Adolf Hitler - Adolf Hitler (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) - who gained power in a Germany facing crisis after World War I, using charismatic oratory and propaganda - can be called the most evil man in history. Hitler pursued an aggressive foreign policy with the intention of expanding German Lebensraum (living space), which triggered World War II when Germany invaded Poland. Hitler's racial policies resulted in genocide of approximately eleven million people, including about six million Jews, in what is now known as the Holocaust. As Russians closed on Berlin in April of 1945 in the final days of the war, Hitler committed suicide in his underground bunker in Berlin with his newlywed wife, Eva Braun.