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Adolf Hitler was named TIME's Man of the Year in 1938 Why Would Adolf Hitler be on the cover of Time Magazine and Espec

Adolf Hitler was named TIME's Man of the Year in 1938 Why Would Adolf Hitler be on the cover of Time Magazine and Especially “Man of the year”. Dec. 21, 1931. Apr. 14, 1941. May. 7, 1945.

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Adolf Hitler was named TIME's Man of the Year in 1938 Why Would Adolf Hitler be on the cover of Time Magazine and Espec

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  1. Adolf Hitler was named TIME's Man of the Year in 1938 Why Would Adolf Hitler be on the cover of Time Magazine and Especially “Man of the year” Dec. 21, 1931 Apr. 14, 1941 May. 7, 1945

  2. TIME explained what was perhaps the most controversial of its choices thus: "Hitler became in 1938 the greatest threatening force that the democratic, freedom-loving world faces today" (1/2/39). Hitler's rise began in 1919, when he joined the German Workers Party, which was renamed the Nazi party. Within two years he was the party's leader. In 1933, Hitler became chancellor of Germany and soon consolidated his power, banning other parties and establishing totalitarian rule. He put the unemployed to work in public programs, rebuilt the army and sent Jews, communists and others to concentration camps. On September 1, 1939, Hitler began World War II by invading Poland. By 1941, German troops had become bogged down in Russia, and in 1944 the Allies began their advance on Germany. Hitler lived his final months in a Berlin bunker, committing suicide on April 29, 1945. "The great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.“ — Adolf Hitler

  3. How did this Austrian without title or position manage to get himself elected head of a German nation renowned for its civilizing mission? How do you explain the success of his cheap demagogy of Germany?

  4. TIME named Joseph Stalin Man of the Year in 1939 and 1942 On the death of Lenin in 1924, Joseph Stalin took control of the Soviet Union, instituting policies of nationalization and agricultural collectivization that fomented civil war and famine as well as cultivating a cult of personality. TIME described this public worship: "Joseph Stalin has gone a long way toward deifying himself while alive. No flattery is too transparent, no compliment too broad for him. He became the fountain of all Socialist wisdom" (1/1/40). Stalin established a reign of terror that included mass arrests, executions and deportations. He also rallied his troops to beat back a German invasion in some of the bloodiest fighting of World War II. At his death on March 1, 1953, there was a mass outpouring of grief; at a 1956 Party Congress, successor Nikita Khrushchev denounced him as a murderer. Stalin was twice TIME's Man of the Year, for 1939 and 1942. Researched by Joan Levinstein, the Time Inc. Research Center "A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." — Joseph Stalin

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