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Use this tag for questions about Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945.

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 1945. Hitler is most remembered for his central leadership role in the rise of fascism in Europe, World War II and The Holocaust.

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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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Was there a sex hormone plan to feminise Hitler?

Source: The Telegraph Agents planned to smuggle doses of oestrogen into his food to make him less aggressive and more like his docile younger sister Paula, who worked as a secretary. Spies working for the British were close enough to Hitler to have…
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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 this claim because 18,000 seems to be a very large…
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Did Hitler ever make this quote?

Found this one floating around going viral. Has the moment that Richard Spencer was punched in the face, followed by this quote. "Only one thing could have stopped our movement - if our adversaries had understood its principle and from the first…
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Did Hitler say "Thank God I've always avoided persecuting my enemies"?

I found an old book called The Bad Guys' Quote Book (by Robert Singer) in a secondhand bookstore. On the cover there is a quote from Adolph Hitler, which I have also found in other paraphrases: "Thank God I've always avoided persecuting my…
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Did Hitler say "Who speaks today of the extermination of the Armenians?"

This article claims that just a week before the September 1, 1939 invasion of Poland, Hitler asked: Who speaks today of the extermination of the Armenians? Did Hitler say this quote or something along those lines? This question is not about the…
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Did Hitler say: "I would have killed all the Jews of the world, but I kept some to show the world why I killed them"?

Did Hitler ever say : "I would have killed all the Jews of the world, but I kept some to show the world why I killed them"? This one and similar in meaning can be seen on many websites.
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Did Adolf Hitler offer to make Dhyan Chand a Field Marshal in the German army?

There is a popular story about Indian field hockey legend, Dhyan Chand, and his encounter with Adolf Hitler at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Here is one randomly selected version of it: Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler who left midway as he could not bear to…
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Was the Nazi Hakenkreuz logo based on the Indic swastika?

"Swastika" is sanskrit word for an ancient geometrical symbol, broadly used in Indic cultures. Amongst countries that were involved with World War II, it is associated with the Nazi flag, designed by Adolf Hitler, which used a stylised swastika…
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Did Hitler ban round goldfish bowls because he thought they were cruel?

In the MythBuster's episode Sinking Titantic they carried out an experiment on goldfish memory. As part of this they interviewed an expert who stated that Hitler banned round goldfish bowls because he thought they were cruel because the fish could…
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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 of Chaplin, but "there is no evidence (though some…
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Is this quote by Adolf Hitler?

In Willfully Ignorant, Pat Miller attributes a quote to Hitler in Mein Kampf.  The quote has recently been getting some traction on the internet without mentioning Miller’s novel.  I can't find it in an English translation of Mein Kampf. If any…
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Did Hitler say "We'll work a hundred years without physics and chemistry"?

Hitler is reported to have been told by Carl Bosch in 1933 that if Jewish scientists were forced to leave Germany, physics and chemistry would be set back 100 years. He's reported (in the comments section) to have replied "Then we'll work a hundred…
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Did Hitler say: “My mother was an ordinary woman, but she gave Germany a great son”?

Triumph Over Violence is a Soviet movie from 1965 which talks about the nazi Germany. Among others, the movie contains a quote attributed to Hitler: My mother was an ordinary woman, but she gave Germany a great son. See, for instance, Speaking…
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Was Hitler a necrophiliac?

In "The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness", Fromm claims Hitler was "a clinical case of necrophilia" in Chapter 13. Is Fromme justified in this? Is this a redefinition of the term Necrophilia? Is there any evidence that hitler was obsessed with…
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