Adolf hitler brief biography of thomas

Dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945

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Adolf Hitler^[a] (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party,^[c] becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.^[d] His invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 marked the start of the Second World War. He was closely involved in military operations throughout the war and was central to the perpetration of the Holocaust: the genocide of about six million Jews and millions of other victims.

Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn in Austria-Hungary and moved to Germany in 1913. He was decorated during his service in the German Army in World War I, receiving the Iron Cross. In 1919, he jo

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Hitler's secret autobiography

The first biography of Adolf Hitler, which presented him as 'Germany's saviour', compared him to Jesus and helped propel him up the political ranks, was actually a self-penned 'act of shameless publicity', it has been revealed.

Published in 1923, the book (Adolf Hitler: Sein Leben und seine Reden (Adolf Hitler: His Life and his Speeches) was the first major profile of the would-be dictator and appeared beneath the name of north German aristocrat and war hero Victor von Koerber*.

But historian Thomas Weber, from the University of Aberdeen, has unearthed compelling bevis – including signed testimony - hidden in a South African archive which he says demonstrates it was ‘almost certainly’ written by Hitler himself.

He said: “The book, which also includes a collection of Hitler’s speeches, makes some outlandish claims arguing that it should become ‘the new bible of today’ and uses terms such as ‘holy&rs

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Why I wrote this book.
Was Hitler really a vegetarian, and so what if he was? Is it true he helped design the Volkswagen? Did he consult with astrologers before making important decisions? Was he a midget, and didn’t he know that moustache made him look ridiculous?

My idea was to organize a Hitler biography around the questions that people commonly ask, and make the answers easily accessible, but I also had a more general purpose – anchoring Hitler in concrete human reality. As the decades pass between his time and ours, there’s the very real chance of his becoming thought of as a legendary creature like Dracula or Frankenstein’s Monster, the stuff of horror movies and comedies. Hitler was real, the horror he unleashed was real, and what one man did –- a man, not a mythological creature – another man may do in the future. That’s why I chose to write a biography largely comprised of what are sometimes called “human interest” stories.

Although the book is organized by subject areas (