Adolf Hitler (Earth-2182)

"Truly, this earth is a trophy cup for the industrious man. And this rightly so, in the service of natural selection. He who does not possess the force to secure his Lebensraum in this world, and, if necessary, to enlarge it, does not deserve to possess the necessities of life. He must step aside and allow stronger peoples to pass him by."

- - Adolf Hitler to officer cadets at the Berlin Sportpalast

Adolf Hitler was the Führer and Reichskanzler of the Third Reich, and the leader of the Nazi Party from 1933 to 1945. A German politician, Hitler was the responsible for initiating World War II in Europe following the invasion of Danzig, Poland, in September 1939, becoming a central figure involved in the Holocaust and in the history of humanity for his fascist ideals, responsible for the genocide of six million European Jews, among many others. His reign gave rise to another infamous war criminal, Johann Schmidt, known as Red Skull.

The Rise of Nazism
"You know, after the last war, they... My people struggled. They... they felt weak... they felt small. Then Hitler comes along with the marching, and the big show, and the flags."

- - Abraham Erskine

Following Germany's defeat at World War I and the humiliating impositions brought by the Treaty of Versailles, Adolf Hitler was able to rise by forming the Nazi Party, a fascist and nationalistic regime that forever changed Germany. Accompanied by the Sturmabteilung, Hitler became famous by his antisemitism and anticommunism. Made chancellor in 1933, he turned Germany into the Third Reich.

Foundation of HYDRA
"What if the old Norse tales Wagner adopts into his operas are more history that myth, mein Führer? And what the superstitious masses refer to as "magic" is simply the oldest science ever known. With further funding, I hope to confirm my theories. Intriguing. Kaufmann, arrange a lunch between myself and the professor where there's an opening in my schedule."

- - Johann Schmidt and Adolf Hitler