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Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) was the leader of Germany from 1933 to 1945. Appointed chancellor in January 1933, by August 1934 Hitler had declared himself Führer – the leader of Germany. As leader of the Nazi party Hitler launched the Second World War in 1939 and is responsible for the death of millions of people, including an estimated six million Jewish people in the Nazi genocide. Hitler believed in a superior Aryan race and thought that Jews and Communists posed a danger to Germany and had to be destroyed. He laid out his anti-Semitic views in his book Mein Kampf. Hitler committed suicide in his bunker in Berlin on 30 April 1945

Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, speaking at a Nazi rally in 1936. (Photo by ullstein bild / ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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The front cover of a 1924 edition of Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf'

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"I read and studied much": Adolf Hitler at his Berghof mountain retreat in c1936.  (Photo by Imagno/Getty Images)

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British political cartoonist David Low. His caricatures of political figures including Hitler resulted in him being placed in the Nazi 'Black Book' – a list of prominent Britons who were to be arrested in the case of a successful invasion of Britain. (Photo by Felix Man/Picture Post/Getty Images

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Industrial might: Blenheim bombers in production in England, late 1939. The Allies’ combined industrial strength proved too much for the Axis. (Getty Images) 

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Hitler greets admirers when he was still enormously popular. (Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Hans Litten (centre) in court while representing communists, 25 August 1932. Litten’s decision to subpoena Hitler a year earlier was to cost him his life. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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Clean-up crews salvaging what they can from the ruins of buildings in Hornsey, a north London suburb, 1944. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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