Adolf Hitler
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"Adolf Hitler" was an Austria-Hungary/Austrian-born Germans/German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party ( (NSDAP); National Socialist German Workers Party). He was Chancellor of Germany#Chancellor of the Third Reich (1933–1945)/chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany (as Führer/Führer und Reichskanzler) from 1934 to 1945. Hitler was at the centre of Nazi Germany, European theatre of World War II/World War II in Europe, and the Holocaust.

Military career of Adolf Hitler/Hitler was a decorated veteran of World War I. He joined the German Workers' Party (precursor of the NSDAP) in 1919, and became leader of the NSDAP in 1921. In 1923, he attempted Beer Hall Putsch/a coup in Munich to seize power. The failed coup resulted in Hitler's imprisonment, during which time he wrote his memoir, Mein Kampf (My Struggle). After his release in 1924, Hitler gained popular support by attacking the Treaty of Versailles and promoting Pan-Germanism, antisemitism, and anti-communism with charismatic oratory and Nazi propaganda. Hitler frequently denounced international capitalism and communism as being part of a Jewish conspiracy.

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What luck for rulers that men do not think.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.

The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness.

"The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes".

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.

No one who has not been siezed by the merderous jaws of the viper can know its poison fangs.

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.

True genius is always inborn and never cultivated, let alone learned.

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.

And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.

...obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.

Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.