Adolf Hitler: Quick Facts

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Born	April 20, 1889 • Austria
Died	April 30, 1945 (aged 56) • Berlin • Germany
Title / Office	Führer (1933-1945), Germany • chancellor (1933-1945), Germany
Founder	Hitler Youth • SA • SS
Political Affiliation	Nazi Party
Awards And Honors	Iron Cross (1918) • Iron Cross (1914)
Notable Works	“Mein Kampf”
Notable Family Members	spouse Eva Braun • father Alois Hitler
Role In	Anglo-German Naval Agreement • Anschluss • Anti-Comintern Pact • Battle of Stalingrad • Beer Hall Putsch • Drang nach Osten • final solution • German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact • Holocaust • July Plot • Kristallnacht • Munich Agreement • Nazism • Night of the Long Knives • Nürnberg Rally • Operation Barbarossa • Pact of Steel • Reichstag fire • T4 Program • World War II • the Blitz • Enabling Act

The KGB claims that they destroyed Hitler's remains and scattered his ashes so that his grave would not become a shrine for his supporters.
When tested, the skull fragment that Russia held which supposedly belonged to Hitler was definitively found to belong to a female.
The execution and humiliation of Mussolini and his mistress after fascist Italy fell are said to have contributed to Hitler's decision to commit suicide along with his wife.