50 Insane Facts About HITLER You Never Knew- part2

Let’s continue our previous article with more weird facts about Hitler:

Fact Twenty-Three! It’s believed that Theodor Morell, Hitler’s personal physician, would inject him with a variety of testosterone-enhancing drugs before he spent the night with his mistress Eva Braun. Fact Twenty-Four! British spies once planned to use research into hormone therapy to “feminize” Hitler using estrogen. Like many of the more unusual schemes of British intelligence, it was not put into action.

Fact Twenty-Five! Over the course of his life, Hitler’s hatred for the religion of Christianity grew to a boiling point, calling it a “religion for slaves” and disparaging it for its meekness. In contrast, he was won over by the religious traditions of Japan as well as the ideals found within Islam. Fact Twenty-Six! During his service in the German Army in World War I, Hitler was injured in a mustard gas attack and spent the rest of the war recovering from the resulting blindness. Doctors at the time believed many of his symptoms were caused by his altered mental state after the war. Fact Twenty-Seven! A friend of Adolf Hitler, Ernst Hanfstaengl, studied at Harvard and gave Hitler the idea for the “Sieg Heil” chant and salute from observing the cheerleaders at American football games.

Fact Twenty-Eight! In 1993, Hitler was baptized by the Mormon church in an effort to include all human beings who have ever lived on Earth in their traditions. The same was also done for the infamous Vlad the Impaler, who surprisingly was a real historical figure who served as a basis for Dracula. Fact Twenty-Nine! Hitler was believed by some Historians to have had severe health problems towards the end of his life, including the tell-tale full-body shakes caused by Parkinson’s disease. While the Fuhrer and the rest of the Nazi government always tried to project a strong image, Hitler likely suffered from lapses in memory and judgment as well. Fact Thirty! Hitler’s administration held the German Jewish community financially responsible for the destruction of property and loss of life that occurred on Kristallnacht. He not only pushed the propaganda that led to racialized violence but directly benefited from it in a financial sense.

Fact Thirty-One! Time magazine selected Adolf Hitler as person of the year back in 1938 because it was believed that Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement towards him would have prevented another world war. The choice turned out to be a mistake, given that Hitler continued to pursue his goals of German expansion. Fact Thirty-Two! The famous British World War II song “Hitler Has Only Got One Ball” might have been based in fact, as Hitler was found to have lived with Cryptorchidism. Fact Thirty-Three! Hitler refused to undress for medical examinations and nearly any other circumstance. His recorded weight of around 155 lbs was only the closest estimate because the weight of his clothing had to be factored in. Fact Thirty-Four!

A historical biographer named Volker Ullrich discovered that Hitler had been very loose with his personal funds, spending thousands on fancy clothes and other luxury goods. Fact Thirty-Five! When Hitler came into power, he made himself free of taxes and thus was able to avoid the enormous amount of tax debt that he had been dodging for years. He also never declared his income despite the fact that he was undoubtedly making millions from his book sales and salaries. Fact Thirty-Six! Hitler was a known chocoholic and would consume at least two pounds of the confectionary every day. Ironically, towards the end of the war, the Third Reich would hand out chocolate and other candy as a recruitment method to bring in teenage conscripts. Fact Thirty-Seven! Hitler kept a picture of his mother on his person ever since her death in 1907 - all the way up until his fateful days in the bunker.

Fact Thirty-Eight! Hitler never personally visited any of the concentration camps during the war, even though he had personally authorized all the killings and ethnic cleansing that took place there. Fact Thirty-Nine! According to a German newspaper, in 1894, a four-year-old Hitler was rescued from drowning in a freezing river by a priest named Johann Kuehberger. This incident initially made the young boy want to become a priest when he got older - if only we lived in that timeline. Fact Forty! While practicing his speeches, Hitler took photographs of himself in dramatic poses as a way of psyching himself up. Who knew that a tyrannical dictator could also be a selfie fanatic?

Fact Forty-One! The development of the Volkswagen Beetle was commissioned by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s as a car that would bring joy to the German people. He laid the cornerstone of the original Volkswagen factory himself. So, if it weren’t for Hitler, we wouldn’t have had Herby the Love Bug. Truly, he was history’s most awful monster. Fact Forty-Two! Hitler seemed creepily obsessed with his half-niece, Angel Maria Raubal, who was also known by her nickname “Geli.” Hitler kept Geli inside his apartment and forbade her from having any friendships or relationships, and she would later die a tragic and mysterious death from a gunshot wound… Caused by Hitler’s own Walther Pistol. Hitler was immediately ruled out as a suspect by authorities at the time, but historians have argued about the possibility of Hitler killing his own half-niece in a jealous rage for decades since.

Fact Forty-Three! William Patrick Hitler was the name of Adolf Hitler’s nephew who fought for the allies. Apparently, Willy H. was tired of all the jobs that old Uncle Adolf kept getting him, so he ran away to the United States and rebelled against his family name. And considering how Hitler treated his half-niece, who could blame his nephew for getting out of dodge before things started getting equally creepy? Fact Forty-Four! Adolf Hitler suffered from ailurophobia, which meant that he was afraid of cats - a trait supposedly shared by fellow authoritarian leaders Benito Mussolini, Genghis Khan, and Napoleon Bonaparte. Fact Forty-Five! In a shockingly rare showing of humanitarian concern from Hitler, the Fuhrer was the first European leader to ban the operation of human zoos in his country. And yes, human zoos were indeed a common practice in Europe, as horrifically barbaric as it sounds. Fact Forty-Six! Newlywed couples in Nazi Germany were given a copy of Hitler’s manifesto Mein Kampf after they tied the knot for free. And the award for most poorly aged wedding gift goes to… Fact Forty-Seven!

The first ballistic missile introduced into warfare - the V-2 Rocket - was developed under Hitler’s regime. Fact Forty-Eight! Hitler planned to build a grim museum that would house all of the artifacts from the races his policies of ethnic cleansing would make extinct. Fact Forty-Nine! After his first failed coup, the Beer Hall Putsch, Adolf Hitler spent five years in German prison. That’s where he wrote Mein Kampf. Fact Fifty! Eduard Bloch, a Jewish doctor who was the Hitler family physician during Adolf’s youth, was spared the horrors of the concentration camps as Hitler believed him to be a “noble jew” and went as far as to say “if all the jewish people were like [Bloch] there would be no Jewish question.” It’s less a shocking display of empathy for an evil man, and more a sign that he was a truly repulsive hypocrite all the way down.