Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 in Austria-Hungary and dropped out of high school. He was influenced by anti-Semitic authors and blamed Jews for Germany's loss in World War 1. Hitler rose to power in Germany after the Great Depression and his Nazi party took control in 1933. Under Hitler's rule, millions of Jews and others were killed in concentration camps during the Holocaust. Defeated in World War 2, Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945 in his Berlin bunker as Soviet forces advanced.