HITLER Definition & Meaning

Hitler

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noun

��·�Ǳ�� [ad, -olf, ey, -dolf, ah, -dawlf], Adolf Schicklgruberder Führer, 1889–1945, Nazi dictator of Germany, born in Austria: Chancellor 1933–45; dictator 1934–45.

Hitler

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noun

HitlerAdolf18891945MGermanAustrianPOLITICS: dictatorPOLITICS: head of state Adolf. (ˈaːdɔlf). Grandmother's maiden name and father's original surname ��󾱳��ü�� . 1889–1945, German dictator, born in Austria. After becoming president of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi party), he attempted to overthrow the government of Bavaria (1923). While in prison he wrote Mein Kampf, expressing his philosophy of the superiority of the Aryan race and the inferiority of the Jews. He was appointed chancellor of Germany (1933), transforming it from a democratic republic into the totalitarian Third Reich, of which he became Führer in 1934. He established concentration camps to exterminate the Jews, rearmed the Rhineland (1936), annexed Austria (1938) and Czechoslovakia, and invaded Poland (1939), which precipitated World War II. He committed suicide
a person who displays dictatorial characteristics

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You think of Mussolini; you think of Franco; and you think of Hitler — that very particular moment in European history.

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It's as if Hitler made up the fact that the Reichstag was on fire and his Nazi followers all nodded their heads and insisted they smelled the smoke.

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Mr Hare said they were "far more worried" about other controversial artworks in the exhibition - a statue of a meteor-struck pope, union flags the public walked on and a statue of a praying Adolf Hitler.

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Following Monday's press conference, Farage was questioned about reports that in 2022 his party's head of vetting Jack Aaron had said Adolf Hitler was "brilliant" at inspiring "people into action".

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"Three weeks after Varsity, Belsen concentration camp was liberated. Two weeks after, Hitler killed himself, and a week after that Germany capitulated – it's probably hardly talked about because events overtook themselves."

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