ADOLF HITLER Born April 20, 1889, Adolf Hitler was a German political and government leader and one of the 20 century’s most powerful dictators, who converted Germany into a fully militarized society and launched World War 2 in 1939. Hitler’s rise had indeed been one of history’s great political success stories. The unknown and uneducated soldier of WW1, who had been a failure in all his undertakings, had come to power in 1933 in a country that despaired …showed first 75 words of 634 total…

…showed last 75 words of 634 total…great wealth or status at a young age. To rise up to become a powerful, strong and ruthless leader of a country not even of his own, Hitler was ingenious, masterfully cunning and influential. He is viewed as a monstrous muderer, a ‘deranged man’, but his accomplishments are amazing in terms of political standards, Hitler might well have been remembered by his countrymen as “Adolf the Great, one of the outstanding figures in German history.”