Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was the German dictator who led the Nazi Party and ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945.
His regime initiated World War II and orchestrated the Holocaust, the systematic murder of six million Jews and millions of others.
Hitler remains a symbol of absolute evil and totalitarian brutality.
Comparisons to Hitler or calling someone a Nazi are common rhetorical attacks, often criticized as hyperbolic: Comparing your political opponents to Hitler cheapens the horror of what actually happened.
Hitler's totalitarian German state
- WehrmachtNazi Germany's armed forces
- LuftwaffeGerman military aviation
- blitzkriegFast, overwhelming military campaign
- SudetenlandCzech border territory, 1938
Munich Agreement · Operation Barbarossa · Stalingrad · Battle of Britain · Eastern Front · Normandy · D-Day · Axis
Nazi genocide of Jews
- antisemitismBigotry toward Jewish people
- AuschwitzNazi extermination camp
- concentration campFacility for mass political detention
- pogromViolent persecution of minorities
Kristallnacht · extermination · Nuremberg Laws · deportation · ghetto · Eichmann · atrocity · crimes against humanity
Hitler's fascist political organization
- totalitarianDictatorial, all-controlling regime
- authoritarianFavoring absolute control
- ReichstagGerman parliamentary assembly
- propagandaBiased information for influence
Goebbels · Gestapo · brownshirts · personality cult · Mein Kampf · chancellorship · Weimar · putsch
Profound moral wickedness
- tyrantCruel, absolute ruler
- dictatorRuler with total control
- war criminalViolator of combat laws
- hatredIntense hostile aversion
demagogue · fascism · militarism · aggression · expansionism · master race · Aryan · xenophobia
Third Reich
Hitler's totalitarian German state
- WehrmachtNazi Germany's armed forces
- LuftwaffeGerman military aviation
- blitzkriegFast, overwhelming military campaign
Sudetenland · Munich Agreement · Operation Barbarossa · Stalingrad · Battle of Britain · Eastern Front · Normandy · D-Day · Axis · bunker
Holocaust
Nazi genocide of Jews
- antisemitismBigotry toward Jewish people
- AuschwitzNazi extermination camp
- concentration campFacility for mass political detention
pogrom · Kristallnacht · extermination · Nuremberg Laws · deportation · ghetto · Eichmann · atrocity · crimes against humanity · genocide
Nazi Party
Hitler's fascist political organization
- totalitarianDictatorial, all-controlling regime
- authoritarianFavoring absolute control
- ReichstagGerman parliamentary assembly
propaganda · Goebbels · Gestapo · brownshirts · personality cult · Mein Kampf · chancellorship · Weimar · putsch
evil
Profound moral wickedness
- tyrantCruel, absolute ruler
- dictatorRuler with total control
- war criminalViolator of combat laws
hatred · demagogue · fascism · militarism · aggression · expansionism · master race · Aryan · xenophobia · nationalism
- European HistoryFrench Revolution, Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Holy Roman Empire, Industrial Revolution
- German FiguresOtto von Bismarck, Bach, Beethoven, Albert Einstein, Goethe
- HolocaustHolocaust, Auschwitz, concentration camps, Holocaust survivors, gas chambers
- Nazi GermanyNazi, Nazis, Nazi Party, Nazi Germany, Third Reich
- AustriansMozart, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sigmund Freud, Gustav Klimt, Franz Schubert
- German PoliticiansAngela Merkel, Otto von Bismarck, Kohl, Merkel, Schmidt
Adolf HitlerMahatma Gandhi
Oskar Schindler · Mother Teresa · Nelson Mandela · Martin Luther King Jr. · Jesus Christ
Adolf HitlerFranklin D. Roosevelt
Winston Churchill · egalitarian · internationalist · human rights advocate · pluralist
Adolf HitlerMahatma Gandhi
Martin Luther King Jr. · pacifist · peacemaker · liberator · reconciler