Historia de Adolfo Hitler

Adolf Hitler

(Braunau am Inn, April 20, 1889-Berlin, Germany, April 30, 1945) was a German politician, military man, and writer, imperial chancellor from 1933 and Führer — leader — of Germany from 1934 until his death. He brought to power the German National Socialist Workers Party or Nazi Party, d and led a totalitarian regime during the period known as the Third Reich or Nazi Germany. In addition, he was the one who led Germany during World War II, which began with the main purpose of fulfilling his expansionist plans in Europe.

Hitler joined the German Workers' Party, forerunner of the Nazi Party, in 1919, and became its leader in 1921. In 1923, following the pronouncement at the Bürgerbräukeller brewery in Munich, Hitler attempted an insurrection, known as the Munich Putsch, after whose failure he was sentenced to five years in prison. During his stay in prison he wrote the first part of his book My Struggle (in German, Mein Kampf), in which he exposes his ideology along with autobiographical elements. Released eight months later, in 1924, Hitler garnered growing popular support through the exaltation of Pangermanism, anti-Semitism, and anti-communism, drawing on his oratorical talent supported by efficient Nazi propaganda and symbolic-laden mass concentrations.

He was appointed imperial chancellor (Reichskanzler) in January 1933, and a year later, on the death of President Paul von Hindenburg, he proclaimed himself imperial leader and chancellor (Führer und Reichskanzler), thus assuming supreme command of the German state. He transformed the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich and ruled with a single party based on totalitarianism and autocracy of Nazi ideology.

Hitler's objective was to establish a New Order based on the absolute hegemony of Nazi Germany on the European continent. Its foreign and internal policy had the objective of seizing Lebensraum ("living space") for the Germanic peoples. He promoted the rearmament of Germany and after the Wehrmacht invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, World War II began. With these acts, Hitler violated the Versailles Treaty of 1919, which established the conditions of peace after the First World War.

Under Hitler's leadership, German forces and their allies in 1941 occupied most of Europe and North Africa. Those territorial conquests gradually decreased after the Battle of Stalingrad, until 1945, when the Allied armies defeated the German army. For racial reasons, Hitler killed seventeen million people, including six million Jews and between half a million and a half gypsies, in what was later called the "Holocaust."

In the last days of the war, during the Battle of Berlin in 1945, Hitler married his former lover, Eva Braun. On April 30, 1945, the two committed suicide in the Chancery's bunker, to avoid being captured by the Red Army. Subsequently, their bodies were burned.