Hitler

American  

[hit-ler] / ˈhɪt lər /

noun

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

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Hitler British  

/ 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

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Other Word Forms

• anti-Hitler adjective
• pro-Hitler adjective

Example Sentences

Rather, it is a panoramic account of the European war and the slow, steady and epic defeat of Hitler’s Germany as seen through the record of the British people.

From The Wall Street Journal

He also wrote several nonfiction books on World War II, including “Blitzkrieg: From the Rise of Hitler to the Fall of Dunkirk.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Over the radio, Bing Crosby is crooning, Bob Hope is joking, and news of the war — against Hitler, against Japan — keeps sizzling and crackling across the dial.

From Los Angeles Times

With the nightmares of Hitler, Mussolini and the Iron Curtain still years in the future, Churchill mined his youth to position himself as one of history’s glowworms.

From The Wall Street Journal

My breath came short and hard as I thought back to the reports I had passed on, the night of Hitler’s birthday.

From Literature