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Adolf Hitler

An Arab Israeli protester burns a picture of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad depicted as German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler during a rally against the Syrian regime in the northern Arab-Israeli village of Kfar Kana on February 17, 2012.

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About Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler (German: [ˈadɔlf ˈhɪtlɐ] ( listen); 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP), commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany (as Führer und Reichskanzler) from 1934 to 1945. Hitler is commonly associated with the rise of fascism in Europe, World War II, and the Holocaust.

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