Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 in a small Austrian town called Bruannau ,near the German border. Hitler was a decorated veteran of World War I. He joined the German Workers' Party. In 1923, he attempted a coup d'état in Munich, known as the Beer Hall Putsch. The failed coup resulted in Hitler's imprisonment, during which time he wrote his memoir, Mein Kampf (My Struggle). Hitler was the dictatorial leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party, or Nazi Party, commanding German forces throughout World War II. A fanatic nationalist, miltarist, racist, and anti-Semite, Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933 and quickly transformed Germany into a totalitarian fascist state. Under Hitler's rule, in 1941 German forces and their European allies occupied most of Europe and North Africa. Hitler's aggressive foreign policy is considered to be the primary cause of the outbreak of World War II in Europe. His antisemitic policies and racially motivated ideology resulted in the deaths of at least 5.5 million Jews. On 30 April 1945, he committed suicide by gunshot in Berlin. ultimately, however, Nazi Germany would fall to Allied forces, surrendering on 2 May 1945.