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Born in 1889 in Braunau am Inn in [[Austria]], '''Adolf Hitler''' was a man [[Freudian Excuse|with an unhappy childhood]]. His father<ref>whose wife (Hitler's mother) was his niece, also making Adolf his grand-nephew, and who was possibly Jewish</ref> [[Abusive Parents|beat him frequently]], inculcating young Adolf into violence and domination, before having the courtesy to die around his son's eleventh birthday. Adolf spent the rest of his childhood in Vienna with his mother, who led a Bohemian lifestyle, and his younger siblings, whom he bullied and bossed around.

** Most of Hitler's written works do not target anyone in East Asia specifically, with the rest of the above populations frequent targets. The fact that Nazis granted ''every'' Japanese the title "Honorary Aryan" does say something. Also, people like Himmler and even Hitler himself, statingstated in ''[[Mein Kampf]]'', their actual admiration toof East Asian cultures. So to some extent, Nazis are racists, but not straight-line white supremacists.

* [[All There in the Manual]]: ''[[Doorstopper|Mein Kampf]]'' was long, boring, poorly- written... and spelled out all of Hitler's future goals in unmistakable clarity, more than a decade before he had the chance to do any of them. Unfortunately, [[Cassandra Truth|nobody paid any attention until it was too late]].

:: There is a distinct possibility that the name Hitler/Hiedler/Hidler (naming rules were a bit lax in previous centuries) [[Irony|was derived from the Slavonic (Czech) ''Hidlar'' or ''Hidlarcek'']]. Some of his family members attested that that there were Moravians in the family line.

* [[Big Damn Kiss]]: With Eva Braun when she [[Undying Loyalty|told him she wouldn't leave Berlin for Bavaria in 1945.]] According to eyewitnesses, it was an incredibly awkward moment for all concerned except Adolf and Eva.

* [[Bishounen]]: The manga version of ''Mein Kampf'' portrays the younger Hitler as one. Yes, there actually exists a ''Mein Kampf'' manga.

* [[Black and Gray Morality]]: While Hitler's treatment of civilians is widely reviled (for good reason), pretty much every country on either side of WWII had its own share of atrocities.

* [[Bling Bling Bang]]: He apparently owned a [https://web.archive.org/web/20210514020432/http://www.williammaloney.com/Aviation/WestPointMilitaryMuseum/WorldWarII/pages/24AdolphHitlersLilliputPistol.htm gold-plated gun] which he carried with him regularly, which was taken as booty at the end of the war and is now in the possession of the West Point Military Museum.

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]] -- One German diplomat is assassinated. Retribution: 91 Jews were murdered, up to 30,000 arrested and placed in concentration camps, 267 synagogues were destroyed, and thousands of homes were ransacked or burned down. This riot was called "Kristallnacht." Oh, and afterward the Jews had to pay for the caused damages themselves, and one billion marks as an additional punishment.

* [[Doomsday Device]]: Hitler ordered the development of many of these, because he was in love with the [[Rule of Cool]]. Unfortunately for his army, all were [[Awesome but Impractical|inefficient and expensive]], and did not secure any strategic advantage.

** The V2 rocket was the first ballistic missile. It travelledtraveled faster than the speed of sound, so if you heard one fall, it meant that it had already exploded. It terrified the British, but fortunately, it was very hard to aim at anything smaller than a city. Featured in ''[[Gravity's Rainbow]]''. Even though it was more dangerous than the V1, it's predecessor (which was basically a pilotless plane turned into a warhead), it also cost as much as at least 20 V1s.

* [[Dystopia Justifies the Means]]: It shouldn't come as a surprise that Hitler had a rather hellish vision for the empire he ruled. Whether or not he [[Utopia Justifies the Means|honestly believed he was building a better world]], [[Despotism Justifies the Means|didn't actually care about the state of the world as long as he was in charge when the dust settled]] or just creating a world he found more aesthetically pleasing, he ran a pervasive [[Police State]] where terror and massive repression was the norm, and a goal of creating a new type of man - the Aryan Übermensch - defined by his fanatical loyalty to party/state, his ruthless persecution of perceived enemies, a rejection of pacifism, compassion and "sympatheticism", and generally just a fit, brilliant, cold-hearted bastard.<br /><br />On being told that his tyrannical policies in annexed nations would mean Germany would be faced with rebellion and terrorism for decades to come, Hitler claimed he was "delighted" at the prospect, because he wanted Germans to be in a state of perpetual alertness. He planned the annihilation of several ethnic minorities, principally the Jews who were targeted not just for supposed "racial" inferiority but also to eliminate their 'cultural influence' - namely, for spreading ideas like peace, love, and the "lie" that all men were fundamentally equal. He intended to stamp such ideals out and replace them with "virtues" of hatred, ruthlessness, self-aggrandizement and [[War Is Glorious]]. [[Sarcasm Mode|Such a pleasant individual.]]

* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: He said that his mother Klara was his warmest memory. This went to the point that he spared a ''Jewish'' doctor who tended to his mother especially when Klara was dying from breast cancer during Hitler's teenage years (see below).

* [[Eviler Than Thou]]: A telegram to Martin Bormann has him saying that all this racial supremacy stuff is rubbish; in reality, he's out to crush the Jews as an ethnic minority in the cultural sense, reasoning that notions like peace and love were introduced by and tied to them, and it was those notions that he was out to destroy. If that's true, then he was even more coldly rational and dangerous than previously thought. This was not [[For the Evulz]], but [[Utopia Justifies the Means|a form of social engineering]] -- he wanted to create a modern-day Sparta or Imperial Rome, and to that end he had to radically change Germany's cultural values. Getting rid of the Jews was his way. He actually admitted as much when he discussed the relation between Nazi racism and science with a common farmer: "I know perfectly well that in the scientific sense there is no such thing as race. But you, as a farmer and cattle breeder, cannot get your breeding successfully achieved without the conception of race. And I as a politician need a conception whichthat enables the order which has hitherto existed on historic bases to be abolished and an entirely and new anti-historic order enforced and given an intellectual basis... and for this purpose, the conception of race serves me well. With the conception of race, National Socialism will carry the revolution abroad and re-cast the world."

* [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]]: Shines through in his assessments of some other countries' motivations for getting involved in the war. He kept insisting that the Americans would annex Canada if Britain were to become weak, that the British would annex French Africa if France became weak, that the British and Americans would try to destroy each other to attain world hegemony, etc. He basically believed that every other country besides his was also operating as a backstabbing, expansionist empire, not seeing that Britain absorbing colonies from their defeated French ally, for instance, would have been inconceivable to them on moral grounds alone. This might have been brought by his backstabbing-filled past.

** The clothing for the SS was made by the top German clothing company [[Awesome McCoolname|Hugo Boss]], so there's a reason they looked cool despite being linked with such horrible things.

* [[Evil Uncle]]: Hitler had a weird, controlling, excessively intimate relationship with his niece Angela "Geli" Raubal, who eventually committed suicide. With her uncle's own gun. After they'd been arguing for days. On a night when all the servants (except one who was deaf) were conveniently on vacation. Did we mention she'd been planning a trip to Vienna, where she was rumored to have a Jewish boyfriend? Even at the time, there was speculation that Hitler had been in love with her and murdered her in a jealous rage (although no clear evidence exists even today)<ref> witnesses could swear Hitler had been in the sleeping car train to Berlin the night of her death and arrived in Munich afterwardsafterward, being tipped by a telegram</ref>.

** Hitler had a nephew, William Patrick Hitler, who fought in the US Navy during WW2WWII. To William, at least, Hitler would have therefore qualified as this.

** He still did ate a small amount of meat and fish throughout [[World War Two|the 1940s]]. There is a story recollected by Gregor Strasser which tells how he refused to eat for days after Geli Raubal's death, until his fellows dragged him to a restaurant and brought him a typical South German breakfast (with ham, bacon and so on). His face turned green, he said "[[Ironic Echo|take these corpses out of my sight]]" and from that day he avoided meat wherever possible.

* [[Fan Art]]: He drew quite a few reinterpretations of [[Disney]] characters, including [[Mickey Mouse]] and [[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|the Seven Dwarfs]].

** His policies also made the Nazi nuclear program a complete joke. It split into at least nine different programs, each [[Interservice Rivalry|actively competing with and hindering the others]]. Hitler's insistence that the scientists follow proper "German Physics" also crippled any real progress since it often threw out ideologically unacceptable physics essential to the nuclear program, i.e. those discovered by Jewish scientists such as the likes of [[Albert Einstein]]. In hindsight, said the program was more of a comedy of errors than any real threat. And, for added [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]] points, the program also sapped the already overtaxed Nazi logistics, weakening the Nazi resource base further.

** He almost went into an opera stage production, under the written recommendation of then-major Viennese organizer Alfred Roller, in February 1908...but backed out at the last minute after being intimidated by Roller's stature on the Vienna art scene. In 1942, he told his personal staff that if he had taken Roller up on his offer, things might have turned out differently.

** Not to mention that if he had managed to pass math in high school, he could have had a real shot at getting into architectural school (he was specifically praised for his architectural drawings in his art school rejection letter).

** There is a popular speculation that if Hitler had been accepted into art school, the great atrocities of the 20th century might have been avoided: that his financial problems following his final rejection led him to the slums of Vienna and later Munich, where he was exposed to poverty, desperation, and most significantly, ethnic minorities that fueled his hatred. Art school might have shaped his perceptions differently, or at least would have kept him occupied with something other than stewing in his own resentment during his formative years. Of course, as with all speculations...

** There's a book called "Third Reich Victorious" which has ten self-contained alternate -history scenarios that end with Germany winning the war. The first has Hitler joining the navy instead of the army, and becomes a well-disciplined officer of the fleet, transforming his mild anti-Semitism of the time into hatred merely of the British, and buildsbuilding up a powerful fleet that manages to take on the Royal Navy when World War II comes around. It's actually a pretty good read.

** Also if, Germany had a reasonably unbiased judiciary, Hitler would likely have been executed for high treason for his failed Beer Hall Putsch in 1923 instead of the ludicrously lenient five -year sentence in a cushy prison cell instead, from which he was released after only a year.

* [[Flanderization]]: There is an unfortunate tendency among history enthusiasts to look at the magnitude of his crimes and paint Hitler as an inhuman, demonic monster, whereas the sad, sad truth is that he was a very human and easily repeatable creature. BanalityThe banality of evil, anyone?

** Historians now have access to Hitler's war record, whereas thethey previously had to rely heavily on ''Mein Kampf'' and the dubious testimony of Nazi sympathiserssympathizers who were with him (and, sometimes, not). It turns out that yes, he really ''was'' a coward or at least nowhere near as brave as he made himself out to be, spending almost the entirety of the first war relatively safe behind the front lines in Regimental HQ, and turning down promotions probably to avoid more dangerous work (or work, period -- he spent days at a time not doing much). His Iron Crosses came more from sycophantic ass-kissing ([[Irony|of a Jewish officer]]) than bravery.

** Also, one good set of tactics does not Alexander make - Hitler was a shockingly bad strategist, and made several blunders, over the advice of more competent generals, that ultimately cost him the war. TheyThere are too many to list here - see [[General Failure]] below.

* [[From Nobody to Nightmare]]: Certainly the one of the most most nightmarish examples ever. See the quote at the top of the page.

* [[General Failure]]: Whilst Hitler was not an invariably poor ''tactician'', his grasp of strategy was very bad. He made several blunders with disastrous consequences, and most of these were made over the advice of his top commanders:

** He delayed his attack on the USSR because a coup in Yugoslavia had brought about a government he did not like (and rioters had spat on his ambassador's car). Hitler invaded and crushed Yugoslavia, but in the process lost much of the Russian weather window, with disastrous results.

** Rather than driving on Moscow, the centrecenter of the USSR's armament industry, its rail nexus, and where fellow [[General Failure]] [[Fail O'Suckyname|Semen]] Buedyenny had the main Russian armies, he tried to score a propaganda victory by capturing Leningrad and Stalingrad. By the time he resumed the drive on Moscow, it was too late, and a combination of winter and Russian counterattacks caused a near collapse of the Army Group Centre.

** He surrounded himself with yes-men and ignored practical advice he didn't like - he froze out Fritz Todt when the latter told him bluntly that Germany couldn't beat Britain and Russia in 1941 and replaced competent generals when their advice differed from his - in the words of his one time Chief of the General Staff he was "not a responsible warlord but a political fanatic." When his intelligence chief for the Eastern Front, [[Magnificent Bastard|Reinhard Gehlen]], told him that the Russian'sRussians had a million men poised to attack the overextended Don front, he physically assaulted him.

** He put his faith in ''Wunderwaffe'' thatwhich ended up consuming valuable resources and ultimately proving impractical in combat.

** He had a "mania" for ordering troops to stand fast at all costs, which prevented battle-worthy formations withfrom retreating. The most famous example was at Stalingrad, where German relief forces under Hermann Hoth got within 30 miles of the city, but Paulus's 6th Army was prevented from breaking out. See [[General Ripper]] below:

** [[Pragmatic Villainy]]: the number of gay males who ended up imprisoned<ref> under Paragraph 175 of the German Criminal Code - Nazis insisted on full legal coverage</ref> was small, but [[Sarcasm Mode|incidentally]] those discovered, tried and sentenced were nearly always political opponents of the regime. Even Ernst Rohm was only killed for political reasons, not because of his sexual activities.

* [[Humans Are Cthulhu|Hitler Is Cthulhu]]/[[The Antichrist]]/[[God of Evil]]- Probably the most common depiction of Hitler is Hitler-as-Cthulhu, the ultimate evil who has come here to wage war and spread chaos and insanity against the world. This is subverted in real life; Hitler was a war heroveteran, a patron of the arts, did not smoke, was nice to his secretary, had a relationship with Eva Braun and other women, and was very close to several members of his extended family. He had a pet dog, for(and like many Nazis supported laws against cruelty to christsakeanimals). There's no excusing his hideous crimes, but Hitler was ''one of us'' -- a human. An important lesson to remember.

** Just look at this picture. That's right people, [https://web.archive.org/web/20100704073847/http://color-her-world.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2uap2d Hitler was a baby too.]

* [[Ho Yay]]: Just look at the way [[Cloudcuckoolander|Rudolf]] [[Number Two|Hess]] gazes at him in ''[[Triumph of the Will]]''. Perhaps it was a one-sided love interest by Hess. Anyway... [[Squick]].

** Don't forget Albert Speer... at the end of the war the guy betrayed him and he spared him. There's at lastleast one testimony that these two people had an argument like some couple in crisis.

* [[Idiot Ball]]: Plenty of people in the Soviet Union would have joined the Nazis if only Hitler's armies would have treated them humanlyhumanely.

* [[If I Can't Have You]]: when it seemed likely that the AlliesAllied forces were about to retake Paris, Hitler personally ordered the German garrison stationed there to burn the city to the ground. The final days of the German occupation findsfound General Dietrich von Choltitz fielding phone call after call from an enraged Hitler demanding "Brennt Paris?" . He ignored the order. (Although the extent to which von Choltitz is responsible for "saving Paris" is ''very'' disputed).

** Sort of makes sense in terms of his psychology -- forcing every last German to die for him in a doomed last stand would've been straight of out of one of the apocalyptic Wagner operas he loved so much.

*[[I Have Your Wife]]: Reluctant German generals were kept in line by threats to their familyfamilies while the resistance was muted by the oft carried -out threat of mass execution.

* [[Just the First Citizen]]: The title of "Führer", which Hitler adopted when he became leader of the Nazi Party and elevated to a government title when they took power in Germany can be simply translated to "guide", although it is generally translated as "leader", which is more in line with fascist philosophy. Note that it was styled as ''the'' leader (Der Führer) when referring to Hitler in the third person, not just "leader" by itself. Although not even nearly as ubiquitously used as Führer, Hitler also awarded himself a number of bombastic titles over the years designed specifically to invoke this trope, including "First Soldier of the German Reich", "First Worker of the New Germany", and "Supreme Judge of the German People". In something of an overlap with [[Modest Royalty]], Hitler's ceremonial uniform was also much more staid than you would expect from a man in the process of conquering the world. He wore a plain uniform with only the awards that he earned in [[World War I]], which looks funny in contrast to, say, Goering, who swanked it up with silks and furs and every medal and ornate bling he could lay his fat hands on.

* [[Kneel Before Zod]]: Demanding that France sign their armistice to Germany in the same train car that the armistice of 1918 was signed in, at the exact same location. In a further show of disdain to the French, he just stood up and left in the middle of negotiations, leaving [[Yes-Man|his military lackey Keitel]] to finish the discussions with the French delegates. All before taking the car back to Berlin and blowing up the entire site bar French Marshal Foch's statue, just so Foch would look over a wasteland. And then, at the end of the war, blowing up the train car in order to prevent it being done to ''them''.

* [[Know-Nothing Know-It-All]]: While he was quite knowledgeable on some topics (architecture and oratory, for instance), he feigned aptitude in numerous other fields of which he had only surface mastery, and had an arrogant opinion on virtually everything, which he usually insisted on lecturing his cohorts on. He seriously maintained for instance that the inhabitants of New Zealand were a tree-dwelling species of humanoid. [[Critical Research Failure|Without irony]].

* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Played straight, then subverted. For about 10 years from 1933 until late '42 Hitler was on an absolute roll, eliminating his enemies, outplaying (not to mention out-charming) foreign politicians and men of influence, digging Germany out of the shithole that is the Great Depression, and building up a seemingly unstoppable war machine and achieving in a matter of months a conquest of Europe that took Napoleon several years. Some military experts regard him as a gifted amateur -- his problem was he was too aggressive and [[Tactical Withdrawal|incapable of accepting losses]], for example refusing to [[Know When to Fold'Em|yield conquered land even when it was tactically expedient to do so]]. His gigantic ego, failing mental health, and his marriage to the [[Villain Ball]] came down on him later. ''Hard''.

* [[May-December Romance]]: Eva Braun, who was 23 years his junior. Allegedly, as a 28 -year -old German soldier in World War I, with a 16 -year -old French girl, Charlotte Lobjoie, which produced a son, Jean-Marie Loret. Had a short relationship with Maria Reiter in 1931, whom he had met when he was 37 and she was 16.

* [[Misblamed]]: He's often held up as an example of the inevitable moral bankruptcy of atheism... ''and'' as an example of the inherently intolerant and oppressive nature of Christianity. This is actually sort of understandable, since both his public and private statements about religion are so contradictory that it's just about impossible to figure out what he believed. (The general scholarly consensus is that although he didn't mind using the Jews' supposed complicity in the Crucifixion to justify his antisemitism to others, his personal attitude toward Christianity was actually fairly contemptuous. He wasn't a strong atheist or anything, though, nor was he particularly opposed to religion in general.)

* [[Mother Russia Makes You Strong]]: Rather creepily, Hitler became a firm believer in this by the end of the war. Because the Soviets had defeated the Germans in the Great Patriotic War, his racist and Social Darwinist attitudes led him to conclude that the "eastern races" were obviously more deserving of survival, and thought they would ultimately complete world conquest after destroying the "decadent democracies of the west". It's one of the reasons he came to denounce the entire German nation, and deemed them unfit to even survive as a people – trying to effect this by [[Taking You with Me|ordering the destruction of all German infrastructure and even the bare means of survival]].

* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: The Weimar police. Not so much heroic as doing legitimate work for a state, investigating dangerous seditionists (like Nazis). Hitler was recruited as an informer to attend underground meetings, and when he met the Nazis he was so impressed that he changed sides. His handler's name is not remembered in history and he may well have been glad of the fact.

* [[Non-Idle Rich]]: People usually ignore (based on his rather dull private life) that he was a very wealthy man, leaving aside the fact he held absolute mastery over the second economy in the world at the time. By some clever arrangement made by Martin Bormann and others in the late 1930s, he gained royalties for his appearance on postal stamps and for the publication of ''Mein Kampf'' (even nowadays it itis sold by the tens of thousands each year, during the Reich millions of copies had been purchased both by people and the state organizations). He never used money as ordinary people do, ''at times he even lacked a wallet for money'' and someone from his entourage held ready small amounts of money if the Führer needed them to buy something (as he reduced his public appearances to the bare minimum when the war started, there were less to zero reasons for this anymore).

* [[Oedipus Complex]]: Well the rivalry against his father and the attachment to his mother (which was Hitler's warmest memory, especially during his Vienna years, but unfortunately died) were what what led to his [[Freudian Excuse]].

* [[Older Than They Think]]: So Hitler invented all this Nazism stuff, right? Wrong. Many of Hitler's ideas that made up the ideology of Nazism were unoriginal and rooted in Germany's past; all Hitler did was put them together as one ideology. First of all, Hitler's idea of a Volksgemeinschaft (people's community) was to bring the "pure" German people together, under a strong national unity government controlled by one, unquestionable leader. This was based on the fact that Germany had never had a democracy before the Weimar Republic, and that all the Weimar governments were made up of coalitions and were very indecisive -- and as a result, many people wanted a strong, centralized leadership. Hitler's racism is based on the ideas of social Darwinists and eugenicists, such as Alfred Ploetz and Lanz von Liebenfels. The idea of antisemitism has its roots deep in the past, stretching as far back as ancient times. Lebensraum, which literally means "living space" was also an old idea of expanding Germany's land towards the east, forming a Greater Germany, and using the Slavs, who inhabited that area, as slaves. WhichThis is exactly how Germanic languages, including English, got the word ''slave''. It filtered back into English in the 1200's1200s via English knights who had fought with the Teutonic Order in the East, and displaced the archaic word "thrall".

* [[Propaganda Machine]]: With manyMany of his methods are being copied by a majority of the world's politicians even to this day.

* [[Soldiers Atat the Rear]]: As outlined above, he had a cushy messenger job that kept him out of danger.

* [[Stay in the Kitchen]]: His views on feminism were not favourablefavorable, to say the least.

* [[The End of the World as We Know It]]: In [https://web.archive.org/web/20130312220510/http://www.famousquotes.com/show/1018796/ Winston Churchill's speech about Hitler being a "monster of wickedness"], he stated that once Hitler started his career of bloodshed, genocide and destruction, ''he could not stop''. Had he won the war, those of Jewish descent in Britain and countless other countries would be pretty much doomed. And if he did manage to completely exterminate Jews, Roma, the disabled, etc., [[It Got Worse|Hitler would probably have moved on to the Slavs and then any other groups he saw as standing in the way of total Germanic racial superiority]]. Who knows how far it could have gone?

** Plus Himmler, [[Fat Bastard|Goering]], [[Cloudcuckoolander|Hess]], and [[PunchHypercompetent Clock VillainSidekick|Speer]] all committing treason against him at some point.

*** [[Cyclic Trope]]: roughly from 1998 to about 2003, as the atrocities of the [[Dirty Communists|Soviet Union and Communism]] were unearthed one by one, the image of the Reich and its maker was a bit more sympathetic, after all, he was [[Enemy Mine|the only political leader of a strong country who could be relied on to oppose everything Communist till the end, literally]]. AfterwardsAfterward, things [[It Got Worse|turned back]] and the Communists were again the lesser evil.

** There exists a film of him just a few days before his death, and when one compares a photograph of him from 1940, he looks about 25 years older; he has a sort of hunch to his back, as if he suffered from osteoporosis, his face was pale and wrinkled-looking, his hands shook, and his walking was a sort of slow shuffle, as if he was very physically weak, and he basically looked half dead already.

* [[Visionary Villain]]: As horrific as it was, he did have a vaguely coherent plan for restoring Germany's former great prestige and power, and did achieve quite a lot domestically before the inevitable defeat.

** The Nazi's original idea was of a grand alliance with Britain, and that the English and the Germans would "share" the world: the English holding supremacy on the seas with an overseas empire, while the Germans would hold supremacy on land with a continental empire. The Nazis had this view because the inhabitants of the United Kingdom are, after all, Anglo-Saxons and ''Germanic'' in origin (barring the Celtics of course), and so in Hitler's view they would of course be natural allies. In fact, Hitler saw the success of the British Empire as proof of the superiority of the Germanic race. Not only did this ''not'' happen (turns out the British were not at all interested in this arrangement) and the Nazis wound up going to war with their ideological ally, but Hitler found himself, at least at first, in an alliance with the Soviet Union, his ideological ''enemy''. Even so, Hitler never really gave up on the idea of an alliance with Britain, and thought that after he had won the war they could still become allies.

** [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain|Hitler's catastrophic invasion of Russia during one of the coldest winters ever is generally viewed not only as an incredibly stupid move both militarily and politically, but as a turning point for the entire European theater of the war]]. It not only diverted a huge amount of resources and men to a front that, prior to that time, had been of no concern, but much worse for Hitler, it turned the war into a two-front fight whichthat Germany could never have hoped to win.

** Oh heck, at least that has ''some'' tidbits of rationality as Russia was a danger and Hitler wasn't going to conquer Britain anytime soon because [[You Should Know This Already|the Royal Navy might object]]. What about just declaring war upon America out of the blue for no other reason thenthan that he was absurdly pleased with the Japanese for Pearl Harbor -- even though he couldn't possibly do any lasting damage beyond a few weeks of torpedoing merchantmen?

** Notorious for doing this to his military commanders. Usually, it was less because they had failed him and more because they had ignored his idiotic orders or (God forbid) pointed them out to him.

** The ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' example of the Hitler's brain subtrope comes from the fact that [[LEGO]] don't do a Hitler figure, but ''do'' do a brain in a jar.

* ''[[Little Nicky]]'': Hitler, quite aptly in Hell, appears briefly in a French Maid's outfit and gettinggets a pineapple forced in his ass.

* ''[[The Boys from Brazil]]'' by Ira Levin. Hitler is not directly a character in the book, but {{spoiler|his surviving followers, Dr. Mengele among them, have cloned Hitler, placed the boys referred in the title in various families with a husband much older than his wife, as in real Hitler's family. And to finish it off, they plan to kill the surrogate fathers while the Hitler- clones are still young.}} {{spoiler|In a [[Twist Ending]], it appears that it succeeds with the last clone.}}

* In "Timeslides", an episode of the third season of ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', the crew discoverdiscovers ''[[Time Travel]]'' via entering pictures or film. Holly digs up footage from Nuremberg and Lister enters standing next to Hitler. The episode's credits feature the line "Special Guest Star: Adolf Hitler [[Character as Himself|as himself]]".

** Also, Hitler didn't die by his own hand, but was instead [[Kill It with Fire|burned alive]] by the Human Torch and his sidekick Toro. Hardly [[Inglorious Basterds]], but it works.

** The reason Hitler was used as a villain so often in Golden Age comics is because the comics industry in the 1930's and 1940's was one of the few illustrating jobs available to Jews, so many of the first comics writers were first or second -generation American Jews with family still in Europe.

* In ''[[Persona 2|Persona 2: Innocent Sin]]'', someone starts a rumour that [[Ghostapo|Hitler has been resurrected with demonic powers]] and is leading a Nazi comeback. Shame that this has to happen at a time when [[All Myths Are True|rumours rumors are becoming reality]]. The highlight of the storyline is an actual boss battle against the man himself.

* ''[[Heil Honey I'm Home!|Heil Honey I'm Home]]'', a sitcom whichthat portrayed Hitler and Eva Braun living next door to a Jewish couple. It lasted only one episode.

* In the alternate [[Magitek]] universe novel ''Operation Chaos'', the protagonists are in Hell and at a loss to understand the identity of a mustached man with a strange armband who speaks with a strong German accent, and why the most powerful demons tremble at the sight of him, or why he uses the "ancient and honorable symbol of the fylfot (swastika)". Their alternate history never had a Nazi Germany.

** Hitler's head appears in a Duff bottle on a brewery conveyerconveyor belt.

* While we're in Hitler's car, ''[[Rat Race]]'' has Jon Lovitz and his family stealing Der Führer's car from Neo-Nazis. After a [[Disaster Dominoes|long and tragical series of events]] ([[Crowning Moment of Funny|and hilarious]]), he ends up crashing a WWII veteran convention, with a lipstick moustachemustache and speaking in German-sounding gibberish.

* ''[[Captain Planet]]''. Never named and with a less distinctive moustachemustache in 'A Good Bomb Is Hard To Find', in which two of the supervillains travelledtraveled back in time to sell the Nazis atomic weapons. He apparently was filled with so much hate that he could hurt Captain Planet ''just by staring at him''. Talk about strong mojo...

** In ''Worldwar'', Hitler leads Germany through the expanded [[WW 2]] as the aliens invade, and is succeeded by Himmler upon his death.

* Appears in the ''[[Animorphs]]'' Megamorph #3 (involving a great deal of time travel) as a lowly jeep driver during D-Day. The Animorphs discuss killing Hitler, but are unable to resolve the moral issue of killing a man who -- in that time linetimeline -- was innocent.

* ''[[CSA: Confederate States of America]]'': The ConfederecyConfederacy is an Axis power, but Hitler is unable to reach an agreement on whether or not to go through with the final solution or keep its victims alive as slave labor.

* Hitler's dog Blondi is a [[Historical In-Joke]] in ''[[Pet Shop of Horrors]]'' {{spoiler|He's actually a Kirin, a magical animal that guranteesguarantees victory, in the form of an exceptionally handsome German Shepherd. Unfortunately for Hitler and the Nazis he can also be very fickle.}}

* The core of Len Deighton's novel 'XPD' is the conceit that Hitler and Churchill had a conference to negotiate a cease-fire in France in 1940. This secret can not be allowed to spoil the history as agreed upon, so we get a settling of old scores in a thinly- disguised James Bond-ish romp through Europe, London and Hollywood.

* The insanely controversial novel [[wikipedia:The Portage to San Cristobal of AH|The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H.]] In this novel Hitler escapes to South America, grows old and is finally captured and put on an impromptu trial in the jungle by Jewish Nazi Hunters. What made it controversial iswas Hitler's speech which he gives in his own behalf, claiming (among other things) that he iswas the Messiah and should be honored as he leadled to the creation of Israel. Incidentally, the author, George Steiner, is a British Jew whose parents had escaped Nazism.

* ''[[The Man in the High Castle]]'' is a 'Nazis won [[WW 2]]' [[Alternate History]] with a difference: in 1962, the Nazis have thrown Hitler in a lunatic asylum, and part of the horror of the [[Crapsack World]] is that even the Nazis now realiserealize that their empire was built on insanity, but no-one dares to confront it.

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