If Hitler had black hair and brown eyes why was he trying to make a master race with blond hair and blue eyes?

Answer 1

i have a better question, Hitler was from Austria so how did he end up as the leader of Germany and why did the German people listen to him? he was a charismatic speaker that people liked listening to, he told them what they wanted to hear, kind of reminds you of George W. Bush doesn't it. it's just one of those things that make you go hmmmmmmmm.
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Answer 2

Blond hair and blue eyes were the Aryan ideal, but there were several other acceptable hair and eye colors.

Somewhere on my shelf of books about Nazi Germany, there is a book with a picture of a guy holding a bunch of swatches of synthetic hair up to a kid's head, to see if it matches.

The Germans actually considered themselves lower on the Aryan chain than the Scandinavians, but figured the Germans were the only ones who could get anything done.

In response to many of the posters above:

Hitler was not half-Jewish. A few generations back a female relative married a guy with a Jewy name, but Hitler had no blood relation. I'm sorry I can't be more specific, but I've been reading about Heydrich lately and haven't memorized Hitler's family tree.

Answer 3

Hitlers mother had blond hair,and blue eyes.

Answer 4

Why are hitlers eyes blue now? I always thought they were brown. It was spoken about often especially when asking this same question as the original post

Answer 5

There are professional writings about the psychology used to create the Nazi party and in reference to their children during the formative years, during the aweful history Germany experienced during that time period.

It may be better to do some research from a reliable source; the information is quite explicit.

Answer 6

He was a horrible, deranged person. Rules did not apply to him. Thus, he wanted to restore Germany to blond hair and blue eyes because that's the way it Should Be *eye-roll*, but he didn't have to change a thing about himself because, you know, he's Hitler and Hitler roxxorz (according to Hitler). Crazy people don't really prescribe to the theories of rhyme and reason.

Answer 7

I believe the joke of the time was about the ideal Aryan being as blonde as Hitler, as slim as Goering and as physically fit as Goebbels.

Answer 8

For Your Information, modern Germans are predominantly brown hair and brown eyes. That came from the Roman occupation of Southern Germany. The Romans thought of Germans as red headed and brown eyed.

Hitler thought he could quote history and he would espout all night long, showing off his ignorance by telling his version of the facts. It was his fantasy that Vikings and Celtics were the original inhabitants of Deutschland. Based upon his historical mis-facts, the Nazi administrators planned on a "master race" which was to have blond and blue eyes.

Answer 9

The people he targeted to follow him and serve his army in his quest to conquer the world had blonde hair & blue eyes. He wanted to make them feel as if they were the superior race even though he himself didn't meet those criteria. People will often follow others blindly if they are told what they want to hear. I heard that Hitler’s own wife was part Jew. He chose Jews as a primary target for genocide and if he was successful he would have moved on to genocide of other races. He had serious mental issues and went on a power trip. He claimed to hate himself for not having blonde hair and blue eyes.

Answer 10

That was only one symptom of the mania he carried.
Most historians disagree with the idea that Hitler was half Jewish or even a quarter Jewish, although a relative may have married a Jewish woman. Its thought he kept his family history quiet because there was a streak of feeble mindedness and insanity in his family.
He married his mistress Eva Braun hours before his death by suicide. That was his only marriage and there were no children of his ever, with anyone.

Answer 11

The master race was more of an obsession with Heinrich Himmler(also dark haired),the head of the SS.
Hitlers concerns were much more political.The destruction of Bolshevism and according to him,the freedom from the Jewish stranglehold.The uniting of the Germanic people and liebensraum(living space).

The popular misconception that Hitler was a monster obsessed with racial purity and supremacy is incorrect and was merely wartime propaganda that has flourished since by the manipulation of history by the victors.

Most of the other answers are complete nonsense from people who have scraped together scraps of misinformed information from comic books of their childhoods.