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Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who served as dictator of Germany during the Nazi era from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. As leader of the Nazi Party, he started the Second World War in Europe and was central to the genocide of about six million Jews in the Holocaust, as well as the murders of millions of other victims.
Adolf Hitler was born on the 20th of April 1889 in Braunau am Inn, a town in Austria-Hungary close to the German border. He was the fourth of six children born to Alois Hitler and his third wife, Klara Pölzl.
Hitler rose to power as leader of the Nazi Party, exploiting the economic collapse that followed the 1929 American stock market crash. After conservative politicians persuaded President Paul von Hindenburg to appoint him, Hitler was sworn in as chancellor on the 30th of January 1933, and the Enabling Act of the 23rd of March 1933 gave his cabinet the power to make laws without parliament.
The Beer Hall Putsch was Hitler's failed attempt to seize power in Munich, beginning on the 8th of November 1923, when he and the SA stormed a meeting in the Bürgerbräukeller. The coup left 16 Nazi Party members and four police officers dead, and Hitler was sentenced to five years' fortress confinement at Landsberg Prison, where he dictated most of the first volume of Mein Kampf.
No. In 2025, Turi King of the University of Bath analysed blood from the sofa in Hitler's study and confirmed through DNA that he did not have Jewish ancestry through his father. The DNA match disproved the so-called Frankenberger thesis, which historians had already dismissed for lack of any record of a Leopold Frankenberger in Graz.
Adolf Hitler died by suicide on the 30th of April 1945 in the Führerbunker in Berlin, the day after he married his longtime partner Eva Braun. They killed themselves to avoid capture by the Soviet Red Army.
Hitler's aggressive, expansionist foreign policy is considered the primary cause of World War II in Europe. He oversaw the German invasion of Poland on the 1st of September 1939, ordered the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, and declared war on the United States in December 1941.