Adolf Hitler was a senior state or legal official.
Adolf Hitler . As dictator of the German Reich , he initiated World War II in Europe with the invasion of Poland in September 1939 , and was central to the Holocaust . By 1933 , the Nazi Party was the largest elected party in the German Reichstag , which led to Hitler 's appointment as Chancellor on 30 January 1933 . Dictatorship . A dictatorship is a type of authoritarianism , in which politicians regulate nearly every aspect of the public and private behavior of citizens .