Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945?) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party, commonly known as the Nazi Party. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and served as head of state as Führer und Reichskanzler from 1934 to ...
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In Pre-WWII peacetime Germany, were there about 18,000-20,000 suicides per year?
In a discourse to his staff in 1943, Hitler made this claim:
In peacetime Germany, about 18,000 or 20,000 people a year chose to commit suicide, [...] Source
Was this true?
I'm skeptical of ...
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Did Hitler borrow his mustache from Chaplin?
The Wikipedia article on the toothbrush mustache quotes the journalist and historian Ron Rosenbaum about the speculation that Hitler modeled his mustache on Charlie Chaplin:
Adolf Hitler was a fan ...
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Was it common among soldiers to put boot blacking on other soldiers' private parts during WW I?
The claim is hidden in a long article about some other ... uhm delicate ... myths surrounding Hitler here:
according to a former comrade of Hitler's from the trenches, Hans
Mend, his comrades ...
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Did Hitler only have one testicle?
It has been suggested many times that Adolf Hitler suffered from monorchism - i.e. he had only one testicle. Amusingly, people always seem to remember that it was (supposedly) his left testicle that ...
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Were there ever any photos/pictures of Hitler's bunker published by Allied armies? [closed]
I was reading this website article which describes how a Life photographer had captured (photo numbers 2-6) the insides of Führerbunker and the place where Adolf Hitler and his wife Eva Braun killed ...
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Are Adolf Hitler's DNA samples available?
A recent report published by LePoint claims that a Frenchman named Jean-Marie Loret is Hitler's son. The evidence in favor of this claim cited by the Huffington Post includes:
Hitler and Loret ...
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Did Hitler survive until 1962?
I noticed this book, "Grey Wolf: The Escape Of Adolf Hitler", mentioned (without real criticism) in a major Icelandic newspaper. According to the article, the book claims Hitler did not kill himself, ...
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Was Hitler Jewish?
What evidence is there to show conclusively that Hitler was or was not Jewish or had Jewish ancestry even if he was not a practicing Jew?
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Were Hitler and the Nazis obsessed with the occult?
The claim that Hitler and the Nazis were obsessed with the occult is embedded in our pop culture now, and often repeated in documentaries as if it is an established fact. (At least in the kinds of ...
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Did Hitler design the VW Beetle?
It if often cited that Adolf Hitler designed the VW Beetle. Is there any truth to this myth, did he perhaps commission it?
It seems strange that a car supposedly designed in the 30s could have been ...
