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Monday, February 14, 2011

Facts About Adolf Hitler - strangefacts

  • Adolf Hitler was claustrophobic and installed a mirror in his elevator just to keep him from being scared 
  • King Kong was Adolf Hitler's favorite movie
  • Adolf Hitler loved chocolate cake
  • Adolf Hitler wanted to be an architect, but he failed the entrance exam at the architectural school in Vienna
  • Adolf Hitler was one of the people that was responsible in the creation of the Volkswagen Beetle
  • Hitler and Napolean both had only one testical
  • Adolf Hitler was Time's Man of the Year for 1938
  • Richard Marowitz who lives in New Jersey once took one of Adolf Hitler's hats and now keeps it in safety deposit box. The hat is said to be worth $35,000
  • Germania was the name Adolf Hitler gave to the projected renewal of the German capital Berlin, part of his vision for the future of Germany after the planned victory in World War II
  • Adolf Hitler's typewriter survived from his mountain retreat and is exhibited at the Hall of History in Bessemer
  • During the final days of the war in 1945, Hitler married his long-time mistress Eva Braun. Less than 24 hours later, the two committed suicide
  • The Holocaust was the systematic annihilation of six million Jews during the Nazi genocide by Hitler and in 1933 nine million Jews lived in the 21 countries of Europe that would be occupied by Nazi Germany during World War 2
  • By 1945 two out of every three European Jews had been killed and estimates range as high as 1.5 million murdered children during the Holocaust
  • A German businessman trained his dog to do the Hitler salute 
  • The Dr Seuss book 'Yertle the Turtle' was based on Adolf Hitler
  • The New York phone book has 22 'Hitler' names listed before World War II, and none after