Extended Care and Leave
76. Under Hitler, health care for wage earners became unlimited, and maternity leave was lengthened to 12 fully paid weeks with job protection.
77. British intelligence planners seriously thought about secretly putting small amounts of estrogen into Adolf Hitler’s food to “make his character less aggressive” and to make his mustache fall off.
78. Hitler’s doctor gave him injections of a water and methamphetamine solution, which he named “vitamultin.” He kept a record of the drugs he gave Hitler, usually by injection, up to 20 times each day. The list included drugs such as heroin and poisons.
79. Almost all earnings from Hitler’s “Mein Kampf,” his image, and his artwork are given to charity. Bavaria holds the rights and sometimes struggles to find a charity willing to accept them, since they are widely seen as “blood money.”
80. If Hitler’s father had not changed his name in 1877, Hitler would have been named “Adolf Schicklgruber.”
81. Hitler wrote a second book after Mein Kampf in 1928. In it, he explains why he would wage war in Europe and how he admired US eugenics programs. It was never published because he feared it would reduce the already low sales of Mein Kampf.
82. The plans to kill Adolf Hitler were called off because it was feared that his replacement would be a more rational and effective leader.
83. “Reductio ad Hitlerum” refers to trying to sidetrack an argument by comparing it with Hitler’s views or those of the Nazi party.
84. Hitler admired the Greek resistance against the invading German army so much that he ordered all Greek prisoners of war to be released for “their gallant bearing.”
85. The Nazi party tried to remake Christmas into a nonreligious holiday that celebrated Hitler’s arrival, replacing Saint Nicholas with Odin, the “Solstice Man,” and placing swastikas on top of Christmas trees.
Bones Rediscovered, DNA Tested
86. The charred remains of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were eliminated in 1970 on the orders of KGB chief Yuri Andropov, apart from a few pieces of bone and skull that were found again in 1993. In 2009, DNA analysis by the University of Connecticut on those fragments verified that they did not come from Hitler or Braun.
87. In Toronto in 1933, an amateur baseball match escalated into a huge race riot after a crowd of Nazi supporters, objecting to the Jewish players, displayed a crude Swastika banner. A crowd of more than 10,000 people, stirred by shouts of ‘Heil Hitler,’ suddenly turned into an unruly mob.
88. A German writer released a novel in 2012 titled Er ist Wieder da (He’s back again), in which Hitler awakens in contemporary Berlin with no recollection of anything since 1945 and ends up as a comedian.
89. Adolf Hitler faced more than 40 attempts on his life.
90. Hitler had a Jewish-Austrian physician who did not bill Hitler’s family during his childhood because they were financially struggling. For that reason, Hitler showed his “Everlasting Gratitude” by never having him sent to a concentration camp, arranging for the Gestapo to protect him, and calling him “Noble Jew”.
91. Hitler intended to transform Berlin after the war into a neo-Roman cosmopolitan city. One state building, the Volkshalle, was planned to be so enormous that rain could fall inside during events because of the perspiration and breath of 150,000 people.
92. In World War I, a British soldier spared a wounded German infantryman, who later was revealed to be Adolf Hitler.
93. During World War II, German General Erwin Rommel would not follow Hitler’s command to kill Jewish prisoners of war.
94. Hitler enjoyed practical jokes. On one occasion, he deceived a senior Nazi into believing he was being sent on a suicide mission, which led him to flee, surrender to the Allies, and reveal crucial information.
95. Hitler came to dislike soccer because it could not be manipulated to guarantee German wins against non-Germans.
Bank Signal Hidden Nose
96. The stockbroker hand sign for Deutsche Bank is the index finger held horizontally beneath the nose. It comes from Hitler’s mustache.
97. In 1960, Israeli agents watched a house in Argentina because they suspected Hitler associate Adolph Eichmann and his family had moved there. After observing him arrive and leave for weeks, they confirmed it when he returned home carrying a bouquet of flowers on Mar. 21, Eichmann’s 25th wedding anniversary.
98. There is just one recording of Hitler’s voice in which he is not speaking publicly. It is a secret 1942 conversation between him and Finnish leader Mannerheim, captured by a sound engineer.
99. Munich’s tax office fined Hitler 405.494 Reichsmarks for failing to pay taxes and for not properly reporting his income. Rather than paying, the new Führer simply declared himself exempt from taxes.
100. Wilhelm Furtwängler, a prominent German conductor, described Hitler as a “hissing street pedlar” and an “enemy of the human race”. He also refused to perform the Nazi salute, wrote open letters condemning antisemitism, and once shouted at Hitler about Nazi cultural policy.
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