** Gustav Adolf Land

** The Holocaust, also known as The Shoah ( Hebrew:, Latinized ha ' shoah ; Yiddish:, Latinized churben or hurban ) is the term generally used to describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a program of systematic state-sponsored extermination by Nazi Germany, under Adolf Hitler, its allies, and collaborators.

** Geli Raubal commits suicide in Adolf Hitler's apartment.

** Adolf Hitler orders that all industries, military installations, machine shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany be destroyed.

** Adolf Hitler concedes defeat in his underground Berlin bunker after learning Felix Steiner could not mobilize enough men to launch a counterattack on the Soviets who had just broken through Germany.

** Adolf Hitler marries his longtime mistress Eva Braun in a closed civil ceremony in the Berlin Führerbunker.

** Adolf Brand, German writer ( b. 1874 )

** Adolf Hitler, German Nazi dictator ( suicide ) ( b. 1889 )

** Eva Braun, German wife of Adolf Hitler ( suicide ) ( b. 1912 )

** Adolf Eichmann, German war criminal ( d. 1962 )

** Adolf Eichmann is pronounced guilty of crimes against humanity by a panel of 3 Israeli judges.

** While working as a spy for the police, Adolf Hitler is ordered to monitor the German Workers Party.

** Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ( d. 1914 )

** Adolf Hitler is sentenced to 5 years in jail for his participation in the Beer Hall Putsch ( he serves only 8 months ).

** Adolf Hitler makes his first public political speech, in Austria.

** World War II: In the Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring " living space " for the German people ( recorded in the Hossbach Memorandum ).

** Erich Kempka, German chauffeur and bodyguard of Adolf Hitler ( d. 1975 )

** King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates and is later exiled.

** WWII: Adolf Hitler makes a peace appeal to Britain in an address to the Reichstag.

** Adolf Eichmann, German Nazi official ( executed ) ( b. 1906 )

** King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden ( b. 1882 )

** Adolf Friedrich VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ( d. 1918 )

** Nazi leader Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany by President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg.

** Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler prohibits trade unions.

** Otto of Paris ( 956 – 965 )

** Otto cycle ( e. g. Gasoline / Petrol engine, high-speed diesel engine )

** Otto of Bamberg

** Otto Soglow

** Otto cycle

** Sylke Otto, German luger

** Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1888 )

** Otto Harbach, American lyricist and librettist ( b. 1873 )

** Otto Struve, Russian – American astronomer ( b. 1897 )

** Otto Tief, Estonian politician and military commander ( b. 1889 )

** Otto Buchsbaum, Austrian-born writer and ecological activist ( d. 2000 )

** Otto Plath, father of American Poet, Sylvia Plath, and entomologist ( d. 1940 )

** Otto Seeck, German classical historian ( born 1850 )

** Miranda Otto, Australian actress

** Otto Klemperer, German-born conductor ( b. 1885 )

** Otto Preminger, Austrian-born film director ( b. 1906 )

** The trial against fraudulent art dealer Otto Wacker begins in Berlin.

** Otto Lubarsch, German pathologist ( d. 1933 )

** Otto von Bismarck becomes prime minister of Prussia.

** Constitution of the North German Confederation comes into effect, creating a confederation of states under the leadership of Prussia and Otto von Bismarck.

** Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-born physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( d. 1951 )

** Otto Carius, German tank commander

** Otto Stich, member of the Swiss Federal Council

** Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist ( d. 1912 )