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Hitler is now remember for WWII and of course the holocaust. Millions of people - tens of millions of people - died because of Hitler. But very few people know that Hitler did some great and incredible things when he first came to power. Not only did Hitler remove the Treaty of Versailles, he solved unemployment in Germany, moved them out of the depression (which the US was unable to do), and installed national pride to the point we've never seen since in any country. He was Time's "man of the year" at one point. He was a hero in 1937 to Germany and the rest of the world.
I'm not sure what happened but perhaps he got greedy or punch drunk, but he started to gain territory based through threats alone and then eventually through military force starting with Poland. Personally I think somewhere between 1937-1940 he became mentally unstable and continued to decline until his death. If you read about his final few months in the Berlin bunker he was a raging lunatic.
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