Hitler’s invasion of Poland in September 1939 began World War 2. After military successes in Denmark, Norway and Western Europe, but after failing to subdue Britain in 1941, Hitler ordered the invasion of the Soviet Union.

The Jewish populations of the countries conquered by the Nazis were rounded up and killed. Millions of others whom the Nazis considered racially inferior were also killed or worked to death.

In December 1941, Hitler declared war on America.

With Soviet troops poised to take the German capital, Hitler committed suicide in his bunker in Berlin on 30th April 1945.