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==Key Stage 4 History=====Who?==='''Adolf Hitler''' (1889-1945) was an [[Autrian]] born man who fought for the [[German]]s in the [[First World War]], became the leader of the [[Nazi Party]], was elected to [[German Chancellor]] then became [[Fuhrer]] of [[Nazi Germany]] leading them into and through the [[Second World War]]. ===About Hitler===:'''Adolf Hitler''' (1889-1945) was the Chancellor (from 1933) and later Fuhrer (from 1934) of Germany. He was leader of the [[Nazi Party]] and led Germany through the [[Second World War]], which he initiated by invading Poland on 1 September 1939. His :'''Hitlers''' role in the [[Holocaust]] makes him widely regarded as one of the most brutal genocidal dictators of modern history, similar to [[Joseph Stalin]] and [[Mao Tse-Tung]]. His :'''Hitlers''' [[far-right]] [[nationalist]] and [[anti-semitic]] ideas were spread throughout Germany and Europe as leader of the Nazi Party.

With the Nazis as the largest party in the Reichstag, Hitler was the Chancellor, but this meant he worked alongside the President, Hindenburg. Hitler wanted complete control of Germany; he wanted to remove democracy and choice from the German people and make Germany a totally National Socialist nation. Within the German Cabinet were three Nazi members: Hitler was named chancellor, Wilhelm Frick Minister of the Interior, and Hermann Göring Minister of the Interior for Prussia. However, this wasn't enough for Hitler. On 27 Februrary 1933, the Reichstag burned down under suspicious circumstances. Dutch Communist Marinus van der Lubbe was found near the building and is blamed for the fire, however some historians today still argue that it was in fact the Nazis who burned down the Reichstag. Under encouragment from Hitler, Hindenburg passed with the Reichstag Fire Decree of 28 February, which suspended basic rights and allowed detention without trial in Germany. The decree was allowed by Article 48 of the [[Weimar Constitution]], which gave the president the ability in emergencies to protect public safety and order. The German Communist Party (KPD) was heavily supressed, and some 4,000 KPD members were arrested in the following months. Hitler's next step was the killer blow; passing the [[Enabling Act]], which would allow him to pass laws in Germany, even ones which defied the constitution, for 4 years - without the permission of the Reichstag. This bill would effectively give Hitler singular control of Germany. The Enabling Act needed 2/3 of the Reichstag to vote for it to pass, and Hitler was helped by the 81 Communist (KPD) members of the Reichstag being arrested, under the provisions of the Reichstag Fire Decree. On 23 March 1933, the day of the vote for the [[Enabling Act]], the Kroll Opera House where the vote was taking place was filled with [[SA]] soldiers, heavily intimidating all non-Nazi politicians, likely to the point of forcing many to vote for the bill. The Enabling Act passed by an overwhelming majority of 441-84 and Hitler, for the first time, held true power over Germany.  ===Hitler as Fuhrer===Now Hitler controlled two key branches of government, the executive and the legislative, the Nazi Party began solidifying their own power. The Social Democratic Party (SDP), the Nazi's largest opposition, was banned and its assets seized. On 2 May 1933, all [[Trade Unions]] were forced to dissolve in Germany and many Union leaders were sent to the first [[Concentration Camps]]. On 14th July 1933, the Nazi Party was confirmed as the only legal political party in Germany, completely removing all legitimate opposition to the party. Nearly a year later, 30 June 1934, the [[Night of the Long Knives]] saw Hitler completely change the leadership of the [[SA]], with former allies such as [[Ernst Rohm]] and Gregor Strasser being murdered. The final step to total power over Germany for Hitler was the death of President Hindenburg on 2 August 1934. The day before, with Hindenburg's death clearly imminent, the Nazi cabinet had passed the "Law Concerning the Highest State Office of the Reich". This said that when Hindenburg died, the office of president would be abolished and its powers combined with the chancellor. This made Adolf Hitler the German head of state as well as head of government, and with this role he adopted the name [[Fuhrer]], meaning leader. For Hitler, this removed the last legal method by which he could lose power. ===Hitler controlling Nazi Germany=== The main focus of Hitler's time leading Germany before the [[Second World War]] was preparing for war. In October 1933, Hitler withdrew Germany from the [[League of Nations]] and in the first meeting of his cabinet in 1933, he made it very clear that rearmament of Germany was the priority. This rearmament was in violation of the terms of the [[Treaty of Versailles]], which Hitler had built a large part of his image on criticising. In August 1934, Hitler appointed economist [[Hjalmar Schacht]] as Minister of Economics. Reconstruction and rearmament of Germany were financed through Schacht's [[Mefo bills]], as well as printing money, and seizing or stealing the assets of people arrested as enemies of the State, including Jews, Romany people, and the less able. There were some great successes of Hitler's Germany; unemployment fell from six million in 1932 to one million in 1936, and as well as this, Hitler oversaw a massive infrastructure improvement campaign, leading to the construction of dams, autobahns, railroads, and other civil works. Germany reoccupied the demilitarised zone in the Rhineland in March 1936, in violation of the Versailles Treaty. Hitler also sent troops to Spain to support General Franco during the Spanish Civil War in July 1936. Also at this time, Hitler continued trying to create an Anglo-German alliance. In August 1936, as Hitler's attempts at rearmament saw Germany's economy begin to crumble, Adolf Hitler employed [[Hermann Göring]] to put in place a Four Year Plan to prepare Germany for war within the next four years.  The plan envisaged an all-out struggle between "Judeo-Bolshevism" and German national socialism, which in Hitler's view required a committed effort of rearmament regardless of the economic costs.   Germany withdrew from the League of Nations and the World Disarmament Conference in October 1933.At the first meeting of his cabinet in 1933, Hitler prioritised military spending over unemployment relief.   Count Galeazzo Ciano, foreign minister of Mussolini's government, declared an axis between Germany and Italy, and on 25 November, Germany signed the Anti-Comintern Pact with Japan. Britain, China, Italy, and Poland were also invited to join the Anti-Comintern Pact, but only Italy signed in 1937. 

===Hitler's Role in [[Second World War One]]===