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50 free Adolf Hitler trivia questions with answers — history quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Few figures are studied as closely as Adolf Hitler, and for good reason. Understanding how an obscure agitator took control of a modern democracy, started a world war and ordered the murder of millions is central to understanding the twentieth century. These questions follow that story from start to finish. They cover his childhood and failed ambitions, his service in the First World War, the rise to power between 1919 and 1934, the people around him, the war years, the Holocaust and the final days in the bunker, along with the Hitler Youth and the way he has been portrayed since. The quiz is written for history students, teachers putting together a lesson or revision sheet, and general readers testing what they remember. Every answer comes with a short explanation and was checked against a reliable source, so the page works as a study aid as well as a quiz.
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Q 01Which comedian, born four days before Adolf Hitler, mocked him in the 1940 film The Great Dictator?
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin played the ranting ruler Adenoid Hynkel in what was his first true sound film. He later wrote that he could not have made it had he known the true extent of the Holocaust.
Q 02Which American magazine named Adolf Hitler its Man of the Year for 1938, judging influence, not merit?
Time
Time gives the title to whoever most shaped the year's events, for good or ill, and chose Hitler after the Munich summit redrew the map of Europe. Ayatollah Khomeini was a later controversial pick.
Q 03Adolf Hitler, who also all but gave up alcohol, kept to which diet from 1942 until his death?
Vegetarian
Vegetarian dishes were all his food taster Margot Wölk recalled testing, with no meat or fish. At dinner he would describe animal slaughter in graphic detail to put his guests off their meat.
Q 04Whom did Adolf Hitler marry in his Berlin bunker less than 40 hours before they both died?
Eva Braun
Eva Braun met Hitler in 1929, aged 17, while working as an assistant to his photographer Heinrich Hoffmann. She attended no public events with him until the middle of 1944.
Q 05Blondi, the dog Martin Bormann gave Adolf Hitler as a puppy in 1941, belonged to which breed?
German Shepherd
German Shepherd Blondi was allowed to sleep in Hitler's bed in the bunker, and she had a litter of five puppies in spring 1945. He named one Wulf, his own favourite nickname.
Q 06Which city's Academy of Fine Arts twice rejected Adolf Hitler, who then sold paintings of its sights?
Vienna
Vienna's academy turned him down twice, and its director suggested architecture instead. Hitler lacked the school certificate for that, and by 1909 he was living in homeless shelters.
Q 07Which country, where Adolf Hitler was born, did Germany annex in the March 1938 Anschluss?
Austria
Austria was his birthplace, in a small town on the Bavarian border, but he gave up its citizenship in 1925. He then spent almost seven years stateless before becoming a German citizen.
Q 08For which award was Adolf Hitler nominated in 1939 by a Swedish MP, as a satire he soon withdrew?
Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel Peace Prize nominee Hitler was put forward by the antifascist MP Erik Brandt, purely to ridicule a rival nomination of Britain's prime minister. Brandt quickly withdrew the letter.
Q 09Which American sprinter's four golds at the 1936 Berlin Olympics undercut Hitler's racial theories?
Jesse Owens
Jesse Owens won the 100 metres, 200 metres, long jump and sprint relay, the most successful athlete of the Games. He later said it was his own president, not Hitler, who had snubbed him.
Q 10Which carmaker did Hitler's regime found in 1937 to sell families a car designed by Ferdinand Porsche?
Volkswagen
Volkswagen collected weekly instalments from German savers for the promised car, yet war broke out in 1939 and none of them ever received one.
Q 11Which book, part memoir and part manifesto, did Adolf Hitler begin in jail after his failed 1923 coup?
Mein Kampf
Mein Kampf almost carried a far clumsier title: Four and a Half Years of Struggle Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice. By 1933 its sales had earned Hitler about 1.2 million Reichsmarks.
Q 12Which president, a First World War field marshal, appointed Adolf Hitler chancellor in January 1933?
Paul von Hindenburg
Paul von Hindenburg had beaten Hitler in the 1932 presidential election and privately dismissed him as a mere corporal. Conservative politicians talked the 85-year-old into the appointment.
Q 13Adolf Hitler's failed 1923 attempt to seize power in Munich began in what kind of venue?
A beer hall
Q 21Which deputy of Adolf Hitler flew alone to Scotland in May 1941 hoping to arrange talks with a duke?
Rudolf Hess
Rudolf Hess had never even spoken to the Duke of Hamilton, whom he wrongly believed led a British faction opposed to the war. He stayed in custody for the rest of his life, dying in 1987 aged 93.
Q 22Which propaganda minister did Hitler's will name as chancellor, a post he held for a single day?
Joseph Goebbels
Joseph Goebbels moved his family into the bunker complex and outlived Hitler by one day. He and his wife took their own lives after their six children had been poisoned.
Q 23Which colonel planted the briefcase bomb that failed to kill Hitler at the Wolf's Lair in July 1944?
A beer hall, the Bürgerbräukeller, was where Hitler fired a pistol shot into the ceiling to silence a crowd of 3,000. The march next day ended in a gunfight with police, and he was arrested two days later.
Q 14Which country did Hitler invade on 1 September 1939, leading Britain and France to declare war?
Poland
Poland was attacked the morning after German units dressed as its soldiers staged a fake raid on a German radio station at Gleiwitz. Hitler used the incident as his pretext for war.
Q 15Which ancient symbol did Adolf Hitler set in a white circle on the red Nazi Party flag in 1920?
The swastika
The swastika flag kept the black, white and red of the old imperial colours, which Hitler said he treasured as a former soldier. It became Germany's only national flag in 1935.
Q 16Which dictator's 1922 March on Rome inspired Adolf Hitler to attempt his own coup a year later?
Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini later needed Hitler's help: German paratroopers freed him from a mountain hotel prison in 1943. Partisans shot him two days before Hitler's own death.
Q 17Which decoration did Adolf Hitler win in 1918 on the recommendation of Hugo Gutmann, his Jewish superior?
Iron Cross
Iron Cross, First Class, was rarely awarded at Hitler's lowly rank. Gutmann was arrested by the Gestapo in 1938, freed by SS men who knew his history, and escaped to New York in 1940.
Q 18Which code name, taken from a medieval emperor, did Hitler give the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union?
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbarossa sent more than 3.8 million Axis troops across a 2,900-kilometre front, the largest military offensive in history. It broke a non-aggression pact signed less than two years earlier.
Q 19Which Volga city did Hitler forbid his encircled Sixth Army to abandon before its 1943 surrender?
Stalingrad
Stalingrad made the Sixth Army the first of Hitler's field armies ever to surrender. He had insisted it could be supplied from the air, but the airlift never delivered what the trapped men needed.
Q 20Adolf Hitler's Liverpool-born half-nephew William Patrick Hitler joined which country's navy in 1944?
United States
United States Navy service earned William Patrick Hitler a Purple Heart after he was wounded in action. On his discharge he changed his surname to Stuart-Houston and settled in New York state.
Claus von Stauffenberg
Claus von Stauffenberg had lost an eye, his right hand and two fingers in Tunisia, so arming the bomb was a struggle. A solid-oak table leg shielded Hitler, and the colonel was shot that night.
Q 24Which British prime minister flew to Germany three times in September 1938 to bargain with Hitler?
Neville Chamberlain
Neville Chamberlain, then 69, had barely flown before his first trip to meet Hitler in the Bavarian Alps. Two more flights followed within a fortnight, the last of them to Munich.
Q 25Which city hosted Hitler's annual Nazi Party rallies and gave its name to the 1935 race laws?
Nuremberg
Nuremberg staged the rallies with mass parades and military ritual, and Leni Riefenstahl filmed them for audiences at home and abroad. Hitler chose the 1935 rally to announce the race laws.
Q 26Which building's burning in February 1933 gave Hitler a pretext to suspend civil liberties?
The Reichstag
The Reichstag burned four weeks to the day after Hitler took office, and a Dutch communist, Marinus van der Lubbe, was arrested inside. Mass arrests of communists followed.
Q 27During his only visit to Paris, in June 1940, Adolf Hitler paid homage at whose tomb?
Napoleon
Napoleon lies under the dome of Les Invalides, which Hitler reached on a rapid tour by car guided by a sculptor who had lived in the city. That December he had the emperor's son reburied beside him.
Q 28Hitler's last major offensive in the west, through the Ardennes in December 1944, goes by what name?
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was the largest and bloodiest single battle American forces fought in the war. Hitler hoped to retake the port of Antwerp and split the Allied armies in two.
Q 29The Holocaust under Hitler killed roughly how many Jews, about two-thirds of those living in Europe?
6 million
The 6 million Jewish victims were killed mainly in mass shootings and in the gas chambers of extermination camps. Millions of other civilians and prisoners of war were murdered too.
Q 30Which title did Adolf Hitler take in August 1934 after merging the presidency with the chancellorship?
Führer
Führer became his formal style under a law his cabinet passed the day before the old president died. A plebiscite on 19 August then endorsed the merger with 88 per cent of the vote.