Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party), the Chancellor of Germany in 1933, and its Führer from 1934 to 1945. He initiated the Second WorldWar by invading Poland in 1939, and authored the Holocaust that killed over six million Jews in Europe and millions of others from races he considered inferior. Due the overwhelming nature of the crimes he committed against humanity, it is very popular to take individual policies or ideas advocated by Hitler - completely ignoring the context or his motivation for doing so - and use them to attack those who support similar ideas by claiming they are therefore just like Hitler.