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who was hitler? why was he so cruel to others????

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the  Nazi Party.He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.

Between 1939 and 1945 Hitler's policies resulted in the killings of were responsible for the deaths of eleven to fourteen million people, including about six million Jews, representing two-thirds of the Jewish population in Europe] and between 500,000 and 1,500,000 Romani people. Deaths took place in concentration and extermination camps, ghettos, and through mass executions. Many victims of the Holocaust were gassed to death, whereas others died of starvation or disease while working as slave labourers.

Hitler's policies also resulted in the killings of Poles and Soviet prisoners of war, communists and other political opponents, homosexuals, the physically and mentally disabled