Talk:Adolf Hitler
A conspiracy theory suggests that the bodies that were allegedly Hitler's and Braun's were actually people employed by the Nazis and Hitler to fake their deaths so they could therefore escape unharmed.
There are conspiracy theories about everything, and unless there is some sort of reason to suppose they have an ounce of truth, I don't think they need be mentioned.
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I read somewhere that he had a deformed penis from a goat that bit him on the foreskin while he was peeing in its mouth--no joke!
BTW, isn't it pretty well established that around 5.8-6 million jews were exterminated? I don't want to be responsible for messing with that and starting a huge fight over it though.
There are many histories told about Hitler, and I don't know which are true and which are false.
They should be represented here anyway.
- Was Hitler of partially Jewish origins ? Some people are saying that (iirc) his grandma was a Jew.
- Was Hitler a vegetarian ?
And there's immortal question whether his alleged dead body was truly his, but this one doesn't seem to ever end with a conclusion. --Taw
Hitler was indeed a vegetarian. See William Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich for both primary and secondary source evidence. Hitler was a huge advocate for animal rights--he considered them to be better than Jews and other "lower races" of humans. Not to cast aspersions on PETA or anything like that. :) --Chuck Kincy
- I've heard it (from pro-vegetarian sources) that Hitler was not a vegetarian, but that that he dabbled in vegetarianism and various other "healthy diet" theories of the time, either from some sincere interest or to impress others who took them seriously.
I believe Hitler died in Germany at the end of the war, if he could not be head of state his life would have had no meaning. He was not the type of person that would do well in hiding, he would have surfaced sooner or later. Though his name is now forever linked with evil, it is often forgotten the pre-war achievements of the NSDAP.They turned the German nation from bankruptcy to a world power in a few years, if the holocaust and World war Two hadn't have happened, the nazi movement stand as a good example of national reform.
{Ian Cross}
- National reforms such as brutal dictatorship, the crushing of all dissent, and the persecution of Jews and other minorities (which had been going on strong long before the Holocaust happened--e.g. the Nuremberg Laws)? Even if World War II and the Holocaust had never happened, we'd still remember Hitler as a cruel and ruthless dictator, and as a bigot. Just not as bad a one. -- SJK
Good point, however this pattern has been repeated so many times before, as in the US there was genocine of the native Indian population they were put into reservations (ghettos) even during the second world war, Negro troops in the US army were segregated, used as cannon fodder and did not enjoy the rights of promotion and recognition of their white counterparts.They suffered till the middle sixties but, who is to blame of their persecution? This one nation under god that thinks it has the right to dictate to the world what the moral standards of human rights should be. We can learn from Hitlers Germany if we look beyond the evil and look at what was achieved in the early part of its history. (Ian Cross)