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Adolf Hitler as an infant.



Adolf Hitler.

Ludwig Wittgenstein and Hitler in school in a photograph taken at the Linz Realschule in 1903.

A young Hitler (left) posed with other German soldiers
Hitler served in France and Belgium in the 16th Bavarian Reserve Regiment, ending the war as a Gefreiter. He was a runner, the most dangerous job on the Western Front, and was often exposed to enemy fire. He participated in a number of major battles on the Western front, including the First Battle of ypres, the Battle of the Sommee, the Battle of Arras and The battle of Passchendele.



Adolf Hitler, behind Herman Goring, at a Nazi rally in Nuremberg in 1928.



Adolf Hitler in 1930.



Adolf Hitler shown in Landsberg Prison after being
convicted as a result of the Munich Putsch.
I am not sure if this photo, like many other many
NAZI pre-war and wartime era photos, patents, inventions
and other similar items, are void as a results of being considered
"war booty" and are no longer protected for patent
or copyright purposes.

Nazi Party holds mass meeting in Buckeberg in 1934. Other Nazi officials walk behind Hitler.

Parade of SA troops past Hitler. Nuremberg, November 1935.



Putzi Hanfstaengl and Adolf Hitler at the Cafe Heck in Munich in the 1920s.



Adolf Hitler passes through the Brandenburg Gate on the way to the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games. Berlin, Germany, August 1, 1936.



Adolf Hitler and Robert Ley review a unit of DAF (Deutsche Arbeitsfront) workers at Reichsparteitag (Reich Party Day) ceremonies in Nuremberg. (September 10-16, 1935)



Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini during Hitler's visit to Venice from 14–16 June 1934.



Adolf Hitler in Paris, 1940, with Albert Speer (left) and Arno Breker (right)



Hitler, Mannerheim and Ryti in Finland in 1942



In April 1945, Soviet forces attacked the outskirts of Berlin. Hitler's followers urged him to flee to the mountains of Bravia to make a last stand in the National REdoubt. But Hitler was determined to either live or die in the capital.



20th April, 1945. Hitler awards the Iron Cross to Hitler Youth outside his bunker.
On 20 April, Hitler celebrated his 56th birthday in the "Führer's shelter" below the Reich Chancellery. The garrison commander of the besieged "fortress Breslau", General Hermann Niehoff, had chocolates distributed to his troops in honor of Hitler's birthday.



On 29 April, Hans Krebs, Wilhelm Burgdorf, Joseph Goebbels, and Martin Bormann witnessed and signed the Last will and Teasment of Adolf Hitler . Hitler dictated the document to his private secretary, Traudl Junge . Hitler was also that day informed of the violent death of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini on 28 april, which is presumed to have increased his determination to avoid capture.



Cover of U.S. military newspaper The Stars and Stripes, May 1945.
On 30th April, 1945, after intense street-to-street combat, when Soviet troops were within a block or two of the Reich Chancellory, Hitler committed suicide, shooting himself while simultaneously biting into a cyanide capsule. Hitler's body and that of Eva braun (his mistress whom he had married the day before) were put in a bomb crater, doused in Gasoline by Otto Gunsche and other Führerbunker aides, and set alight as the Red Army advanced and shelling continued.



Final Picture of Fuhrer.
On 2 may, Berlin surrendered. There have been conflicting reports about what happened to Hitler's remains. According to Russian reports, they dug up the remains, which were reburied by SMERSH at their headquarters in Magdeburg.




This final, macabre act of self-destruction appropriately symbolized the career of a political leader whose main legacy to Europe was the ruin of its civilization and the senseless sacrifice of human life for the sake of power and his own commitment to the bestial nonsense of National Socialist race mythology. With his death nothing was left of the "Greater Germanic Reich," of the tyrannical power structure and ideological system which had devastated Europe during the twelve years of his totalitarian rule.