What were Adolf Hitler's hobbies?
Hitler had few hobbies since he kept a schedule that was both hectic and idiosyncratic, yet some show great insight into the man. He was a terrific mimic, who enjoyed doing wicked imitations of everyone from foreign leaders to German comics. Even Mussolini, whom he deeply admired, was not spared. A tea time of conversation at Berchestgarden followed by a short walk was another favorite. It gave Hitler the air of a country gentleman. After becoming chancellor he enjoyed taking cruises in the Baltic aboard newly minted German warships. He collected books by the thousands, yet oddly there is not a single instance of marginalia in any volume, unlike Stalin who made notes on all his reading. Building model cities of the future Reich, his beloved “Germania”, became a fixation for Hitler and not just a hobby. Hitler loved films, domestic and foreign, and would often watch two per night, preferably musicals. During the war he watched only newsreels of the fighting, a habit he shared with Churchill. He loved to whistle tunes, especially of great opera, which he had memorized entirely. This gives rise to an illuminating story: Once Eva Braun caught him singing the wrong tune from an opera, and pointed this out to Hitler. He quickly replied, “No. I am right. The composer made a mistake by not putting that tune there in the first place.”
Did Adolf Hitler ever laugh?
I seem to recall a photo of Hitler dancing and laughing as he won concessions from the great appeaser Chamberlain.
Is it true that Hitler could dance?
The only snippet of historical info related to your question I stumbled across was from the account of someone who personally knew Hitler in his youth (August Kubizek) , and who said Hitler was once in love with a girl who very much liked to dance. So in order to get closer to his crush, Hitler would have needed to learn how to dance himself. Yet instead, he kept ridiculing dancing as pathetic, saying that "if you imagine a room full of dancing people without the music, it would just look ridiculous to an outsider".Well - I would say the "groove" that´s in the music is pretty much the entire point of dancing (aside of enjoying a good time together) - but that concept appears to have been lost entirely to Hitler. I can´t tell you how that story continued, though - if Hitler finally took up dancing lessons or not. However, I would almost bet that Hitler avoided to ever dance with a female (or anyone, for that matter) in public at least since after 1933.Remember how he went to great lengths in order to hide his year-long intimate relationship with Eva Braun from the public, until literally MOMENTS before they both committed suicide? Yes - they married - then immediately killed themselves! Hitler would have regarded publicly showcased affection towards a women as a "weakness" - plus, he liked to orchestrate himself as the "Husband to Germany" - and in that relationship, any "other" person would simply not have found a place - just like in celibacy.Then again - there is this video: ;-)
What was Adolf Hitler's dream or say vision?
The Nazi's preached the doctrine of folk community. All classes were relished to enjoy the same meal, the solder, the boss, the worker, the banker. The work-less, built the autobahn's. Other nations, were mass unemployment persisted, watched Germany with envy. Hitler Youth, League of German Maidens; all young people learned Party songs, drilled, danced and belonged. Few people dreamed of conquest or had hope like Hitler for a German Empire from the Urals to the Atlantic. Most people felt that Hitler was taking back what had been robbed from them (see Treaty of Versailles) and restoring, not destroying, the order & unity of Europe. Most of your answerers are confusing the SS with all things Nazi Germany. Conveniantly forgetting the fact that Hitler himself wasn't blonde or blue eyed.
If You Were Joseph Stalin, would you have trusted Adolf Hitler enough to make nonaggression agreement 1939 ?
They were both megalomaniac, homicidal, nut cases so of course they would trust each other enough to sign a non aggression pact and keep to it...as long as it worked for both of them.
What are some rare or unexpected pictures of Adolf Hitler?
Hitler with Santa Claus.Hitler shaking the hands of young kids fighting in the battle of Berlin.Hitler near the Wolf’s Lair.Hitler holding a Swastika flagHitler with his half niece Geli Raubal.Goebbels laughing with his crush, Hitler.Hitler in a top hat.Hitler with a bird on his shoulderHitler and Blondi admiring the scenic German countryside.Hitler took a surprisingly large amount of photos with him with nature, reindeer squirrels, birds and of course, his dog.Hitler also showed many photos to the public of himself with children, giving him the allure of a fit, outgoing man who is nice to children and animals, enough to tug at the heartstrings of many Germans and fool them into believing he was a good human being.
If Adolf Hitler had dated Josephine Baker, could Germany have won WWII?
Yes, had Hitler dated Josephine Baker, Germany would be simply unstoppable because the Nazis would have a cultural facet to their assault on the rest of the world. Nazi Germany would have been a multicultural juggernaut and black soldiers fighting for colonial powers in the allies would have defected to fight under Josephine Baker’s command. France, the British Empire and the US would have been much less effective militaries because now they would have to watch their backs for black troops and other fans of modern dance defecting and fighting on behalf of the Nazis. This was much like the case of Subhas Chandra Bhose raising soldiers for the Axis among disaffected people in India during the war.On the other side of the coin, the Nazis would lose the support of racist Germans for their war aims. So yes, Hitler dating Josephine Baker would have made a lot of difference in German war plans. No doubt, hardcore Nazis with influence over Hitler such as Heinrich Himmler and Martin Bormann would have had to maintain an extra degree of vigilance against Hitler dating Josephine Baker to prevent any of this happening. There may have even been a detachment of SS bodyguards trained to prevent Hitler from dating Baker, or at least to interrupt dates by running into the room where Adolf and Josephine might have been to give Hitler fake news of urgent events, when things were looking particularly promising for Hitler hooking up with the most influential African American dancer of the age. Fortunately for the world and the allies this never happened, but we can only recoil in horror at the possibility of Hitler having an incredible black girlfriend instead of dating yet another Geli Raubl lookalike.For more information about this important topic, please check out:Hiddleston, Michael. Wehrmacht Whirlwind: Allied Weaponization of Modern Dance. Pen & Sword Press, 2015.Jamal, Maleek. The Enemy Within: Uses of Ethnic Subversion in Colonial Armies during the Second World War. Thames & Hudson, 2005.McHugh, Terrence. Jungle Fuhrer: How Hitler’s Taste in Interracial Dating Undermined German Combat Effectiveness. Routledge, 2017.Welch, Torrey. Marlene Said No: Manipulation of Hitler’s Love Life and the Allied War Effort. Routledge, 2004.
If Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin had a one on one MMA fight to the death, who would have won?
Stalin was a hard bastard who grew up being beaten by his father and fighting in the streets*. In the time between leaving the Orthodox seminary at which he had been studying and taking control of the USSR he was organizing and taking part in assassinations, protection rackets, strikes (which were sometimes attacked by the Tsar's army) and sabotage, intermingled with escapes from Siberian exile.Early life of Joseph StalinMeanwhile Hitler was a dispatch runner in WWI who, while very brave, did very little actual fighting. Mind you, that fighting was at the First Battle of Ypres which was a hell beyond imagining and is remembered in Germany as the Kindermord bei Ypern (Massacre of the Innocents).Military career of Adolf HitlerThe only real advantage Hitler has is that Stalin had a badly damaged left arm. Without that I'd say old Adolf had little chance.*Note these sentences from the above Wikipedia link. The town where Ioseb grew up was a violent and lawless place. It had only a small police force and a culture of violence that included gang warfare, organized street brawls and wrestling tournaments. Ioseb was frequently involved in brawls with other children. [Emphasis is mine]I wonder whether Stalin ever trained wrestling, which is an activity heavily embedded in Georgian culture? If he did it probably would have ended at the age of 12, when he was badly injured by a horse drawn carriage.
Was Hitler a Protestant?
Adolf Hitler's religious views were dominated by the neo-pagan worldview. Adolf Hitler was a typical classic example of a leader in the Turanian civilization, where the leader is law and all people and private property belongs to the leader. SS troops swore allegiance to Hitler until the end of their lives. The SS soldiers did not swear allegiance to the law of the German state. Wermacht and regular German troops had to swear an oath to lawfulness to the German state, therefore they did not swear allegiance to Hitler.The entire legal legislation of the state of the Third German Reich was embedded in an extensive state bureaucracy - it was a Byzantine civilization.Even the German Army only made up 30% of the soldiers who fought directly on the battlefield. Almost 70% of the German army were logistics, supplies, etc.A person like Adolf Hitler who was an example of a civilizationally Turanian leader can not be simultaneously a civilizational Latin.Latin civilization includes Catholicism and some Protestant groups that do not recognize the alliance of the throne with the altar, prefer family autonomy, private property, domination of ethics over state law.The supporters of centralism are deluded for being useful in the field of civilization. But Latin civilization is autonomous.The Byzantine Centralists are seeking (some unconsciously) to the bureaucratic state, and finally the total state, while the Latin autonomists to the civil state. Between Byzantine civilization and Latin civilization there is a whole abyss.The same is true of the comparison between the Turanian civilization to which Adolf Hitler belonged and the Latin civilization.No one can impose a religious faith, only hypocrisy can be imposed.This obvious truth was about Adolf Hitler, who treated religion in an instrumental manner in order to achieve political benefits.Footnotes :ON THE PLURALITY OF CIVILIZATIONS Feliks Koneczny Entire Book