Adolf Hitler – Biographical information from Henze-Digital

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Official portrait, 1938 (Source: Wikimedia)

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Basic data

April 20, 1889 in Braunau am Inn
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April 30, 1945 in Berlin
Politiker

Iconography

Official portrait, 1938 (Source: Wikimedia)

Hitler as an infant (c. 1889–90) (Source: Wikimedia)

The house in Leonding, Austria where Hitler spent his early adolescence (Source: Wikimedia)

The Alter Hof in Munich, a watercolour painting by Hitler in 1914 (Source: Wikimedia)

Hitler (far right, seated) with Bavarian Army comrades from the Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment 16 (c. 1914–18) (Source: Wikimedia)

Hitler's German Workers' Party (DAP) membership card (Source: Wikimedia)

Hitler poses for the camera in September 1930 (Source: Wikimedia)

Defendants in the Beer Hall Putsch trial, 1 April 1924. From left to right: Heinz Pernet, Friedrich Weber, Wilhelm Frick, Hermann Kriebel, Erich Ludendorff, Hitler, Wilhelm Brückner, Ernst Röhm, and Robert Wagner. (Source: Wikimedia)

The dust jacket of Mein Kampf's 1926–28 edition, which Hitler authored in 1925 (Source: Wikimedia)

Hitler and Nazi Party treasurer Franz Xaver Schwarz at the dedication of the renovation of the Palais Barlow on Brienner Straße in Munich into the Brown House headquarters, December 1930 (Source: Wikimedia)

Hitler, at a window of the Reich Chancellery, receives an ovation on the evening of his inauguration as chancellor, 30 January 1933 (Source: Wikimedia)

Hitler and Paul von Hindenburg on the Day of Potsdam, 21 March 1933 (Source: Wikimedia)

In 1934, Hitler became Germany's head of state with the title of Führer und Reichskanzler (leader and chancellor of the Reich) (Source: Wikimedia)

Hitler's personal standard (Source: Wikimedia)

Ceremony honouring the dead (Totenehrung) on the terrace in front of the Hall of Honour (Ehrenhalle) at the Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg in September 1934 (Source: Wikimedia)

Hitler and the Japanese foreign minister, Yōsuke Matsuoka, at a meeting in Berlin in March 1941. In the background is Joachim von Ribbentrop. (Source: Wikimedia)

October 1938: Hitler is driven through the crowd in Cheb (German: Eger), in the Sudetenland. (Source: Wikimedia)

Boundaries of the Nazi planned Greater Germanic Reich (Source: Wikimedia)

Hitler reviews troops on the march during the campaign against Poland (September 1939). (Source: Wikimedia)

Hitler visits Paris with architect Albert Speer (left) and sculptor Arno Breker (right), 23 June 1940. (Source: Wikimedia)

Hitler announcing the declaration of war against the United States to the Reichstag on 11 December 1941 (Source: Wikimedia)

Adolf Hitler and Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim in Finland in June 1942 (Source: Wikimedia)

The destroyed map room at the Wolf's Lair, Hitler's eastern command post, after the 20 July plot (Source: Wikimedia)

Hitler in his last filmed appearance, honouring Hitler Youth members of the Volkssturm in the Reich Chancellery garden (Source: Wikimedia)

Front page of the US Armed Forces newspaper, Stars and Stripes, 2 May 1945, announcing Hitler's death. It erroneously states that Hitler died on 1 May; he died on 30 April. (Source: Wikimedia)

A wagon piled high with corpses outside the crematorium in the liberated Buchenwald concentration camp (April 1945) (Source: Wikimedia)

Hitler's order for Aktion T4, dated 1 September 1939 (Source: Wikimedia)

Hitler during a meeting at the headquarters of Army Group South in June 1942 (Source: Wikimedia)

Hitler and Braun in 1942 (Source: Wikimedia)

Hitler shakes hands with Bishop Ludwig Müller in Germany in the 1930s (Source: Wikimedia)

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Hans Werner Henze's network of artists. Digital letter edition, https://henze-digital.zenmem.de/A00100B0 (Version 6.0.1 of October 30, 2024)
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