Germany · 1933–1945
Adolf Hitler
Chancellor, then dictator. Private industry was kept and bent to rearmament. The regime started the Second World War and murdered Europe’s Jews.
Adolf Hitler is on the world-leaders chart for Germany, 1933–1945. The placement note, from the public governing record, is: Chancellor, then dictator. Private industry was kept and bent to rearmament. The regime started the Second World War and murdered Europe’s Jews.
The dot is economics +24 and authority +98, on a scale from −100 to +100. That is right of center on economics. The other axis sits toward authority. Left means a larger public role. Up means more authority. Neither direction is treated as the correct one.
A second note separates what was said in public from what the government then did. Said: Overturn Versailles, restore German work and honor, and unite the people he called German. Done: Rearmament, the annexations, a world war, and the industrial murder of the Jews and other civilians. The gap, when there is one, is part of the placement. A promise that was kept and a promise that was dropped are not given the same weight.
The nearest other figures on these two numbers are Vladimir Putin (Russia, +14 / +80) and Deng Xiaoping (China, +26 / +76). Nearest means nearest on the chart, not alike in character.
Adolf Hitler is marked as a historical extreme so the corner of the scale is not empty. The dot is not a recommendation, and it stays off the default nearest list unless it is closer than every ordinary figure.