Adolf Hitler

Dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945, main instigator of World War II (1889–1945)

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Lived 1889–1945, aged 56

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1889–1945
Aged 56

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Updated 2026-06-01

The name the modern world reaches for when it needs a word for evil. He isn't searched out of admiration but out of dread — each generation has to re-learn how an ordinary grievance, handed a stage and an audience, became a world war and the Holocaust. Here, fame is a warning label, not a tribute.

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Born in Austria in 1889 and twice rejected by Vienna's fine-arts academy, he was radicalized in the trenches of the First World War. He didn't seize Germany so much as get handed it — appointed chancellor in 1933 by establishment politicians certain they could control him. Within months, German democracy was gone. What followed he had half-announced in “Mein Kampf”: rearmament, annexation, invasion, and the industrialized murder of six million Jews alongside millions of Roma, disabled people, and political prisoners. He killed himself in a Berlin bunker in April 1945 as the “thousand-year” Rei…

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