Portrait Lives: Adolf Hitler

It's Portrait Lives Saturday!
Every Saturday features a Portrait Lives, which is a weekly post showing the age progression in specific historical figures through contemporary portraits of them. 

He is always shown and thought of as worst person in history, most certainly one of the most insane political figures in history, and he was. He was responsible for over 4 million Jews being dehumanized and executed.

Here is a Portrait Lives about him:

He was born on April 20, 1889 in Austria.

Hitler as an infant, kinda cute but evil

aged about 11

Early twenties when he began serving in World War I.

Hitler in his late twenties during time
in army

in his early thirties

aged about 41. The year after this portrait he would run for
president...and lose.

Hitler aged about 38, this
is about when the Nazis
 came to power

Aged about 43, around this time he is appointed German Chancellor
 because who wants to be president (second in command)?
I bet the German people were thinking
"didn't he just lose the election
for president?"

about 44, was Chancellor now Dictator-Chancellor.
Concentration camps have
been opened, horrible large-scale
discriminating systematic war crimes.

about 47

aged about 48

A year before Hitler and Mussolini
 declared war on US, about 52.

about 56, the year he died

In 1945, he committed suicide by shooting himself in his mouth.

Sources:
Adolf Hitler: Table of Contents: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/hitlertoc.html
A Madman: A sober look at Hitler's Health: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/medicating-a-madman-a-sober-look-at-hitler-s-health-a-675991.html

Extra Pictures:

British Army in Europe.

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: sheets with portraits of Hitler.

Check out

Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography

by John Toland

Hitler at a window.

10 Facts You Don't Know About Charlie Chaplin

Here are 10 facts you don't know about the famous actor and director:

What did he do?

1. He had a young child that died.

His child with his first wife, Mildred died after just 3 days. His name was Norman Spencer Chaplin. 2 years later Mildred and Chaplin divorced.

2. He was born in the same year as Adolf Hitler, Otto Frank, and Robert Taft.

3. He met Gandhi...

Proof is in the picture.

4. ...and Albert Einstein.

Way to go, Chaplin!

He knew who to meet.

5. He was exiled from the US.

it was for political reasons. He returned to win an Oscar and receive the longest standing ovation in the history of the Academy.

6. When he was 54, he married his third wife, an 18-year-old.

He was married to her for the longest, since the marriage was ended by his death.

7. That third woman he married (just mentioned) was Oona O'Neill the daughter of the famous playwright Eugene O'Neill.

They had eight children.

Chaplin and his third wife, Oona.

8. His body was stolen and held for ransom.

Yep, just a year after he died, his body was stolen. More info here.

9. His mother became mentally ill when he was a boy.

She had had two illegitimate children in and before her marriage. her husband had died before she drifted into insanity when he was 37. Charlie and his step-brother Sydney were taken in by the State.

10. He played a role as Jewish Barber who is mistaken as Hitler.

In the Great Dictator, Chaplin played a Jewish barber who is mistaken for Adenoid Hynkel and the dictator himself. Even though, Hitler is known by a different name in this movie it is easy to see that it is Hynkel is Hitler. The whole film, in fact, can be seen as just a parody of Hitler. Below is the trailer for the movie.

Sources:
Down but not out...:http://chaplin.bfi.org.uk/resources/bfi/biog/biog.php?fid=biog1
Edna Purivance: http://www.ednapurviance.org/
Chaplin A Life: http://www.chaplinalife.com/
Fun Trivia: http://www.funtrivia.com/en/celebrities/chaplin-charlie-16030.html
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032553/

Check out
The Autobiography of Charlie Chaplin
Click the picture link to know it all. Click it.

Suicide Bomber to Kill Hitler by Embrace; Last Man You'd Expect

After Axel von dem Bussche witnessed the killing of 3,000 Jews, sore and traumatized, he was a high-ranking German soldier who joined the resistance. Most Germans would kill Jews without blinking an eye. Justice must have been Axel's major purpose after he experienced his horrible event or appears to have been writing this injustice.

Thinking of Justice: Axel

Known by the code name/nickname "Count 9," blond and blue eyed, he was the ideal person to kill Adolf Hitler. No one would suspect him...and no one ever would. Yet, he must of also hated Hitler and maybe himself, too. He hopped to kill himself while he killed the German Dictator. He planned with a resistance group headed by Claus von Stauffenburg who actually was eventually hanged.  The group planned for Axel to set off to grenades in his pocket while he jumped or 'pounced' on Hitler while the leader inspected new uniforms. But this was not to be because the rails that brought the new uniforms in were destroyed by the Allies' bombings. He volunteered to take part in another assassination attempt of Hitler. Unfortunately for him and Hitler, he was wounded and disabled, losing a leg and three fingers. He had to be in a long hospital stay and a member of the Resistance warned him of the coming an upcoming July 20 Plot, which caused him to be questioned by the S.S., however not really suspected of anything. Because of the courageous silence of Axel's involvement by the other conspirators in the Resistance, he was not be executed by the Nazis as many others were, though always guilty that he had survived when many others had died.




Sources:
Gedenstksttatte Deutscher Widerstand: Biographes: Axel Frediherr von dem Bussche: http://www.gdw-berlin.de/en/recess/biographies/biographie/view-bio/bussche/
Der Spiegal: Died: Axel Frediherr von dem Bussche: http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-9274438.html
Dos Bodetal Der Sagenharz: Axel Frediherr von dem Bussche-Strelthorst: http://www.bodetal.de/ihre-stadt-online/namhafte-persoenlichkeiten/axel-freiherr-von-dem-bussche-streithorst.html
The Independent UK: Obituary : Axel von dem Bussche: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-axel-von-dem-bussche-1474093.html

10 Hard to Find Facts about Winston Churchill

A Prime Minister of Britain who was in office during the years of World War Two. He was among the big powers overseeing the Holocaust. Here are rare facts about him:

1.  On British policy: "What is our policy?…to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime."

V for Victory!

2. His Father's Death: It was long thought that his father died from syphilis at 45. His father actually died from a brain tumor.

3. Part American: Churchill was part American, from his mother, Jennie Jerome. 

4.Smoking Habit: He liked to smoke Havana cigars which he discovered in the military.

5. His occupations: Churchill before his career in politics, was a writer, he wrote many books. He was also in the military.


6. Comment on a Book He Wrote: Samuel Hoare said about one of his books:Winston's written an enormous book all about himself and called it The World Crisis.

7. History Lovers Unite!: He loved history, scoring well in it in school. He even thought of writing a book about Napoleon.

8. Hobbies: He loved polo when he was young but connected with art and started to paint when he was older.

9. Many life-threatening circumstances: he almost drowned and had serious pneumonia. One time someone actually tried to push him in front of a train, thankfully his wife saved him, she hit the person with her umbrella. 

10. That Club: he co-founded a club called 'The Other Club. (Don't get too imaginative; it was a dining club)


Sources:
Winston Churchill, Man of the Century, Course Guide by John Ramsden
Winstonchurchill.org
Oxford Essential Quotations

I am going to be writing sometimes every other day now. So if I post on Monday then next I will post on Wednesday. You have probably noticed my erratic posting schedule. I'll post soon and try to get out of this schedule.

Check out

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 

Its kinda cheap but still 5 stars!

Churchill wants you to click on the picture link

Does Mussolini look like Oliver Hardy?

Bentio Mussolini was the fascist ruler of Italy during the beginning of World War 2, who aligned with Hitler.

Oliver Hardy

Mussolini

In the beginning of his career he wore bowler hats and dark clothes, until someone told him he looked like the comedian Oliver Hardy from Laurel and Hardy (if you don't know who Laurel and Hardy are click on the link). Mussolini was supposed to be a devoted fan of Hardy's, but still he changed his clothes to military uniforms.





Does Mussolini look like Oliver Hardy?
Can you tell the difference between them?