Faces of Money: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Medal shown:Adolf Hitler, bronze medal, 1933, Germany
 Adolf Hitler is directly responsible for the deaths of more
than 30 million people, most of them killed between 1939 and 1945.
Although his party never won an overall majority in Germany, on 30
January 1933 Hitler became chancellor of a coalition government, which
he then turned into a dictatorship.
Many believed power would 'tame' him, but the descent into the hell
of the Third Reich was rapid. By 1938 militarism, terror, expansionism
had become normal in Germany, and many Germans tolerated the situation,
in part through fear.
Hitler sought world domination under the guise of
“lebensraum,” or living space for his German master-race,
and his policies led inexorably to World War Two.
His murderous racial and political intentions were always clear,
although secrecy sometimes shrouded the precise means of their
execution.
He killed himself in Berlin in 1945, when it became clear that the
war was about to end in victory for the Allied Forces.
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