Austrian-born German dictator — leader of the Nazi Party and Chancellor/Führer of Germany 1933–1945 — whose regime prosecuted World War II, the Holocaust, and the systematic murder of six million Jews and millions of others.
Represents the definitive case study in totalitarian mass mobilization and the catastrophe of political fanaticism — Hitler's rise from obscurity to absolute power through propaganda, scapegoating, and exploitation of democratic weakness is studied to understand how democracies fail.
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