Villains Beginning With 'A'
Adolf Hitler
(20 April 1889 - 30 April 1945)
Adolf Hitler was Chancellor of Germany in 1933, and Führer from 1934 to 1945. He led the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, the Nazi Party).
He gained power during Germany's period of crisis after World War I. He used propaganda and charismatic oratory, emphasizing nationalism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Communism. After restructuring the economy and rearming the military, he established a totalitarian dictatorship. He pursued an aggressive foreign policy to expand German Lebensraum (living space), and triggered World War II by invading Poland, much of which was also annexed to form the Großdeutsches Reich ("Greater German Reich").
Though Nazi Germany and the Axis Powers occupied most of Europe and parts of Asia at their zenith, they were eventually defeated by the Allies. By the end of the war, Hitler's policies of territorial conquest and racial subjugation had brought death and destruction to tens of millions of people, including the genocide of some six million Jews in what is now known as the Holocaust.
In the final days of the war, Hitler and his new wife, Eva Braun, committed suicide in his underground bunker in Berlin, as the city was overrun by the Red Army of the Soviet Union. Hitler's body was later burnt.
SUMMARY
ARCH RIVAL : |
Anyone who wasn't apart of Nazi Germany. |
STRENGTHS : |
Adolph Hitler was an amateur occultist who possessed a small degree of mystical prowess and intuition. Hitler was also an expert political strategist and tactician. He was schooled in the fields of writing and painting. While serving time in prison, Hitler wrote a best selling autobiography entitled Mein Kampf (English translation: My Struggle or My Fight). At the height of his career, Hitler possessed the strength of a middle-aged man who engaged in moderate regular exercise. |
WEAKNESSES : |
Many believe that Hitler's downfall was his want of too much power. |
WEAPONS : |
Hitler was in control of vast armies. |
QUOTE : |
"Great liars are also great magicians!" |
EXTERNAL LINKS
Adolf Hitler - Wikipedia
Hitler: The Rise of Evil film (2003) - IMDb
Untergang, Der AKA Downfall film (2004) - IMDb
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