The Worst Crimes Ever Committed By Hitler In recent world history, few individuals are so synonymous with the idea of evil than Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945 (via Britannica ) and architect of the Holocaust. Under his rule scores of people endured brutality and persecution, simply for being part of a racial, ethnic, sexual, or religious group that Hitler and the Nazis deemed undesirable. According to the Illinois Holocaust Museum , some 6 million Jews plus millions of others perished in the network of death camps erected across Europe by the Third Reich — places where...