Adolf Hitler Quotes


Incurably sick persons should be granted mercy death.


Context

In the next two years 50,000 non-Jewish, ill Germans were killed in hospital gas chambers disguised as shower rooms as the Germans later did with the Jews in the concentration camps.


Citations

Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945, Fuhrer of the Third German Reich, Edict, September 1, 1939

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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
  • Born: April 20, 1889
  • Died: April 30, 1945
  • Nationality: German
  • Profession: Politician

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming Chancellor in 1933 and then assuming the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. During his dictatorship from 1933 to 1945, he initiated World War II in Europe by invading Poland on 1 September 1939. He was closely involved in military operations throughout the war and was central to the perpetration of the Holocaust, the genocide of about 6 million Jews and millions of other victims.