A Day That Shook The World: Hitler elected German Chancellor
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On 30 January 1933 Adolf Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany, heralding a reign of terror, the Holocaust and World War Two.
The Austrian-born leader of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP or ‘Nazi Party’), was to serve until his suicide in 1945.
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