Adolf

Also Adolph,

[ad-olf, ey-dolf, ah-dawlf]

noun

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

Example Sentences

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

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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.

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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.”

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Think of the September 1938 meeting in Munich, when British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and other European leaders met with German Chancellor Adolf Hitler to forge an agreement allowing Germany’s annexation of the Sudetenland in exchange for Hitler’s pledge to not invade any other Northern European countries.

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We celebrated when the famous track athlete Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany, delivering a sharp rebuke to Adolf Hitler’s Nazism and belief in the White supremacy of a subset of Germans called Aryans.

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