German chancellor Adolf Hitler talking to guests at the funeral of German President Paul von Hindenburg, Tannenberg, Germany, 1934

German chancellor Adolf Hitler is shown talking to a group of people at the funeral of German President Paul von Hindenburg. Followed by a woman draping down a Nazi flag onto a balcony. Later, a man puts a small Nazi flag on top of a newspaper stand, Germany, 1934. Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.