65 Facts About Adolf Hitler You Might Not Know
# Hitler's name would have been, "Adolf Schicklgruber." It was, in 1877, that his father changed his last name.
# Klara Polzl (1860-1907) was the mother of Hitler and was the eldest of only three out of 11 surviving children. Officially Hitler's father, Alois, and his mother were second cousins and they required permission from the government to marry.
# Alois Schicklgruber was born illegitimately, never established his paternity. It means that Adolf Hitler was unable to prove who his grandfather was, thereby proving his own 'Aryan descent.'
# Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau Am Inn, Austria on April 20, 1889, at half-past six in the evening on an Easter Saturday.
# The name "Adolph" means "noble wolf." Early in his career, Hitler used the pseudonym Herr Wolf when he wanted to avoid being recognized. He named "Wolf's Lair" and "Wolf's Headquarters" as his headquarters and named his favorite German shepherd puppy "Wolf."
# The name Hitler means "small-holder," and the names Hiedler, Hietler, Huttler, and Hutler appear interchangeably.
# Before he was 19, Hitler 's parents both died. When he was 18 years old his mother died of breast cancer in 1907 and when he was 14 years old his father died of pleural hemorrhage in 1903.
# Hitler was Austrian, not German, and didn't move to Germany until the start of WW1.
# At the age of 4, Hitler was rescued from drowning by a priest.
# Hitler as a child wanted to be a priest.
# Hitler's dream was to become an artist, contrary to his father's wish to become a civil servant. He was however twice rejected by the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts (1907, 1908).
# Adolf Hitler was obsessed with America's Old West.
# Hitler was a vegetarian. After the autopsy of his half-niece and ex-girlfriend Geli Raubal, who shot herself in the heart, he made the decision.
# Hitler had only one testicle.
# Hitler suffered from chronic flatulence and fought it with 28 different drugs.
# Hitler claimed that he was attractive to women, but for political benefits, he remained single. Until after the war the German people were not aware of Eva Braun.
# In 1945 Hitler and Eva Braun were married and killed themselves 36 hours later. Eva Braun was 33 while Hitler was 56 years old.
# The longest relationship Hitler had was with Eva Braun (from 1912 to 1945). In an attempt to get more of Hitler's attention, she tried to commit suicide twice.
# Hitler practiced his speeches by having pictures taken in different poses of himself.
# Adolf Hitler was member #555 in the Nazi Party, but the party starts to count at 500 to look bigger.
# The people never elected Hitler. He lost the presidential election but the Nazis formed a coalition that had enough seats for them to demand the position of Chancellor for Hitler.
# His book "Mein Kampf" was given to every newly married couple for free during Hitler's years in power.
# Historians say Hitler never visited a single concentration camp.
#There was a Jewish-Austrian doctor who due to their economic hardship had not charged Hitler's family. Hitler protected him, and he called him "Noble Jew."
# Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Mussolini, and Hitler, all suffered from ailurophobia, the fear of cats.
# With a cyanide capsule, Hitler killed his dog. He also shot and buried the five puppies with their mother.
# The first European leader to ban human zoos was Adolf Hitler.
# During the years of the war Hitler used cocaine regularly.
# A British soldier showed mercy to a wounded German infantryman during World war I, who later turned out to be Hitler.
# Hitler was a gifted orator but had a raspy voice as a result of a gas attack he suffered during World War I.
# Hitler was asleep when the forces landed on D-Day. Without his approval, none of his generals dared to send re-enforcements and none dared to wake him.
# Hitler never learned how to drive. Yet he has spearheaded the Volkswagen car development.
# While in prison, Hitler wrote demanding a car loan to a Mercedes dealership.
# The American secret service attempted to spike Hitler's food to feminize him with female hormones.
# The German World war I officer who had recommended an Iron Cross to Hitler was Jewish. He was then arrested and then released by the SS once his identity was discovered.
# Hitler planned to collect thousands of Jewish artifacts to construct a "Museum of An Extinct Race" after the war.
# In 1938, Hitler was TIME Magazine's Man of the Year.
# Hitler was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1939.
# Hitler banned the Nobel Prize and created his own German National Prize for Art and Science and awarded it to Ferdinand Porsche, who invented the first hybrid car in the world, and to Volkswagen Beetle as well.
# Adolf Hitler and Osama Bin Laden both had been announced dead on May 1.
# A 2018 Moscow-based study of Hitler's teeth claims to prove that he died after taking cyanide and shooting himself in the head in 1945.
# James Bond's gun, the Walther PPK, made popular by James Bond, is the same model Hitler killed himself.
# The place where Hitler killed himself is now a playground for children.
# The phone number and address of Hitler's home were listed in Who's Who book until 1945. It was Wilhelmstraße 77, Berlin.
# Hitler had offered the U.S., Great Britain, and several other nations a chance to take Jewish refugees before the Holocaust. They refused.
# Hitler was a major tax evader, and he was also fined in 1934 by his own government. He then got the tax department to declare him tax exempt.
# The French Resistance cut off the elevator cables to the Eiffel Tower to prevent Hitler from visiting it when he fell in Paris. Facing the prospect of climbing more than 1500 stairs, he opted out.
# The nephew of Adolf Hitler wrote an article in 1939, entitled "Why I Hate My Uncle."
# Hitler accidentally bombed his nephew 's house in Liverpool, and the nephew moved to fight for the Allies in the United States.
# When Hitler's close associate Ernst Hanfstaengl told him his short mustache was unfashionable, Hitler replied: “If it is not the fashion now, it will be because I wear it.”
# A makeup artist was hired by Allied forces to draw Hitler's sketches in various disguises.
# In 1913 Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky, Tito, and Freud all stayed in Vienna within a few miles of each other, some of them were regulars at the same coffeehouses.
# As a prisoner of war, Hitler had captured Stalin's son and offered to exchange him with a German Marshal. Stalin responded, “I will not trade a Marshal for a Lieutenant.”
# Nintendo was founded the same year the Eiffel Tower was inaugurated, and Adolf Hitler was born: 1889.
# The Nazi Party passed a comprehensive set of animal protection laws when they came to power in January 1933, with Hitler claiming “In the new Reich, no more animal cruelty will be allowed.”
# During the 1930s and early 1940s Hitler orchestrated what was the powerful anti-smoking movement in the world.
# Anophthalmus hitleri is a blind beetle found in Slovenia, in only five caves. It was named after Hitler in 1933 and is now endangered due to Nazi memorabilia collectors.
# In 1932, Winston Churchill went to a hotel in Munich to have tea with Hitler for two days in a row. Hitler stood him up both times and he never met the men.
# A recently opened a clothing store in Ahmedabad 's Indian metropolis is named "Hitler." A swastika dots the letter “i” in Hitler.
# Twenty babies born in England since World War 2 have been named Adolf.
# In 2012 a German author published his novel Er ist Wieder da (He 's back again), in which Hitler wakes up with no memories in modern Berlin since 1945 and becomes a comedian.
# The Nazi party tried to turn Christmas into a non-religious holiday the coming of Hitler, with Saint Nicholas on top of Christmas trees replaced by Odin the "Solstice Man" and swastikas.
# After capturing Moscow during WW2, Hitler 's plan for Moscow was to kill all its residents and replace it with a lake.
# Charlie Chaplin made his movie mocking Hitler with his own money because if they took a stand, Hollywood was afraid of losing money.
# When overlooking the recently conquered city of Paris, Hitler whistled Disney's "When You Wish Upon A Star."
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