INVESTIGATES: AdolfHitler | 1. Historians note that, more so than Stalin orMao’s regime, Hitler’s dictatorship stands as a paradigm of the20th century. It reflects unforeseen levels of state repression andviolence, unparalleled manipulation of the media to control andmobilize the masses, acute dangers of über-nationalism, thedestructive power of ideologies of racial superiority and racism,and a perverted use of modern technology and socialengineering. 2. Historians note thatHitler’s regime is particularly chilling because it reveals how amodern, advanced, cultured society can rapidly sink into barbarityand genocide. In short, Hitler’s dictatorship reveals what we arecapable of. 3. As it is their goal todo this for all people who have ever lived on the Earth, Mormonsposthumously baptized and endowed Hitler in 1993. He was “sealed”to his parents on March 12, 1994. Both took place inEngland. 4. A recently openedclothing store in the Indian metropolis of Ahmedabad is named“Hitler.” A swastika dots the letter “i” inHitler. 5. Hitler’s immediatelegacy is dramatic and includes the Cold War, a split Germany, theIron Curtain, nuclear weapons, and moral trauma. 6. Hitler’s longestrelationship was with Eva Braun (1912-1945). She tried to commitsuicide twice in an attempt to garner more of Hitler’sattention. 7. Hitler was a giftedorator but had a raspy voice as a consequence of a gas attack hesuffered during WWI. 8. When Hitler’s closeassociate Ernst Hanfstaengl told him that his short mustache wasunfashionable, Hitler replied: “If it is not the fashion now, itwill be because I wear it.” 9. Historians arguewhether Hitler was a natural consequence of German history or anaberration of it. 10. Hitler and Eva Braunwere married in 1945 and killed themselves 36 hours later. Braunwas 33 years old. Hitler was 56. 11. In his last will andtestament that he dictated to his secretary Traudl Junge(1920-2002), Hitler stated that “in spite of all set backs” the war“will one day go down in history as the most glorious and heroicmanifestation of a people’s will to live.” 12. In 2009, DNA testsreveled that the skull fragment long thought to have been Hitler’sis that of an unknown woman under 40. Scientists don’t believe theskull belongs to Evan Braun because she committed suicide bycyanide rather than with a gun. 13. Hitler’s unusualmedical remedies included enemas and leeches. 14. The name “Adolph”means “noble wolf.” Hitler used the pseudonym Herr Wolf early inhis career when he wanted to avoid recognition. He named hisheadquarters “Wolf’s Lair” and “Wolf’s Headquarters” and named hisfavorite German shepherd puppy “Wolf.” 15. Hitler never gainedmajority support in free elections. The most the National SocialistGerman Workers Party (NSDAP) garnered was 37.3% in July 1932. In1933, when Hitler became Chancellor, the Nazis had only one thirdof the seats in the Reichstag. 16. After becomingChancellor of Germany, Hitler ordered a wave of assassinations andexecutions called the “Blood Purge,” which was aimed at rivalswithin the party. He justified these murders by saying that therewould be no further upheavals in Germany for a thousand years oncethese rebels were killed. The Reich lasted a little more than 12years. 17. Hitler’s father’sname was originally Alois Schicklgruber but changed it to AloisHitler in 1876, 13 years before Adolf was born. He later said thatnothing his father had done had pleased him so much as when hechanged his name. It is unclear why he changed hisname. 18. Hitler’s family hadfor generations been a peasant family, small holders in theWaldviertel, a poor area in the northwestern part of Lower Austria,bordering on Bohemia. The people there had a reputation for beinghard nosed, dour, and unwelcoming. 19. Hitler’s father,Alois, was born on June 7, 1837, in the village of Strones. He wasthe illegitimate child of Maria Anna Schicklgruber (1792-1857) whowas 42 years old when she gave birth. There is some speculationthat Johann Georg Hiedler, a man whom Maria Anna married five yearsafter Alois birth, may have been his father. 20. Hitler’s father wasmarried three times. First to a woman much older than himself, thento women who were young enough to be hisdaughters. |
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21. Klara Polzl(1860-1907) was Hitler’s mother and was the eldest of only threesurviving children out of 11. Officially, Hitler’s father, Alois,and his mother were second cousins and needed government permissionto marry.
22. Hitler was born onApril 20, 1889, at half past six in the evening on an EasterSaturday in Braunau Am Inn, Austria.
23. The name Hitler means“small holder” and appears interchangeably with the names Hiedler,Hietler, Huttler, and Hutler.
24. It was significant toHitler that he was born in a town on the very frontier of theAustrian and the German empires. Very early in his life he feltloyal to the Germans and rejected the multinational HapsburgEmpire.
25. Both of Hitler’sparents died before he was 19. His mother died of breast cancer in1907, when he was 18 years old. His father died of pleuralhemorrhage in 1903, when Hitler was 14 years old.
26. Dr. Bloch, the Jewishphysician who cared for Hitler’s mother, noted that in nearly 50years of his career as a doctor, he had never seen a young man asbroken with grief as Adolf Hitler was at the death of his mother.He had carried her picture with him down to the last days in thebunker.
27. Hitler’s father wasan authoritarian, overbearing, domineering husband and a stern,distant, masterful, and irritable father. Long after theirmarriage, Hitler’s mother Klara could not break the habit ofcalling him Uncle.
28. Hitler was adecorated WWI veteran. He received the Iron Cross, Second Class in1914. He received the Iron Cross, First Class in 1918. He alsoreceived the Black Wound Badge on May 18, 1918.
29. Hitler was imprisonedin 1923 when he participated in the Beer Hall Putsch, which was anattempt to overthrow the government. During his time in prison, hewrote his memoir, Mein Kampf (MyStruggle).
30. The purpose ofHitler’s domestic and foreign policies was to accumulate moreliving space or “Lebensraum” for the Germanpeople.
31. Hitler’s racism andsupremacists policies led to the murder of 11 million people, whichincludes 6 million Jews. Overall, between 50-70 million died duringWWII.
32. Hitler believed thatGermany lost WWI because the German army was “stabbed in the back”on the home front by Marxists (“November Criminals”) and civilianleaders.
33. Hitler was the 4th of6 children. His older siblings Gustav, Ida, and Otto died ininfancy. His younger brother Edmund would die of the measles in1900, when Hitler was 11. Only a sister, Paula, would survive toadulthood.
34. Contrary to hisfather’s wishes to become a civil servant, Hitler’s dream was tobecome an artist. However, he was rejected by the Academy of FineArts Vienna twice (1907, 1908).
35. Hitler lived brieflyin a homeless shelter after his mother died and after his secondrejection from an art school.
36. In MeinKampf, Hitler states he first became an anti-Semite when helived in Vienna, which was a center of religious prejudice and19th-century racism. Most historians agree that his violentanti-Semitism emerged after Germany’s defeat inWWI.
37. Hitler effectivelyused the Treaty of Versailles as a political tool. The treaty madeGermany relinquish several of its territories, it imposed severeeconomic sanctions, and it declared Germany responsible for thewar. Many Germans felt that the treaty completely humiliatedGermany.
38. After WWI, Hitlerstayed in the army in intelligence, where he met his mentor AntonDrexler (1884-1942), a leader in the German Worker’s Party (whichlater became the Nazi party) and a fervent nationalist. In February1920, Hitler and Drexler published their “25 Points” which refusedthe terms of the Versailles Treaty, called the reunification of allGerman people, and preached virulentanti-Semitism.
39. Historians have notedthat Hitler had almost hypnotic oratory over large groups and thathe used his own personal charisma and an understanding of crowdpsychology while public speaking.
40. Hitler was influencedby Aufbau Vereinigung (Reconstruction Organization), a group thatwas made up of White Russian exiles and National Socialists whowere financed by wealthy industrialists like HenryFord.
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