

He lived in Vienna later in the first decade of the 1900s and moved to Germany in 1913. Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn in Austria-Hungary and was raised near Linz.

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. During his dictatorship, he initiated World War II in Europe by invading Poland on 1 September 1939. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary (present-day Austria)Īdolf Hitler ( German: ( listen) 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945.
