Adolf Hitler

Some Trivial Facts About Hitler
(Yank Magazine, 1945)

Assorted observations from the man who operated Hitler’s elevator at Berchtesgaden can be found herein.

What you won’t find herein is a piece of Hitler trivia that I just picked-up. The story goes that the American comedian Bob Hope was given a tour of Hitler’s bunker shortly after the German surrender. Accompanied by a U.S. colonel, the two men brought lots of American cigarette cartons with them to bribe the Russian guards (the bunker was in the Soviet sector); Hope walked away with the enormous banner that was draped in the dictator’s lounge, as well as the handle off of Hitler’s toilet. The toilet handle has remained among the comedian’s possessions in Toluca Lake, California ever since.

Read about the earliest post-war sightings of Hitler: 1945-1955

Rumors of Hitler’s Favorite American Comedy Team?
(Photoplay Magazine, 1937)

The amiable Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. penned the attached article and it was written at a time in his life when the man simply had to know what movie was the preferred darling above all others for the hideous Adolf Hitler – so after some hard-charging investigative journalism, he discovered that Hitler would scurry-away with Herman Goering in order to yuck it up in the dark while watching his fave non-Aryan comedy team. Who do you think it was?

Hitler might have liked American movies, but there was one thing American he didn’t like: German-Americans drove him crazy.

Click here to learn about Stalin’s favorite movie.

WHAT IF – Hitler Had Been Killed?
(Click Magazine, 1941)

It must have been a slow news week when the CLICK MAGAZINE crew approached three of the busiest editors in the the U.S. and Britain asking them how they would break the news if Hitler were to be killed tomorrow?

Every editor we queried agreed that when it happens, the death of Adolf Hitler will sell more papers than any other news event of the Twentieth century…All agreed that Hitler’s death would not end the war; two out of three guessed he would die violently.

The leftest publisher Ralph Ingersoll knew right away that Hitler would die by his own hand.

The article is illustrated with facsimile printings of the headlines and how each paper believed the dictator would die – it was an academic exercise, but a fun read, nonetheless.

Berchtesgaden: Hitler’s Mountain Retreat
(Yank Magazine, 1945)

A report on what Hitler’s Bavarian retreat, Berchtesgaden, looked like after the 101st Airborne got through redecorating the place. This is an amusing article written by Yank reporter Harry Sions, who seemed to really want to know what Hitler’s taste in furnishings, books and movies truly was like. However the most entertaining parts of the article were the interviews with Hitler’s dimwitted domestic staff:

Is it true, we asked her, that the Fuhrer chewed on rugs when he became excited?

‘Only you Americans believe such nonsense,’ she replied.

Some Trivial Facts About Hitler(Yank Magazine, 1945)

Rumors of Hitler’s Favorite American Comedy Team?(Photoplay Magazine, 1937)

WHAT IF – Hitler Had Been Killed?(Click Magazine, 1941)

Berchtesgaden: Hitler’s Mountain Retreat(Yank Magazine, 1945)

Some Trivial Facts About Hitler
(Yank Magazine, 1945)

Rumors of Hitler’s Favorite American Comedy Team?
(Photoplay Magazine, 1937)

WHAT IF – Hitler Had Been Killed?
(Click Magazine, 1941)

Berchtesgaden: Hitler’s Mountain Retreat
(Yank Magazine, 1945)