Perhaps the most notorious figure of the 20th century, Adolf Hitler was the leader of the German Nazi (National Socialist German Workers') party and eventually became dictator over all of Germany. Shortly after assuming the title of German fuehrer, or leader, in 1934, Hitler moved to consolidate his rule by controlling the German people through carefully orchestrated propaganda campaigns. He began a systematic program of persecutions climaxed by the murder of millions of Jews, Gypsies, and political opponents. Learn more with this resource from American Experience: "Battle of the Bulge."