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Hitler, Adolf

  1. A German political leader of the twentieth century, born in Austria . Hitler's early program for Germany is contained in his book Mein Kampf. He dreamed of creating a master race of pure Aryans, who would rule for a thousand years as the third German Empire, or Third Reich . Hitler led the Nazi party, and began to rule Germany in 1933 as a fascist ( see fascism ) dictator with the title der ü(“the leader”). He supervised the murder of six million Jews (see also Jews ) and other supposed enemies of the Reich ( see Holocaust ). Hitler began World War II by invading Poland in 1939. He committed suicide in 1945 when Germany's defeat was imminent.


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The official greeting between Nazis was “heil (“hail”) Hitler.”
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If there were a war memorial in Germany with the names of Adolf Hitler, Adolf Eichmann, Heinrich Himmler, Herman Goering, Reinhard Heydrich etc, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel went there each year to honor them, would that be kosher?

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If there were a war memorial in Germany with the names of Adolf Hitler, Adolf Eichmann, Heinrich Himmler, Herman Goering, Reinhard Heydrich etc, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel went there each year to honor them, would that be kosher?

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Family Matters Alois Hitler, Adolf's halfbrother, was released from custody by the British, who had queried him for six weeks and now pronounced him harmless.

Alois Hitler, Adolf's half brother, released by the British after questioning, turned up at Hamburg's town hall to ask a favor: he wanted his name changed.

Then he punched for Hitler, Adolf.

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