Adolf Hitler was the Fuhrer (leader) of the Nazi Germany, the instigator of World War 2 and the driving force behind the attempt to exterminate European Jewry, otherwise know as the Final Solution or the Holocaust. Hitler was born on 20 April 1889 at Braunau - am - Inn, Austria, Hungary. He was the third son of Alois and Klara Hitler. His father moved them to Linz, where Hitler attended school. He did well in the school in …showed first 75 words of 592 total…

…showed last 75 words of 592 total…rid Germany and eventually the world of Jews, Gypsies, Negroes, handicapped and the mentally ill. World War 2 began in 1939 when Hitler invaded Poland to begin his unification of all German-speaking people. By this time extermination camps (concentration camps) had been established throughout Germany, Poland and Russia. Before the Allied countries stopped Hitler in 1945, he had caused the extermination of 12 million people. Hitler committed suicide in his bunker on April 30 1945, and seven days later, Germany surrendered.