Adolf Hitler Quotes
The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd!
Hitler, Adolf. The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939. Edited by Norman H. Baynes, vol. 2, Oxford University Press, 1942, p. 1162.
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.