Hitler

[hit-ler]

noun

1. Adolf Adolf Schicklgruberder Führer, 1889–1945, Nazi dictator of Germany, born in Austria: Chancellor 1933–45; dictator 1934–45.

Hitler

/ ˈhɪtlə /

noun

1. Adolf. (ˈaːdɔlf). Grandmother's maiden name and father's original surname Schicklgrüber . 1889–1945, German dictator, born in Austria. After becoming president of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi party), he attempted to overthrow the government of Bavaria (1923). While in prison he wrote Mein Kampf, expressing his philosophy of the superiority of the Aryan race and the inferiority of the Jews. He was appointed chancellor of Germany (1933), transforming it from a democratic republic into the totalitarian Third Reich, of which he became Führer in 1934. He established concentration camps to exterminate the Jews, rearmed the Rhineland (1936), annexed Austria (1938) and Czechoslovakia, and invaded Poland (1939), which precipitated World War II. He committed suicide

2. a person who displays dictatorial characteristics

Other Word Forms

• anti-Hitler adjective
• pro-Hitler adjective

Example Sentences

Bill Maher discussed the ongoing fallout around leaked Young Republican group chats on Friday, wondering whether or not the staffers caught praising Adolf Hitler represented the wider party.

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This was paired with "glorification and admiration of the policies and actions of Hitler and the German Nazi Party, including antisemitism, and of mass killers who had targeted black or Muslim communities".

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Writing with both panoramic sweep and an acute eye for telling detail, Mr. Wallace begins his nearly 900-page behemoth with the influx of mainly Jewish refugees fleeing persecution in Hitler’s Germany.

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In a series of leaked text messages, they have openly embraced Adolf Hitler referred to Black people as “monkeys” and “the watermelon people.”

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This was coupled, she said, with the "glorification and admiration of the policies and actions of Hitler and the German Nazi Party, including antisemitism, and of mass killers who had targeted black or Muslim communities".

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