Hitler, Adolf
Hitler, Adolf ( 1889 – 1945 )German dictator. He was born in Austria, the son of Alois Hitler and his wife Klara Poelzl . He volunteered for the Bavarian army at the start of World War I, becoming a corporal. After demobilization he joined a small nationalist group, the German Workers' Party, which later became the National Socialist German Workers (or Nazi ) Party. In Vienna, he had imbibed the prevailing anti-Semitism and this, with tirades against the Versailles Peace Settlement and against Marxism, he used as a basis for his oratory in winning over a Germany humiliated by defeat. In 1921 he became leader of the Nazis and in 1923 staged an...
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