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Understanding Adolf Hitler: A Historical Quiz

Test your knowledge about Adolf Hitler and his historical context with this engaging quiz. Explore key events, influences, and significant figures related to his life and regime.

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1 Adolf Hitler is a citizen of which country?

2 What or what did 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler swear allegiance to?

3 Which of the following titles did Triumph of the Will have?

4 Who was a commander in the Beer Hall Putsch?

5 When did Adolf Hitler die?

6 [310] The various accounts of Hitler's private statements vary strongly in their reliability; Most importantly, ________'s Hitler speaks is considered by most historians to be an invention.

7 Hitler may also have been influenced by ________'s On the Jews and their Lies.

8 He was rejected twice by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (1907–1908), citing "unfitness for painting", and was told his abilities lay instead in the field of ________.

9 In February 1934, Hitler met with the British Lord Privy Seal, Sir ________, and hinted strongly that Germany already possessed an Air Force, which had been forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles.

10 This process can be appreciated by watching ________'s Triumph of the Will, which presents the 1934 Nuremberg Rally.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • former movie actress Vera Ralston personally insulted Adolf Hitler in the 1936 Winter Olympics, and won a silver medal.
  • in February 1943, German General Hubert Lanz plotted to arrest Hitler during a visit to his headquarters.
  • in the advent of war with Great Britain, Adolf Hitler's Plan Z stipulated that the O class battlecruisers would be tasked with destroying convoys before they could deliver their cargo to the British.
  • it is thought that Rochdale Town Hall (pictured) was so admired by Adolf Hitler that he wanted to ship it, brick-by-brick, to Nazi Germany had the UK been defeated in World War II.
  • according to Erich von Manstein in his book Verlorene Siege, Adolf Hitler stopped Operation Citadel too soon.
  • a series of measures taken by Romanian Prime Minister Ion Gigurtu, including official persecution of Jews, failed to sway Adolf Hitler from his demand that Romania cede Northern Transylvania to Hungary.
  • Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb led the successful German assault on Leningrad in 1941, but was relieved of duty by a distrustful Hitler.
  • The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. is a controversial 1981 novella by George Steiner in which Hitler is found alive in the Amazon jungle and claims to be the Jews' benefactor.
  • Admiral Naokuni Nomura, WW2 Japanese naval attache to Berlin, returned home on U-511, a submarine that had been presented by Adolf Hitler to Japan in 1943.
  • on March 21, 1943, Rudolf Christoph von Gersdorff tried to kill Adolf Hitler in a suicide attack in Berlin, but failed because Hitler left earlier than expected.
  • the Italian winery Vini Lunardelli produced a controversial "historical line" of wine bottles featuring images of Che Guevara, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin on their labels.
  • the first men executed under Adolf Hitler's Commando Order were from No. 2 Commando.
  • the now-Polish Gliwice Canal was known as the "Adolf Hitler Canal" during WWII.
  • the perpetrator of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting had self-published a book praising Adolf Hitler in 1999.
  • the public reaction after the death of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia caused Adolf Hitler to issue a decree barring all members of Germany's former royal houses from service in the military.
  • the day after Nazi Germany declared war on the U.S., Adolf Hitler announced the extermination of the Jewish race to party leaders in a private meeting in the Reich Chancellery.
  • the blind cave beetle Anophthalmus hitleri is threatened by poaching due to its curious name, which is a dedication to Adolf Hitler.
  • the Japanese Manga de Dokuha series published a controversial manga version of Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler.
  • the Neoclassical style Embassy of Germany in Saint Petersburg (pictured), whilst reviled by the Saint Petersburg artistic community, was admired by Adolf Hitler.
  • the Quartermaster General of the Luftwaffe, Hans-Georg von Seidel, said after World War II that "Hitler understood nothing about flying and cared less".
  • Stephanie von Hohenlohe, a Jew, was a close friend of Hitler and according to a MI6 report, perhaps the only woman who could exercise influence on him.
  • Rupprecht Gerngroß is considered the leader of the only successful putsch against Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany.
  • Imperial Japanese Navy submarine Commander Takakazu Kinashi was awarded the Iron Cross by Adolf Hitler for his role in the sinking of the American aircraft carrier Wasp.
  • neo-Nazi politician and member of the Bundestag Fritz Rössler, who resembled Adolf Hitler, had a habit of attending parliament drunk.
  • Pope Pius XII's retention of Cesare Orsenigo (pictured left, with Hitler and von Ribbentrop) as Apostolic Nuncio to Germany is a "chief point of criticism" of his response to the Holocaust.
  • David Bergelson was a Yiddish language writer, who believed that the future of Yiddish literature lay in the Soviet Union and that he moved there from Berlin when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, but was ultimately executed during Josef Stalin's anti-semitic campaign against "rootless cosmopolitans".
  • Heinz Guderian (pictured) and Adolf Hitler had heated arguments while planning for Operation Solstice, one of the major German offensive operations on the Eastern Front during WWII.
  • U.S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen received the secret protocol to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which contained an understanding between Hitler and Stalin to split Central Europe, from German diplomat Hans von Herwarth.
  • Adolf Hitler lived in a public dormitory in Vienna from 1910 to 1913.
  • Adolf Hitler never thought much of the Columbus Globe for State and Industry Leaders despite its iconic status in the U.S..
  • Adolf Hitler was a self-proclaimed vegetarian and had a large greenhouse built to keep him supplied with fresh fruits and vegetables throughout World War II.
  • Erich Kempka was a chauffeur of Adolf Hitler and was called to testify at the Nuremberg trials.
  • Erna Hanfstaengl was claimed both to be romantically involved with Hitler and involved in a plot to overthrow him.
  • Karl Schnibbe was one of a group of three Hamburg teenagers arrested by the Gestapo in Nazi Germany during World War II for distributing anti-Hitler pamphlets.
  • Philip Zec enraged both Hitler and Churchill with his wartime cartoons and nearly had the Daily Mirror shut down.
  • Ramon Zamora, the Filipino film actor popularly dubbed the "Bruce Lee of the Philippines," won an award imitating Adolf Hitler on the gag show Super Laff-In.
  • Julius Schreck ended his SS career as Adolf Hitler's chauffeur, and that Hitler read the eulogy at his state funeral in 1936.
  • Hugo Jaeger's personal collection of photographs includes colour shots of Adolf Hitler on a cruise in 1939 and of the Nazi leader attending a Christmas party in 1941.
  • Hans Litten so rattled Adolf Hitler on the witness stand that, years later, Hitler told Prince Wilhelm of Prussia that even he would be sent to a concentration camp if he supported Litten.
  • Hitler's Cross was a Hitler-themed restaurant in Navi Mumbai that was causing so much controversy that it had to drop its name after less than a week.
  • Hochtief AG, the company that moved the Abu Simbel temple complex to save it from the Aswan High Dam, also built the Führerbunker, scene of Adolf Hitler's suicide.
  • 20th-century medieval scholar Erika Cheetham interpreted Nostradamus' writings as prophecies of Napoleon, Hitler, and the establishment of modern Israel.
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