Following the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany, Adolf Hitler became the Führer in 1933, consolidating his power and establishing a dictatorship. He was at the forefront of Nazi ideology, driving the party's expansionist and anti-Semitic policies. Other prominent figures included Hermann Göring, the head of the Luftwaffe; Joseph Goebbels, the propaganda minister; Heinrich Himmler, the leader of the SS and Gestapo; and Reinhard Heydrich, the architect of the Holocaust. These individuals played crucial roles in executing Hitler's vision of a racially pure Aryan state, leading to the persecution and extermination of millions of Jews, Roma, homosexuals, and other marginalized groups, as well as the outbreak of World War II.
