27 Hitler Facts You Didn't Know 1 Hitler never visited a single concentration camp. 2 Hitler's First Love was a Jewish girl. Lacking courage, he never spoke to her. 3 "Adolf Schicklgruber" would have been Hitler's name. His father changed his last name in 1877. 4 Hitler suffered chronic flatulence and took 28 different drugs to fight it. 5 Hitler led the first public anti-smoking campaign in modern history. 6 During First World War, a British soldier spared the life of a wounded German: Adolf Hitler. 7 Hitler Only Had One Testicle 8 Hitler bombed his nephew's house in Liverpool, so his nephew joined the US NAVY to fight him. 9 Hitler had a portrait of Henry Ford behind his desk regarding him as an "inspiration". 10 Hitler was a Vegetarian and created laws against animal cruelty. 11 Hitler was saved from drowning by a priest when he was 4 years old. 12 Hitler, while in prison, wrote to a Mercedes dealership begging for a car loan. 13 There was a Jewish-Austrian doctor who didn't charge Hitler's family due to their economic hardship. Hitler had him protected and called him "Noble Jew". 14 Hitler was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1939. 15 As a child, Hitler wanted to be a priest. 16 The American secret service tried to spike Hitler's food with female hormones to feminise him. 17 In 1938, Hitler was TIME Magazine's Man of the Year. 18 Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Mussolini and Hitler, all suffered from ailurophobia, the fear of cats. 19 Hitler planned to collect thousands of Jewish artifacts to build a "Museum of An Extinct Race" after the war. 20 Both Adolf Hitler and Osama Bin Laden were announced dead on May 1. 21 In 1913, Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky, Tito and Freud all lived within a few miles of each other in Vienna, with some of them being regulars at the same coffeehouses. 22 Hitler never learned to drive. Yet, he spearheaded the development of the Volkswagen car. 23 The German WWI officer that recommended Hitler for an Iron Cross was Jewish. He was later arrested, then released by the SS once they discovered his identity. 24 The skull recovered by the Soviets in 2000, that was believed to have been Adolf Hitler’s was tested in 2009 and was confirmed to be of a woman in her 30s. 25 The French Resistance cut the elevator cables to the Eiffel Tower to keep Hitler from visiting it during his visit when Paris fell. When faced with the prospect of climbing over 1500 stairs, he opted out. 26 After a total war economy was instituted in 1943, Hitler had the women’s cosmetics industry gradually closed down rather than banned outright to avoid upsetting Eva Braun, his long-time companion. 27 Hitler often praised the “efficiency” of the American Genocide of Native Americans. Source: http://www.factslides.com/s-Hitler http://www.kickassfacts.com/25-interesting-facts-about-adolf-hitler/