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Facts About Adolf Hitler
1 – Adolf Hitler was born on April 20th, 1889 in Braunau am Inn.
2 – He served in World War I and received the Iron Cross for bravery.
3 – The swastika is a Hindu symbol that he adopted to represent German nationalism.
4 – After the war, Adolf Hitler committed suicide by shooting himself in the head while simultaneously biting into a cyanide capsule that his wife had given him earlier that day on April 30, 1945.
5 – His body was burned at 3pm on May 2nd, 1945. There are many conspiracy theories about his death because there were no witnesses or pictures of his corpse.
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6 – Hitler had an older sister named Paula and a younger brother named Alois Jr.
7 – Hitler joined the German army when he turned 18, but left after four years because of his epilepsy condition.
8 – Adolf Hitler’s father when he was 14 years old and his mother passed away four years later.
9 – The Nazis were founded in 1920 with the help of Mussolini to counter Germany’s economic problems.
10 – In 1939, Hitler invaded Poland and started World War II by declaring war against Britain and France on September 1st 1940.
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11 – Hitler’s first book – Mein Kampf- sold over 5 million copies.
12 – In 1932, he became Chancellor of Germany.
13 – He had a dog named Blondi that he loved very much.
14 – In 1919, he joined the German Workers’ Party (later renamed National Socialist German Workers’ Party).
15 – He became leader of Germany’s Nazi party on January 30th, 1933 after being appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg.
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16 – On April 30th 1945, with Soviet troops advancing towards Berlin, Hitler committed suicide along with his wife Eva Braun who had been living at the bunker since 1943.
17 – The Nazi party grew from just 12 members to 3 million members within 5 years of its founding.
18 – Adolf Hitler had an older brother named Alois who died of measles when he was three.
19 – His father’s name is Alois Schicklgruber before his mother changed it to Hitler.
20 – When he turned 18, the German government drafted him into World War I where he served in France for four years and received two Iron Crosses for bravery.
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21 – Hitler’s first attempt to seize power was with a failed coup in 1923 called “The Beer Hall Putsch.”
His second bid for power came when he ran against Paul von Hindenburg for president in 1932.
22 – He was a German politician, and the leader of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. His political views were racist and anti-Semitic, which led to World War II. He initiated a world war with his invasion of Poland on September 1st 1939. While he had a high approval rating at first, it quickly plummeted as the war progressed.
23 – The Nazi party, which he led, had a racist ideology that promoted the superiority of the Aryan race.
24 – The name “Adolf” comes from the Old High German word that means “noble wolf”.
25 – There are many conspiracy theories about why he killed himself such as that it was a suicide or that it was an attempt to make sure that no one would ever find him alive so they couldn’t take him out and have him executed by a firing squad as eventually happened to Benito Mussolini, who declared himself dictator of Italy and asserted his right to supreme power.
