12 Interesting Facts About Adolf Hitler

Things you didn’t know about the most hated person in the world.

Sal
Lessons from History
6 min readNov 7, 2020

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Adolf Hitler | Photo Credits: The American Churchill Society

Spanish Philosopher George Santayana said,

“Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it”

Adolf Hitler is part of the darkest chapter of human history and all of us want to forget about him. Hitler was an intemperate megalomaniac who instigated one of the world’s biggest tragedies in his lifetime.

We all know Adolf Hitler as a power-driven dogmatic dictator whose iniquitous policies of total annihilation killed more than 6 million Jews. His irrational anti-Semitic beliefs were campaign tools that he used to propel himself into a position of power.

But who was the man behind the repulsive murderer?

Here are some interesting facts about Adolf Hitler that might take you by surprise.

1. A Troubled Childhood

Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau, Austria, located near the German border. All of Hitler’s siblings died at an early age due to diphtheria.

Hitler’s father was a dominating, aggressive, and violent man, who often abused Hitler and beat him with a belt. He would preach Hitler against Judaism and told him not to make…

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Sal
Lessons from History

I am a History Educator and a Lifelong Learner with a Masters in Global History.