11. He Never Set Foot In A Concentration Camp
The vast majority of the 11 million people killed during the Holocaust were murdered at the 1,200 Death and Concentration Camps established by the Nazis – yet Hitler never set foot in one of them. In some ways it is perhaps unsurprising due to the fact the majority of the camps were constructed in the east, but still it is a rather baffling fact.
Interestingly, some historians have argued that the camps were deliberately set up in Poland, the Czech Republic, the USSR, and Yugoslavia because Hitler wanted the number of atrocities committed on German soil to be limited.
10. Hitler Was TIME Magazine’s Man Of The Year For 1938
“I have returned from Germany with peace for our time,” were the infamous words uttered by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain on his return from the Munich Conference in September 1938. That conference – conducted between French Premier Edouard Daladier, Italian leader Benito Mussolini, Hitler, and Chamberlain himself – was perceived at the time to have prevented a world war due to the fact Germany were granted the Sudetenland, part of Czechoslovakia.
Such a monumental event of “peacekeeping” led Hitler to be named “without a doubt” as TIME magazine’s Man of the Year for 1938. Incredible when you think about it now…
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