Why even do this topic if you cant get through more than a few minutes without showing such hate. We all know what he did, we all know he became a monster...show some professionalism.
not to bust your balls, but how many people really are in danger of being targeted for a ddos attack? i feel like that is one of those things that requires lots of effort for very little payout. especially against an individual. this gives me "mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell" vibes where im told i need to know something, more, than im ever gonna actually need it
For all we know there may be dozens of people just as troubled as Hitler walking about, they just never get the opportunity to rise to power as he did.
All humans carry a similar capability and capacity all under the proper circumstances and conditions. People forget what makes a human HUMAN. That we are made up of just about the same biological making
This makes me think of the Russian movie "Come and See" where a young boy, after experiencing Nazi atrocities, shoots at a picture of Hitler while imagining him at a younger and younger age, until he sees Hitler as a baby and decides not to shoot. In doing so he himself avoids becoming a Hitler himself, as he won't hurt an innocent, even if it grows up to be Hitler. Very powerful film.
One of those moral lessons of dubious truth. It depends on the certainty level of the baby growing up to be Hitler. Plenty more babies died as result of Hitler's actions. Which should you choose, the smaller number of killed babies, or the larger number?
The grades thing is interesting. I think there’s a possibility that he was a gifted kid who gave up on grades as school got harder, as he never learned how to work. It’s actually a decently common trajectory for gifted students who don’t have the much needed support.
Hitler had no problem with work and wasn't a coward either, the man volunteered for dangerous duty during WWI to the point it almost blinded him. I have the same issue it is a problem doing pointless work and school is an epitome of this aside from reading, writing and arithmetic everything I learned in grade school through high school has been absolutely useless to me it was a huge waste of my time and I knew this as a child.
This video was extremely well researched. Congratulations to whoever did the work. A few added notes based on my research for "In the Mouth of the Lion." In 1900, Adolf and Edmund both contracted measles. Edmund died of measles encephalitis; Adolf had a milder case and survived. Aftereffects of measles encephalitis include loss of morality and ambition, and, eventually, early onset Parkinson’s. Hitler's grades, hitherto good, soon deteriorated, as stated. About that time, he was accused of molesting another child. Hitler failed the life-drawing exam for entrance to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, in 1907 and 1908, simply because he didn't practice. There's a nude sketch of Geli Raubal by Hitler. It's not bad for a student, but the head is at an impossible angle.
Synopsis: He was a weird kid, very physical in play and with a vivid imagination. Only had one friend/confidant at a time, liked singing in the church choir, exploring nature, drawing, military history, the theater and architecture. Fiercely nationalistic at a young age and opposed the ethnic discrimination of the Germans by the Austro-Hungarian regime. He opposed his strict father in a time when that kind of behavior was not tolerated and he did very well in the school topics he was interested in. Regarding his history grades, he claimed that memorizing when some General was born and such details was less important than the events leading up to the battle or conflict and that young minds were being tested on remembering unimportant details. I can agree with him on that. But such an attitude gives bad grades..
It is not surprising that he had no strong feelings against "Them" because such things develop over time with lived experience. As he said: "And gradually I began to hate them"..
When I was in school, I used to wish there had been more emphasis on remembering dates ( which I happen to be good at ), and less on explaining why things happened ( which I was bad at.)
Interesting how some people think Hitler was ‘evil’ from the beginning yet it’s it’s frightening how he could go from a young boy who loved his mother, to changing into a monster
@@0Bumbi so says Kritzinger’s story. (If you really want to feel ice water in your veins, HBO’s Conspiracy - about the banality of evil and the Wannsee Conference - does it every time.)
The explosiveness in his charracter when confronted in his dreams towards reality made it clear , what kind of man Adolf realy was . His fantasies were out of this world and made up . But he started to beleave in his own fantasies and thats a scary thing . He always was and has been this man . But people who are like Adolf only need the right moment in time to become real .
Erm... Did Hitler have ADHD? The hyper-focuses, daydreaming, difficulty doing things he didn't enjoy, the obsessions, the rejection sensitivity... As an ADHDer I'm alarmed to find myself feeling like I have something in common with him 😬
You have to be more than a little slow to think Hitler was born that way. Much of his bent ideology was born after being gassed in WW1. He sank into a depression and became obsessed with Neitzche's hypothesis of "ubermensch" or "supermen". He wasn't running around Austria as a youngin, goose stepping and wearing a Chaplin moustache.
@@Fukkconservatives ok what ever makes you feel better. Keep the obsessing for ever dosnt affect any one but you. Enjoy you TDS. You obviously have never heard the expression that hatred is the most underestimated devotion.
In early 1913, Hitler and Stalin were living in Vienna at the same time, Hitler pursuing his art and Stalin on assignment for Lenin. It is fascinating to speculate how their paths might've crossed, however inadvertently, and never knowing that one day they would be deadly adversaries in the greatest land war in history. Perhaps they were having lunch in a cafe, and one turned to the other, at the next table, and asked for the salt. Or perhaps they brushed past each other on the street, or shared a trolley seat. Such things almost certainly never happened, but who knows for sure?
I’ve often thought about that, myself. It would make a great subject for a historical novel. It’s beyond my capacity, I admit, but I hope someone else does.
So what you're saying is that if somebody were to go back in time to prevent the holocaust rather than killing a baby or a child version of Hitler, they could just kill his abusive drunk stepfather and likely prevent all of the traumatic terrible things that he experienced at the end of his father that likely caused him to become a murderous dictator
This story is tragic and also all to common. Many children have ability that is crushed and torn into insanity. Few turn into megalomania that is so strong, it infects millions.
Good point. He attributed traits of people perhaps Jewish people he didn't like to Jews. And he failed to attribute the good traits of that doctor to Jews.
He also spared the life of Franz Lehar, composer of Hitler’s favorite operetta, “ The Merry Widow”. Lehar survived World War II and the Holocaust, because the SS were told to leave him alone.
He was abused and became abusive. He lost whatever empathy he was born with. Pretty standard for kids (esp boys) who are abused growing up. It's how we get psychopaths and serial killers. It also sounds like he had fragile narcissism. That whole stalker thing...He was definitely off his rocker.
Most psychopathy, sociopathy, narcism is genetic. It can be maximised by abuse, but it's not the cause. I've seen many loved spoilt children that will do and say anything to get what they want, which is often how their parents got so rich and powerful.
His dad was no more or less domineering than most fathers of the time. What *really* strengthened Hitler's ego was his mother's incessant babying. She indulged him too damn much.
Those who do not remember George Santayana will repeat George Santayana. Santayana was a gross-out racist and sexist. He opined that "some races are obviously superior to others". As an example, he said that "reason as well as instinct cries out against any mixing of the white and black races". His views on the inferiority of females was as gross. In this regard, he was in line with Hitler's attitudes. Yet Santayana is imagined as "wise" even by liberals who are ironically ignorant of history, knowing only that one, iconic quote of his. Sigh...
@@tom-kz9pb agreed, but that quote is worth remembering, even if the person who said it is not. Anyone can twist word meanings to get what they want out of them, but there's not much interpretation possible with that quote.
@@techn1kal1tythat quote actually was ment to apply to the Jews who have been expelled by 109 different nations and are again facing a backlash over their attempts to genocide the people of Gaza. Nothing people’s clearly never learn from past behaviours.
I rather like George Santayana myself. For one thing, he was among the few philosophers whose style is readable. He also wrote a great deal about aesthetics - the study of beauty. As an ( amateur) artist,this is naturally of great interest to me.
Just a quick note on your German pronunciation. In German, the diphthong "ie" is pronounced as the English "ee" while the German "ei" is pronounced as the English "eye". This would make the pronunciation of Hiedler "HEED-ler". I've noticed Simon frequently (always, allegedly, in my opinion) switches the pronunciation of these German diphthongs.
@@einname9986 Just about, with a couple of provisos. When at the end of a word, or often, a syllable, the German pronunciation of 'd' takes on more the character of English 't'. The German word for 'a building' is Bild, which is pronounced more like the English word 'built', though this si not quite as pronounced as the initial 't' in the German word 'Tag' (day). The 't' and 'd' sounds however are very close homophones. In English, when you have a double 't' in the middle of a word, during the natural flow of English speech, most speakers will pronounce the middle double 't' sound more like 'd', so 'better' becomes 'bedder' and 'little' becomes 'liddle'.
I’m an artist, and the claims that Hitler was under-talented are complete bullshit. His watercolors were often very good. People don’t want to say anything complimentary about Hitler. It’s pettiness.
They were alright. Nothing special, but saying that he had no talent is way too harsh. He had issues with perspective and wasn't very creative in the techniques or subject matter, but if he was willing to actually put in the work and didn't have the mentality that he's the greatest thing since sliced bread, he actually could've been pretty great.
Imo Hitler would have made an excellent architectural concept artist. He seemed to have been locked into the older, traditional art forms instead of exploring the new art forms like abstract, cubism, etc.
The fact he said that if all jews were like the doctor, there would be no Jewish question makes me cringe. He didn't know a single person sent to the gas chambers. There were so many good people like the doctor murdered by his regime, because they checked the one box of being Jewish.
Could have been the 40+ million Ethnic Whites they genocided in the Holodomor&the fact they despised ethnic Germans,Russians,and Slavs. Might make you a bit prejudice growing up watching it all happen.
11:45 now I'm just envisioning a time traveler going back to stop Hitler, but accidentally creating Hitler by replacing the Baby because he was always destined to kill the original child.
There's actually an episode of 2002 revival of The Twilight Zone with that premise. A time traveler abducts baby Hitler after posing as a maid at his parent's estate and throws the baby in the river. She dies shortly afterwards when she's shot by police. However, a nanny working for Hitler's parents who witnessed the whole thing decides to take the baby of a nearby beggar woman and pass him off as their son so she won't get in trouble for failing in her duties. It's implied at the end that substitute baby grows up to become the Hitler that we're all familiar with.
sometimes i wonder if the outcome we got might have been the "best". imagine if the nationalist socialist party had gotten a more stable person as a leader. we might all be speaking german now.
@NexAngelus405 Hitler’s parents didn’t live on an estate. They were lower-middle class, and were living in an Inn when Adolf was born ( they were new in town, the town being Braunau-am-Inn, Austria.)
@@valor101arise wow how insightful, you have resolved the age old issue of domestic violence and clearly able to pick out the faults...I am impressed.. Here is some advice keep your simple mind to yourself
@valor101arise You’ve got a point. Not that I don’t have any sympathy for Klara H., she was an abused wife, married to a drunkard and bully. But she probably spoiled Adolf. She let him drop out of school after his father’s death, allowed him to lead an idle, pampered life, with the result that he never developed a work ethic. Actually, he was so lazy, it’s a wonder he ever amounted to anything, let alone becoming dictator of most of Europe. Even when he was the Fuehrer, he never kept regular office hours, and spent most of his time hanging out in cafes, etc. Albert Speer wondered how Hitler got anything done.
00:01 Discussing Adolf Hitler's childhood. 01:48 Hitler's grandfather's identity is debated. 05:23 Allegations about Hitler's biological father and his upbringing 07:12 Hitler's grandfather's relationships and marriages. 10:52 Adolf Hitler had a very close attachment to his mother. 12:41 Hitler's father had a strict, abusive, and alcoholic nature. 16:30 Young Hitler had a relatively normal childhood, with interests in literature and outdoor games. 18:07 Hitler's childhood changed after his brother's death 21:17 Hitler was a rebellious and lazy student during his early teenage years. 22:50 Hitler abandoned formal education at the age of 16 and lived a life of leisure. 25:59 Hitler's aspirations to attend the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna 27:36 Hitler was rejected from art school and advised to pursue a career in architecture. 30:46 Hitler's artistic ambitions were dashed, and he struggled to make a living. 32:22 Hitler showed little drive or ambition in pursuing education or work. 35:28 Hitler felt a deep and unspoken connection with Stephanie, believing they were destined to be together. 37:05 Hitler had a deep aversion to dancing and even considered kidnapping Stephanie, his love interest. 40:13 Hitler struggled and earned money through odd jobs and paintings. 41:50 Hitler was able to talk his way out of military conscription. 45:01 Hitler's life shows that even from rock bottom, success is possible.
Geez, Stefanie dodged a bullet, didn't she? Or an involuntary plunge off the Danube bridge. Even modern incels would say to him, "Dude, get a clue. Stefanie's just not into you."
More I look into it the more I wonder how much any potential brain damage, concussions, etc from being beaten as a child lead to who he became. The impulsive, obsessive aspects of his personality and tendency to rant about random and seemingly unrelated topics due remind me a lot of people who’ve suffered from brain trauma as kids.
It's called NTBI, for non-traumatic brain injury--no visible damage. You may be right. It should be stressed that many people have damaged brains, but don't declare war on Poland.
Turning Hitler into an archdemon is just as bad as turning him into a hero. Let us remember the man. In all his entirety. That is the tragedy. There lies the shame.
Hitler was among 'one of us' and that's the scariest thing about him, there's perhaps hundred of hitler who might doesn't have the same opportunity to rise into power.
Here’s something I’d like to find out and have Simon Whistler tell me about it- what is the story/history of the French maid? Both in the iconic uniform (its form and function if any) and how it became a staple in human sexuality.
Be careful about your use of "intoversion." Introversion is an energy attitude. I taught an introductory leadership course a few years back at the U.S. Naval Academy. MBTI was one of our topics. I'm solidly introverted but that means I regain mental engergy by being away from people. I served for more than 20 years being in front of and around Sailors and Marines to great effect but when I need to be alone, let me be alone to recharge. Introversion is NOT shyness.
You know, I feel like that are so many lessons to be learned from this story. How we as people have the ability to directly affect others in a negative or positive manner that can change the course of who they become in life. Perhaps with more support and understanding early in life, a monster like Hitler might have gone down a much different path, maybe using those leadership skills to do much good in the world. We should keep this in mind every day as we are dealing with people and how we treat them.
Your recommendation for a time traveller to swap babies instead of making Adolph's mother even less lucky than she already was leaves the perfect opportunity to test nature versus nature. If this new baby still grows up to lead Germany to commit the Holocaust and baby Adolf grows up to be a decent human being, it will give us a pretty conclusive answer.
And what would happen if neither grows up to be hitler? Most abused children do not grow up to be monsters, and some nazis actually had good childhoods.. Nature i think is a factor, and nurture is more than just parents, but also culture, and german culture at that time was nationalistic, militaristic and after the loss of the first war, looking desperately for someone to blame...
@@michaelhaywood8262 makes sense. Nurture for brutality and megalomaniac tendencies. But both still had also natures for visionary living, rebellious tendencies. And lived in cultures that nurtured a very unique worldview. That's what i mean..every single person is a mix of parental nurture, societal nurture, own nature and choices we made...
Given my OCD and ADHD, I find many descriptions of Hitler's young adulthood disturbingly familiar. I feel like I need a genealogy chart to keep track of all Hitler's antecedents!
If his early life is true, a time traveler wouldn't need to kill Hitler. They just need to switch babies with a family of artists. Of course, though, the other baby might become a raging psycho too because the dad was horrible.
One of the reasons hitler is commonly speculated as having a jewish grandather in the modern day, wasnt just due to that one guy, but rumors used to shame him early in his career combined with one other thing, a genetic test of haplogroups was done on descendants of hitlers father. This Y haplogroup was E1b1b a common one in north/east africa and the middle east, namely israel. Combined these led to many, even someone like Mark Felton to imply he may have been of Jewish descent as that haplogroup isnt that common in europe. HOWEVER for all tested with that haplogroup that are native born europeans 80% didnt have either jewish or north african ancestry. So again, it's likely just one of the many lies made up about hitler to make him seem more hypocritical than he already was. Another was a common depiction of him with brown eyes despite many describing him having light blue eyes.
The part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire Hitler's father was born in, Styria, did not have Jews living in it until Hitler's father was in his mid 30s. It was illegal for Jews to live in the Steiermark at the time of Alois' birth.
@@caitthecat Yeah nah. The guy had blue eyes. You can point at mant other nazi leaders or higher ups for both personality, physical, and genetic hypocricies. Infact I'd argue the main hooked cross lover who it COULD be argued had jewish dna wasn't hitler or his inner circle, but goebbles' wife Magda. Growing up her mother was extremely close with a jewish man with that same man being suspiciously supportive of Magda and her family. Such an impact he had on he that ironically one of her first male interests was a zionist boy. I bring all this up because later in her life, she went to look at some old family stuff in an old home and whatever she found scared the shit out of her and she refused to talk to her husband about it. Putting all of that together you could probably guess the implication. However, again, it's uncertain and just one of many possibilities.
Anyone else concerned that there are a bunch of time travellers going back and killing Hitler then replacing him with a different baby and that whoever got there last actually replaced the baby with the Hitler we all know??
I had heard a story about Hitler. When he found out his mother passed away, they said he cried and wailed like a small child. I wonder how accurate that is.
I find it hard to believe there was a single shred of humanity left in him, but I suppose for most of us love of mother is pretty deep, despite the terrible layers life may add over time. Yuck. I don’t even like the feeling of hypothesizing about his possible remaining humanity. Jesus Christ. I almost said something about going to … clean the filthy feeling off in running water in my bathroom … but I realized how that could be misconstrued as a dark joke. OK. I’m done embarrassing myself now. FCK NZS.
Possibly true. He did care about his mom. There was a Jewish doctor who treated her. He was actually thankful to him. Hitler made him go to America, so he wouldn't kill him in the Holocaust.
Its always funny when people don't consider the consequences of travelling back in time and killing a young Hitler. The world you know today not existing would be high possibility. Many many many of us, including myself.. wouldn't exist.
Man of the Year isn't some sort of congeniality contest or endorsement of merit. It is given to the person - or tpoic- that made news the most or had the most impact. It doesn't mean it's a good thing.
I enjoyed listening to this villain origin story. It's difficult to express a sense of humor given who we're discussing here, but it really sounds like Hitler could have been a good person if circumstances were different for him. Admittedly, I wonder how horrified my dad would be if he learned he has something in common with You Guess Who. To clarify, both my dad and Hitler hate work. If things do work out for me, I sincerely hope that I don't become like Hitler, but that's extremely unlikely. I have something that Hitler didn't have. For one thing, I have a work ethic. It's a picky work ethic that makes me sound like a spoiled brat, but it's there. I have to constantly trim the length of TH-cam comments sometimes, because for some reason, I just don't shut up. I'd like to be a writer one day. I know that in terms of being successful, that's pending, but writing words? I seem to be way too willing to do that. If someone wanted a portfolio of evidence that I should be hired, the bulk of what I have is a decade's worth of stories that have never been finished. Wait. Did I just admit I have something in common with Hitler? I think my comment ends here.
I was doing some work while having this on my second monitor; the spittake I did when I glanced over at 23:15 nearly took me out. Well played, Daven, well played.
I'm sure Hitler struggled with ADHD but I think the defining element of his childhood were the beatings and authoritarianism of his father for this would be how Hitler would express himself throughout his life.
I always find it Ironic that Hitler, as well as other high ranking Nazis never actually met the requirements for being “Aryan”, that is; German, Blond hair and Blue eyes. Obviously for a start, Hitler was Austrian.
Only about one third of Germans have blond hair and blue eyes. And the Austrians are ethnically and culturally German. They just got separated from the other Germans by an accident of history.
Hitler did drink alcohol, only rarely. He drank some Tokay, a sweet Hungarian wine, on the night he married ( he probably liked it because it is sweet.) He probably didn’t hold his liquor very well, but it’s absolutely true that he was a crankster, and also used Eukodal ( oxycodone, in German.) Excuse me that should read “ on the night he married Eva B.”
@valerietaylor9615 so he drank a toast of sweet wine hours before he killed himself? Which would hardly make him a drinker. Eukadol is NOT the same as oxycodone. It's 5mg of cocaine & 3mg of methamphetamine. Oxycodone is a morphine based analgesic. So very different. Although, he had morphine I his drug cocktail regime as well.
I put this in the background while I'm doing something trivial And then randomly look up and I see Hitler posing with anime girls That made me laugh really hard
In a speach class the teacher asked for ppl to yell names of good public speakers and a lot of good one were yelled out and i said hitler. And the teacher said that was inappropriate and kicked me out. But when i talked to the principal i explained like i dont like him or what he did but u cant tell me he was bad at speaches.... which were blasted and studied around the world and made almost a whole country do those horrible things. He agreed with me and made her tell the classninhad a point.
Just how this shiftless individual rose to rulership of any nation perplexes me. One wonders if he simply told the majority exactly what they wanted to hear.
You're right, Hitler didn't invent antisemitism, he was preaching to the choir. There was a history of antisemitism in Germany dating back at least to the first Crusade.
@@thundernlightning It's the most that was allowed, but clean shaven eas preferred. It's kind of a rebellious thing. Like they tell him to shave and he leaves the one part that doesn't interfere with the seal of a gas mask, and probably argued about it. Safety razors where invented for WWI due to the need of constant reliable shaving. Still the best type of non electric razor known to humanity. Especiallz if you have thick hair that can get caught in the 15 blade thingies and you tear one out. And thr blades stay sharp for a month easily and cost 5 cents. And it rarely draws blood, you'd have to really do a bad job.
@thundernlightling I’ve read several comments before this regarding the toothbrush mustache being the only kind that would fit under a gas mask. But is this really true? Because all of the photos I’ve seen of Hitler as a World War I soldier, show him with a much fuller mustache. The earliest photos I’ve seen of him with the well-known toothbrush mustache, were taken around 1919, when the war was over and he joined the German Worker’s Party, later the National Socialist German Worker’s Party, or Nazi Party for short.
@@valerietaylor9615 You could get away with a bit more it's like a mask you'd get today for spray painting from the fit so you could have a relatively large moustace, just definetly no beard of you want a tight seal. Keep in mknd gas wasn't big at the start of the war, that came a bit later so facial hair styles on soldiers changes substantially once gas masks became standard equipment, I forget but that would have been a year or two into the war
There's an argument for nurture vs nature, but humans are so wildly variable that there's no way to know how someone else would've turned out given the same circumstances. It's a crapshoot thought exercise with no correct answer, at the end of the day we got the version we got and millions suffered for it
not necessarily. another child would have most like held different positive and negative attributes than adolf and would most likely have acted different in the same situations. yes we are shaped by out history but we are not defined by it.
The Jewish ancestry is often up for debate. The fact is many Germans/Austrians/Poles/Hungarians/Russians etc. had Jewish blood in their veins. Ashkenazi Jews were, in general, not shy regarding marriage to Gentiles. When the Nazi heirarchy were debating the Nuremberg Laws, and looking for precedent, they used the American one-drop rule and watered it down. It is likely they came to the 25% rule to be volksdeutch for the aforementioned phenomenon of intermarriage. Going with the one drop rule they had in the US would have outed many prominent Nazis, and many within Germany and Austria, who had Jewish grandparents. With a more than decent chance it would out Hitler himself.
In the school photograph at 18:30 in the row in front of Hitler and third from the right sits the future famous philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein. While Ludwig was in the UK during WW2 his family, who were mega-rich steel magnates as well as being Austrian Jews, paid off the Nazis to secure their freedom.
There's an episode of justified where the guy that plays Woolsey in Stargate Atlantis and SG-1 plays an art dealer and he keeps inviting Raylan Givens to look at "his original Hitlers". Eventually Raylan agrees and they enter a room with jars filled with ashes. Apparently the guy that plays Woolsey buys them in auction, burns them and displays the ashes.
Jeez give it to Today I Found Out to make Hitler relatively relatable. Like, yes, top 10 most evil men in history, but he definitely has something of a super villain backstory
The episode of Rick and Morty where they give snakes time travel got a small part of how people would screw with time travel right. How ever it would have to included it across Hitlers entire time line. And been more then just people looking to protect or kill him. Just thinking about it can cause a person to be glade we haven't gotten public time travel.
I once heard a joking comment regarding time travelers getting Hitler into art school... "What of there is time travel. What if the Hitler we have is the better of the options? What horrors might we have seen if we'd gotten Pretentious Art Major Hitler instead?"
His artwork was skillful enough to get him into art school. He got himself rejected from art school because he was already Germany's head of state before he applied. If you study photos of Otto von Bismarck and Hitler as young men whose features were distinct and undistorted by age, they were identical. Point blank. Bismarck's wife was also a dead ringer for Hitler's mother. Otto von Bismarck easily survived an assassination attempt of 5 gunshots at point blank range. That's because he was fundamentally different from us. He's STILL alive in fact. And the German government treated him like a dignitary even when he was supposedly a struggling fledgling artist living in abandoned buildings. Plus he still has a curious affinity for incest.
Lemme tell you about Bitler. I'm an underprivileged American female of a different race but Bismarck was my great-great-great grandpa. His current wife looks almost exactly like me except she's a different race from both of us. She also shares my initials and my undergrad college major. She really hates me because I developed a mad crush on him before I realized he was my grandpa. He was attracted to her partly because her father repeatedly raped her from age 11 til a little while after she got married. I've been in and out of mental institutions for decades. Which is right up his alley because he's always inventing new ways to eliminate collegiate blacks from the labor force. Obviously he had a field day with me.
@@steakfries8037 Have you ever seen his paintings? They're perfect and highly professional. There's no way he didn't draw well enough. It's totally implausible that he couldn't get accepted into at least ONE prestigious school for the arts. He wielded power behind the scenes long before he became a public figure. He ordered the Dean of Admissions to reject him.
The war changed him from a loose, drifting youngster to a determined man with a purpose. He liked the war unlike most of the other soldiers. He practically begged to go back to the front in 1916, even after he was seriously wounded. Who does that? The same kind of people who do multiple tours in war zones and keep on going back.
of course he was a creepy stalker type who wanted to murder a woman because she didn't like him (or, based on that story it doesn't seem he ever even actually tried to interact with her to give her the chance to like him? which is even worse tbh). domestic abuse/desire to commit abuses of that nature is a common thread among the worst of people.
He was obviously too shy to speak to his adored Stephanie. And he fortunately didn’t follow through on the murder-suicide pact. Fortunately for Stephanie, if not the rest of the world. 😮
Great job! I learn so much from your programs. In future reports, please include some explanation for Hitler's volcanic rage, monstrous brutality, and bottomless hate. My GUESS is that he fell so short of his grandiose early self-expectations (until the Nazi era, of course), that he never really recovered from that shocking blow. And had to disown his early failures by blaming someone else: Jews. His colossal ego was so fragile that he could NEVER admit any shortcomings. And Jews and "traitorous generals" were his scapegoats. The more he failed, the more outraged he became at the "causes" of his failures. Being a "Feurer" only fed his enormous ego, and the need for scapegoats. The greater his failures (later in the war), the greater the need for scapegoats and the rage at them. Just a guess. Thank you.
Why were they scapegoats? They were disproportionately represented in the Bolshevik leadership as well as left wing Marxist agitators in Central Europe. There’s a reason antisemitism swept Central Europe in the aftermath of WW1 as well as now.
You’ve made several good points. Just remember - the German word for leader is spelled “ Fuhrer”, with an umlaut ( the two little dots) over the “u”. It’s also permissible to spell it “Fuehrer” if the device you’re using doesn’t have an umlaut.
All through your video, I found myself laughing with enjoyment at your presentation and at the self absorbed kid. This humanizes Hitler revealing what led him to become what he later became. And I'm Jewish.
Am I the only one who thinks, based on this info, that he might have had ADHD? I was a terrible student who read constantly and seemingly had a new creative obsession each week. My parents actually tried and I was still a bit of a dick till my mid 20s and id imagine that Id have turned out much worse had my parents been so abusive. As it stood I refused to obey them to the point were I couldnt be physically grounded as I was clearly stronger than my parents having regularly beat my dad at armwrestling by the age of 12. Any time they tried to stop me leaving I would calmly push them aside. If they had tried to strike me like this regularly id have struck back at the very least and i can certianly see how if you werent a brute or had a desire for their approval it could lead to some real social maladys.
I would like to say that I feel confident you are not near Shitler in the contest of terrible humans by and large any metric. We all have phases as we grow, even now people will still change , its the way life is, it is It's M.O. and function. You have compassion, it ever bothers, call your blood and just tell them you love them and do something for them. That compassion is what shit never had, and if you want to confirm go see a doc who can work out, with you, if you do have anything. I have asbergers, didnt know until like 14. Hang in there, goodluck, and happy hunting.
I had a similar temperament in addition to wildly fantastical, passions, and dreams of being world renowned in this, or that were putting no effort into it and I had a very similar stepfather. I am not a dictator, but I definitely am fucked up
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Why even do this topic if you cant get through more than a few minutes without showing such hate. We all know what he did, we all know he became a monster...show some professionalism.
What if someone already went back in time and killed Hitler as a baby and replaced him and that's why he was so evil
Interesting topic. It just drives me mad the way you chatter. I can't follow you go so fast
not to bust your balls, but how many people really are in danger of being targeted for a ddos attack? i feel like that is one of those things that requires lots of effort for very little payout.
especially against an individual.
this gives me "mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell" vibes where im told i need to know something, more, than im ever gonna actually need it
@@mousemdget gud
For all we know there may be dozens of people just as troubled as Hitler walking about, they just never get the opportunity to rise to power as he did.
probably hundreds of thousands
Episodes of Criminal Minds.
For a real example, there's Netanyahu, as he's fueled on hatred and using violence to stay in power.
its not a 'for all we know,' its pretty much a given.
All humans carry a similar capability and capacity all under the proper circumstances and conditions. People forget what makes a human HUMAN. That we are made up of just about the same biological making
I can name a few dozens I personally know!
This Hitler guy is too relatable, really hope he doesn't screw it up later in life.
“I didn’t even know he was sick!” - Norm Macdonald
I have some news......
He didnt.
What ??
Nahh he was fine. Settled down in Berlin with his wife and had a load of kids.
This makes me think of the Russian movie "Come and See" where a young boy, after experiencing Nazi atrocities, shoots at a picture of Hitler while imagining him at a younger and younger age, until he sees Hitler as a baby and decides not to shoot. In doing so he himself avoids becoming a Hitler himself, as he won't hurt an innocent, even if it grows up to be Hitler. Very powerful film.
I saw it, and it's one of the best movies I've seen.
yep, truly makes you feel the horrors of war. Stuck with me for days this movie. Fantastic yet traumatic viewing. Powerful film.
One of those moral lessons of dubious truth. It depends on the certainty level of the baby growing up to be Hitler. Plenty more babies died as result of Hitler's actions. Which should you choose, the smaller number of killed babies, or the larger number?
Builds up to the grisly climax right from the start.
That movie blew my mind many years ago as a young fella
The grades thing is interesting. I think there’s a possibility that he was a gifted kid who gave up on grades as school got harder, as he never learned how to work. It’s actually a decently common trajectory for gifted students who don’t have the much needed support.
Hitler had no problem with work and wasn't a coward either, the man volunteered for dangerous duty during WWI to the point it almost blinded him. I have the same issue it is a problem doing pointless work and school is an epitome of this aside from reading, writing and arithmetic everything I learned in grade school through high school has been absolutely useless to me it was a huge waste of my time and I knew this as a child.
He started failing school because his father wanted him to be a civil servant whereas he wanted to be an artist.
@@megahunterkiller according to this very video that reason is heavily debated, as his grades did not improve after his father's death
very common trajectory for every cult leader out there
This video was extremely well researched. Congratulations to whoever did the work. A few added notes based on my research for "In the Mouth of the Lion."
In 1900, Adolf and Edmund both contracted measles. Edmund died of measles encephalitis; Adolf had a milder case and survived. Aftereffects of measles encephalitis include loss of morality and ambition, and, eventually, early onset Parkinson’s. Hitler's grades, hitherto good, soon deteriorated, as stated. About that time, he was accused of molesting another child.
Hitler failed the life-drawing exam for entrance to the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, in 1907 and 1908, simply because he didn't practice. There's a nude sketch of Geli Raubal by Hitler. It's not bad for a student, but the head is at an impossible angle.
I'm gonna need an actual chart of this family, 10mins in and i'm like wtf is happening.
It seems that his family tree is more or less a straight line. If his family had been American, they’d probably have been from Alabama.
This is one for the UsefulCharts TH-cam channel
I had to pause and hit Wikipedia myself. The faulty captions didn’t help matters.
I find the speed talking doesn't help 😂
His family was weird
Synopsis:
He was a weird kid, very physical in play and with a vivid imagination. Only had one friend/confidant at a time, liked singing in the church choir, exploring nature, drawing, military history, the theater and architecture. Fiercely nationalistic at a young age and opposed the ethnic discrimination of the Germans by the Austro-Hungarian regime. He opposed his strict father in a time when that kind of behavior was not tolerated and he did very well in the school topics he was interested in.
Regarding his history grades, he claimed that memorizing when some General was born and such details was less important than the events leading up to the battle or conflict and that young minds were being tested on remembering unimportant details. I can agree with him on that. But such an attitude gives bad grades..
It is not surprising that he had no strong feelings against "Them" because such things develop over time with lived experience. As he said: "And gradually I began to hate them"..
When I was in school, I used to wish there had been more emphasis on remembering dates ( which I happen to be good at ), and less on explaining why things happened ( which I was bad at.)
the word is hi_story_
it is bad teachers who can only drill on dates, probably because they are so Black & White at test-time
I think of Alois as one of the great villains. His horrible behavior created Adolf.
Alois may have caused him frontal lobe damage which can explain some later behavior.
@halloweenallyearround4889 it was a huge impact. child abuse creates some awful people
He was also influenced by Leopold II Of Belgium
Hitler: the man who failed upward so hard he became a dictator
Interesting how some people think Hitler was ‘evil’ from the beginning yet it’s it’s frightening how he could go from a young boy who loved his mother, to changing into a monster
Most monsters are made, not born.
They got us in the first half… from homeless to absolute ruler of one of the most powerful nations in the world.
When his most beloved mother died he didn't shed a tear at the funeral. When his hated father died, he cried like a baby.
Kinda creepy
@@0Bumbi so says Kritzinger’s story. (If you really want to feel ice water in your veins, HBO’s Conspiracy - about the banality of evil and the Wannsee Conference - does it every time.)
The explosiveness in his charracter when confronted in his dreams towards reality made it clear , what kind of man Adolf realy was . His fantasies were out of this world and made up . But he started to beleave in his own fantasies and thats a scary thing . He always was and has been this man . But people who are like Adolf only need the right moment in time to become real .
Erm... Did Hitler have ADHD? The hyper-focuses, daydreaming, difficulty doing things he didn't enjoy, the obsessions, the rejection sensitivity... As an ADHDer I'm alarmed to find myself feeling like I have something in common with him 😬
Same. I'm looking at this like "Ew, I don't wanna feel like I have something in common with Hitler."
Hitler also liked dogs
Well... We're all Hitler.
Definitely on the ASD spectrum for sure...
@@nintensterI like cats... Does that mean anything?? 😂
It's strange thinking of Hitler, as a child, probably because we ascribe innocence to children.
He was pretty innocent until he met 🇮🇱
@@ElektrikHammer74dude you have to go out side and get some air.
You have to be more than a little slow to think Hitler was born that way. Much of his bent ideology was born after being gassed in WW1. He sank into a depression and became obsessed with Neitzche's hypothesis of "ubermensch" or "supermen". He wasn't running around Austria as a youngin, goose stepping and wearing a Chaplin moustache.
@@ElektrikHammer74Hitler stole people's freedoms and killed millions. That's the road your folks follow.
@@Fukkconservatives ok what ever makes you feel better. Keep the obsessing for ever dosnt affect any one but you. Enjoy you TDS. You obviously have never heard the expression that hatred is the most underestimated devotion.
In early 1913, Hitler and Stalin were living in Vienna at the same time, Hitler pursuing his art and Stalin on assignment for Lenin. It is fascinating to speculate how their paths might've crossed, however inadvertently, and never knowing that one day they would be deadly adversaries in the greatest land war in history. Perhaps they were having lunch in a cafe, and one turned to the other, at the next table, and asked for the salt. Or perhaps they brushed past each other on the street, or shared a trolley seat. Such things almost certainly never happened, but who knows for sure?
I’ve often thought about that, myself. It would make a great subject for a historical novel. It’s beyond my capacity, I admit, but I hope someone else does.
23:15 “At this time, a young Hitler took to roaming the streets with anime girls, and all sorts of hooliganism.”
So what you're saying is that if somebody were to go back in time to prevent the holocaust rather than killing a baby or a child version of Hitler, they could just kill his abusive drunk stepfather and likely prevent all of the traumatic terrible things that he experienced at the end of his father that likely caused him to become a murderous dictator
That sounds like the best idea alright!
That and bribing the Art School and preventing the assassination of a certain Arch Duke.
And vaccinate his siblings so his mother would have a few more kids to brood.
That's better, because that we can determine as being a source of evil.
And maybe give him a lifetime supply of Adderal
I can’t help but laugh at the part where Simon mentioned that Hitler was the only one that managed to land a head shot on Hitler.
The positivity of the last bit was hilariously endearing. Absolutely wonderful.
Truly, an inspiration. 😂 -Daven
I found it extremely inspiring, as well. 🙂
This story is tragic and also all to common. Many children have ability that is crushed and torn into insanity. Few turn into megalomania that is so strong, it infects millions.
If he were alive today, I bet he'd be regularly found on incel forums.
Even Hitler got a wife eventually.
Thirty-six hours before their joint suicide.
Even hitler got laid bro i gotta disappoint you
He reportedly used to go on frequent rants about "The Jews" stealing and deflowering young German girls. A lot of these weirdos have a lot in common.
Really haunting how he respected that jewish doctor but was incapable of understanding more jews could be like him.
Good point. He attributed traits of people perhaps Jewish people he didn't like to Jews. And he failed to attribute the good traits of that doctor to Jews.
He also spared the life of Franz Lehar, composer of Hitler’s favorite operetta, “ The Merry Widow”. Lehar survived World War II and the Holocaust, because the SS were told to leave him alone.
He was abused and became abusive. He lost whatever empathy he was born with. Pretty standard for kids (esp boys) who are abused growing up. It's how we get psychopaths and serial killers. It also sounds like he had fragile narcissism. That whole stalker thing...He was definitely off his rocker.
Ooooooohhhhh realllllllly..?
Most psychopathy, sociopathy, narcism is genetic. It can be maximised by abuse, but it's not the cause. I've seen many loved spoilt children that will do and say anything to get what they want, which is often how their parents got so rich and powerful.
His dad was no more or less domineering than most fathers of the time. What *really* strengthened Hitler's ego was his mother's incessant babying. She indulged him too damn much.
Abusive father + doting mother often = malignant narcissist.
Well a lot of us have the decency to _not_ do that, so... yeah.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” -George Santayana
Those who do not remember George Santayana will repeat George Santayana. Santayana was a gross-out racist and sexist. He opined that "some races are obviously superior to others". As an example, he said that "reason as well as instinct cries out against any mixing of the white and black races". His views on the inferiority of females was as gross. In this regard, he was in line with Hitler's attitudes. Yet Santayana is imagined as "wise" even by liberals who are ironically ignorant of history, knowing only that one, iconic quote of his. Sigh...
@@tom-kz9pb agreed, but that quote is worth remembering, even if the person who said it is not. Anyone can twist word meanings to get what they want out of them, but there's not much interpretation possible with that quote.
The evil Reverend Jim Jones loved that saying and admired Hitler as well.😕
@@techn1kal1tythat quote actually was ment to apply to the Jews who have been expelled by 109 different nations and are again facing a backlash over their attempts to genocide the people of Gaza. Nothing people’s clearly never learn from past behaviours.
I rather like George Santayana myself. For one thing, he was among the few philosophers whose style is readable. He also wrote a great deal about aesthetics - the study of beauty. As an ( amateur) artist,this is naturally of great interest to me.
23:14 My man used K-On! picture as Hitler's family, my life is complete!
So true oomfie
Just a quick note on your German pronunciation. In German, the diphthong "ie" is pronounced as the English "ee" while the German "ei" is pronounced as the English "eye". This would make the pronunciation of Hiedler "HEED-ler". I've noticed Simon frequently (always, allegedly, in my opinion) switches the pronunciation of these German diphthongs.
So they just changed the spelling but the sound of Hiedler and Hitler are virtually the same.
@@jms855 no, d and t sound about the same in German as they do in English.
But ie is spoken as a stretched out i.
He's a Brit, that's just his low key way of sticking it to Germany
@@einname9986 Just about, with a couple of provisos. When at the end of a word, or often, a syllable, the German pronunciation of 'd' takes on more the character of English 't'. The German word for 'a building' is Bild, which is pronounced more like the English word 'built', though this si not quite as pronounced as the initial 't' in the German word 'Tag' (day). The 't' and 'd' sounds however are very close homophones. In English, when you have a double 't' in the middle of a word, during the natural flow of English speech, most speakers will pronounce the middle double 't' sound more like 'd', so 'better' becomes 'bedder' and 'little' becomes 'liddle'.
U can add his pronounciation of Alois. But this is Simon. It would be a miracle, if he DIDNT mangle a non-English name!
I’m an artist, and the claims that Hitler was under-talented are complete bullshit. His watercolors were often very good. People don’t want to say anything complimentary about Hitler. It’s pettiness.
He was better than I ever was if his work was considered poor than I really must have no talent
They were alright. Nothing special, but saying that he had no talent is way too harsh. He had issues with perspective and wasn't very creative in the techniques or subject matter, but if he was willing to actually put in the work and didn't have the mentality that he's the greatest thing since sliced bread, he actually could've been pretty great.
Imo Hitler would have made an excellent architectural concept artist. He seemed to have been locked into the older, traditional art forms instead of exploring the new art forms like abstract, cubism, etc.
@@WWZenaDo He hated that stuff
@@ericstewart9742 Yes, I know! He couldn't get past his repressed and abused childhood.
The fact he said that if all jews were like the doctor, there would be no Jewish question makes me cringe. He didn't know a single person sent to the gas chambers. There were so many good people like the doctor murdered by his regime, because they checked the one box of being Jewish.
Could have been the 40+ million Ethnic Whites they genocided in the Holodomor&the fact they despised ethnic Germans,Russians,and Slavs. Might make you a bit prejudice growing up watching it all happen.
Some of them were only half-Jewish. The Nuremberg laws were based on the number of Jewish grandparents a person had.
If Hitler hated Interpretive Dance then he can't have been that crazy.
11:45 now I'm just envisioning a time traveler going back to stop Hitler, but accidentally creating Hitler by replacing the Baby because he was always destined to kill the original child.
There's actually an episode of 2002 revival of The Twilight Zone with that premise. A time traveler abducts baby Hitler after posing as a maid at his parent's estate and throws the baby in the river. She dies shortly afterwards when she's shot by police.
However, a nanny working for Hitler's parents who witnessed the whole thing decides to take the baby of a nearby beggar woman and pass him off as their son so she won't get in trouble for failing in her duties. It's implied at the end that substitute baby grows up to become the Hitler that we're all familiar with.
What if the swapped baby was from 2020? I shudder to think of that. One hundred and twenty more years of generational trauma.
sometimes i wonder if the outcome we got might have been the "best". imagine if the nationalist socialist party had gotten a more stable person as a leader. we might all be speaking german now.
@NexAngelus405
Hitler’s parents didn’t live on an estate. They were lower-middle class, and were living in an Inn when Adolf was born ( they were new in town, the town being Braunau-am-Inn, Austria.)
@Ntwister
What’s wrong with speaking German? I speak it, though not nearly as well as I’d like. 🇩🇪
I feel bad for Clara, she sounded like a wonderful mother and her son, one of two surviving kids, turns out like that.
An enabler is just as bad as an abuser in my opinion
@@valor101arise wow how insightful, you have resolved the age old issue of domestic violence and clearly able to pick out the faults...I am impressed..
Here is some advice keep your simple mind to yourself
@valor101arise
You’ve got a point. Not that I don’t have any sympathy for Klara H., she was an abused wife, married to a drunkard and bully. But she probably spoiled Adolf. She let him drop out of school after his father’s death, allowed him to lead an idle, pampered life, with the result that he never developed a work ethic. Actually, he was so lazy, it’s a wonder he ever amounted to anything, let alone becoming dictator of most of Europe. Even when he was the Fuehrer, he never kept regular office hours, and spent most of his time hanging out in cafes, etc. Albert Speer wondered how Hitler got anything done.
@@phillippereira6468amen
Nothing says Christmas quite like a Simon Whistler about Hitler.
00:01 Discussing Adolf Hitler's childhood.
01:48 Hitler's grandfather's identity is debated.
05:23 Allegations about Hitler's biological father and his upbringing
07:12 Hitler's grandfather's relationships and marriages.
10:52 Adolf Hitler had a very close attachment to his mother.
12:41 Hitler's father had a strict, abusive, and alcoholic nature.
16:30 Young Hitler had a relatively normal childhood, with interests in literature and outdoor games.
18:07 Hitler's childhood changed after his brother's death
21:17 Hitler was a rebellious and lazy student during his early teenage years.
22:50 Hitler abandoned formal education at the age of 16 and lived a life of leisure.
25:59 Hitler's aspirations to attend the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna
27:36 Hitler was rejected from art school and advised to pursue a career in architecture.
30:46 Hitler's artistic ambitions were dashed, and he struggled to make a living.
32:22 Hitler showed little drive or ambition in pursuing education or work.
35:28 Hitler felt a deep and unspoken connection with Stephanie, believing they were destined to be together.
37:05 Hitler had a deep aversion to dancing and even considered kidnapping Stephanie, his love interest.
40:13 Hitler struggled and earned money through odd jobs and paintings.
41:50 Hitler was able to talk his way out of military conscription.
45:01 Hitler's life shows that even from rock bottom, success is possible.
Thank you for this comment.
Geez, Stefanie dodged a bullet, didn't she? Or an involuntary plunge off the Danube bridge. Even modern incels would say to him, "Dude, get a clue. Stefanie's just not into you."
@@clairenollet2389 Now I have that last line in my head as a song
Dude *clap*
Get a clue *clap*
Stephanie's just not
Into you *clap*
@@crocoshark4097 not a problem 💪
More I look into it the more I wonder how much any potential brain damage, concussions, etc from being beaten as a child lead to who he became. The impulsive, obsessive aspects of his personality and tendency to rant about random and seemingly unrelated topics due remind me a lot of people who’ve suffered from brain trauma as kids.
It's called NTBI, for non-traumatic brain injury--no visible damage. You may be right. It should be stressed that many people have damaged brains, but don't declare war on Poland.
You don't have to beat or abuse children to make them grow into adults. Some people are evil rationally. Take a look at conservatives
Turning Hitler into an archdemon is just as bad as turning him into a hero.
Let us remember the man. In all his entirety. That is the tragedy. There lies the shame.
Hitler was among 'one of us' and that's the scariest thing about him, there's perhaps hundred of hitler who might doesn't have the same opportunity to rise into power.
The biggest time travel target seems to be Hitler's Grandfather, who is commonly used to explain the Grandfather Paradox. 😅
Except that we don’t know who his grandfather was, and probably never will.
Here’s something I’d like to find out and have Simon Whistler tell me about it- what is the story/history of the French maid? Both in the iconic uniform (its form and function if any) and how it became a staple in human sexuality.
@@Fukkconservatives1 or any individual in general.
@Fukkconservatives1 Who was DT and why are you spamming this everywhere?
@@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem piggybacking on well liked comments I suppose.
@@Fukkconservatives1I can't tell if this is a "Trump bad" or a "Hitler good" comment
That would be a good idea for someone into historic clothing like Bernadette Banner or someone similar.
23:21 goes hard
Hi oomfie
@@Maru54 hi oomfies
Be careful about your use of "intoversion." Introversion is an energy attitude. I taught an introductory leadership course a few years back at the U.S. Naval Academy. MBTI was one of our topics. I'm solidly introverted but that means I regain mental engergy by being away from people. I served for more than 20 years being in front of and around Sailors and Marines to great effect but when I need to be alone, let me be alone to recharge. Introversion is NOT shyness.
Thank you for your service 😊
Hear, hear! I wish people wouldn't use that word all willy nilly. Kind regards, a very introverted person who hasn't got a shy bone in their body.
What does MBTI mean?
You know, I feel like that are so many lessons to be learned from this story. How we as people have the ability to directly affect others in a negative or positive manner that can change the course of who they become in life. Perhaps with more support and understanding early in life, a monster like Hitler might have gone down a much different path, maybe using those leadership skills to do much good in the world. We should keep this in mind every day as we are dealing with people and how we treat them.
It's like a Marvel What If scene narrated by Jeffrey Wright as The Watcher
23:15
Proof that K-On is the best anime
Your recommendation for a time traveller to swap babies instead of making Adolph's mother even less lucky than she already was leaves the perfect opportunity to test nature versus nature. If this new baby still grows up to lead Germany to commit the Holocaust and baby Adolf grows up to be a decent human being, it will give us a pretty conclusive answer.
And what would happen if neither grows up to be hitler?
Most abused children do not grow up to be monsters, and some nazis actually had good childhoods..
Nature i think is a factor, and nurture is more than just parents, but also culture, and german culture at that time was nationalistic, militaristic and after the loss of the first war, looking desperately for someone to blame...
@@saraa.4295 He had a doting mother and an abusive father. So did fellow tyrant Joseph Stalin.
@@michaelhaywood8262 makes sense. Nurture for brutality and megalomaniac tendencies.
But both still had also natures for visionary living, rebellious tendencies.
And lived in cultures that nurtured a very unique worldview.
That's what i mean..every single person is a mix of parental nurture, societal nurture, own nature and choices we made...
Given my OCD and ADHD, I find many descriptions of Hitler's young adulthood disturbingly familiar.
I feel like I need a genealogy chart to keep track of all Hitler's antecedents!
They always blame mental illness. It's bs
Same. And I currently don’t have a job and I’m struggling with motivation. Please, no one start World War III. I don’t want to be with Hitler 😭😭😭
The K-On! Reference! No you did not actually do that! 😂😂😂😂
Did you come from Twitter too 😭
If his early life is true, a time traveler wouldn't need to kill Hitler. They just need to switch babies with a family of artists. Of course, though, the other baby might become a raging psycho too because the dad was horrible.
A time traveler simply needs to kill Alois. He definitely had it coming.
One of the reasons hitler is commonly speculated as having a jewish grandather in the modern day, wasnt just due to that one guy, but rumors used to shame him early in his career combined with one other thing, a genetic test of haplogroups was done on descendants of hitlers father. This Y haplogroup was E1b1b a common one in north/east africa and the middle east, namely israel. Combined these led to many, even someone like Mark Felton to imply he may have been of Jewish descent as that haplogroup isnt that common in europe. HOWEVER for all tested with that haplogroup that are native born europeans 80% didnt have either jewish or north african ancestry. So again, it's likely just one of the many lies made up about hitler to make him seem more hypocritical than he already was. Another was a common depiction of him with brown eyes despite many describing him having light blue eyes.
If it's a lie, it was one in Hitler's time. That's when the rumors started, long before genetic testing was around.
People think they are smart by saying Hitler may have had a jewish grandfather or something in there title 😂 its cute but false
The part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire Hitler's father was born in, Styria, did not have Jews living in it until Hitler's father was in his mid 30s. It was illegal for Jews to live in the Steiermark at the time of Alois' birth.
I heard the opposite about his eyes. They were really brown but people swore they were blue.
@@caitthecat Yeah nah. The guy had blue eyes. You can point at mant other nazi leaders or higher ups for both personality, physical, and genetic hypocricies. Infact I'd argue the main hooked cross lover who it COULD be argued had jewish dna wasn't hitler or his inner circle, but goebbles' wife Magda. Growing up her mother was extremely close with a jewish man with that same man being suspiciously supportive of Magda and her family. Such an impact he had on he that ironically one of her first male interests was a zionist boy. I bring all this up because later in her life, she went to look at some old family stuff in an old home and whatever she found scared the shit out of her and she refused to talk to her husband about it. Putting all of that together you could probably guess the implication. However, again, it's uncertain and just one of many possibilities.
Anyone else concerned that there are a bunch of time travellers going back and killing Hitler then replacing him with a different baby and that whoever got there last actually replaced the baby with the Hitler we all know??
I had heard a story about Hitler. When he found out his mother passed away, they said he cried and wailed like a small child. I wonder how accurate that is.
I find it hard to believe there was a single shred of humanity left in him, but I suppose for most of us love of mother is pretty deep, despite the terrible layers life may add over time. Yuck. I don’t even like the feeling of hypothesizing about his possible remaining humanity. Jesus Christ. I almost said something about going to … clean the filthy feeling off in running water in my bathroom … but I realized how that could be misconstrued as a dark joke. OK. I’m done embarrassing myself now. FCK NZS.
Possibly true. He did care about his mom. There was a Jewish doctor who treated her. He was actually thankful to him. Hitler made him go to America, so he wouldn't kill him in the Holocaust.
That would be a perfectly normal response to the loss of one’s mother .no matter the age
Dr Bloch said he’d never seen anyone so distraught with grief in his entire career.
That’s true.
I was waiting for so long for the rug-pull moment that would change his life, and history, but damn did it take a while...
This is an interesting video about his father, who punished him severely.
I was hoping someone said this! Im going to watch the oversimplified video after this one!
We’re overdue for a video drop
And there’s the oversimplified nugget. My search is complete.
My parents tried to convince me not to go to art school. Thankfully I ignored them and went anyway but I wish I could have shown them this video!
This family history sounds like the inspiration for 'Uncle Grandpa'.
Hitler's father was his mother's uncle. It was common where he came from.
Yeah, still eww.
Its always funny when people don't consider the consequences of travelling back in time and killing a young Hitler. The world you know today not existing would be high possibility. Many many many of us, including myself.. wouldn't exist.
Time magazine had Hitler as man of the year TWICE!!!!!
Man of the Year isn't some sort of congeniality contest or endorsement of merit. It is given to the person - or tpoic- that made news the most or had the most impact.
It doesn't mean it's a good thing.
Young Hitler sounds a lot like a skinny Eric Cartman. -))
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Huge marks to Daven for the work on this one.
Thanks! :-) -Daven
I enjoyed listening to this villain origin story. It's difficult to express a sense of humor given who we're discussing here, but it really sounds like Hitler could have been a good person if circumstances were different for him. Admittedly, I wonder how horrified my dad would be if he learned he has something in common with You Guess Who. To clarify, both my dad and Hitler hate work.
If things do work out for me, I sincerely hope that I don't become like Hitler, but that's extremely unlikely. I have something that Hitler didn't have. For one thing, I have a work ethic. It's a picky work ethic that makes me sound like a spoiled brat, but it's there. I have to constantly trim the length of TH-cam comments sometimes, because for some reason, I just don't shut up.
I'd like to be a writer one day. I know that in terms of being successful, that's pending, but writing words? I seem to be way too willing to do that. If someone wanted a portfolio of evidence that I should be hired, the bulk of what I have is a decade's worth of stories that have never been finished.
Wait. Did I just admit I have something in common with Hitler? I think my comment ends here.
I was doing some work while having this on my second monitor; the spittake I did when I glanced over at 23:15 nearly took me out. Well played, Daven, well played.
I'm sure Hitler struggled with ADHD but I think the defining element of his childhood were the beatings and authoritarianism of his father for this would be how Hitler would express himself throughout his life.
23:20 Images that go hard
This was morbidly fascinating.
I always find it Ironic that Hitler, as well as other high ranking Nazis never actually met the requirements for being “Aryan”, that is; German, Blond hair and Blue eyes.
Obviously for a start, Hitler was Austrian.
Only about one third of Germans have blond hair and blue eyes. And the Austrians are ethnically and culturally German. They just got separated from the other Germans by an accident of history.
What a tale! I’m glad it would seemingly all work out well for the hapless chap in the end!
Looking forward to the concluding episode! ;)
The Treaty of Versailles is a contributing factor in the making of a monster in this case.
I remember hearing that Hitler didn't drink alcohol, probably a good thing. I feel like he would've been a mean drunk...
Yeah, he was a tea-totaler
I don't know if you can call a Kristal meth head a tee total. Shirley you must have seen the vid of him tweaking out at the Olympic games? 🤪
Well he was a pretty mean tweaker.
Hitler did drink alcohol, only rarely. He drank some Tokay, a sweet Hungarian wine, on the night he married ( he probably liked it because it is sweet.) He probably didn’t hold his liquor very well, but it’s absolutely true that he was a crankster, and also used Eukodal ( oxycodone, in German.) Excuse me that should read “ on the night he married Eva B.”
@valerietaylor9615 so he drank a toast of sweet wine hours before he killed himself? Which would hardly make him a drinker.
Eukadol is NOT the same as oxycodone. It's 5mg of cocaine & 3mg of methamphetamine. Oxycodone is a morphine based analgesic. So very different. Although, he had morphine I his drug cocktail regime as well.
Excellent storytelling skills, love this channel
I put this in the background while I'm doing something trivial
And then randomly look up and I see Hitler posing with anime girls
That made me laugh really hard
In a speach class the teacher asked for ppl to yell names of good public speakers and a lot of good one were yelled out and i said hitler. And the teacher said that was inappropriate and kicked me out. But when i talked to the principal i explained like i dont like him or what he did but u cant tell me he was bad at speaches.... which were blasted and studied around the world and made almost a whole country do those horrible things. He agreed with me and made her tell the classninhad a point.
That's just wrong. He was indeed a good public speaker. Doesn't mean that we have to like what he said. That teacher behaved wrongly, period.
So much for political correctness.
7:06 this is all very "I'm my own grandpa" kinda stuff.
Excellent video Simon!🎉
Just found your new channel, Simon, subbed. Cheers. It's called Places for those interested.
This dude runs like 9 successful TH-cam channels. Check his info xD
Wtf again jesus❤
He's got 14 lol. I just checked and I'm actually subbed to all of them
@@bethroesch2156how do you find all his channels? Since my last update, I can't find people's channel list, along with other stuff, anymore.
@@bethroesch2156 same xD
I think I need a chart to sort out the family relationships.
I thought I was watching an episode of Maury or Jerry Springer when going over the family lineage 🤣
Just goes to show that the process is not new.
I am 100% convinced that Hitler had ADHD. No one could convince me otherwise
Just how this shiftless individual rose to rulership of any nation perplexes me. One wonders if he simply told the majority exactly what they wanted to hear.
You're right, Hitler didn't invent antisemitism, he was preaching to the choir. There was a history of antisemitism in Germany dating back at least to the first Crusade.
It's called psychopathy..
We have narcissists like Trump getting hundreds of millions of votes in America. Sometimes people end up selecting the worst members as their leaders.
He was, indeed, so shiftless, that it’s a wonder he ever amounted to anything.
Great research and commentary.
The only thing this video has taught me is Hitler has the weakest mustache game among his ancestors
He had to have to toothbrush mustache for the military. I believe it may have been due to gas masks and then he kept it for the rest of his life
@@thundernlightning It's the most that was allowed, but clean shaven eas preferred. It's kind of a rebellious thing. Like they tell him to shave and he leaves the one part that doesn't interfere with the seal of a gas mask, and probably argued about it. Safety razors where invented for WWI due to the need of constant reliable shaving. Still the best type of non electric razor known to humanity. Especiallz if you have thick hair that can get caught in the 15 blade thingies and you tear one out. And thr blades stay sharp for a month easily and cost 5 cents. And it rarely draws blood, you'd have to really do a bad job.
@thundernlightling
I’ve read several comments before this regarding the toothbrush mustache being the only kind that would fit under a gas mask. But is this really true? Because all of the photos I’ve seen of Hitler as a World War I soldier, show him with a much fuller mustache. The earliest photos I’ve seen of him with the well-known toothbrush mustache, were taken around 1919, when the war was over and he joined the German Worker’s Party, later the National Socialist German Worker’s Party, or Nazi Party for short.
@@valerietaylor9615 You could get away with a bit more it's like a mask you'd get today for spray painting from the fit so you could have a relatively large moustace, just definetly no beard of you want a tight seal. Keep in mknd gas wasn't big at the start of the war, that came a bit later so facial hair styles on soldiers changes substantially once gas masks became standard equipment, I forget but that would have been a year or two into the war
Switching Hitler at birth would just mean that other child would grow up to be Hitler.
There's an argument for nurture vs nature, but humans are so wildly variable that there's no way to know how someone else would've turned out given the same circumstances. It's a crapshoot thought exercise with no correct answer, at the end of the day we got the version we got and millions suffered for it
not necessarily. another child would have most like held different positive and negative attributes than adolf and would most likely have acted different in the same situations. yes we are shaped by out history but we are not defined by it.
That wolverine picture was solid gold. 😂
The Jewish ancestry is often up for debate. The fact is many Germans/Austrians/Poles/Hungarians/Russians etc. had Jewish blood in their veins. Ashkenazi Jews were, in general, not shy regarding marriage to Gentiles.
When the Nazi heirarchy were debating the Nuremberg Laws, and looking for precedent, they used the American one-drop rule and watered it down. It is likely they came to the 25% rule to be volksdeutch for the aforementioned phenomenon of intermarriage.
Going with the one drop rule they had in the US would have outed many prominent Nazis, and many within Germany and Austria, who had Jewish grandparents. With a more than decent chance it would out Hitler himself.
“Europa: The Last Battle” is a great doc to check out.
Holy hell, I'm so confused about the family tree. I need a graph about all these people.
I guess the main thing is that there actually were not as many people in his family tree as should have been 😆
It was just your typical inbred rural family ( also common in certain parts of the U.S.A.)
I heard a comedian guest on 8 out of 10 cats make a great point: Everyone is so harsh on him. I mean, he DID kill hitler, after all.
That’s a good one! Do you remember who said it?
In the school photograph at 18:30 in the row in front of Hitler and third from the right sits the future famous philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein. While Ludwig was in the UK during WW2 his family, who were mega-rich steel magnates as well as being Austrian Jews, paid off the Nazis to secure their freedom.
There's an episode of justified where the guy that plays Woolsey in Stargate Atlantis and SG-1 plays an art dealer and he keeps inviting Raylan Givens to look at "his original Hitlers". Eventually Raylan agrees and they enter a room with jars filled with ashes. Apparently the guy that plays Woolsey buys them in auction, burns them and displays the ashes.
This angered hitlers father, who punished him furiously.
😂😂😂
He had a doting mother and an abusive father. So did fellow tyrant Joseph Stalin.
"Arguably," one of the most reviled? Can any sane person argue this? Massively understated, Simon.
Jeez give it to Today I Found Out to make Hitler relatively relatable. Like, yes, top 10 most evil men in history, but he definitely has something of a super villain backstory
The episode of Rick and Morty where they give snakes time travel got a small part of how people would screw with time travel right. How ever it would have to included it across Hitlers entire time line. And been more then just people looking to protect or kill him. Just thinking about it can cause a person to be glade we haven't gotten public time travel.
I once heard a joking comment regarding time travelers getting Hitler into art school...
"What of there is time travel. What if the Hitler we have is the better of the options? What horrors might we have seen if we'd gotten Pretentious Art Major Hitler instead?"
That is why they worked so hard to keep him out of art school...
His artwork was skillful enough to get him into art school. He got himself rejected from art school because he was already Germany's head of state before he applied. If you study photos of Otto von Bismarck and Hitler as young men whose features were distinct and undistorted by age, they were identical. Point blank. Bismarck's wife was also a dead ringer for Hitler's mother.
Otto von Bismarck easily survived an assassination attempt of 5 gunshots at point blank range. That's because he was fundamentally different from us. He's STILL alive in fact. And the German government treated him like a dignitary even when he was supposedly a struggling fledgling artist living in abandoned buildings.
Plus he still has a curious affinity for incest.
Lemme tell you about Bitler. I'm an underprivileged American female of a different race but Bismarck was my great-great-great grandpa. His current wife looks almost exactly like me except she's a different race from both of us. She also shares my initials and my undergrad college major. She really hates me because I developed a mad crush on him before I realized he was my grandpa. He was attracted to her partly because her father repeatedly raped her from age 11 til a little while after she got married. I've been in and out of mental institutions for decades. Which is right up his alley because he's always inventing new ways to eliminate collegiate blacks from the labor force. Obviously he had a field day with me.
@@evelynzlon9492Hitler was rejected because he didn't draw well enough. This was before he was anywhere near power.
@@steakfries8037 Have you ever seen his paintings? They're perfect and highly professional. There's no way he didn't draw well enough. It's totally implausible that he couldn't get accepted into at least ONE prestigious school for the arts. He wielded power behind the scenes long before he became a public figure. He ordered the Dean of Admissions to reject him.
The war changed him from a loose, drifting youngster to a determined man with a purpose. He liked the war unlike most of the other soldiers. He practically begged to go back to the front in 1916, even after he was seriously wounded. Who does that? The same kind of people who do multiple tours in war zones and keep on going back.
the famous mustache was a Great War style, to allow a tight-seal of a gas mask --
of course he was a creepy stalker type who wanted to murder a woman because she didn't like him (or, based on that story it doesn't seem he ever even actually tried to interact with her to give her the chance to like him? which is even worse tbh). domestic abuse/desire to commit abuses of that nature is a common thread among the worst of people.
He was obviously too shy to speak to his adored Stephanie. And he fortunately didn’t follow through on the murder-suicide pact. Fortunately for Stephanie, if not the rest of the world. 😮
Great job! I learn so much from your programs. In future reports, please include some explanation for Hitler's volcanic rage, monstrous brutality, and bottomless hate. My GUESS is that he fell so short of his grandiose early self-expectations (until the Nazi era, of course), that he never really recovered from that shocking blow. And had to disown his early failures by blaming someone else: Jews. His colossal ego was so fragile that he could NEVER admit any shortcomings. And Jews and "traitorous generals" were his scapegoats. The more he failed, the more outraged he became at the "causes" of his failures. Being a "Feurer" only fed his enormous ego, and the need for scapegoats. The greater his failures (later in the war), the greater the need for scapegoats and the rage at them. Just a guess. Thank you.
Why were they scapegoats? They were disproportionately represented in the Bolshevik leadership as well as left wing Marxist agitators in Central Europe. There’s a reason antisemitism swept Central Europe in the aftermath of WW1 as well as now.
You’ve made several good points. Just remember - the German word for leader is spelled “ Fuhrer”, with an umlaut ( the two little dots) over the “u”. It’s also permissible to spell it “Fuehrer” if the device you’re using doesn’t have an umlaut.
23:15 How the fuck did that slip in and why? Is this a joke?
He was Yuipilled
All through your video, I found myself laughing with enjoyment at your presentation and at the self absorbed kid. This humanizes Hitler revealing what led him to become what he later became. And I'm Jewish.
Zay gezunt!
I’m so confused by the first 10 minutes of this… who is related to who by how and what…?
He’s just doing the same thing all those podcasters are doing; demonizing and belittling the man.
It is slightly entertaining that even Child-Hitler looks like the moustache is on his lip until you look directly at it.
If this was a movie, a time traveler replacing baby Hitler would end up causing the Hilter we know while killing off an innocent baby. 😉
Daven, well done!!! Hugs
Thanks :-) -Daven
Stephanie is very fortunate young Adolf was too afraid to speak to her.
Am I the only one who thinks, based on this info, that he might have had ADHD? I was a terrible student who read constantly and seemingly had a new creative obsession each week.
My parents actually tried and I was still a bit of a dick till my mid 20s and id imagine that Id have turned out much worse had my parents been so abusive. As it stood I refused to obey them to the point were I couldnt be physically grounded as I was clearly stronger than my parents having regularly beat my dad at armwrestling by the age of 12. Any time they tried to stop me leaving I would calmly push them aside. If they had tried to strike me like this regularly id have struck back at the very least and i can certianly see how if you werent a brute or had a desire for their approval it could lead to some real social maladys.
I would like to say that I feel confident you are not near Shitler in the contest of terrible humans by and large any metric. We all have phases as we grow, even now people will still change , its the way life is, it is It's M.O. and function. You have compassion, it ever bothers, call your blood and just tell them you love them and do something for them. That compassion is what shit never had, and if you want to confirm go see a doc who can work out, with you, if you do have anything. I have asbergers, didnt know until like 14. Hang in there, goodluck, and happy hunting.
I had a similar temperament in addition to wildly fantastical, passions, and dreams of being world renowned in this, or that were putting no effort into it and I had a very similar stepfather. I am not a dictator, but I definitely am fucked up