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Adolf Hitler

1889–1945 · 20th century

Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi Party and dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945. Appointed chancellor of the Weimar Republic in January 1933, he quickly abolished democracy and built a totalitarian state. His expansionist wars began the Second World War in Europe in 1939, and his regime carried out the Holocaust. He killed himself in Berlin in April 1945.

Adolf Hitler
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