I'm compiling a list of Hitler's favorite things. Music, books, art, architecture, films etc. Everything from the known - Wagner - to the less commonly known - Bruckner - to the ones no one has ever heard of - von Stuck.
Read "The Young Hitler I Knew" by August Kubizek. Kubizek was the (only) friend Hitler had as teenager/young man and the book has some parts that go into detail about what kind of theater plays he liked and what kind of books he read etc. Something I remember from it that was quite fascinating was that it said that he liked Schopenhauer's and Nietschze's works, two philosophers that were extremely anti-christian/anti-reigion.
Christian Murphy
This was apparently one of Hitler's favorite entertainers. 100% serious.
Gabriel Ward
He ate porridge/gruel for breakfast. Apparently enjoyed Irish traditional music (slow airs)
A good resource showing Hitler's favorite artists and his art purchases is the website about the Great German Art Exhibition, which was held in Munich from 1937-1944. It lists what paintings he bought, the prices he paid, and reproduces the pictures where available. His favorite artist at the exhibition was Raffael Schuster-Woldan (1870-1951), a classical painter. Hitler bought 27 of his paintings, including one for 60,000 reichsmarks. Schuster-Woldan was quite famous in his day but because of his association with the Third Reich he is almost forgotten now.
Here's the website of the Great German Art Exhibition 1937-1944.
Great movie. Never heard that. Where did you hear that?
Read it and would recommend others to.
Joke or do you have a source? Not that I would disbelieve it. A little known fact about Hitler is that at the 1936 Olympics he was so impressed with Khadr El Touni's mega clean and press during the Weightlifting that he named a street after the Egyptian.
Thank you both.
Connor Brooks
I hear he liked this painting.
Evan Walker
His favourite flower is the edelweiss. A song was also written about it (Adolf Hitler's Favourite Flower Is The Simple Edelweiss).
Luis Morgan
Hitler was essentially a Deist, at least later in life. Not by name but by his words. You'll notice he speaks much about nature and nature's "iron logic" and frequently takes examples from the natural world as evidence for why National Socialist worldview is the most complete one.
Jason Rivera
No written source, but the late Michael Collins Piper talked about it on his RBN show years ago. IIRC, he just said sourced it as being told to him by "somebody who would know", and, through Willis Carto, the IHR, and the Spotlight, he definitely had ties to people who "would know", or at least people who knew them.
Andrew Morales
Thank you. That's more than enough info for me to start my research.
Levi Hernandez
It was in one of the Hitler biographies I read, can't remember which one.
But he told it to the UK foreign secretary Lord Halifax.
Interestingly, Hitler's favorite Hollywood movie tune was Donkey Serenade.