60 Horrid Facts About Adolf Hitler Everyone Should Know

Adolf Hitler had mixed feelings about the Battle of Singapore, as he felt that Britain's decisive defeat at the hands of the Japanese reflected poorly on the white race.

2. During WW2, captured German officers, sent to Britain as PoWs, lived in luxury in Trent Park. This was done to make them feel relaxed. However, they were being listened to by 100 ‘listeners.’ They revealed secrets about the holocaust, events in Berlin, Hitler’s madness and V2 rocket bases.

3. WWII German General Erwin Rommel refused to comply with Hitler’s order to execute Jewish PoWs.

4. In 1960, Israeli agents staked out a house in Argentina, suspecting Hitler henchman Adolph Eichmann and his family had relocated there. After watching him come and go for weeks, agents got their proof when he came home with a bouquet of flowers on Mar. 21 -- Eichmann's 25th wedding anniversary.

5. Hitler’s plan for Moscow after capturing it during WW2 was to kill all its residents and replace it with a lake.

After World War 1, French had the railway cars that Germany surrendered in stored in a museum. During World War 2, when France was preparing to surrender, Hitler ordered the walls of museum torn down and the railway cars returned to the exact spot of the 1918 armistice in order to humiliate the French.

7. The Allied operation to conceal the D-Day invasion involved fake radio traffic, double agents, an Australian actor, and fake invasion plans for Calais, Norway, the Mediterranean, and the Balkans. It was so effective Hitler believed the real invasion hadn't begun until seven weeks after D-Day.

8. Area 51 was/is an experimental airbase. The reason they guard it so closely isn't because of aliens but rather that it's the place they test very sensitive aircraft and similar things that have the potential to change warfare to a fundamental level. The SR-71 was developed there and tested many times. They also tried to develop a flying saucer (there is a video that shows someone driving a floating circular disk) that Hitler had also tried to develop. They didn't go through with it because the scientists decided that it the time would be wasted to try and make an actual high altitude one.

9. In 1931, after Texas Rangers barricaded a bridge spanning the Texas-Oklahoma border, Oklahoma Governer "Alfalfa Bill" Murray appeared at the site armed with a revolver, backed by the Oklahoma National Guard, to reopen the bridge. This bloodless "Red River Bridge War" even got the attention of Adolf Hitler.

10. Charlie Chaplin made his movie mocking Hitler with his own money because Hollywood was afraid of losing money if they took a stand.

The gun made popular by James Bond, the Walther PPK, is the same model that Hitler killed himself.

12. Under the Third Reich, Aryan mothers who devoted their lives to having children were awarded the Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter (Mother’s Cross) and were respected civil servants who were saluted on the streets by Hitler's Youth.

13. In Toronto, in 1933, an amateur baseball game broke out into a massive race riot when a group of Nazi sympathizers, protesting the Jewish players, unveiled a crude Swastika flag. A crowd of more than 10,000 citizens, excited by cries of ‘Heil Hitler’ became suddenly a disorderly mob.

14. There is only one recording of Hitler’s voice where he is not giving a speech. It is a private conversation between himself and Finnish leader Mannerheim recorded in secrecy by a sound engineer in 1942.

15. Charlie Chaplin considered pulling the plug on his movie "The Great Dictator" because he was worried that it might be banned or that people might not find mocking Hitler funny. When he heard about this, FDR sent Chaplin a message, urging him to make the movie.

Although allied with Japan, Hitler had planned to go to war against the "Yellow People" of Asia in an ultimate showdown (WWIII?) between Nazis and the Japanese Empire to see who would truly dominate the world after an Axis Victory.

17. The Hitlers were early pioneers of southern Ohio, including a local dentist named Dr. Gay Hitler.

18. After Hitler ordered the arrest and deportation of Denmark’s Jewish population in 1943, Danish citizens organized a massive evacuation of the Jews to neutral Sweden, despite the risks. In the end, 99% of Danish Jews survived the Holocaust.

19. Every single spy that Hitler thought he had in Britain was a double agent under British control.

20. Hitler whistled Disney’s “When You Wish Upon A Star” while overlooking the recently conquered city of Paris.

During WWII, the code word for "Hitler" was "Crazy white man" for the Comanche Code Talkers

22. In 1944, British submitted a full plan to kill Hitler during one of his routine, solitary walks. It was never carried out because Hitler was such a poor strategist that British realized his replacement could do a better job of defending from the Allies if he died.

23. The burnt remains of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were destroyed in 1970 by order of KGB head Yuri Andropov except for a few fragments of bone and skull, which were rediscovered in 1993. In 2009, DNA testing by University of Connecticut on the fragments confirmed they didn't belong to Hitler or Braun.

24. During the sentencing of his war crimes, Hermann Göring (one of Hitler's top officers) asked to be shot as a soldier and not hung as a common man. The court refused and instead he committed suicide with a potassium cyanide capsule smuggled into a fountain pen.

25. Hitler was arrested for High Treason in 1924, of which the punishment is usually execution. The judge granted him clemency; however, believing Hitler had good intentions.