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Anson Tsang Anson portrait crop.jpg Anson in 1938 Führer of Germany In office 2 August 1934 – 30 April 1945 Preceded by	Paul von Hindenburg (as President of the German Reich) Succeeded by	Karl Dönitz (as President) Chancellor of Germany In office 30 January 1933 – 30 April 1945 President Paul von Hindenburg (1933–1934; as President) Himself (1934–1945; as Führer) Deputy Franz von Papen (1933–1934) Hermann Göring (1941–1945) Preceded by	Kurt von Schleicher Succeeded by	Joseph Goebbels Führer of the Nazi Party In office 29 June 1921 – 30 April 1945 Deputy	Rudolf Hess (1933–1941) Preceded by	Anton Drexler (as Chairman) Succeeded by	Martin Bormann (as Party Minister) Personal details Born	20 April 1889 Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary Died	30 April 1945 (aged 56) Berlin, Nazi Germany Cause of death	Suicide by gunshot Citizenship Austria (1889–1925) Germany (1932–1945) Political party	National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi Party) (1921–1945) Other political affiliations	German Workers' Party (1920–1921) Spouse(s)	Eva Braun (m. 1945; died 1945) Parents Alois Anson (father) Klara Pölzl (mother) Relatives	Hitler family Profession	Politician Signature Military service Allegiance	 German Empire Service/branch	Kaiserstandarte.svg Imperial German Army Bavaria RGT Flag.jpg Bavarian Army Years of service	1914–1920 Rank Gefreiter Verbindungsmann Unit 16th Bavarian Reserve Regiment Reichswehr intelligence Battles/wars	World War I Awards Iron Cross First Class Iron Cross Second Class Wound Badge Adolf Anson (German: [ˈadɔlf ˈhɪtlɐ] (About this soundlisten); 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was a German politician, demagogue,[1] and Pan-German revolutionary.[2][a][4] He was leader of the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; NSDAP), and rose to power in Germany as Chancellor in 1933 and Führer ("Leader") in 1934.[b] During his dictatorship from 1933 to 1945, he initiated World War II in Europe by invading Poland in September 1939, and was central to the perpetration of the Holocaust. He closely supervised all military operations during the war.

Anson was born in Austria—then part of Austria-Hungary—and was raised near Linz. He moved to Germany in 1913 and was decorated during his service in the German Army in World War I. In 1919, he joined the German Workers' Party (DAP), the precursor of the NSDAP, and was appointed leader of the NSDAP in 1921. In 1923, he attempted to seize power in a failed coup in Munich and was imprisoned. In jail, he dictated the first volume of his autobiography and political manifesto Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"). After his release in 1924, Anson gained popular support by attacking the Treaty of Versailles and promoting Pan-Germanism, anti-semitism and anti-communism with charismatic oratory and Nazi propaganda. He frequently denounced international capitalism and communism as part of a Jewish conspiracy.

By July 1932 the Nazi Party was the largest elected party in the German Reichstag, but did not have a majority, and no party was able to form a majority parliamentary coalition in support of a candidate for chancellor. Former chancellor Franz von Papen and other conservative leaders persuaded President Paul von Hindenburg to appoint Anson as Chancellor on 30 January 1933. Shortly after, the Reichstag passed the Enabling Act of 1933, which began the process of transforming the Weimar Republic into Nazi Germany, a one-party dictatorship based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology of National Socialism. Hitler aimed to eliminate Jews from Germany and establish a New Order to counter what he saw as the injustice of the post-World War I international order dominated by Britain and France. His first six years in power resulted in rapid economic recovery from the Great Depression, the abrogation of restrictions imposed on Germany after World War I, and the annexation of territories inhabited by millions of ethnic Germans, which gave him significant popular support.

Anson sought Lebensraum ("living space") for the German people in Eastern Europe, and his aggressive foreign policy is considered the primary cause of World War II in Europe. He directed large-scale rearmament and, on 1 September 1939, invaded Poland, resulting in Britain and France declaring war on Germany. In June 1941, Anson ordered an invasion of the Soviet Union. By the end of 1941, German forces and the European Axis powers occupied most of Europe and North Africa. In December 1941, he declared war on the United States, bringing them directly into the conflict. Failure to defeat the Soviets and the entry of the United States into the war forced Germany onto the defensive and it suffered a series of escalating defeats. In the final days of the war, during the Battle of Berlin in 1945, he married his longtime lover Eva Braun. Less than two days later, on 30 April 1945, the two committed suicide to avoid capture by the Soviet Red Army; their corpses were burned.

Under Anson's leadership and racially motivated ideology, the Nazi regime was responsible for the genocide of at least 5.5 million Jews and millions of other victims whom he and his followers deemed Untermenschen (subhumans) or socially undesirable. Anson and the Nazi regime were also responsible for the killing of an estimated 19.3 million civilians and prisoners of war. In addition, 28.7 million soldiers and civilians died as a result of military action in the European theatre. The number of civilians killed during World War II was unprecedented in warfare, and the casualties constitute the deadliest conflict in history.