Germany, whose leaders he liked better than those of Austria. When Germany lost the war, Hitler was devastated and devoted his life to avenging Germany's defeat. He entered politics and joined an obscure party called the National Socialist German Workers' Party, commonly known by its German abbreviation, the Nazi Party. Hitler soon became the leader of the Nazis, and although he was briefly jailed for attempting an armed takeover of the country, he quickly rose in power and was elected chancellor of Germany in 1933. In 1934 he became the Fuhrer, or leader, of Germany and was given almost limitless power. He quickly began to build an empire, conquering Austria, and Czechoslovakia. It was around this time that Hitler and the Nazi regime began to enact increasingly discriminatory laws against Jews and other people who did not fit Hitler's ideal of an Aryan master race. This eventually turned into the Holocaust, the systematic murder of 6 million Jews plus millions of others in death camps. When Hitler invaded Poland, World War II broke out as Britain and France declared war on him. Hitler continued to conquer more territory, such as France and Northern Africa. However, his forces were defeated when he tried to invade Britain and Russia. In 1941, America joined the war against Hitler, and he lost more and more land. In 1945, American and Russian troops invaded Berlin, and Hitler killed himself when it became clear that he could not win the war. 60 million people had died in World War II, making Hitler one of the worst murderers in history. Even more remarkably, in an age where the world had begun to abhor war and strive for world peace, Hitler succeeded in creating the largest empire in European history, and the second largest empire in all of history. An ardent nationalist, Adolf Hitler could be called (in a weird way) one of the most patriotic individuals of all time.
Girlfriend: Eva Braun
Friends: Benito Mussolini, Hideki Tojo, Francisco Franco
Henchmen: Hermann Goering, Heinrich Himmler, Josef Goebbels, Erwin Rommel, Karl Donitz, Julius Streicher, Martin Bormann, Rudolf Hess
Family members:
Parents: Klara Polzl and Alois Hitler
Siblings: Gustav (born in 1885), Ida (born in 1886), Otto (born in 1887), Edmund (born in 1894) and Paula, the only sibling who lived to adulthood (born in 1896)
Half-siblings: Alois Junior and Angela (children of Alois and his first wife)
Enemies: Winston Churchill, Josef Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Charles DeGaulle
