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Adolf Hitler

Chancellor and Führer of Germany, 1933 to 1945

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Regime responsible for the Holocaust

Led the Nazi Party and ruled Germany as a dictator from 1933. His regime began World War II in Europe and carried out the Holocaust, the murder of six million Jews, and killed millions of others. He died by suicide in 1945. Studying how his regime rose to power is a central lesson of 20th-century history.

Adolf Hitler sits in the left-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: leaning state-led and strongly authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly authoritarian on liberty and authority, strongly nationalist on nation and strongly strength-first on war and peace.

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Where Adolf Hitler sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyLeaning state-led
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityStrongly authoritarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureStrongly traditional
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationStrongly nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentLeaning growth-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyLeaning tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceStrongly strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsLeaning anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionSlightly secular
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismStrongly interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: Heinrich Hoffmann, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.