# Hitlers Hobbies...if any **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 27, 2007, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitlers-hobbies-if-any/420671 "2007-09-27T11:59:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitlers-hobbies-if-any/420671/21 "2007-09-27T17:37:43Z")
Once, Charlie Chaplin entered a ‘little tramp’ look alike contest and he came in second. He came in second to Hitler. Believe it or not. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2007, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitlers-hobbies-if-any/420671/22 "2007-10-02T19:14:20Z")
[QUOTE=Jolly Roger] I just have to know…why do you want to know? [/QUOTE] Speaking as a Brit. we’ve sussed CHOWDERS little plans,the forced annexation of Disneyworld for,get this ,historical perogotives . Forcing the civilised members of Britain to eat Mushy peas ,tripe,wear cloth caps ,keep Whippet dogs and perform other equally perverted practices . Oh yes matey we’re on to you . Whats next ? "What do dopers think Hitler would have thought about making people use arcane phraseology like “T’ mill” and “BAAAH gum” Us southerners will die before we allow you to put your evil plans into action . So just calm down and invade Poland or something . Oh and its not a hobby but Hitler was against hunting and was a vegetarian ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2007, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitlers-hobbies-if-any/420671/23 "2007-10-02T19:47:14Z")
[QUOTE=Lust4Life] …Oh and its not a hobby but Hitler was against hunting and was a vegetarian [/QUOTE] He wasn’t a very strict one. He was quite fond of dumplings made from chicken liver. He also hating smoking (there’s a scene in Downfull where his officers all light up after he and the missus killed themselves). ---
**Author:** ![Wakinyan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wakinyan/32/352_2.png) [@Wakinyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wakinyan)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2007, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitlers-hobbies-if-any/420671/24 "2007-10-02T22:18:39Z")
He enjoyed to play and taking walks with his dogs (particularly Blondie of course), and also enjoyed American film, especially Charlie Chaplin, which might come as a surprise. As has been mentioned, he was very interested in architecture. If he would have it his way, according to his own repeated testimony, he would get this war over with, and focus on Welthauptstadt Germania and other more lustful activities instead. That of course, the Red Army saw to would never happen, thank God. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2007, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitlers-hobbies-if-any/420671/25 "2007-10-02T22:56:36Z")
[QUOTE=Wakinyan] He enjoyed to play and taking walks with his dogs (particularly Blondie of course), and also enjoyed American film, especially Charlie Chaplin, which might come as a surprise. As has been mentioned, he was very interested in architecture. [/QUOTE] He also enjoyed _King Kong_. > [@](#): > > If he would have it his way, according to his own repeated testimony, he would get this war over with, and focus on Welthauptstadt Germania and other more lustful activities instead. That of course, the Red Army saw to would never happen, thank God. Another hobby, allegedly, was having women urinate/poop on him. [del]Suppositorily[/del] Supposedly. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitlers-hobbies-if-any/420671/26 "2007-10-03T05:39:40Z")
[QUOTE=Chez Guevara] Allegedly Hitler enjoyed chocolate, both in solid and liquid form, eating pounds of the stuff every day . He was also quite partial to giving himself enemas. [/QUOTE] Is there a connection between these two? Ewwwwww. ---
**Author:** ![Manatee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/50afbb/32.png) [@Manatee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manatee)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitlers-hobbies-if-any/420671/27 "2007-10-03T06:07:56Z")
[QUOTE=panache45] Is there a connection between these two? Ewwwwww. [/QUOTE] [voice=bass] Chocolate Rain! [/voice] ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitlers-hobbies-if-any/420671/28 "2007-10-03T07:09:03Z")
[QUOTE=Lust4Life] Speaking as a Brit. we’ve sussed CHOWDERS little plans,the forced annexation of Disneyworld for,get this ,historical perogotives . Forcing the civilised members of Britain to eat Mushy peas ,tripe,wear cloth caps ,keep Whippet dogs and perform other equally perverted practices . Oh yes matey we’re on to you . Whats next ? "What do dopers think Hitler would have thought about making people use arcane phraseology like “T’ mill” and “BAAAH gum” Us southerners will die before we allow you to put your evil plans into action . So just calm down and invade Poland or something . Oh and its not a hobby but Hitler was against hunting and was a vegetarian [/QUOTE] I wondered just how long it would take you Southern poofs to catch on to my [Baldrick Voice] cunning plan [Baldrick Voice] ‘ecky thump lad, tha’s nobbut fancy dans darn sowf…us norveners ‘ull ‘ave thi’ doin’ a ha’porth o’ graft afore thi’ knows it…mark me words, sithee. As far as annexation goes it’s mould trafford that gets the first bomb me owd cock, then that poxy bunch at cowardly cottage ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitlers-hobbies-if-any/420671/29 "2007-10-03T07:31:04Z")
[QUOTE=Mr. Moto] enjoyed Wagnerian opera [/QUOTE] I had heard that Hitler did NOT personally enjoy Wagner, but only went to the Wagner Festival as a political maneuver, to try to appear more ‘German’ and gain the approval of the voting population. As evidence, it was said that he never went to the Festival at all until he became involved in running for office. Are there any cites on Hitler & Wagner? [QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] Hitler even drew pictures of how he wanted his buildings to look as ruins after a thousand years. [/QUOTE] Are you sure? I seem to recall (from Speer’s autobiography) that it was Speer who made these drawings, not Hitler. Several of the Nazi leaders were upset at this, as it implied that some future German government would allow Nazi buildings to fall into ruins. But Hitler liked the idea that his buildings, even as ruins, would still be impressive and approved of Speers drawings. [QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] Another hobby, allegedly, was having women urinate/poop on him. [/QUOTE] I think that’s been pretty well recognized as untrue. It was propaganda, created by US Military people, who have stated that they basically just made it up – they had no evidence to indicate this at all. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitlers-hobbies-if-any/420671/30 "2007-10-03T10:46:15Z")
Holding hands…long walks on the beach…petting puppies…genocide… …All marks of a renaissance man. ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Ryle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@Mark\_Ryle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Ryle)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitlers-hobbies-if-any/420671/31 "2007-10-03T12:51:02Z")
[QUOTE=t-bonham@scc.net] I think that’s been pretty well recognized as untrue. It was propaganda, created by US Military people, who have stated that they basically just made it up – they had no evidence to indicate this at all. [/QUOTE] Hitler and Churchill were both, if anything, undersexed. Hitler drove his women crazy by neglecting them. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitlers-hobbies-if-any/420671/32 "2007-10-03T13:13:24Z")
I once saw a documentary that showed Hitler playing with a globe lying on top of a desk. Though the narrator didn’t say if that was a hobby of his. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitlers-hobbies-if-any/420671/33 "2007-10-03T13:43:38Z")
[QUOTE=t-bonham@scc.net] Are you sure? I seem to recall (from Speer’s autobiography) that it was Speer who made these drawings, not Hitler. Several of the Nazi leaders were upset at this, as it implied that some future German government would allow Nazi buildings to fall into ruins. But Hitler liked the idea that his buildings, even as ruins, would still be impressive and approved of Speers drawings. [/QUOTE] There was a long-standing Nazi line of thought about ruins. Even before the war the Nazis spent more money than was needed on building techniques that would make good ruins in centuries to come. Darn odd birds. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitlers-hobbies-if-any/420671/34 "2007-10-03T13:47:06Z")
[QUOTE=t-bonham@scc.net] I had heard that Hitler did NOT personally enjoy Wagner, but only went to the Wagner Festival as a political maneuver, to try to appear more ‘German’ and gain the approval of the voting population. As evidence, it was said that he never went to the Festival at all until he became involved in running for office. Are there any cites on Hitler & Wagner? [/QUOTE] Yes. [The Specter of Hitler in the Music of Wagner](http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E07E5DF1E3FF93BA35752C1A96E958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1). > [@](#): > > In the case of ‘‘Rienzi,’’ the Hitler connection is fascinatingly complex. According to a 1953 account by August Kubizek, Hitler’s first exposure to this early Wagner opera, when he was 15, shaped his future: ‘‘My friend, his hands thrust into his coat pockets, silent and withdrawn, strode through the streets and out of the city. . . . Never before and never again have I heard Adolf Hitler speak as he did in that hour, and we stood there alone under the stars. . . . It was a state of complete ecstasy and rapture, in which he transferred the character of Rienzi . . . with visionary power to the plan of his own ambitions.’’ [August Kubizek](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Kubizek) was a close friend of Adolf Hitler when both were in their late teens. > [@](#): > > Another ‘‘Rienzi’’ story, told by Albert Speer: In 1938, the Nazi Party official Robert Ley proposed that music by a living German composer be used to open the party rallies in Nuremberg. Hitler, who understood public ceremony, listened for two hours to the new compositions Ley had assembled. Then he asked that the ‘‘Rienzi’’ Overture be played. This extract from [The Ring of Myths: The Israelis, Wagner, and the Nazis](http://books.google.com/books?id=fc98xrgZNo8C&pg=PA31&lpg=PA31&dq=hitler+first+at+bayreuth&source=web&ots=F5nNyqC4fK&sig=wx_ZqAc3AtYWC-79TaIUlOzRP5g) by Naʾama Sheffi tells us that Hitler was spellbound by a performance of _Lohengrin_ which he attended at the age of 12. He went so far as to attempt a short Wagnerian style opera in homage to his idol. The author further reasserts the widely held view that Hitler’s first visit to Bayreuth took place in 1923 or 1924. It was around this time that he began cosying up to the Wagner family, forming a close and lasting relationship with them. To be perfectly candid about this, you might have a problem finding a cite which argues that Hitler did not personally enjoy Wagner both musically and ideologically. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitlers-hobbies-if-any/420671/35 "2007-10-03T14:04:52Z")
> [@](#): > > Does collecting sacred artifacts (he supposedly sent expeditions to look for the Ark, the Grail, and the Lance, among other things) count as a hobby? Actually it was Himmler who was into the occult stuff. Hitler thought it was pretty ridiculous but was willing to let Himmler have his fun as long as he kept up on his genocide during business hours. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitlers-hobbies-if-any/420671/36 "2007-10-03T15:02:41Z")
[QUOTE=t-bonham@scc.net] Are you sure? I seem to recall (from Speer’s autobiography) that it was Speer who made these drawings, not Hitler. Several of the Nazi leaders were upset at this, as it implied that some future German government would allow Nazi buildings to fall into ruins. But Hitler liked the idea that his buildings, even as ruins, would still be impressive and approved of Speers drawings. [/QUOTE] I could be misremembering. It’s been a long time since I read _Inside the Third Reich_. Hitler was at least very intrigued by the drawings even if it Speer who actually drew them. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitlers-hobbies-if-any/420671/37 "2007-10-03T20:19:58Z")
Speer says that Hitler spent hours with him looking at architectural drawings, and used it as a stress reliever. Not so much after the war started, of course. ---
**Author:** ![SandyHook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@SandyHook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SandyHook)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitlers-hobbies-if-any/420671/38 "2007-10-03T23:40:39Z")
There may some info at the, [“Hitler Historical Musuem.”](http://www.hitler.org/) I haven’t looked at it but it does claim to have oodles of stuff on him. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2007, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitlers-hobbies-if-any/420671/39 "2007-10-03T23:58:55Z")
IIRC, wasn’t Paula somewhat slow and childlike? ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2007, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitlers-hobbies-if-any/420671/40 "2007-10-04T00:05:58Z")
Didn’t he have a Marie Antoinette doll, Easy Bake Oven, and a guillotine? He would sit down and have a tea party with easy bake cakes, and then cut off her head. At least that’s the rumor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitlers-hobbies-if-any/420671.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hitlers-hobbies-if-any/420671.md?page=3)