Nickname For Hitler Stache
51. Hitler’s mustache style was commonly called Rotzbremse, which means “snot brake.”
52. To encourage rivalry and increase his control, Adolf Hitler would deliberately issue contradictory instructions to officers whose responsibilities he knew would overlap.
53. The Hitlers were among the early settlers of southern Ohio, and this included a local dentist called Dr. Gay Hitler.
54. Hitler’s plan for Moscow after its capture in World War II was to have every resident killed and the city replaced by a lake.
55. At the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, the Nazis mocked the United States for depending on “non-human black auxiliaries.” The American Black athlete Jesse Owens later won four gold medals and defeated a German in the long jump before Hitler. Four years after Owens died, a street in Berlin was renamed for him.
56. Following World War 1, the railway cars Germany had surrendered were kept by the French in a museum. During World War 2, as France was getting ready to surrender, Hitler ordered the museum walls demolished and the railway cars moved back to the exact location of the 1918 armistice to shame the French.
57. In a 1939 poll of students entering Princeton University as freshmen, Adolf Hitler was selected as the “greatest living person.” Albert Einstein, who was serving as a Princeton professor then, placed second.
58. When word of the Pearl Harbor attack reached Hitler’s headquarters, one of the gathered Nazi generals awkwardly asked the others where Pearl Harbor was. No one could tell him, so a world map had to be brought out.
59. Even though he was allied with Japan, Hitler had intended to wage war against the “Yellow People” of Asia in a final clash between the Nazis and the Japanese Empire to determine who would really rule the world after an Axis victory.
60. The Edelweiss Pirates were a loosely organized youth movement in Nazi Germany committed to resisting the Hitler Youth. Their opposition involved distributing Allied propaganda in Germany, helping German deserters, and, whenever they could, getting into street fights with the Hitler Youth.
Vienna Shared by Icons
61. In 1913, Hitler, Freud, Tito, Stalin, and Trotsky all lived within 2 square miles of one another in Vienna.
62. Hitler mistakenly bombed his nephew’s home in Liverpool, and the nephew then moved to the United States to fight alongside the Allies.
63. In the 1930s and early 1940s, Hitler led the world’s most powerful anti-smoking campaign.
64. During World War II, a double agent named Juan Pujol Garcia created a spy ring of 27 sub-agents of his own, and none of them actually existed. He filed expense reports for them and had the Nazis paying him to cover their salaries. He later received the Iron Cross, which Hitler personally approved.
65. Adolf Hitler had uncontrollable flatulence, used cocaine to clear his nasal passages, took as many as 28 drugs at once, and got injections of bull testicle extracts to enhance his libido.
66. Hitler had a relative known as “Paddy Hitler” who later joined the US Navy and, like every other recruit, had to complete a form naming any relatives who might be fighting for the enemy.
67. Hitler once wore a full mustache, but during WWI he was told to shorten it to a “toothbrush” so it would fit better with a gas mask.
68. Orthocarbonic Acid is known as “Hitler’s Acid” because the arrangement of its molecules looks like a swastika.
69. At the 1936 Olympics, which Hitler promoted to show that whites are superior, Peru defeated Austria 4-2 in soccer even though three of their other goals were disallowed. The Olympic Committee later canceled the match and set up a rematch to be held under close grounds. Peru then withdrew from the Olympics.
70. After taking power in January 1933, the Nazi Party enacted a broad set of animal protection laws, and Hitler said, “In the new Reich, no more animal cruelty will be allowed.”
Lawyer Humbles Hitler
71. A Jewish lawyer named Hans Litten placed the rising politician Adolf Hitler in the witness box and questioned him for 3 hours. Litten was later arrested when the Nazis came to power and was brutally tortured for 5 years until he committed suicide.
72. Nazi Germany built up enormous stocks of nerve gas during World War II. It was never ultimately used because Hitler was told, incorrectly, that the Allies had their own nerve agent supplies.
73. After Hitler ordered the arrest and deportation of Denmark’s Jewish population in 1943, Danish citizens organized a huge evacuation of Jews to neutral Sweden, despite the danger. In the end, 99% of Danish Jews survived the Holocaust.
74. Hitler’s chief architect, Albert Speer, supported the “theory of ruin value”: the idea that buildings should be designed so that, centuries later, they collapse into visually appealing ruins over thousands of years.
75. Before he became Chancellor, Hitler was summoned as a witness in a murder trial involving 4 storm troopers. He was cross examined for a little over 3 hours, lost his temper, and his outburst is preserved in the testimony.
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