If Adolft Hitler had taken his father's native name of Schicklgruber, that would've made him Adolf Schicklgruber. Just because this is a tongue knotty last name, could it have prevented Adolf from becoming dictator of Germany ?
2006-07-22 12:49:17 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
to be dictator is all in personality, but i think he would have had a harder time
2006-07-23 02:26:39 · answer #1 · answered by silver_princess16_03 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, the name doesn't matter. We only think he should be called Hitler because he WAS called Hitler. If he had been called Schicklgruber, then everything that we associate with the name Hitler we would now associate with the name Schicklgruber.
As Shakespeare said, "A rose by any other name would still look like a rose, smell like a rose, etc"
(That's not EXACTLY what he said, but it's what he meant...)
2006-07-22 19:57:12 · answer #2 · answered by Doctor Hand 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
His father, Alois, was born in 1837. He was the illegitimate son of Maria Anna Schicklgruber and her unknown mate, which may have been someone from the neighborhood or a poor millworker named Johann Georg Hiedler. It is also remotely possible Adolf Hitler's grandfather was Jewish.
BTW...Shakespeare said, "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
2006-07-22 19:57:18 · answer #3 · answered by Ferret 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's doubtful that his last name would have made that much difference, especially amongst the Germans. Germans most often have longated names, so for them Schicklgruber would have been the equivilent of O'Riley, or some such thing!
2006-07-22 20:02:11 · answer #4 · answered by briang731/ bvincent 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
His name would have nothing to do with his rise to power. He got to be head man in Germany by his ability to control crowds with promises of prosperity, by working on German pride ( the master race ), and really whoppers of lies.
Hitler said that the mass of the people are more apt to believe a big lie than a small one. His biggest problem was that he was able to covince himself that the big ones were actually the truth.
2006-07-22 20:06:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No but he would have risen to world power without the the good ole U S of A jumping in WW2
2006-07-22 19:56:40 · answer #6 · answered by Hippie Hunter 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
shnicklrgubber might have been a problem, and he was defeated as Hitler, but if he had of been called Roosevelt would he have conquered the world, or how about a real easy name like Bush.
2006-07-22 20:11:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes he could still have become the dictator he was, why? because he was very charismatic, he had great domestic ideas that gave the german people many oppurtunities after they were leveled from the first World War. so to answer your question yes I think regardless of what his name was he could have still been who he was.
2006-07-22 19:58:18 · answer #8 · answered by thirteen_fox 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stalin rose to power and his name wasn't Hitler.
2006-07-22 20:22:18 · answer #9 · answered by Dean B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are assuming that a name that sounds faintly absurd in English also sounds faintly absurd in German. That isn't necessarily so.
2006-07-22 19:55:38 · answer #10 · answered by P. M 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋