Adolf Hitler


Hitler’s desire for world domination was executed with a brutality and murderous fervour that had never been witnessed before - he was directly responsible for the deaths of over 30 million people.


Born in Austria to working-class parents, Hitler’s early dreams to become an artist failed. He moved to Munich to join the army and was twice decorated with the Iron Cross during WWI.


Immediately after the war, Hitler joined the fascist German Workers' Party. Within two years, his extremist views and persuasive skills propelled him to head of what was now the Nazi Party.


Germany experienced immense political and economic turmoil during the late 1920s. In the midst of this storm, Hitler’s drastic and paranoid ideas struck a chord with the increasingly desperate German public.


Although his party never won an overall majority in Germany, Hitler became Germany’s Chancellor in 1933. A year later, Hitler declared himself Führer, or leader. Any notions of democracy were crushed.


Hitler’s forces began annexing countries in 1938. The Nazis routinely murdered Jews and anyone else who posed a threat to Hitler’s Aryan dream. Adolf Hitler shot himself on 30th April 1945 - his ‘civilisation’ crumbling around him.