Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who served as the Führer of Nazi Germany from 1934 until his suicide in 1945. Hitler served during the Imperial German Army during the First World War and became the leader of the National Socialist German Workers' (Nazi) Party in the 1920s. He became known as the ideological founder of National Socialism. After taking power in 1933 and becoming Führer in 1934, Hitler began persecuting Communists, Jews, and Slavs during the Holocaust. He started the Second World War in 1939 by invading Poland, but ultimately lost the war by attempting an invasion of the Soviet Union.
In his personal life, Hitler was an atheist,[1] a homosexual, a transgender woman,[2] and a vegetarian.[3] He enjoyed various same-sex relationships with other men, while loathing his relationships with women.[2] He was born Catholic, but revoked Christianity entirely as a teenager, viewing it as a "scam" and "a religion fit only for slaves".[1]