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Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) was the leader of Germany from 1933 to 1945. Appointed chancellor in January 1933, by August 1934 Hitler had declared himself Führer – the leader of Germany. As leader of the Nazi party Hitler launched the Second World War in 1939 and is responsible for the death of millions of people, including an estimated six million Jewish people in the Nazi genocide. Hitler believed in a superior Aryan race and thought that Jews and Communists posed a danger to Germany and had to be destroyed. He laid out his anti-Semitic views in his book Mein Kampf. Hitler committed suicide in his bunker in Berlin on 30 April 1945
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