All questions related to the rise, fall, and influence, of Adolf Hitler, who was the leader of Nazi Germany, and one of the principle figures in WWII history and shaping the 20th Century.
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What were acceptance criteria/process to the Vienna Fine Arts Academy in 1906-7?
One famous applicant rejected by the Vienna Fine Arts Academy was of course, Hitler. I got to thinking: so who was accepted instead?
To make sense of this we would need to know how was the admission ...
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Did Hitler not intend a major war while invading Poland?
A J P Taylor in his book "The Origins of the Second World War" writes,
"Hitler never intended a major war and at most was prepared for only a
limited war against Poland."
"In 1938-39, the ...
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Was Hitler's genocide of the Jews “different” from other mass killings?
Hitler allegedly killed six million Jews during the "Holocaust." Stalin allegedly killed millions of Ukrainians during the 1933 "Harvest of Sorrow" (Conquest). Mao allegedly killed tens of millions of ...
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Can we classify holocaust as Hitler's war time strategic mistake?
Can we classify the Holocaust as one of Hitler's war time strategic mistake?
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Has any other book in history been as “prescriptive” as Mein Kampf?
Hitler's signature work, "Mein Kampf," was written while he was in prison (!), following the failure of his so-called "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munich in 1923.
In the book, he laid out in excruciating ...
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Who is the person sitting to the left of corporal Hitler?
My son, in my opinion, looks like the person sitting next to corporal Hitler in this photograph.
Does anyone know who this is or any information about where the photo was taken?
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Did Hitler receive any honours outside Germany?
From this article in The Telegraph:
In a move designed to remove an embarrassing link to Germany's past Dulmen town council voted to revoke the honour its predecessor once bestowed upon Hitler.
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Plans to depose, disgrace, or assassinate Hitler
Have there come to light any plans either by the allied forces or those within the Third Reich to depose/disgrace/assassinate Hitler himself, rather than just plans to crush his forces?
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Why did Nazi soldiers do Hitler's bidding?
The atrocities committed by Nazi soldiers during World War II are well known. I'd like to know what motivated these soldiers to do Hitler's bidding? Were they brain-washed? Did they believe they were ...
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Hitler's Religion or Atheism [closed]
There seems to be even amongst some Historians and even this forum an unclear approach to Hitler and his Religion or the lack there of is there any clear history that establishes Hitler's religious ...
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Did Bismarck have any influence on Hitler?
There were some similarities between the two brilliant statesmen. Both Bismarck and Hitler were against popular forms of governments such as democracy. Bismarck and Hitler both had similar disdain for ...
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Did Hitler really support Subhash Chandra Bose's cause and did he do anything to help Bose?
Bose had come to realize that Gandhi's doctrine of non-violence was not doing much in forcing the British to retreat. He went to Germany to seek Hitler's assistance in India's struggle for freedom.
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What was wrong with Hitler's left hand?
So I was watching Downfall last night (good movie by the way) and I noticed that whenever Hitler walked around, the movie always showed him with his left hand behind his back and it was always kind of ...
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Aside from the Jews, did Hitler had a final solution plan for other ethnicities / races in the Third Reich?
We know that the Nazi ideology explicitly singled out Jews as the main reason to all Germany's problems. An thus there were exterminated. Nazis also persecuted gypsies, polish people, and many POW. ...
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What are the counterarguments to calling German nazism a right-wing movement?
I notice that the media routinely refer to Hitler's politics as "extreme right-wing". "extreme right-wing" and "neo-nazi" have become practically a synonym.
Is this accurate?
The obvious "but" is ...
