Labels:text | man | human face | person OCR: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Hitler, Adolf Adolf Hitler Fascist fuhrer (leader), demagogue, and anti-Semite, Adolf Hitler became the most powerful man in Europe since Napoleon. An Austrian from a rural background, he moved to Munich in 1913 and joined the German Workers' party, which he converted into the quasi-military Nazi party. Imprisoned for five years in 1924, (but serving only eight months), Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf" ("My Struggle"), a book that asserted German racial superiority, blamed Bolshevism on the Jews, and advocated a dictatorship for Germany, legitimized by a plebiscite. Hitler's peacetime record (1933-39) as chancellor and then fuhrer was marked by rapid economic recovery and full-scale rearmament. In World War II, after speedy conquests of neighboring countries (1939-41), Adolf Hitler, German demagogue his military judgment deserted him and he and dictator, 1889-1945 attacked Russia instead of concentrating on invading Britain. Only after the war were the horrors of his policy of Jewish genocide LLLL revealed in full to the outside world. LLL * As Russian troops advanced into Berlin, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker. CHRONOLOGY
