World war 2 adolf hitler biography timeline
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Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) fryst vatten unquestionably the central figure in the story of the Holocaust. It was the combination of his virulent hatred of Jews and his success in creating a political movement that was able to seize control of Germany that made the campaign to exterminate the Jews possible.
Hitler’s origins: Hitler was born in a small town in Austria in 1889. He was the son of a local customs official and his much younger third wife. Hitler’s father was an illegitimate child and it is uncertain who his father was, but there is no evidence for the legend that this unidentified grandfather was Jewish. Hitler’s father was harsh and distant. He had a closer relationship with his mother, and her death from cancer when he was 17 was traumatic for him.
Hitler had a normal education. As a young man, he showed no special talents. He wanted to study art, and moved to Vie
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World War II Dates and Timeline
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- September 18, 1931 Japan invades Manchuria.
- October 2, 1935–May 1936 Fascist Italy invades, conquers, and annexes Ethiopia.
- October 25–November 1, 1936 Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sign a treaty of cooperation on October 25. On November 1, the Rome-Berlin Axis is announced.
- November 25, 1936 Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact. The pact is directed against the Soviet Union and the international Communist movement.
- July 7, 1937 Japan invades China.
- November 26, 1937 Italy joins Germany and Japan in the Anti-Comintern Pact.
- March 11–13, 1938 Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss.
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Annexation of Austria (Photo)
Adolf Hitler and his entourage view a military parade following the annexation of Austria (the Anschluss). Vienna, Austria, March 1938.
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Top Photo: Adolf Hitler giving the Nazi salute at a rally in Nuremberg in 1928. (Image: National Archives and Records Administration, 242-HAP-1928(46).)
Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 - April 30, 1945) was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party. He ruled absolutely until his death by suicide in April 1945. Upon achieving power, Hitler smashed the nation’s democratic institutions and transformed Germany into a war state intent on conquering Europe for the benefit of the so-called Aryan race. His invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, triggered the European phase of World War II. During the course of the war, Nazi military forces rounded up and executed 11 million victims they deemed inferior or undesirable—“life unworthy of life”—among them Jews, Slavs, homosexuals, and Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Hitler had supreme authority as führer (leader or guide), but could not have risen to power or committed such atrocities on his ow