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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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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

The main road — Adolf Hitler Strasse during the Nazi period and Stalin Avenue after 1945 — is now Independence Street.

From New York Times