Historical Figure

Adolf Hitler

Associated Events

Genocide1933 CE – 1945 CE

The Holocaust

The systematic, state-sponsored genocide of six million Jews and millions of others by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.

Empire1933 CE – 1939 CE

Rise of Nazi Germany

Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933, and rapidly transformed the Weimar Republic into a totalitarian one-party dictatorship through a combination of legal manipulation, intimidation, and violence.

War1939 CE – 1945 CE

World War II

The deadliest conflict in human history, killing an estimated 70–85 million people. The war included the Holocaust — the genocide of 6 million Jews and millions of others — and ended in the Pacific theater with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.