His original title for Mein Kampf was "My Struggle for Five Years Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice".

Although Hitler went to great lengths to stress his humble beginnings, his family was quite well off by the standards of the time. When his father died, he actually inherited a small fortune, which he spent in less than a year in a frivolous lifestyle.

His medical records revealed that he was afflicted with monorchism (having only one testicle descended into the scrotum). When this condition became common currency during the war, English soldiers came up with a ditty, "Hitler has only got one ball", adapted from (and set to the music of) the "Colonel Bogey March", a song featured (without its lyrics) in David Lean's World War II masterpiece The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957).

As a child, his dream was to become a priest.

In his book "50 Things You're Not Suppposed To Know," Russ Kick reports that four paternal descendants (all male) of Adolf Hitler were born between 1949 and 1965 in New York State in the USA. The children, Adolf's great-nephews, are the sons of Irish-born William Patrick Hitler (who later changed his last name), himself the son of Alois Hitler, Jr., Adolph's older half-brother. One of the four died in an auto accident in 1989. Two of them have vowed never to have children. Another is presently childless and describes his ancestry as "a pain in the ass." They are the only living descendants of Adolf Hitler's paternal line of the family and are, quite literally, the last of the Hitlers.

Forensic pathologists have determined, from both historical records and what little remains of Hitler that still exist, that he probably committed suicide by simultaniously biting into a glass capsule filled with potassium cyanide and shooting himself in the head.

Rudolf Hess, his private secretary, complained that Hitler's grammar was terrible, and that much time was spent correcting his papers before they could be published.

Was the first child of his mothers to survive past infancy.

According to Leni Riefenstahl , he was anything but happy about hosting the 1936 XI. Olympic Games in Berlin and just agreed because it could have been a great publicity event for his "superior German race". Even though the German team indeed won most of the medals, probably the biggest disaster for the Nazis was the black so-called "subhuman" Jesse Owens not only winning four gold medals, but becoming the audience's hero of the games, too.

Was possibly the first media-driven politician in history to understand the power of film. All his public appearances were carefully choreographed.

While serving in WWI, he found a terrier he named "Little Fox." He taught the dog many tricks to entertain his fellow comrades.

Learned of the armistice ending WW I (1918) while in a hospital from a sobbing pastor.

The Boys from Brazil (1978) was based on a theory that Hitler wanted to clone himself.

The only American favorably mentioned in his magnum opus "Mein Kampf" was industrialist Henry Ford.

Was Time Magazine's 1938 "Man of the Year". Time's definition of "Man of the Year": "The person who most influenced the news" in the indicated year, *no matter whether for good or bad*.

Responsible for the deaths of over 11 million people during the second world war. Most were Jewish, but others included communists, homosexuals, Roma and Sinti (gypsies) as well as anyone he saw as a threat or inferior.

Had a special Mercedes touring car with a special seat which could be raised up so that he could be more easily seen when he rode through the streets. This touring car is at the Lars Anderson Auto Museum in Boston.

Has been spoofed by Mel Blanc, Mel Brooks, Christopher Carroll, Charles Chaplin, Eric Idle, Adrian Edmondson, Gilbert Gottfried, Benny Hill, Spike Jones, Michael Moriarty, Peter Sellers, and The Three Stooges .

In 1943, conspirators place a bomb on his private plane but the timer was faulty and it failed to detonate.

Served as an army messenger in World War I.

He emigrated to Germany to escape service in the Austrian army. He was not opposed to military service per se, however, and when the war broke out in 1914, he immediately volunteered for service in the German army.

Was interviewed by a psychiatrist in 1925 following the Beer Hall Putsch. The psychiatrist's final determination was "this man is crazy," but his notes were mislaid and forgotten.

The young Hitler reportedly had fits and attacks of rage from his early childhood and throughout puberty. Some observers said that his father Alois was a peculiarly cruel man, and there is no doubt that he beat his young son, which likely had a deleterious effect on the psyche of the highly intelligent child. The only confirmed antisocial behavior on the part of the young Hitler that points to a disturbed adulthood is the pleasure he took in shooting rats.

Has been portrayed by Richard Basehart, Alec Guinness, Anthony Hopkins, Derek Jacobi, Udo Kier, Martin Landau, Ian McKellen, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Robert Vaughn, Bobby Watson, Steven Berkoff, Robert Carlyle, and Bruno Ganz.

He suffered from many illnesses and medical conditions, including hypertension, headaches and heart trouble. Being gassed during World War I harmed his vision. After suffering from two episodes of blindness (one of which may have been hysterical), Hitler later suffered from pain in his eyes and blurred vision, as if "viewing objects through a thin veil.'' Beginning in the 1930s, he suffered from tinnitus. Towards the end of his life, Hitler was afflicted with Parkinson's syndrome.

Born in Austria, he did not become a German citizen until 1932. German citizenship was necessary to run for the parliamentary elections of the same year, which resulted in Hitler being appointed German Chancelor on January 30th, 1933.

Hitler's last command post, the Berlin "Führerbunker," was also his 13th.

Was reportedly a member of the Thule Society (Thule-Gesellschaft), though this is disputed. The Thule Society was a group originally dedicated to articulating and preserving a genuinely German heritage (and was linked to the study of the hermetic arts) that was founded on August 17, 1918, by Rudolf von Sebottendorff, a Freemason who also was a student of Islamic mysticism, alchemy, Rosicrucianism and other occult disciplines. The original name of the Thule Society was Studiengruppe für germanisches Altertum (Study Group for German Antiquity), and it was closely connected to if not an offshoot of the Germanenorden secret society. Formed by prominent German occultists in 1912, Germanenorden secret society -- whose symbol was a swastika -- had a hierarchical fraternal structure similar to freemasonry. Its ideology included nationalism and the idea of the superiority of the "Nordic" race, as well as anti-Semitism in addition to its witch's brew of occult and magical philosophies. The Thule Society soon started to disseminate anti-republican and anti-Semitic propaganda among the urban proletariat to counter the doctrinaire Marxism of the communists and the socialist and republican ideals of the Social Democrats. It gave birth to the Workers' Political Circle, which was founded contemporaneously in August 1918 with Thulist Karl Harrer as chairman, that in turn became the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (German Workers' Party) in 1919. Working as an agent of military intelligence, Cpl. Adolf Hitler was assigned to the task of infiltrating the German Workers Party, but soon became a convert. One year later the German Workers' Party became the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, or Nazi Party) and was soon under the leadership of Herr Hitler. Other top Nazi leaders, including Rudolf Hess and Alfred Rosenberg, were members of the Thule Society, though Hitler likely was not. However, Serbottendorff stated, "Thule members were the people to whom Hitler first turned and who first allied themselves with Hitler." There has long been speculation that Hitler was involved in the occult and was an initiate into the so-called "Nuremburg Mysteries", but nothing has ever been proven to any degree of certainty. What is undeniable is that, after the political victory of the Nazi Party in 1933, the occult tradition rooted in the Thule Society and other secret societies was carried over into Hitler's Third Reich, mainly by the SS, whose Reichsfuhrer, Heinrich Himmler, was an avid student of the occult. An SS occult research department, the Ahnernerbe (Ancestral Heritage), was established in 1935 with SS Col. Wolfram Sievers at its head. Occult research took SS researchers as far afield as Tibet (the department's activities were reflected in the plot of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)). Sievers had the Tantrik prayer, the Bardo Thodol, read over his body after his execution at Nuremberg. Thus, the Third Reich can be seen as an attempt by occultist "adepts" to establish a brave new world based on their twisted ideas of the "Laws of Nature." Similarly (in scope if not kind), the American republic was founded by Masonic adepts 150 years before, but as it was rooted in Enlightenment ideals and democracy rather than unsound fables, it managed to flourish for two centuries rather than engender its own destruction in less than a generation.

As a child, was once beaten into a 2-day coma by his father, Alois.

At the Munich conference, British Foreign Minister Lord Halifax actually mistook Hitler for a servant.

In 1931, Adolf Hitler was involved in a scandal following the apparent suicide of his half niece, Angela Geli Rabaul. Originally deemed a suicide by Munich police, present-day theories indicate that Hitler had a love affair with and might have murdered his niece. She was living in his apartment and had become a subject of gossip within the ranks of the Nazi Party, giving Hitler a very bad image.

Was a talented painter, but was rejected by the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts because he was unable to paint the human form and couldn't quite grasp perspective.

Actually wrote a sequel to "Mein Kampf", but then, perversely, refused to allow it to be published.

After WW2, the Soviet forces bulldozed the location of the "Führerbunker" (Hitler's last command post and site of his suicide), and paved over it, fearing it would become a shrine for Nazi sympathizers.

There were unconfirmed sightings of him in Denmark and Argentina after his death.

His favorite movies were King Kong (1933) and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).

Suffered from insomnia, depression, and urolagnia.

According to his valet, Hitler's vision was so bad, that he read speeches that were printed with inch-high type.

German industrial titan Fitz Thyssen, an early supporter of Hitler and the Nazi Party who turned against them, was instrumental in propagating the myth that Hitler was partly Jewish. In his 1941 book "I Paid Hitler", he wrote: "According to the published records, Hitler's grandmother had an illegitimate son, and this son was to become the father of Germany's present leader. But an inquiry once ordered by the late Austrian chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss disclosed that the Fuhrer's grandmother became pregnant during her employment as a servant in a Viennese family . . . And the family . . . was none other than that of Baron Rothschild." Thyssen was the scion of the family who owned the Thyssen mining and steel works. After taking over the company upon the death of his father, he formed and headed a conglomerate that dominated the vital steel industry. A conservative stung by Germany's loss in World War I and the Allies' brutal policy of reparations, he turned to nationalism and thus was attracted, initially, to Nazism and Hitler. He became a member of the Council of State after the Nazis rose to power, but grew disillusioned with Nazism and Hitler in the antebellum years of the 1930s. Of the man he once supported, Thyssen wrote in the introduction to his 1941 book, "If human civilization is not to perish, everything that is possible must be done to make war impossible in Europe. But the violent solution dreamed of by Hitler, a primitive person obsessed by ill-digested historical memories, is a romantic folly and a barbarous and bloody anachronism". In November of 1938 Thyssen resigned from the Council of State in protest over the Nazis' brutal Kristallnacht pogrom against the Jews. With the outbreak of World War II, he emigrated to Switzerland. After moving to France, Thyssen eventually was apprehended by the Nazis after they took over France and he wound up in the notorious Dachau concentration camp, which he survived. The man who financed Hitler and later broke with him outlived him by nearly six years, dying in February 1951.

After the failed Beer Hall Putsch he retreated to the attic of a building and tried to shoot himself in the head. A policeman wrestled the gun away from him.

From 1925 to 1945, Hitler held the official title of SS Member #1, a title which he gave to himself upon the group's creation in 1925. Heinrich Himmler, who became the overall commander of the SS, held membership #168. The man who is actually credited with founding the SS, however, was not Hitler or Himmler. He was SS Member #2, a half Jewish associate of Hitler's named Emil Maurice .

While many insist that Hitler was a lifelong vegetarian, medical and historical records prove that he adopted a vegetarian diet only in the last 12 years of his life, due to medical complications.

His favorite opera was Richard Wagner's "Reinzi," which he claimed to have seen at least 40 times. In his younger years, he befriended the Wagner family and even twice proposed to Wagner's daughter in-law, Winifred, after her first husband died (she turned him down because he didn't have "an important position"). He was known to her children as "Uncle Wolf," and members of the Wagner family affectionately referred to Hitler as "Wolf," even after he became Germany's dictator.

His mother died of breast cancer.

When the Soviet troops reached Berlin, and located the "Führerbunker," the body of a man was found amid the rubble. He had died from a gunshot to the forehead and resembled Hitler so closely he was mistakenly identified as him. His body was even filmed by newsreel photographers with the Soviet soldiers who found the body. While a coroner's examination verified that the man was NOT Hitler, his resemblance to him was eerily uncanny. His true identity, however, remains a mystery.

Was a big fan of American football.

Almost froze to death while sleeping on the streets in Austria. He was saved, ironically enough, by a Jewish charity group.

From the moment of his ascension to power in 1933 to his death in 1945 there were seventeen attempts on his life.

Beatle John Lennon wanted to put Hitler in the crowd on the cover of "Sgt. Pepper`s Lonely Hearts Club Band", but The Beatles` record label refused, for obvious reasons.

Recently discovered medical records show that he was receiving doses of methamphetamine as often as six times a day.

As a child, was once beaten into a 2-day coma by his father

Did not drink or smoke.

Tests he took showed that he had an IQ of 141.

He held membership card number 555 of the NSDAP, but the Nazi Party started numbering from 500 to make themselves appear larger

Contracted Parkinson`s Disease in the later years of his life. Recently discovered newsreel footage shows Hitler addressing members of the Hitler Youth (the last footage taken of him alive), with his left hand visibly trembling.

Was taking 92 different drugs towards the end of his life.

After his death his corpse was never officially discovered.

Ruler of Nazi Germany (The Third Reich) 1933-1945.

Arm was paralyzed during an assassination attempt by a group of Wehrmacht generals in 1944.

After his suicide in April, 1945, the corpse was imperfectly cremated, and some remains were not burned away. Pieces of the skull (including one with a bullet hole) and leg bones were recovered by the Russians, and now reside in the Russian National Archives.

Although Adolf Hitler was not at all a fan of Chaplin - in fact he had been misinformed that Charlie was Jewish, and therefore despised him - he was also well aware of how beloved Charlie was throughout the world at that time, and that was the reason he grew the Chaplin moustache: he thought it would endear him to the people.