| | Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born chancellor and president of Germany from January 30, 1933 until his death on April 30, 1945. The leader (German: Der Führer) of the National Socialist German Workers Party (''National-sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei'', or Nazi Party) which gained political power through threat, intimidation, and outright violence throughout Germany in the aftermath of the First World War, Hitler’s policies and beliefs resulted in the mass extermination of the Jews and other peoples he considered “sub-human” throughout central and eastern Europe, as well as being directly responsible for the outbreak of [[World War II]], causing the deaths of untold millions on and off the battlefield, which ended only with his own death in a Berlin bunker. | | Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born chancellor and president of Germany from January 30, 1933 until his death on April 30, 1945. The leader (German: Der Führer) of the National Socialist German Workers Party (''National-sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei'', or Nazi Party) which gained political power through threat, intimidation, and outright violence throughout Germany in the aftermath of the First World War, Hitler’s policies and beliefs resulted in the mass extermination of the Jews and other peoples he considered “sub-human” throughout central and eastern Europe, as well as being directly responsible for the outbreak of [[World War II]], causing the deaths of untold millions on and off the battlefield, which ended only with his own death in a Berlin bunker. |