40 Facts About Adolf Hitler and His Dramatic Fall

40 Facts About Adolf Hitler and His Dramatic Fall

Trista - December 19, 2018

40 Facts About Adolf Hitler and His Dramatic Fall
An American soldier stands near a wagon loaded with corpses outside the crematorium of the Buchenwald concentration camp, Germany, following its liberation. Parke O. Yingst (Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army) – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum – Photograph #60623/Wikimedia Commons.

6. His Legacy Involves the Deaths of Tens of Millions of People

As a result of the war that Hitler began, six million Jews, 20 million Soviets, and at least five million noncombatants died. The death toll of World War II was around 60 million people, making Hitler the greatest mass murder in all of human history.

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