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51 unusual facts about Adolf Hitler


Adelaide Livingstone

Dame Adelaide Stickney Lord Livingstone, DBE (died 1970) was responsible for organising the Peace Ballot in 1934-35 to gauge the British public's sentiment in the winds of upcoming war with a rearming and aggressive Germany led by Adolf Hitler.

Adrien Arcand

Arcand never wavered in his belief in Adolf Hitler, and, in the 1960s, was a mentor to Ernst Zündel, who became a prominent Holocaust denier and neo-Nazi propagandist in the latter part of the 20th century.

American Empire: The Center Cannot Hold

Much like Adolf Hitler and his rise to power in real-life 1930s Germany, an antagonist named Jake Featherston rides a fascist wave to power in this desperate Confederacy of the Great Depression.

Automated Lip Reading

The technology was used successfully to analyse silent home movie footage of Adolf Hitler taken by Eva Braun at their Bavarian retreat Berghof.

Billy Brown of London Town

Billy Brown was also a mascot on sorties over Berlin during the war, with the advice "I trust it suffers no deflection, this stuff is for the Hun's correction" (i.e. Adolf Hitler.).

Bionic Commando Rearmed

However, as is the case in the original, the final boss of the game still clearly resembles Adolf Hitler, and is referred to as "The Leader".

Carpatho-Ukraine

In the evening of March 13, Jozef Tiso (the Slovak leader) and Ďurčanský met German leader Adolf Hitler, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Generals Walther von Brauchitsch and Wilhelm Keitel in Berlin.

Cartographic propaganda

Adolf Hitler's schoolroom map of "Deutschland" in 1935 presented all the German-speaking areas surrounding Germany without borders, claiming them as part of the Reich .

Charley Fox

As Rommel was soon afterwards implicated in the assassination plot against Adolf Hitler, he was allowed to commit suicide and his death was announced as a result of injuries from the air attack.

Christina Foyle

Her collection of personal correspondence included a letter from Adolf Hitler, responding to her complaint about Nazi book-burning.

E. S. Gosney

:You will be interested to know that your work has played a powerful part in shaping the opinions of the group of intellectuals who are behind Hitler in this epoch-making program.

Felix Linnemann

Felix Linnemann announced the end of the DFB under the rule of Adolf Hitler.

Filinto Müller

He was dismissed from his post when Vargas switched sides, approaching Brazil to the Allies against Adolf Hitler.

Frauenkirche, Nuremberg

In Triumph of the Will, Leni Riefenstahl's 1935 propaganda film about the 1934 Nuremberg Rally, the final scene consists of a military parade through downtown Nuremberg, with Adolf Hitler shown receiving salutes from Nazi troops with the Nuremberg Frauenkirche in the background.

Georgian Dublin

They were only saved by Adolf Hitler's invasion of Poland in 1939 and a general lack of capital and investment; the plans were put on hold in 1939 and forgotten about by 1945.

Giles family

Much of Giles's World War II work had been cartoons featuring Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and the typical British Tommy, but he felt the need to expand after the War, hence the family.

Gizella Lutz

They were married on 29 April 1945, on the wedding day of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun.

Hero Hitler in Love

Hitler believes in solving problems by talking about them but when something crosses the line, he decides to become real "Adolf Hitler".

Highest military ranks

In 1940 Nazi Germany, Hermann Göring was promoted by Adolf Hitler to Reichsmarschall, the highest rank in the armed forces of Nazi Germany during World War II, (after the position of supreme commander, which was held by Hitler himself).

History of the Jews in Venezuela

In its 2002 report, the Stephen Roth Institute said a Venezuelan journalist in the U.S., Ted Cordova-Claure, "published an article in the privately owned, pro-democracy Tal Cual equating Sharon and Hitler".

Holy God, We Praise Thy Name

The military hymnbook of the evangelic church of 1939 added a conclusion verse which praised the Führer Adolf Hitler.

Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb

They reach an agreement in which Von Beck can take the Heart to Adolf Hitler when Kai seizes control of China.

Infanterie Greift An

Infanterie Greift An was first published in 1937 and helped to persuade Adolf Hitler to give Rommel high command in World War II, although he was not from an old military family or the Prussian aristocracy, which had traditionally dominated the German officer corps.

Invasion of the Neptune Men

A multi-story picture of Adolf Hitler with some Japanese writing (Mein Kampf, mistransliterated as Mine Kampf) is clearly visible on the side of one building before it is destroyed.

Jean Brodie

When Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany, she changes her holiday destination to Berlin, believing Hitler's brownshirts to be more organised than Mussolini's blackshirts.

Johanna Kirchner

In 1933, Adolf Hitler came to power, and the dedicated anti-fascist had to go underground, as her help in freeing an anti-Nazi from the Gestapo became known, leading to the danger of her possible arrest.

Law Courts of Brussels

There is a well-known story that Adolf Hitler was reportedly fond of the building, although there are no written evidence of it and it may have been fabricated.

Marge Schott

On November 29, Schott said the "million dollar niggers" comment was made in jest, but then stated that she felt that Adolf Hitler was initially good for Germany and did not understand how the epithet "Jap" could be offensive.

She was banned from managing the team by the MLB from 1996 through 1998 due to statements in support of German domestic policies of Nazi party leader Adolf Hitler; shortly afterwards, she sold the majority of her share in the team.

Married Love

In 1935 a survey of American academics said Married Love was one of the 25 most influential books of the previous 50 years, ahead of Relativity by Albert Einstein, Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud, Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler and The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes.

Mary Lou Petty

Despite food poisoning, she managed to place 4th in the competition and recalls observing both German Leader Adolf Hitler and athlete Jesse Owens at the games.

Maureen Potter

On a tour of Germany, they once performed in front of Adolf Hitler and other Nazis.

Max Hirschberg

Hirschberg confronted in court directly Adolf Hitler; he was imprisoned, but released because of his conduct during World War I and allowed to practice law even after the 1933 Nazi election.

Minor comics by Hergé

The strip centered on a middle-aged Belgian, Mr. Bellum, and ridiculed the Belgian policy of political neutrality as well as Adolf Hitler personally.

Muzan-e

While just as bloody and disturbing as the collection it is based on, Bloody Ukiyo-e also show cases a higher degree of full frontal nudity, sexual perversion and includes pop-culture references and modern real life events, such as painting a gun wielding Marc Bolan as a mercenary or the suicide of Adolf Hitler.

National Socialist Movement of Chile

Movimiento Nacional Socialista de Chile was a political movement in Chile, during the Presidential Republic Era, which initially supported the ideas of Adolf Hitler, although it later moved towards a more indigenous form of fascism.

Opel 1.2 litre

The unbeatable value for money that the Opel P4 offered will have been a cause for concern to supporters of the government sponsored Volkswagen programme which was already well advanced and which was a personal pet project of the country’s political leadership at the time.

Otto and Elise Hampel

They composed postcards denouncing Hitler's government and left them in public places around the city.

Parcz

One of Adolf Hitler's food tasters, Margot Wölk, lived here for a time, after her house in Berlin was bombed in 1942.

Plane Daffy

After a frenetic battle, she x-rays Daffy and broadcasts the supposed secret ("Hitler is a stinker") to Hitler himself.

Pope Pius XII and Poland

The invasion of predominantly Catholic Poland by Nazi Germany in 1939 ignited the conflict and was followed soon after by a Soviet invasion of the Eastern half of Poland, in accordance with an agreement reached between the dictators Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler.

Rugby by-election, 1942

The retired Rugby Conservative MP, David Margesson warned voters that Adolf Hitler would gloat if Brown got in.

Stamsund

Also, a telegram was sent to Adolf Hitler describing how ineffective the German forces were.

The Gates of Saturn

In a Christmas show, Dale dressed as Adolf Hitler shouted the first lines to ever appear in the show, with the words "Achtung Juden!", which caused outrage and shock in what was still a liberal television age;

Total Carnage

Ahkboob transforms into several forms, including a series of three giant heads, one head as himself, one as the German Nazi Party Dictator Adolf Hitler, and one deformed red head.

Turawa

In 1933 the project was submitted to the German government, receiving the personal approval of Adolf Hitler.

Ukagaka

However, a variety of other subjects exist on the sidelines, from video game characters to 2channel memes to humorous depictions of Hitler.

United States Penitentiary, Florence High

A subsequent investigation found that the riot began when a group of inmates belonging to the Aryan Brotherhood celebrated the birthday of Adolf Hitler, which sparked a dispute with black inmates.

Volkswagen Kübelwagen

Although Adolf Hitler discussed with Ferdinand Porsche the possibility of military application of the Volkswagen as early as April 1934, it was not until January 1938 that high-ranking Third Reich army officials formally approached Porsche about designing an inexpensive, light-weight military transport vehicle that could be operated reliably both on- and off-road in even the most extreme conditions.

Werl

Franz von Papen: German nobleman, Roman Catholic monarchist politician, General Staff officer, and diplomat, who served as Chancellor of Germany in 1932 and as Vice-Chancellor under Adolf Hitler in 1933 to 1934, and who helped him come to power, was born in Werl on 29 October 1879.

WHAV

Al Taylor, recruited from WCAU Philadelphia (Present Day WPHT), and a former newspaperman who had interviewed Adolf Hitler, would become the first program director, and Herbert W. Brown became chief engineer.


Adolf Hitler's possible monorchism

In November 2008, the discovery of an eye-witness account on how Hitler was treated after being shot on the Western Front during World War I was announced in the press.

After Dachau

The Nazis had won World War II and purged their empire of all non-whites, then rewrote history so as to say that Dachau, a concentration camp, was instead a battle with Adolf Hitler as its hero.

Annandale Way

He was the commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain, and is generally credited with playing a crucial role in Britain's defence, and hence, the defeat of Hitler's plan to invade Britain.

Anne O'Hare McCormick

Prior to the outbreak of World War II, McCormick obtained interviews with Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, German leader Adolf Hitler, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill, President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, Popes Pius XI and XII, and other world leaders.

Barack Obama assassination plot in Tennessee

A photograph of Cowart celebrating the birthday of Adolf Hitler with other members was on the group's website.

Behavioural genetics

Subsequently, Adolf Hitler is believed to have been motivated by Galton's work in enacting the Final Solution during World War II.

Ben Folds Live at MySpace DVD

A highlight of the show is an appearance by comedian Greg Roman in the persona of Titler, a cross-dressing version of Adolf Hitler, singing "Cross the Line," a parody of the Johnny Cash hit "Walk the Line".

Benita von Falkenhayn

In 1936, Adolf Hitler decreed that all future executions should be by the guillotine, although at least one other woman, the Romanian-Jewish communist Olga Bancic, did later die by the axe in Stuttgart in 1944.

Bodewin Keitel

The liaison officer in the military district XX at the time was Lieutenant Colonel Hasso von Boehmer, who by his friend Henning von Tresckow for his resistance to Adolf Hitler,recruited the brothers Stauffenberg to carry out the assassination of Hitler.

Christian Bouchet

In the original edition of his book Hitler's Priestess Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke wrote that Bouchet has been associated with Nazi mysticism and that, whilst spending a year in India, he met with Savitri Devi to study Kali Yuga and her ideas about Adolf Hitler as an Avatar.

Claus Hant

Claus Hant has also written Young Hitler, a book about the formative years of the German dictator Adolf Hitler, published by Quartet Books, London.

East Meon

During the Second World War, Hitler's Luftwaffe dropped 38 high explosive bombs and an estimated 3,500 incendiary bombs in the Parish; the only loss of life, however, was a pig.

Eddie Ward

In his reply, Ward was bitterly hostile to the Prime Minister, calling him "a posturing individual with the scowl of a Mussolini, the bombast of a Hitler and the physical proportions of a Göring".

Edward Grigg, 1st Baron Altrincham

Grigg's return to politics coincided with the rise to power of Adolf Hitler as German chancellor.

Eleonore Baur

In 1920, Baur met Adolf Hitler on a tram in Munich and helped found the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP)).

Frank Leech

In 1937 he gave shelter to a number of anarchists of the Schwarzrotgruppe (a group advocating the assassination of Adolf Hitler), fleeing Nazi Germany after a foiled plot to end the Führer's life.

Fredric Warburg

Other notable publications include the controversial The Third Eye by Lobsang Rampa in 1956, Pierre Boulle's classic The Bridge over the River Kwai, Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, and William Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1960).

Gays, Illinois

West of the outhouse is the former site of what was claimed to be Hitler’s bicycle.

Gottlob Berger

The sentence was reduced to 10 years in 1951 because of his refusal to kill The Prominente in Oflag IV-C at Colditz Castle, despite direct orders from Adolf Hitler.

Hitler's Grave

During an interview with the German TV channel ARD and with the respected journalist Henryk Broder Shokof compared the Iranian regime and its dangers to be worse than the Adolf Hitler with the reasoning that today we have global Internet systems and the world is connected and watching every move everyone makes.

Jenny Sparks: The Secret History of the Authority

She encounters notable historical and fictional characters such as Albert Einstein, Adolf Hitler when he was an unemployed artist and again when he had become Führer of Germany, Ernest Hemingway and Rumpole.

John Bean

A journalist commented in 1962 that Jordan was becoming the British Adolf Hitler, Bean jokingly responded to the Daily Mail reporter that that made him "the British Joseph Goebbels".

John Lysak

While observing some of the athletic events, he claims to have witnessed Adolf Hitler refusing to congratulate or shake the hand of Jesse Owens.

Konrad Heiden

Konrad Heiden (7 August 1901 – 18 June 1966) was an influential Jewish journalist and historian of the Weimar Republic and Nazi eras, most noted for the first influential biographies of German dictator Adolf Hitler.

Merry Gentry

The point of divergence from normal history is not provided, although hints are given about how the faerie history intersects with human history (Adolf Hitler, the Irish Potato Famine, and Thomas Jefferson are examples).

Military history of the Soviet Union

Soviet participation in the Spanish Civil War was greatly influenced by the growing tension between Stalin and Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany and an avid supporter of the fascist forces of Francisco Franco.

Operation Osprey

Planning for Osprey began after conversations between German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Führer Adolf Hitler in the weeks following the arrival of a contingent of 4,508 US troops and engineers in Belfast commanded by Major-General Russell P. Hartle, the Commanding General of the 34th Division.

Paul Frölich

Following the rise to power of Adolf Hitler in 1933, Frölich was imprisoned, remaining in custody in a concentration camp in Lichtenberg until December of that year.

Paul Schmitthenner

Paul Schmitthenner (15 December 1884 – 11 November 1972) was a German architect and city planner from Lauterbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, one of Adolf Hitler's architects.

Rick Adelman

Adelman questioned Jackson's motivational techniques when it was learned that Jackson compared Adelman to Adolf Hitler.

Ruin value

The idea was supported by Adolf Hitler, who planned for such ruins to be a symbol of the greatness of the Third Reich, just as Ancient Greek and Roman ruins were symbolic of those civilisations.

Sleepers, Wake!

Thomas Edison and Henry Ford have shaped human experience more broadly and enduringly than Lenin and Hitler.

Sterneckerbräu

On 12 September 1919, Adolf Hitler attended a meeting of the DAP on behalf of the intelligence command of the army.

Teichfuss Sparviero

The following month Mantelli flew it from Bolongna to Rome where on the 15 May, during a visit from Adolf Hitler it gave a well received aerobatic demonstration.

The Obsolete Man

Wordsworth compares the Chancellor to Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, and asks "History teaches you nothing, does it?"

Walther Mayer

In 1933, after Hitler's assumption of power, he followed Einstein to the United States and became an associate in mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

Wilhelm Filchner

Adolf Hitler awarded him the German National Prize for Art and Science as an acknowledgement of his achievements in exploration.

YTMND

In May 2009, the Pez corporation sent a cease-and-desist letter regarding two YTMNDs depicting fake Pez dispensers with Adolf Hitler and Charles Manson's heads on the containers, which they found insulting, and demanded that YTMND refrain from allowing any Pez-related items to be displayed on the site.