This one has a few obscure references (get out your history text...)
and should not be interpreted as excusing any of the terrible things
that happened in Europe under Nazi rule.
- Land War in Asia
- Changed name from highly catchy "Schickelgruber" to boring
"Hitler"
- Leaving his little mustache: not growing a friendly Abe Lincoln
beard to instill trust among subjects
- Not buying lifts for his shoes
- Failure to exploit Me 262 Messerschmidt
- Failure to exploit Eva Braun
- Chose swastika as party symbol rather than the daisy
- Chose Josef Goebels rather than Marlene Dietrich to promote Nazi
image
- Chose "Deutschland Uber Alles" over "Let's All Be There" as party
slogan
- Lost the Ark to Indiana Jones
- Chose unfashionable blacks and browns rather than trendy plaids
and stripes as uniform colors for SS & SA
- Referring to Stalin as "that old Georgian fat back"
- Indiscriminate use of V-2 rockets for public fireworks displays
- Free beer in munitions plants
- Lisp never corrected
- Bad toupee
- Refused to undergo nostril reduction surgery
- Failed to conquer strategically important Comoros Islands
- Fell asleep in staff meetings
- Land War in Asia
- Got involved with a Sicilian when death was on the line
- Made pass at Eleanor Roosevelt during 1936 Olympics
- Built heliport on top of new Reichstag building which looked
remarkably like a bullseye from the air
- Always got Churchill out of bed for conference calls
- Never had fireside mass rallies
- Told Einstein he had a stupid name
- Used SS instead of LAPD
- Admired Napoleon's strategy
- Strong fondness for saurkraut and beans made General Staff avoid
him constantly
- In last days, chose to hide in bunker rather than ask U.S. for a
little country place in Hawaii
- Nightmare involving Pillsbury Doughboy haunted him constantly
with war advice
- Major theme in speeches -- _liebensraum_, or "living room" --
widely misperceived as call for domestic architectural reform
- Failed to revoke Rudolph Hess' pilot licence.
- Pissed off Jesse Owens at 1936 Olympics
- Didn't put his brother Billy in the concentration camps. When
word got out that Billy was just a beer guzzling fat guy in a
small town in Bavaria who grew peanuts it was bad P.R. for Der
Fuhrer
- Passed up Finish "tanks for snowshoes" offer before invasion of
USSR
- Drank too much at Beer Hall Putsch
- Spent jail time planning how to conquer the world instead of his
own escape.
- Forgot to write "Dear Joey" letter to Stalin before invasion of
Poland
- Blew nose on Operation Barbarossa maps, forcing extemporaneous
invasion of Soviet Union
- Took no steps to keep Neville Chamberlin in power
- Chose the Tirpitz for that weekend of love with Eva in the fjords
- Frequently mistaken for Charlie Chaplin due to mustache;
undermined credibility (as when he threatened to invade Poland,
everyone waited for the punchline)
- Came off as poor loser when "Triumph of the Will" failed to win
Oscar for "Best Foreign Documentary" -- "You don't like me"
speech undermined image.
- Used to make prank calls to FDR asking if he had "Prince Albert
in a can"
- Forgot correct interpretation of Nietzche; caused much embarrassment
when he used to cite philosophical support for his concept of the
"Oberdude"
- Got drunk on schnapps and suggested Tojo attack the U.S. saying,
"The U.S. only has twenty times your industrial power, what are
you, a wimp?"
- Listened to too much Wagner and not enough Peter, Paul and Mary
- Tried to play football with Axis Lucy who pulled the ball away at
the last second
- Failed to encourage tourism
- Being born
- Never did the honorable thing with Eva Braun
- Alienated Chamberlin at Munich by sticking an "Invade me" sign on
his back
- Kept Colonel Klink in command
- Churchill mistakenly thought "Deutschland Uber Alles" was a
veiled threat
- Used same astrologer as the Reagans