Founder and head of the National-Socialist Party, Adolf Hitler was born in Austria, in 1889. He became Chancellor in 1933, and Führer, that is, leader of Germany, in 1934. He undertook the implementation of his totalitarian and racist theories, as well as an expansionism justified by the theory of “vital space” for the German people. By attacking Poland, he sparked off World War II. From 1941 onward, he developed the extermination policy of European Jewry. He committed suicide on 30 April 1945, during the capture of Berlin by Soviet troops.
