Adolf Hitler - Biography, Achievements and Quotes

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP); National Socialist German Workers Party). He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany (as Führer und Reichskanzler) from 1934 to 1945. Hitler was at the centre of Nazi Germany, World War II in Europe, and the Holocaust.

Hitler was a decorated veteran of World War I. He joined the German Workers' Party (precursor of the NSDAP) in 1919, and became leader of the NSDAP in 1921. In 1923, he attempted a coup d'état in Munich, known as the Beer Hall Putsch. The failed coup resulted in Hitler's imprisonment, during which time he wrote his memoir, Mein Kampf (My Struggle). After his release in 1924, Hitler gained popular support by attacking the Treaty of Versailles and promoting Pan-Germanism, antisemitism, and anti-communism with charismatic oratory and Nazi propaganda. After his appointment as chancellor in 1933, he transformed the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich, a single-party dictatorship based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology of Nazism.

Hitler's aim was to establish a New Order of absolute Nazi German hegemony in continental Europe. To this end, his foreign and domestic policies had the aim of seizing Lebensraum ("living space") for the Germanic people. He directed the rearmament of Germany and the invasion of Poland by the Wehrmacht in September 1939, resulting in the outbreak of World War II in Europe. Under Hitler's rule, in 1941 German forces and their European allies occupied most of Europe and North Africa.

 In 1943, Germany had been forced onto the defensive and suffered a series of escalating defeats. In the final days of the war, during the Battle of Berlin in 1945, Hitler married his long-time partner, Eva Braun. On 30 April 1945, less than two days later, the two committed suicide to avoid capture by the Red Army, and their corpses were burned.

Hitler's supremacist and racially motivated policies resulted in the systematic murder of eleven million people, including an estimated six million Jews, and indirectly and directly caused the deaths of an estimated 50 million people during World War II.

Achievements & Facts About Adolf Hitler

• Hitler never allows anyone to see him while he is naked or bathing. He refuses to use cologne or scents of any sort on his body • No matter how warm he feels, Hitler will never take off his coat in public • In 1923, Nazi press secretary Dr. Sedgwick tried to convince Hitler to get rid of his trademark mustache or grow it normally. Hitler answered: "Do not worry about my mustache. If it is not the fashion now, it will be later because I wear it!"
• While dining with the others, Hitler will allow the conversation to linger on general topics, but after a couple of hours he will inevitably begin one of his many monologues. These speeches are flawless from start to finish because he rehearses them any time he gets a moment. • 
• If Hitler begins speaking about Wagner and the opera, no one dares interrupt him. He will often sermonize on this topic until his audience falls asleep.
• Hitler has no interest in sports or games of any kind and never exercised, except for an occasional walk. • He paces frequently inside rooms, always to the same tune that he whistles to himself and always diagonally across the room, from corner to corner • 
• Hitler's handwriting is impeccable. When famous psychologist Carl Jung saw Hitler's handwriting in 1937, he remarked: "Behind this handwriting I recognize the typical characteristics of a man with essentially feminine instinct."
• Frequently these supposed ‘Hitler facts’ involve lewd allusions to his sexuality, issues of health and hypochondria, and not least his tenuous relationship with religion.
• A particular favourite amongst mythologists is his alleged dearth of certain reproductive organs; this, however, would appear to owe more to the derogatory wartime songs of Allied soldiers than any firm evidence.
• Another popular myth surrounding Hitler is his association with the occult and black magic, a subject addressed at length in a plethora of publications, many of which cite his fascination with ‘the Holy Lance’.
• Both his time as a struggling artist in Vienna, and his encounters with Jews earlier in life, provoke considerable intrigue, as commentators seek to gauge the extent that these experiences shaped the thoughts of the future fascist dictator.  Many, for example, have drawn attention to his Jewish heritage (his great-great-grandmother was a Jewish maid).
• Military History Monthly has trawled through the wilderness, seeking to separate fact from fiction.  We have selected a few of the more likely, yet equally beguiling, facts regarding the complex, tyrannical dictator.
• The Nazi rallying call, “Sieg Heil!” was inspired by American football cheerleading techniques, supposedly imported by his friend Ernst Hanfstaengl, who studied at Harvard.  Hanfstaengl was so impressed by the rousing qualities and camaraderie inherent at American sporting events, that he passed this on to Hitler, who would in turn seek to emulate the atmosphere at his rallies.
• Vegetarianism would not be typically associated with a man known for merciless killing on such a vast scale.  However, Hitler’s dietary disposition did not stem for moral implications.  Supposedly, Hilter made the decision to become vegetarian following the autopsy of former girlfriend (and niece) Geli, who committed suicide by shooting herself in the heart.
• Incidentally, she was not the only women in his life to attempt suicide, in another bizarre association with Hitler: The British born Unity Mitford shot herself in the head upon the announcement of war, and of course, Eva Braun (who had earlier attempted suicide, following the Fuhrer’s neglect of his mistress) famously killed herself along with Hitler in his Berlin Bunker, once defeat was imminent.
• In fact, it is widely known that the swastika symbol has been used for thousands of years, in various incarnations.  Dating back to the Bronze Age, it has been been a staple in cultures from India to Scandinavia, before finally being claimed by the Nazi cause in the twentieth century.
• The name itself comes from the Sanskrit, combing su (‘good’) and asti (‘to be’), meaning ‘good luck’.  The symbol was used by the British in WWI, adorning coupons and stamps of the British Saving Scheme.
• Before the outbreak of World War I, in May 1913, the future dictator actually fled Vienna for Munich, seemingly in attempt to avoid military service.  He was arrested in January of the following year, facing a fine and a year’s imprisonment if found guilty of seeking to circumvent enlistment.
• On 2nd January 1939, Hitler was declared Time Magazine’s ‘Man of the Year 1938’.  However, far from a celebration of the man, Time noted that “Hitler became in 1938 the greatest threatening force that the democratic, freedom-loving world faces today.”  The article continues: “The man most responsible for this world tragedy is a moody, brooding, un-prepossessing, 49-year-old Austria born ascetic with a Charly Chaplin mustache [sic].”
• Hitler was advised to lose his trademark moustache by Dr Sedgwick, his press secretary, in 1923.  Hitler’s steadfast response was that “If it is not the fashion now, it will be later because I wear it!”
• It is a piece of the German tragedy that those who today are depending on the honor and fame of the field marshal are the same ones who smeared him for fourteen years, and that they are forced to oppose the man who anchored his mythos in the people over a 14-year struggle.
• Hindenburg, his officers, and his victorious army were once the target of the gutter press and the deceivers of the people. Adolf Hitler, the unknown musketeer and his loyal followers defended him from the poisonous arrows of the Reds, and worked until Germany’s army and its leaders were once again shining figures, as they were back when the cannon’s fire illuminated the night.
• Now the Red and Black barrage is aimed at Adolf Hitler, the leader of young Germany, the leader of freedom. Now he is slandered in word and picture, portrayed as a tyrant and actor, branded as a gourmet, a glutton, only because his battle slogan is: Death to Marxism so that Germany may live!
• For years we have been silent about these miserable lies. Our opponents were too crude, the Führer too noble, for us to respond. Now, however, since the people as a whole is to choose between two men, one of whom it knows only in the distorted mirror of Jewish and Marxist lies, do we chose to step forward and talk about the Führer, whom we have known from the beginning. We want to talk about Adolf Hitler as a person, as we see him.
• Well, some may say, that was twelve years ago. But today he lives in fine style, drinks champagne, and orders tablecloths that cost 20 Marks. That, at least, is what the gutter journalists write. The Red party hacks and their servants probably think that way because that is how they behave.
•  Let us look at how this man lived during the several weeks in which the National Socialist Party took in half a million marks through his speeches: he had soup, vegetables, and a bottle of mineral water. 
• No alcohol, no meat, no cigar, no cigarette. Those who doubt it can check with the hotels where Hitler stayed during his trips, and which are well known to the Jewish and Social Democratic rat finks. Adolf Hitler’s lifestyle is characterized by Spartan simplicity.
• Between trips through German territory, when there is no public meeting, no S.A. gathering, no meeting, one comes to know the Führer as an artist and person of vast knowledge. Here he shows his companions an old archway, there a German cathedral soaring to the heavens, here a splendid German bridge, there a memorial to a hero of German intellectual life. 
• He speaks of German history and how to use it, of the newest type of airplane, then in a village somewhere brushes the head of the boy of a German worker that the mother proudly raises toward him.
• He was a high school dropout. Not only that, but he repeated his sixth year and was rejected twice from art school. This takes the phrase “Hitler’s stupid” to a very different place. 
• While absolutely agreeing that the man’s coming into power and entire regime is stupid (in that ridiculous, horribly absurd way), there was a genius to his craft of speech to make people believe not only the insane things he claimed, but also that they could be achieved. That craft? As an orator. The root of dictator is shared with dictate: a speaking role, a performing role.
• Hitler was an Austrian national, but moved to Munich during his 20s. He was born in Braunau, Austria in 1889.
• Hitler always dreamed of becoming an artist. Though he did well in primary school, he dropped out of secondary school. Thus, when he applied to the Vienna Academy of Art (twice, no less), he was denied admission for not having a school-leaving certificate.
• Hitler was recovering from a gas attack when he found out Germany had surrendered. He felt personally stabbed in the back by his leaders, and that the country had been duped. This is what fueled his decision to enter politics.
• Hitler was the 55th member to join the German Workers Party in 1919. He quickly rose to a leadership position and renamed it the Nazi Party (National Socialist German Workers Party).
• Hitler gained citizenship in 1932 and was appointed chancellor in 1933. When the president died in 1934, Hitler took total power and became dictator of Germany.
• In 1938, Hitler annexed Austria into Germany without having to fire a single shot.
• The attack on Poland in 1939 is what started World War II. Thus, Hitler is blamed for starting the Second World War.
• He who has not yet entirely understood the powerful new idea of National Socialism will find the way to a New Germany through Hitler, the man.
• Allegedly, Hitler was a serial prankster, often playing jokes on his ministers and generals.  This would backfire on him tremendously, when a stunt on Hanfstaengl (who believed he was being set up for a suicide mission, whilst headed to Spain on a plane full of Gestapo men), let him to escape to Switzerland.  He would then seek refuge with the Allies, revealing vital information on his former friend and leader.
• The superstitions of great dictators often rouse much interest.  A secret profile compiled by the OSS in 1942 found that Hitler would never remove his coat in public, however hot he may have been.  Whether this stemmed from a particular superstition, or simply his greater mission to maintain his ordered, authoritative presence remains to be substantiated.
• Hitler loves the circus. He takes real pleasure in the idea that underpaid performers are risking their lives to please him. He went to the circus on several occasions in 1933 and sent extremely expensive chocolates and flowers to the female performers. Hitler even remembered their names and would worry about them and their families in the event of an accident. 
• He isn't interested in wild animal acts, unless there is a woman in danger. Nearly every night Hitler will see a movie in his private theatre, mainly foreign films that are banned to the German public. He loves comedies and will often laugh merrily at Jewish comedians. Hitler even liked a few Jewish singers, but after hearing them he would remark that it was too bad he or she wasn't Aryan. 
• Hitler staff secretly made films for him of torture and execution of political prisoners, which he very much enjoyed viewing. His executive assistants also secured pornographic pictures and movies for him. 
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Superb Quotes by Adolf Hitler

• This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the
• practical existence of a religious belief.”
• This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief
• Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: - by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord
• We will always strike first. We will always deliver the first blow.
• “If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!”
• “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
• “What luck for rulers that men do not think.”
• “Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.”
• “And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know.”
• “if you want to shine like sun first you have to burn like it.”
• “Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.”
• “When diplomacy ends, War begins.”
• “It is not truth that matters, but victory.”
• “Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.”
• “Think Thousand times before taking a decision But - After taking decison never turn back even if you get Thousand difficulties!!”
• “What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.”
• “The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes”
• For the greatest revolutionary changes on this earth would not have been thinkable if their motive force, instead of fanatical, yes, hysterical passion, had been merely the bourgeois virtues of law and order
• Even today I am not ashamed to say that, overpowered by stormy
• enthusiasm, I fell down on my knees and thanked Heaven from an
• overflowing heart for granting me the good fortune of being permitted
• to live at this time.”