Adolf Hitler
- Acting
- April 20, 1889 · Braunau am Inn, Austria
- April 30, 1945
Biography
Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 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.
Known for
Filmography
- A Tipping of Scales · Self
- apocalipse dos animais · Self
- Breakdown: 1975 · Self
- The Rise of Germany's New Right · Self
- Ghosts of Alderney: Hitler's Island Slaves · Self
- Planet Arium
- Christianity in the Third Reich
- The Pope and the Führer - The Secret Vatican Files of World War II
- NASA, Nazis and the Space Race · Self
- Sverige och kriget · Self
- Britain and the Blitz
- FASCISM(s): A Film in Six Parts · Self
- Hitler's Cosmic Conspiracy: UFOs, Alien Artifacts and the Nazi War Machine · Self
- Dictator: The Hitler Interviews
- Beatrix · Self
- It Musk Be Love: Trump & Elon · Self
- Churchill at War · Self
- Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust · Self
- Megalopolis · Self
- Tolkien: The True Story of the Rings · Self
- Do the Bush Thing · Self
- Riefenstahl · Self
- City of Toys · Self
- Atomic People · Self
- Apocalypse: D-Day · Self
- Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial · Self
- The Commandant's Shadow · Self
- Mussolini's Underground Refuge
- Churchill’s Forgotten War · Self
- Portugal: Carnations Against Dictatorship · Self
- The Bloody Hundredth · Self
- Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War · Self
- A Nation Denied: Ukraine's Battle for History · Self
- Einstein and the Bomb · Self
- God & Country: The Rise of Christian Nationalism · Self
- Inside a Nazi Mind: The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell · Self
- Le Baron et l'Empereur : Japon, la voie de la guerre · Self
- The Mistake that Killed Hitler · Self
- To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb · Self
- Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate · Self
- Hitler: The Lost Tapes of the Third Reich · Self
- LOLA · Self
- Prins Bernhard · Self
- Apocalypse: The Fall of Hitler · Self
- Searching for Halifax NP711 · Self
- Filmmakers for the Prosecution · Self
- The Hitler Home Movies · Self
- Hitler: The Making of a Monster · Self
- The Century of Icons · Self
- The Real Spies Among Friends · Self
- The Ponzán Network · Self
- Mussolini: The First Fascist · Self
- The March on Rome · Self
- The U.S. and the Holocaust · Self
- Natsi-Saksa ja Suomi · Self
- Prelúdio · Self
- Christiane Lecocq: A Woman Laid Bare · Self
- The American Führer · Self
- Romy, A Free Woman · archive footage
- A History of Antisemitism · Self
- The Wannsee Conference: The Documentary · Self
- Belgique nazie · Self
- The Real Charlie Chaplin · Self
- Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained · Self
- Apocalypse: Hitler Takes on the East · Self
- Apocalypse: Hitler Takes on the West · Self
- Camp Confidential: America's Secret Nazis · Self
- The Star of Jacob · (Archive Footage)
- The Meaning of Hitler · Self
- How to Become a Tyrant · Self
- Parsifal: The Hidden Causes of World War II · Self
- Albert Speer und der Traum von Hollywood · Self
- Hitler's Secret Sex Life · Self
- Erna, Helmut and the Nazis · Self
- Exterminate All the Brutes · Self
- Goering's Catalogue: A Collection of Art and Blood · Self
- Gainsbourg, toute une vie
- Le Parti du cinéma · Self
- Media Mafia: a Tale of Two Newspapers · Self
- Royals at War · Self