'''Adolf Hitler''' was born April 20, 1889 in Branau Am Inn, [[Austria]]. He died April 30, 1945. His dictatorial rule of [[Germany]], which led to the deaths of millions before and during [[World War II]], has placed him among history's most hated villains.
Many believe he was one of the most powerful military Generals in history. "Adolf Hitler or the incarnation of absolute evil; this is how future generations will remember the all-powerful Fuehrer of the criminal Third Reich. Compared with him, his peers [[Mussolini]] and [[Franco]] were novices. Under his hypnotic gaze, humanity crossed a threshold from which one could see the abyss. "Before Hitler, we thought we had sounded the depths of human nature," argues Ron Rosenbaum, author of "Explaining Hitler." "He showed how much lower we could go, and that's what was so horrifying. It gets us wondering not just at the depths he showed us but whether there is worse to come. The power of Hitler was to confound the modernist notion that judgments about good and evil were little more than matters of taste, reflections of social class and power and status. Although some modern scholars drive past the notion of evil and instead explain Hitler's conduct as a reflection of his childhood and self-esteem issues, for most survivors of the 20th century he is confirmation of our instinctive sense that evil does exist. It moves among us; it leads us astray and deploys powerful, subtle weapons against even the sturdiest souls." [http://ronrosenbaum.pajamasmedia.com/2006/08/23/about_this_blogger.php]
[[Elie Wiesel]] wrote famously, and most eloquently about Hitler in 1998: <blockquote>