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Adolf
[ad-olf,, ey-dolf;; German ah-dawlf] /ˈæd ɒlf,, ˈeɪ dɒlf;; German ˈɑ dɔlf/ (Show IPA), (Adolf Schicklgruber”der Führer”) 1889–1945, Nazi dictator of Germany, born in Austria: Chancellor 1933–45; dictator 1934–45.
Contemporary Examples

Every image reveals how wrongly the world has seen and judged adolf hitler.
When Hitler Was a Punchline Rudolph Herzog May 13, 2011

At the end of a lengthy rant, he concluded that “adolf hitler, like Barack Obama, also ruled by dictate.”
Rush Accuses Obama of Faking Isaac Forecasts and More Outrageous Limbaugh Claims August 27, 2012

Dilling made common cause with adolf hitler and blamed communism and the Second World War on the Jews.
Is Glenn Beck a Fake? Dana Milbank October 3, 2010

The collapse of the bank coincided with the appointment of adolf hitler to the position of chancellor.
Anne Frank’s Amsterdam Russell Shorto October 11, 2013

adolf hitler, despite being the most evil force ever to befoul mankind, was also a kind and conscientious employer.
Secrets of Nazi Secretaries Andrew Roberts August 29, 2011

Historical Examples

There was now one less German soldier to shoot a gun at adolf hitler’s bidding.
Dave Dawson with the Commandos R. Sidney Bowen

Neither was the room behind it, the room where the belfry was supposed to be, but where adolf hitler’s inner sanctum was instead.
Rats in the Belfry John York Cabot

We are both going to draw bead on adolf hitler in the year of 1938, and thus avert this hell he’s spread since then.
Rats in the Belfry John York Cabot

That’s the general picture of the little surprise we’ll have for adolf hitler tomorrow night.
Dave Dawson with the Commandos R. Sidney Bowen

In 1933 adolf hitler was elected leader of a Germany which had been out of communication with us for a generation.
Proclaim Liberty! Gilbert Seldes

noun
Adolf. (ˈaːdɔlf). Grandmother’s maiden name and father’s original surname Schicklgrüber. 1889–1945, German dictator, born in Austria. After becoming president of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi party), he attempted to overthrow the government of Bavaria (1923). While in prison he wrote Mein Kampf, expressing his philosophy of the superiority of the Aryan race and the inferiority of the Jews. He was appointed chancellor of Germany (1933), transforming it from a democratic republic into the totalitarian Third Reich, of which he became Führer in 1934. He established concentration camps to exterminate the Jews, rearmed the Rhineland (1936), annexed Austria (1938) and Czechoslovakia, and invaded Poland (1939), which precipitated World War II. He committed suicide
a person who displays dictatorial characteristics

used figuratively for “a dictator” from 1934.