Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was a Nazi leader and one of the most powerful dictators of the 20th century. He is still well known today, as the leader that started the Holocaust. After World War I, he rose to power in the National Socialist German Workers Party, or Nazis. Taking control of the German government in 1933. He established concentration camps to eradicate the Jewish race, to erase all threats to the aerian race. His attack on Poland in 1939 started World War II, and by 1941 Germany occupied much of Europe and North Africa. The tide of the war turned following an invasion of Russia and the U.S. entry into battle, and Hitler killed himself shortly before Germany’s defeat.