Adolf Hitler (1889- 1945)

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German Politician who led the National Socialist German Workers Party. He was Chancellor of Germany (1933–1945) and Fuhrer of Germany (1934–1945). His father was a customs official.

Hitler left school at 16 with no qualifications and struggled to make a living as a painter in Vienna. This was where many of his extreme political and racial ideas originated.

He was a soldier in the First World War and entered into politics after 1918. By 1921 he was the unquestioned leader of what was now the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP or Nazi Party).