Unsurprisingly to anyone who’s historied, Hitler was a man who promoted a hateful ideology, had millions murdered, crippled a generation, and plunged an entire continent into ruin. What’s maybe slightly less known is that before he did all this, he was a lazy layabout, ultimately squandering his inheritance culminating in him becoming homeless for a few years. To say Hitler avoided anything even remotely resembling work, except for the work he put into not doing any work, or responsibility leading up to his rise would be a gross understatement. On top of that, his first dalliances into love were about as creepy as you can come by, including at one point devising a plan to murder the object of his love because she wasn’t into him. If he couldn’t have her, he simply planned to Romeo and Juliet himself and her. It should also be noted he never actually bothered to talk to her even once in his life before planning this all out, only stalking her from afar for years…

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