Adolf Hitler was a German politician and leader of the Nazi Party. He rose to
power as Chancellor of Germany in 1933 and later Führer in 1934. Hitler's
aggressive foreign policies and the invasion of Poland in 1939 triggered the
outbreak of World War II in Europe. Under his dictatorship, millions of people,
including six million Jews, were systematically murdered in the Holocaust.
Hitler's leadership style was characterized by authoritarianism, propaganda, and
the cult of personality. He implemented widespread censorship and suppression of
dissent, consolidating power through the creation of a totalitarian state.
Hitler's regime also imposed discriminatory laws targeting Jews, Romani people,
disabled individuals, and other minority groups. The atrocities committed during
Hitler's rule, along with the devastation of World War II, led to his
vilification as one of history's most notorious figures. His ideology of Nazism,
based on racial hierarchy and anti-Semitism, remains a symbol of hatred and
extremism.