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Adolf Hitler

Leader of the Nazi Party and German Chancellor from 30 January 1933; the Nuremberg Judgment records the extermination policy of his regime.

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1889–1945
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Hitler
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According to Adam Tooze

According to Thomas Weber

According to David Lewis

The Judgment of the International Military Tribunal says that the “final solution” “meant the extermination of the Jews”, and that the persecution “has been proved in the greatest detail before the Tribunal”. It also calls the initiating of a war of aggression “the supreme international crime”. See Trial of the Major War Criminals.

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    Hindenburg appointed him Chancellor with two Nazi seats in the cabinet.

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  1. 1889–1945 Adolf Hitler
  2. 1925 Adolf Hitler authored Mein Kampf
  3. 30 Jan 1933 Adolf Hitler head of Germany
Proof 11 sources
  1. Paul von Hindenburg, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Encyclopedia. Scholarship & press
    Despite his distaste for Hitler, Hindenburg made him Chancellor on 30 January, 1933
    gave his Nazi Party two seats in the cabinet
  2. The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy (Viking, New York, 2007; quotes read from the text of the Penguin e-book, ISBN 978-1-101-56495-0, chapter 4), Viking, 2007. Scholarship & press
    In the years that followed, the Adolf Hitler Spende was to become institutionalized as a regular contribution to the maintenance of Hitler’s personal expenses.
  3. Henry Ford and the Jews: the story Dearborn didn’t want told, Bridge Michigan, 4 Feb 2019. Scholarship & press
    In 1931, two years before he became the German chancellor, Adolf Hitler gave an interview to a Detroit News reporter in his Munich office
    “Henry Ford is important for having provided to Hitler confirmation, coming from the very heart of America, of an idea that had been brewing in his mind,”
    “Hitler’s ravings and public speeches against Jews frequently were based on Ford’s anti-Semitic literature,” Ford expert David Lewis wrote.
    Reading “The International Jew,” which became a hit in Germany after being published in German in 1922, helped push Hitler further into “conspiratorial anti-Semitism,” Thomas Weber wrote
  4. America’s Most Dangerous Anti-Jewish Propagandist, The Atlantic, 7 Nov 2023. Scholarship & press
    Hitler denied receiving funding from Ford but made no secret that he considered him an inspiration.
  5. Antisemitism and Henry Ford’s “The International Jew”, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Encyclopedia. Scholarship & press
    In a 1923 interview for the Chicago Tribune, Hitler said, “We look on Heinrich Ford as the leader of the growing Fascisti [Fascist] movement in America.
    On Ford’s 75th birthday in 1938, Hitler sent him personal greetings. He awarded Ford the Grand Cross of the German Eagle.
    Hitler also praised Ford in his antisemitic political treatise, Mein Kampf (1925).
  6. German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler (Oxford University Press, 1985; page numbers come from the running heads of a scanned copy and may be off by one), Oxford University Press, 1985. Scholarship & press
    In an oratorical marathon, Hugenberg, Hitler, and other self-styled spokesmen of the “national opposition”
    had accepted an invitation to address the club on January 26, 1932
    he had spoken for roughly an hour and a half
    that the new Reichstag grant him dictatorial powers for four years by passing a parliamentary enabling act
  7. Affidavit of Georg von Schnitzler, 10 November 1945 (document EC-439), Harvard Law School Library, Nuremberg Trials Project, 10 Nov 1945. Primary record
    While I had expected the appearance of Goering, Hitler entered the room, shook hands with everybody and took a seat at the top of the table.
  8. Telegram D-201 and report D-203 (p. 557), Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals, Volume VII (U.S. Government Printing Office; Mazal Library copy). Primary record
    REPORT OF SPEECHES BY HITLER AND GOERING TO GERMAN INDUSTRIALISTS ON 20 FEBRUARY 1933
  9. Judgment of the International Military Tribunal: War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity, Avalon Project, Yale Law School, 30 Sep 1946. Primary record
    which early in 1939 Hitler had threatened would be one of the consequences of an outbreak of war
  10. Documenting Numbers of Victims of the Holocaust and Nazi Persecution, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Encyclopedia. Scholarship & press
    The Nazis and their allies and collaborators killed six million Jewish people.
  11. Protocols of the Elders of Zion: Key Dates, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Encyclopedia. Scholarship & press
    Adolf Hitler publishes his autobiography, Mein Kampf.
    By 1938, the Nazi Party’s publishing house will issue 22 printings of the Protocols.
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