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One of the most notorious leaders of all time is Adolf Hitler. Considered by many to be one of the most villainous people to have ever lived. One of the most prominent questions that arise is if he was a good leader.

What sparks this debate is that he put his country first and wanted what was best for his fellow countrymen and women. However, in doing so, millions of people were killed, suffered, fell victim to his ruthless regime.

Many of his decisions were met with criticism, scrutiny, and reservations because they were considered too hostile. It turns out, they were right. So if there was so much negativity that came from his reign, why and how can people consider him a good leader?

Hitler viewed his country negatively and wanted to make a change. He felt that Germany was weak and constantly taken advantage of and his idea was to rebuild it, strengthen it, and bring prosperity back to its citizens. While many of his goals and methods were pushed back on and scrutinized, he felt he was doing what was best for his country. While he was doing what he thought was best for Germany, he continued to disregard citizens and other countries who warned about the negative impacts of his methodologies and vision.

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One of the most notorious leaders of all time is Adolf Hitler. Considered by many to be one of the most villainous people to have ever lived, one of the most prominent questions that arise is if he was a great leader.

What sparks this debate is that he put his country first and wanted what was best for his fellow countrymen and women. However, in doing so, millions of people were killed, suffered, fell victim to his ruthless regime.

Many of his decisions were met with criticism, scrutiny, and reservations because they were considered too hostile. It turns out, they were right. So if there was so much negativity that came from his reign, why and how can people consider him a great leader?

Hitler viewed his country negatively and wanted to make a change. He felt that Germany was weak and constantly taken advantage of and his idea was to rebuild it, strengthen it, and bring prosperity back to its citizens. While many of his goals and methods were pushed back on and scrutinized, he felt he was doing what was best for his country. While he was doing what he thought was best for Germany, he continued to disregard citizens and other countries who warned about the negative impacts of his methodologies and vision.

Hitler focused on creating a supreme race. A race that was strong, built to last, and that looked similar to one another. Essentially, a world with perfect humans- in his eyes.

He wanted a strong military to show strength and authority rather than building up Germany's economy. He had manufacturers discontinue the production of consumer goods to focus on producing arms and military defense products.

The views he had disregarded facts and he was unable to accept changing circumstances that posed a problem for him and his vision. His ideology took

Disregarded facts and inability to accept changing circumstances. His ideology took precedent over his skilled and knowledgable experts in his party. If anyone stood in his way or disagreed with him, they were fired, exiled, and ostracized to ensure his ideals were promoted, and his alone.

To promote his views and show the strength of the country, he hosted rallies to ensure his voice was heard and so he could promote his message for all to hear. At these rallies, he promoted the idea of nationalism, disparaged immigrants to increase border strength, and how he was treated unfairly by his opponents and the press.

At the heart of Hitler's propaganda was nationalism, ruling by fear, promoting loyalty, and that he could and should not be questioned. He continued to attack the rule of law and media while calling opponents parasites, criminals, and leftist scum.

One method that was used to promote this propaganda was transistor radios that received one channel to prohibit people from other news outlets from showing the truth. He coined the term "lying press" and utilized the Gestapo to keep people in line.

Even though Hitler won the election, he did so by not winning the popular vote of his fellow Germans. Throughout his tenure, he degraded the voting process and wanted to change voter rules in an effort to ensure he could stay in power without winning the popular vote.

Hitler rose to power with promises of helping Germany to become a powerful nation with a prosperous economy. In his early stages, he led Germany into France with resounding success which helped gain the support of politicians and citizens. He was once referred to as a "genius" because of his leadership qualities and war tactics.

In addition, he built a flourishing economy, albeit it was short-lived and turned out to be a hollow shell that looked better than it actually was.

The measurement of Hitler's success relied on the economy, Germany's military, and a large number of supporters. Where he fell short was in his overconfidence in himself and his views. He believed enemies to be weaker than suggested and disregarded his commanding officers who advised against many of his tactics.

While he built what appeared to be a great economy, money in Germany was essentially worthless and a wheelbarrow full of money would rarely buy a loaf of bread due to such high levels of inflation.

He failed to inspire Germans without the use of fear and was often referred to as delusional, incompetent, and arrogant. In other words, Hitler was not a great leader. He was a great master of disguise and continued to divert the attention from his negative shortcomings to other issues that were plaguing his country.

If at this point you believe this sounds eerily similar to how things are in America, you would be absolutely correct. Donald Trump is not Hitler. He is not out to create a supreme race and kill millions of people. He is however utilizing the same tactics to enrich himself and stay in power.

Trump touts the idea that he is putting the United States first, even if it means pulling out of treaties that benefit the United States and is ill-advised amongst people in his chamber. This is all to promote his view of nationalism.

He portrays the media as "fake news", similar to Hitler's "lying press", to push the rhetoric that he is treated unfairly when people disagree with him. Even when his closest allies in news outlets speak out against him, he immediately blasts them and tries to diminish them all because they correct his incorrect information.

Rather than the Nazi party (in some cases his supporters identify as a Nazi), there are MAGA (Make America Great Again) supporters who follow his rhetoric rather than seeking the truth. These are also the same supporters who do not support the wealthy (1%ers) but buy Trump gear to directly enrich him and line his pockets.

While America had a strong economy heading into the 2016 election, Trump made several deals that appeared to improve the economy in America. However, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the economy plummeted quickly due to his inability to lead and self arrogance. It proved that the deals were short-lived and hollow, similar to the promises of Hitler.

In no way do I believe that Donald Trump is attempting to replicate Adolf Hitler by killing millions of people. I want it to be clear that he has simply taken the same tactics and implemented them into his campaign to ensure he personally benefits and can stay in power.

So if Hitler is deemed an ineffective leader and Trump is closely aligned with him, does that mean Trump is a failure as well?
Whether you identify as a Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Green Party, or other, be sure to always check sources, review several different news outlets before believing information, and always be sure to seek out the truth. Division will not bring us together. It will only continue to dig us deeper and deeper into a hole which grows ever more difficult every day.

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One of the most notorious leaders of all time is Adolf Hitler. Considered by many to be one of the most villainous people to have ever lived, one of the most prominent questions that arise is if he was a great leader.

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To be a good leader means to be morally excellent, virtuous, righteous or pious. Overall, a good man who is satisfactory in all aspets of leadership.

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What is a leader? What is the role, duty and expectation of a leader?

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What is a leader? What is the role, duty and expectation of a leader?

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Leadership to me is leading people, influencing people, commanding people, guiding people. The different ways of leading are by position, personality, charisma, moral example, power held etc… An leader should always be able to accomplish things swiftly and smoothly. Leaders focus on people, do the right things, inspire, motivate people and build sharp entities. But being a leader is not all about motivating and inspiring, but leaders also have to make some very crucial decisions and face a wide range of problems on the job.

Expectation From a Leader:
One writer describes the problem facing leaders as “Meeting new demands with insufficient resources”. The staff is overworked and yet talent, ideas and expertise are often under-utilized as we struggle to meet the day to day demands.

Great leaders understand that they can only deliver great performance through others. They depend on others – especially middle managers – and invest time in stretching and challenging those managers. There are two types of leader:

Those who kill ideas, drain all the energy out of a team and lead hard working, driven and compliant teams. They want to be in control, to have the credit and ensure no one else has a voice.
Then there is second type, the Multipliers: Multipliers are brilliant at doing more with less. They cultivate ideas, they find ways of doing things more effectively, they give people responsibility and credit, and they energize their teams.
Samsung faced an enormous challenge in the 1990’s – they were way behind their international rivals like Sony. They wanted to develop an international company but had a 100% Korean workforce with very limited understanding of the global market and cultures. They invested in a cadre of middle managers – sending them all over the world to better understand how to shape and engage with the potential markets. It was a phenomenal success. By changing the middle managers mind-set and understanding they built a dramatically different future.

Middle managers take a leader’s vision, focus, and change and interpret it. Senior managers will have a long time scale, they see the bigger picture, and have a broad understanding of the consequences of their decisions. Middle managers work to shorter times scales – they look a week or month ahead and ask – “How does this new initiative work alongside my operational priorities? How do I make best use of my resources? What pace can I go at given the other requirements of my team? They set direction – if they are good at their job they will ensure their team members clearly know what is expected of them.

A leader sets the direction, devises strategies and creates a vision for the team to follow. Leader gets employees on board for planning, communicates well with team members and provides a rich network. Empowering and cheering also adds value to leader. Gives sense of accomplishment, inspires and measures the performance of subordinates. Verbal facility, honesty, initiative, aggressive, self-confidence, ambitious, originality, adaptability are some of the traits of leadership. Leadership styles are delegating things to juniors, responsible, selling, and telling about relationship, provide instruction and supervise, facilitate decisions. New leaders take note of challenges, establish relationships and enhance personal equilibrium. Balance intense focus on priorities with flexibility on implementation, build personal credibility and momentum, earn right to transform entity and transition.

The higher one rises in an organization, the greater are the responsibilities. Therefore managers learn to delegate and in doing so free themselves to be more strategic and in the process develop the talents of others and grow the capacity of the organization to meet rising the challenges. That’s what’s called leadership.

Information taken from: https://www.ramco.com/blog/expectation-leader-2#:~:text=Leaders%20focus%20on%20people%2C%20do,of%20problems%20on%20the%20job.

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Leadership to me is leading people, influencing people, commanding people, guiding people. The different ways of leading are by position, personality, charisma, moral example, power held etc... An intellectual leader should always be able to accomplish things swiftly and smoothly. Leaders focus on people, do the right things, inspire, motivate people and build sharp entities. But being a leader is not all about motivating and inspiring, but leaders also have to make some very crucial decisions and face a wide range of problems on the job.

One writer describes the problem facing leaders as "Meeting new demands with insufficient resources". The staff is overworked and yet talent, ideas and expertise are often under-utilized as we struggle to meet the day to day demands.

Great leaders understand that they can only deliver great performance through others. They depend on others - especially middle managers - and invest time in stretching and challenging those managers. There are two types of leader:

Those who kill ideas, suck all the energy out of a team and lead hard working, driven and compliant teams. They want to be in control, to have the credit and ensure no one else has a voice.

Then there is second type, the Multipliers: Multipliers are brilliant at doing more with less. They cultivate ideas, they find ways of doing things more effectively, they give people responsibility and credit, and they energize their teams.

Samsung faced an enormous challenge in the 1990's - they were way behind their international rivals like Sony. They wanted to develop an international company but had a 100% Korean workforce with very limited understanding of the global market and cultures. They invested in a cadre of middle managers - sending them all over the world to better understand how to shape and engage with the potential markets. It was a phenomenal success. By changing the middle managers mind-set and understanding they built a dramatically different future.

Middle managers take a leader's vision, focus, and change and interpret it. Senior managers will have a long time scale, they see the bigger picture, and have a broad understanding of the consequences of their decisions. Middle managers work to shorter times scales - they look a week or month ahead and ask - "How does this new initiative work alongside my operational priorities? How do I make best use of my resources? What pace can I go at given the other requirements of my team? They set direction - if they are good at their job they will ensure their team members clearly know what is expected of them.

A leader sets the direction, devises strategies and creates a vision for the team to follow. Leader gets employees on board for planning, communicates well with team members and provides a rich network. Empowering and cheering also adds value to leader. Gives sense of accomplishment, inspires and measures the performance of subordinates. Verbal facility, honesty, initiative, aggressive, self-confidence, ambitious, originality, adaptability are some of the traits of leadership. Leadership styles are delegating things to juniors, responsible, selling, and telling about relationship, provide instruction and supervise, facilitate decisions. New leaders take note of challenges, establish relationships and enhance personal equilibrium. Balance intense focus on priorities with flexibility on implementation, build personal credibility and momentum, earn right to transform entity and transition.

The higher one rises in an organization, the greater are the responsibilities. Therefore managers learn to delegate and in doing so free themselves to be more strategic and in the process develop the talents of others and grow the capacity of the organization to meet rising the challenges. That's what's called leadership.

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Leadership to me is leading people, influencing people, commanding people, guiding people. The different ways of leading are by position, personality, charisma, moral example, power held etc... An intellectual leader should always be able to accomplish things swiftly and smoothly. Leaders focus on people, do the right things, inspire, motivate people and build sharp entities.

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A good leader is someone who respects the opinion of his followers and is always trustworthy. A good leader is also a great follower.

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In my analysis of the facts, am I being fair in my assessment of Hitler’s leadership?

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In my analysis of the facts, am I being fair in my assessment of Hitler’s leadership?

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Yes, I think I am being legitimate and fair in my assessment of Hitlerś leadership!

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Did the good Hitler brought to Germany balance the bad he brought to Germany?

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Did the good Hitler brought to Germany balance the bad he brought to Germany?

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To a certain extent. He made everyone believe that he was a good person and everyone trusted and loved him at that time. Even then, it was obvious that he was bad because he had killed millions of people to gain popularity.

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What good did Hitler bring to the people of Germany? What was the impact? What was the change?

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What good did Hitler bring to the people of Germany? What was the impact? What was the change?

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Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party. He ruled as Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 - April 30, 1945) and was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party. He ruled until his death in April 1945. Upon achieving power, Hitler smashed the nation’s democratic institutions and transformed Germany into a war state intent on conquering Europe for the benefit of the so-called Aryan race. His invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, triggered the European phase of World War II. During the course of the war, Nazi military forces rounded up and executed 11 million victims they deemed inferior or undesirable “life unworthy of life” among others. Hitler had supreme authority as führer (leader or guide), but could not have risen to power or committed such atrocities on his own. He had the active support of the powerful German officer class and of millions of everyday citizens who voted for the National Socialist German Workers’ (Nazi) Party and hailed him as a national savior in gigantic stadium rallies.

How were Hitler and the Nazis possible? How did such odious characters take and hold power in a country that was a world pacesetter in literature, art, architecture, and science, a nation that had a democratic government and a free press in the 1920s?

Hitler rose to power through the Nazi Party, an organization he forged after returning as a wounded veteran from the annihilating trench warfare of World War I. He and other patriotic Germans were outraged and humiliated by the harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles, which the Allies compelled the new German government, the Weimar Republic, to accept along with an obligation to pay $33 billion in war reparations. Germany also had to give up its prized overseas colonies and surrender valued parcels of home territory to France and Poland. The German army was radically downsized and the nation forbidden to have submarines or an air force. “We shall squeeze the German lemon until the pips squeak!” explained one British official.

Paying the crushing reparations destabilized the economy, producing ruinous, runaway inflation. By September 1923, four billion German marks had the equal value of one American dollar. Consumers needed a wheelbarrow to carry enough paper money to buy a loaf of bread.

Hitler, a mesmerizing public speaker, addressed political meetings in Munich calling for a new German order to replace what he saw as an incompetent and inefficient democratic regime. This New Order was distinguished by an authoritarian political system based on a leadership structure in which authority flowed downward from a supreme national leader.

In the new Germany, all citizens would unselfishly serve the state, or Volk; democracy would be abolished; and individual rights sacrificed for the good of the führer state. The ultimate aim of the Nazi Party was to seize power through Germany’s parliamentary system, install Hitler as dictator, and create a community of racially pure Germans loyal to their führer, who would lead them in a campaign of racial cleansing and world conquest.

Information taken from: https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/how-did-adolf-hitler-happen

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Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 - April 30, 1945) was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party. He ruled absolutely until his death by suicide in April 1945. Upon achieving power, Hitler smashed the nation's democratic institutions and transformed Germany into a war state intent on conquering Europe for the benefit of the so-called Aryan race. His invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, triggered the European phase of World War II. During the course of the war, Nazi military forces rounded up and executed 11 million victims they deemed inferior or undesirable-"life unworthy of life"-among them Jews, Slavs, homosexuals, and Jehovah's Witnesses.

Hitler had supreme authority as führer (leader or guide), but could not have risen to power or committed such atrocities on his own. He had the active support of the powerful German officer class and of millions of everyday citizens who voted for the National Socialist German Workers' (Nazi) Party and hailed him as a national savior in gigantic stadium rallies.

How were Hitler and the Nazis possible? How did such odious characters take and hold power in a country that was a world pacesetter in literature, art, architecture, and science, a nation that had a democratic government and a free press in the 1920s?

Hitler rose to power through the Nazi Party, an organization he forged after returning as a wounded veteran from the annihilating trench warfare of World War I. He and other patriotic Germans were outraged and humiliated by the harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles, which the Allies compelled the new German government, the Weimar Republic, to accept along with an obligation to pay $33 billion in war reparations. Germany also had to give up its prized overseas colonies and surrender valued parcels of home territory to France and Poland. The German army was radically downsized and the nation forbidden to have submarines or an air force. "We shall squeeze the German lemon until the pips squeak!" explained one British official.

Paying the crushing reparations destabilized the economy, producing ruinous, runaway inflation. By September 1923, four billion German marks had the equal value of one American dollar. Consumers needed a wheelbarrow to carry enough paper money to buy a loaf of bread.

Hitler, a mesmerizing public speaker, addressed political meetings in Munich calling for a new German order to replace what he saw as an incompetent and inefficient democratic regime. This New Order was distinguished by an authoritarian political system based on a leadership structure in which authority flowed downward from a supreme national leader.

In the new Germany, all citizens would unselfishly serve the state, or Volk; democracy would be abolished; and individual rights sacrificed for the good of the führer state. The ultimate aim of the Nazi Party was to seize power through Germany's parliamentary system, install Hitler as dictator, and create a community of racially pure Germans loyal to their führer, who would lead them in a campaign of racial cleansing and world conquest.

Hitler blamed the Weimar Republic's weakness on the influence of Germany's Jewish and communist minorities, who he claimed were trying to take over the country. "There are only two possibilities," he told a Munich audience in 1922. "Either victory of the Aryan, or annihilation of the Aryan and the victory of the Jew." The young Hitler saw history as a process of racial struggle, with the strongest race-the Aryan race-ultimately prevailing by force of arms. "Mankind has grown great in eternal war," Hitler wrote. "It would decay in eternal peace."

Jews represented everything the Nazis found repugnant: finance capitalism (controlled, the Nazis believed, by powerful Jewish financiers), international communism (Karl Marx was a German Jew, and the leadership of the German Communist Party was heavily Jewish), and modernist cultural movements like psychoanalysis and swing music.

Nazi Party foreign policy aimed to rid Europe of Jews and other "inferior" peoples, absorb pure-blooded Aryans into a greatly expanded Germany-a "Third Reich"-and wage unrelenting war on the Slavic "hordes" of Russia, considered by Hitler to be Untermenschen (subhuman).

Once conquered, the Soviet Union would be ruled by the German master race, which would exterminate or subdue millions of Slavs to create lebensraum (living space) for their own farms and communities. In a conquered and racially cleansed Russia, they would work on model farms and factories connected to the homeland by new highways, called autobahns.

Hitler was the ideologue as well as the chief organizer of the Nazi Party. By 1921, the party had a newspaper, an official flag, and a private army-the Sturmabteilung SA (storm troopers)-made up largely of unemployed and disenchanted WWI veterans. By 1923, the SA had grown to 15,000 men and had access to hidden stores of weapons. That year, Hitler and WWI hero General Erich Ludendorff attempted to overthrow the elected regional government of Bavaria in a coup known as the Beer Hall Putsch.

The regular army crushed the rebellion and Hitler spent a year in prison-in loose confinement. In Landsberg Prison, Hitler dictated most of the first volume of his political autobiography, Mein Kampf (My Struggle). The book brought together, in inflamed language, the racialist and expansionist ideas he had been propagating in his popular beer-hall harangues.

By 1932, the Nazis were the largest political party in the Reichstag. In January of the following year, with no other leader able to command sufficient support to govern, President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Hitler chancellor of Germany. Shortly thereafter, a fire broke out in the Reichstag building in Berlin, and authorities arrested a young Dutch communist who confessed to starting it.

Hitler used this episode to convince President Hindenburg to declare an emergency decree suspending many civil liberties throughout Germany, including freedom of the press, freedom of expression, and the right to hold public assemblies. The police were authorized to detain citizens without cause, and the authority usually exercised by regional governments became subject to control by Hitler's national regime.

Almost immediately, Hitler began dismantling Germany's democratic institutions and imprisoning or murdering his chief opponents. When Hindenburg died the following year, Hitler took the titles of führer, chancellor, and commander in chief of the army. He expanded the army tremendously, reintroduced conscription, and began developing a new air force-all violations of the Treaty of Versailles.

Hitler's military spending and ambitious public-works programs, including building a German autobahn, helped restore prosperity. His regime also suppressed the Communist Party and purged his own paramilitary storm troopers, whose violent street demonstrations alienated the German middle class.

This bloodletting-called the "Night of the Long Knives"-was hugely popular and welcomed by the middle class as a blow struck for law and order. In fact, many Germans went along with the full range of Hitler's policies, convinced that they would ultimately be advantageous for the country.

In 1938, Hitler began his long-promised expansion of national boundaries to incorporate ethnic Germans. He colluded with Austrian Nazis to orchestrate the Anschluss, the annexation of Austria to Germany. And in Hitler's most brazenly aggressive act yet, Czechoslovakia was forced to surrender the Sudetenland, a mountainous border region populated predominantly by ethnic Germans.

The Czechs looked to Great Britain and France for help, but hoping to avoid war-they had been bled white in World War I-these nations chose a policy of appeasement. At a conclave held at Munich in September 1938, representatives of Great Britain and France compelled Czech leaders to cede the Sudetenland in return for Hitler's pledge not to seek additional territory. The following year, the German army swallowed up the remainder of Czechoslovakia.

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, one of the signers of the Munich pact, had taken Hitler at his word. Returning to Britain with this agreement in hand, he proudly announced that he had achieved "peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time."

A year later, German troops stormed into Poland.

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After being released from prison, Hitler vowed to work within the parliamentary system to avoid a repeat of the Beer Hall Putsch setback. In the 1920s, however, the Nazi Party was still a fringe group of ultraextremists with little political power. It received only 2.6 percent of the vote in the Reichstag elections of 1928.

But the worldwide economic depression and the rising power of labor unions and communists convinced increasing numbers of Germans to turn to the Nazi Party. The Nazis fed on bank failures and unemployment-proof, Hitler said, of the ineffectiveness of democratic government. Hitler pledged to restore prosperity, create civil order (by crushing industrial strikes and street demonstrations by communists and socialists), eliminate the influence of Jewish financiers, and make the fatherland once again a world power.

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Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party. He ruled absolutely until his death by suicide in April 1945.