A Brief History
In another article, we featured an interesting fact of Adolf Hitler (Adolf Hitler only became a naturalized German citizen on February 25, 1932.) Here we list 10 more little-known facts about one of history’s most evil men!
Digging Deeper
10. Hitler was a vegetarian and frequently had gas! Irritable bowel syndrome, syphilis and heart problems may also have ailed him.
9. Hitler had been a corporal during World War I, was decorated for bravery and wounded by poison gas. (No connection to the above!)
8. Hitler’s father was illegitimate, originally given the last name of Schicklgruber and later changing it to Hitler (or Hiedler, Huettler or Hutler).
7. Hitler’s father may have had Jewish blood, but his mother was Roman Catholic. Hitler himself never attended church after childhood.
6. Hitler did poor in academics and was rejected by an art school, although he tried to make a living painting water colors.
5. Before World War I, Hitler lived in a homeless shelter and a home for poor men.
4. Despite the Nazi ideal of the “Nordic” German Aryan being tall, blond and athletic, Hitler and the other high-ranking Nazis (Goring, Himmler, Goebbels) were none of those! And to top things off, Hitler’s lover, Eva Braun, even dressed as a black man on at least one occasion:
3. Hitler wrote his seminal book, Mein Kampf, while serving only 1 year of a 5-year prison term for high treason, remarkably light punishment for such a crime.
2. Hitler’s half-niece killed herself with Hitler’s pistol, probably due to Hitler’s new love, Eva Braun whom Hitler would go on to marry right before the two of them committed suicide in 1945.
1. Hitler’s body was burned by loyal followers after his suicide, but his remains were found and secretly kept by the Soviets until 1970 when they were burned completely and the ashes scattered into a tributary of the river Elbe. Right before his suicide, a bitter Hitler had ordered that Germans should destroy all remaining industry and demolish everything of value, as Germany had proved itself unworthy of remaining as a nation! So much for the Master Race!
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Historical Evidence
For more information, please read…
Hitler, Adolf. Mein Kampf (Deluxe Hardbound Edition). Fingerprint! Publishing, 2019.
Steigmann-Gall, Richard. The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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Interesting, I didn’t know many of those facts about Hitler.
These facts are quite interesting, especially that Hitler wasn’t a born German.
I was in a holocaust class im high school, and most of these facts I already knew. Another interesting fact is he only had one testicle.
Its kind of interesting that no one revolted against him for the master race, as him and a lot of the top officials didn’t even portray the master race looks. Hitler was one crazy guy for world history!
Had he been accepted to art school and not been sent to a Jewish school, would he have turned out differently? He was a man full of hate and who did horrible atrocities towards the human race. Jewish people ran into a monster. Maybe, all of his health problems affected his mental state.
Of course we hear about the deviant things he did, but less about the human that he was. Truth is Hitler was a human, and not a monster. Not say what he did what right. But put a man in political power with a personal grudge and there you have it.
Wow I did not know many of these facts about Hitler.
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Many of these facts are new to me. I had no idea he was not well off before his reign, attending homeless shelters and such. It is also interesting to see how they went about the disposal of his remains.
The only new fact I learned was that Hitler did not become a German citizen until 1932. I just assumed he had made himself a citizen once he took power.