Birthday
1889-04-20Place of Birth
Braunau am Inn, AustriaBiography
Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, abbreviated NSDAP), commonly known as the Nazi Party. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and served as head of state as Führer und Reichskanzler from 1934 to 1945. Hitler is most remembered for his central leadership role in the rise of fascism in Europe, World War II and the Holocaust. A decorated veteran of World War I, Hitler joined the precursor of the Nazi Party (DAP) in 1919, and became leader of NSDAP in 1921. He attempted a coup d'état known as the Beer Hall Putsch, which occurred at the Bürgerbräukeller beer hall in Munich on 8–9 November 1923. Hitler was imprisoned for one year due to the failed coup, and wrote his memoir, Mein Kampf (in English "My Struggle"), while imprisoned. After his release on 20 December 1924, he gained support by promoting Pan-Germanism, antisemitism and anti-communism with charismatic oratory and propaganda. He was appointed chancellor on 30 January 1933, and transformed the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich, a single-party dictatorship based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology of Nazism. Nazi forces engaged in numerous violent acts during the war, including the systematic murder of as many as 17 million civilians, including an estimated six million Jews targeted in the Holocaust and between 500,000 and 1,500,000 Roma, added to the Poles, Soviet civilians, Soviet prisoners of war, people with disabilities, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and other political and religious opponents. In the final days of the war, during the Battle of Berlin in 1945, Hitler married his long-time mistress Eva Braun. To avoid capture by Soviet forces, the two committed suicide less than two days later on 30 April 1945 and their corpses were burned.
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Apocalypse: Hitler Takes on The West (1940)
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Leni Riefenstahl - The End of a Myth
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2020
Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
as Self (archive footage)
2019
German Concentration Camps Factual Survey
as Self (archive footage)
2017
Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told
as Himself
2013
Hitler's Rise: The Colour Films
as Self (archive footage)
2013
Apocalypse: The Second World War
as Self (archive footage)
2009
The Hidden Führer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality
as Self (archive footage)
2004
Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring
as Self (archive footage)
2001
The Gestapo: Hitler's Secret Police
as Self (archive footage)
1991
Double Headed Eagle: Hitler's Rise to Power 1918-1933
as Self (archive footage)
1973