Adolf Hitler |
Adolf Hitler |
Hitler's foreign and domestic policies had the goal of seizing space for the Germanic people. He directed the rearmament of Germany and the invasion of Poland by the Wehrmacht in September 1939. Wehrmacht's frist attack was on Danzig Corridor. This invasion resulting in the outbreak of World War II in Europe. Under Hitler's rule, in 1941 German forces and their Europian allies aptured most of Europe and North Africa. By 1943, Hitler's military decisions led to escalating defeats. In 1945 the Allied armies successfully invaded Germany. Hitler's supremacist and racially motivated policies resulted in the systematic murder of eleven million people, including an estimated six million Jews, and in the deaths of between 50 and 70 million people in World War II. In the final days of the war, during the Battle of Berlin in 1945, Hitler married his long-time mistress, Eva Braun. On 30 April 1945, less than two days later, the two committed suicide to avoid capture by the Red Army, and their corpses were burned.