10 Facts You Didn’t Know About Hitler
1. Nazi Rallies were Inspired by Harvard Cheerleaders
Hitler’s good friend, Ernst Hanfstaengl, had been sent to study at Harvard by his parents. When he returned, he described the cheerleaders to Adolf, who became obsessed with the idea of stirring blind enthusiasm in this way. “‘Rah, rah, rah’ became “Sig Heil, Heil Hitler,” Hanfstaengl recalled later. “That is the origin of it, and I suppose I must take my part of the blame.”
2. He was a draft dodger
As an Austrian, he was required to register for the draft at the age of 20. Historians believe that his failure to do this is the reason he changed addresses so frequently in this period. After five years, Austrian authorities finally tracked him to Munich. They returned him to Austria, where he promptly failed his military physical, was judged unfit for combat, and let go.
3. He was a chronic hypochondriac
He feared disease, and diagnosed himself with numerous conditions, mostly intestinal disorders. He treated these with medications containing poisonous wood alcohol, atropine and strychnine, and bacteria cultivated from human feces. He resorted to leeches to lower his blood pressure. And near the end of the war, he became increasingly concerned about “fresh air poisoning.”
4. He became a vegetarian after attending the autopsy of a girlfriend
She killed herself after being actively pursued by Hitler. He was grief stricken, and felt compelled to attend the autopsy. Afterward, he refused to eat meat, and took every opportunity to ruin meat for others. He would often make jokes about preparing a pudding made from his blood, and called beef broth “corpse tea”
5. Hitler enjoyed playing practical jokes on his staff
One of his favorite targets was his foreign minister. He would have a staffer call the minister with the news that Hitler was furious with something he had said. Hitler would listen on the phone, providing further instructions to drive the minister to a nervous breakdown. One prank famously backfired, when he sent Ernst Hanfstaengl into Spain on a plane full of Gestapo, and made him think he was being set up for a suicide mission. Hanfstaengl took an opportunity while refueling to board a train to Switzerland, and before anyone could let him in on the joke, he turned himself in to the Allies, becoming an invaluable source of information.
6. Hitler was an accomplished whistler
He experimented briefly with playing the harmonica and flute, and sang occasionally, but whistling was his best talent. He could whistle loudly and on pitch, and could even reproduce long passages from Wagner with incredible accuracy.
7. He was a rabid fan of cinema
Having been inspired to a life of oratory prowess by the 1910 film The Tunnel, Hitler was a lifelong fan of movies. After gaining power, he regularly held private screenings for his inner circle. His favorite actresses were Greta Garbo and Shirley Temple. He didn’t care for Charlie Chaplin, even before he made The Great Dictator, and it’s doubtful he ever saw it. He also enjoyed King Kong, even taking to celebrating victories by pounding his chest.
8. He had a dainty sweet tooth
Hitler regularly ate up to two pounds of chocolate a day, in addition to pastries and hot chocolate with copious amounts of whipped cream. He generally took his tea with seven teaspoons of sugar, and Ernst Hanfstaengl once witnessed Hitler adding spoonfuls of sugar to a glass of red wine.
9. He is seen in a famous photograph taken at the beginning of World War One
It is a picture taken by Heinrich Hoffman, who incidentally would later become Hitler’s personal photographer, on the day Germany declared war on Russia in 1914. Hitler can be seen, just an anonymous face in the crowd, clearly very excited by the prospect of war.
He would serve as a dispatch runner in the war, thriving on the terrible conditions at the front, before mustard gas damaged his vocal chords, forcing Hitler to learn to speak again.
10. His dog had a rather large effect on his war policy
Hitler was very proud of his German Shepherd named Blondi. He spent countless hours training her, and would even interrupt meetings with generals to practice her tricks. The generals realized that if Blondi did well, Hitler was in a better mood, and more likely to take their advice. If she did poorly, he would become sullen and stubborn. One of the officers later said, “I sometimes had the impression that the outcome of the Russian campaign depended more on Blondi than the German general staff.
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How about the fact that he was a very talented artist?
he was part jewish
his mom was a prostitute.
it is suspected that Hitler was Jewish but their is no way to prove it because he had all records disposed of
he had one testicle, no joke
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,454744,00.html
How about he was the first to implement the smoking ban? Sure it was because it was found that nicotine affected birth difficulties to his precious Aryan race, but, he was still the first.. and it was only for women in the ages of 18-25 i believe, not positive on the ages though
He was inbred.
Wanted to be a painter & Drew Disney Cartoons
He Failed High School & by using his diploma as Toilet paper
Was Once homeless Most of his siblings died before age 8
He hated his Father…Alot
Liked his dog more than his wife
he was a raging homosexual
John: Why would you accuse Adolf Hitler of being homosexual? Where is your evidence of his sexual orientation?
Leighann: I completely agree! Adolf Hitler was extremely talented and an exceptional artist.
Mikayla: Why do you believe that he was part Jewish? Adolf Hitler hated the Jews. You can’t say that he hated them because he was one. That wouldn’t match up with his psychological profile in the least. No, Adolf Hitler was not a Jew.
Mikayla- there is no proof at all that he was part Jewish.
John- he wasn’t homosexual, he was in fact asexual, i.e. had no interest in the subject. Partly why he not only didn’t like jokes on the matter but had no children in spite of being a firm supporter of large (German) families.
apparently hitlers dad was jewish & the thing that made him detest the jews was his own hate for his father…
It is rumoured, Hitler smuggled a copy of Charlie Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator” into Germany, after he had banned the movie in all of his conquered territories, because Chaplin had losely based the character on Hitler. He had an exclusive screening for his inner circle. After Chaplin, was told about this incident, he claimed he would have given anything for hearing what Hitler thought of his film. But sadly nobody ever knew what he thought of it.
Playing that trick on Ernst… He really was an asshole
he was still an ass
I learned that he was extremely paranoid. I also learned that he had anSTD before he killed himself
You , simpleton commentetors!!!!
how all of you can think about this? He hated jewish because one of them “killed” his mother – she had cancer and that jewish was doctor and he didn’t save her life.
First – Hitler wasn’t homosexual, he had his girlfriend and wife – Eva, and she said they lived normal sexual life.
Second – he wasn’t jewish
Yes, maybe he was totally asshole and psychopat, but think about that – how can he subjugate everyone’s German heart? He was very charismatic, but that is not everything.
Please , think about that – Hitler was not only dangerous and stupid dictator, but beloved and honest man.
He was a great leader, who did what needed to be done, jews deserved what happened to them, since what goes around comes around
Afterall the world would have been like this if it wasnt for him, long live national socialism, and by the way, semitism is a race, like aryan, so for all the ignorants shut up, arabs and turks are semitism and most people on the mediterenean sea, and their is alot of black jews!!! thats like saying africans are aryans!!! grow up, their is nothing as anti-semitism, its like saying I want to kill all caucasian looking people