Adolf

American  

[ad-olf, ey-dolf, ah-dawlf] / ˈæd ɒlf, ˈeɪ dɒlf, ˈɑ dɔlf /

Also Adolph,

noun

1. a first name: from Germanic words meaning “noble” and “wolf.”

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Example Sentences

Between Adolf Hitler's rise to power on January 30, 1933, and Germany's capitulation on May 8, 1945, hundreds of thousands of cultural goods were stolen, mostly from Jewish owners.

From Barron's

In 1939, Adolf Hitler forever altered Sonnenstein’s reality and reputation.

From The Wall Street Journal

Among people present was Orsola Mussolini, great-granddaughter of Italy's fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, who supplied crucial military backing to Franco during the civil war alongside Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany.

From Barron's

In Nazi Germany, for instance, soldiers took a “holy oath” of “unconditional obedience to the Leader of the German Reich and people, Adolf Hitler, supreme commander of the armed forces.”

From Slate

In their mutually reinforcing preparations to annihilate one another, erase the past and foreclose the possibility of future generations, he concluded, “the superpowers have dutifully embraced this legacy…Adolf Hitler lives on.”

From Salon