Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. He ruled as dictator of Germany from 1933 until his death in 1945.

Wisdom & Quotes

• The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

- Mein Kampf

• The art of leadership ... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

- Mein Kampf

• Power is the supreme law.

- Mein Kampf

• It is not the nextrals or the lukewarms who make history.

- speech, April 23, 1933

• In starting and waging a war, it is not right that matters but victory.

- quoted in William L Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

George S Kaufman