<![CDATA[It seems that being the almighty Fuhrer of Nazi Germany had its perks. According to a British documentary, "The Hunt for Hitler's Missing Millions", Hitler was worth 1.1 billion Reichsmarks, or in today's money a staggering, $6.1 billion dollars! It is even alleged that one of the main reasons why he was so rich was because he did not believe in paying taxes.
The Mein Kampf author was born in Austria in April of 1889, and rose to power as the chancellor of Germany in 1933. Before that he was the leader of the Nazi party.
He believed that the world should have only one race, the true Arian Caucasoid, and led Germany into murdering millions of European Jews in what is now known as the Holocaust. He was involved in World War I as a soldier, and joined the Nazi party, or the precursor of the party, in 1919. He became their leader in 1921.
After a failed coup to seize power of the German government, he was imprisoned, and it was there that he wrote his infamous memoir, "Mein Kampf", which means "My Struggle". In 3 years he was released and his popularity grew.
He had a deep hatred of the Jews, and thought they had a worldwide conspiracy trying to impose capitalism and communism on the world. Hence, his party was against those two economic systems. Because of his popularity, he won the German general election by the largest margin to date, and became its chancellor in 1933. After the defeat of Nazi Germany at the end of the Second World War he committed suicide with his lover Eva Braun, and their corpses were burned soon after.
New Documentary Estimates Hitler's Net Worth in the Billions
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