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German dictator and founder of National Socialism, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was born in Austria. He moved to Munich 1913. He enlisted in the Bavarian infantry at the outbreak of the Kaisers war and took advantage of the post war conditions that proved favourable for fascism. Becoming Reich Chansellor in 1933 and Fuehrer in 1934, Hitler was responsible for the German aggression leading to World War II and the subsequent genocide that conflict engendered, OPS: Herr Hitler as a baby, born to an Austrian customs official. (KEYSTONE/CAMERA PRESS/ILN)