1900-1945. German Nazi leader. He took part
in the abortive Munich putsch (uprising) of
1923 and rose to high positions in the Nazi
(National Socialist) Party, becoming party
chancellor in May 1941. He was believed to
have escaped the fall of Berlin in May 1945
and was tried in his absence and sentenced to
death at the Nuremberg trials 1945-46, but a
skeleton uncovered by a mechanical excavator
in Berlin in 1972 was officially recognized
as his by forensic experts in 1973.