Top 10 Adolf Hitler facts

More than 70. Hitler in the last years of his life was taking a lot of different medicines which were prescribed by his personal doctor Theodor Morell. He regularly took methamphetamine (since 1942 he was addicted to it), and also substances containing barbiturates, opiates and cocaine. Albert Speer claimed that Hitler's obstinate resistance to retreat from the front was caused by drugs influence.

Richard Wagner. Wagner's music was assimilated with the german domination ethos. The main reason for that is fact that the Third Reich propaganda officially approved it and Hitler himself was a big Wagner fan.

43,9%. On March 5, 1933, in the elections to the Reichstag, Hitler came to power in a legal manner when the NSDAP, in coalition with the German National People's Party, won the parliamentary elections with 43.9% of the votes (288 out of 444 seats in the parliament).

Theodor Morell. Theodor Gilbert Morell (1886 -1948) was a German doctor known for acting as Adolf Hitler's personal physician. Morell was well known in Germany for his unconventional treatments. He assisted Hitler daily in virtually everything he did for several years and was beside Hitler until the last stages of the Battle of Berlin. Grossly obese and suffering from poor health, Morell died in a Tegernsee hospital on 26 May 1948.

Bavarian. Hitler was born in Austria. But when he was three, his family moved to Passau, Germany. There he acquired the distinctive lower Bavarian dialect, rather than Austrian German, which marked his speech throughout his life. When Hitler was five, his family relocated back to Austria.

Joseph Goebbels. Hitler appointed the following as the new Cabinet and as leaders of the nation: President of the Reich, Minister of War and Commander-in-Chief of the Navy: Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz Chancellor of the Reich: Dr. Joseph Goebbels

Blondi was Adolf Hitler's German Shepherd, a gift as a puppy from Martin Bormann in 1941. Blondi stayed with Hitler even after his move into the Führerbunker located underneath the garden of the Reich Chancellery on 16 January 1945. Hitler was reportedly very fond of Blondi, keeping her by his side and allowing her to sleep in his bed in the bunker.

In 1924. After the failed coup known as the "Beer Hall Putsch", Hitler was arrested on 11 November 1923 for high treason and sentenced to five years imprisonment at Landsberg Prison. He was pardoned by the Bavarian Supreme Court and released from jail on 20 December 1924. While at Landsberg, Hitler dictated most of the first volume of Mein Kampf (My Struggle) to his deputy, Rudolf Hess.

56. Hitler was born on April 20, 1889. in Braunau am Inn, Austro-Hungary. He died on April 30, 1945.

33. Eva Braun was the longtime companion of Adolf Hitler and, for less than 40 hours, his wife. As Nazi Germany was collapsing towards the end of the war, Braun swore loyalty to Hitler and went to Berlin to be by his side in the heavily reinforced Führerbunker beneath the Reich Chancellery. On 29 April 1945, she married Hitler during a brief civil ceremony; she was 33 and he was 56. Less than 40 hours later, they committed suicide together.