Rady says on 31/Jul/10
Hittler is quite short for our time. In his time he had an average height.

Space Coast Joe says on 25/Jul/10
I have read in numerous places that Hitler was between 5'7" and 5'8". His official filmographer, :eni Riefenstahl often shot movies of him at an upward angle to give the - false - appearance of height.

Regardless, he was evil incarnate, the devil on earth. Those who glorify or idolize him are likely people he would have had his minions torment, abuse, and work to death.

mitak says on 19/Jun/10
Daniel,maybe it was because of his dream for a pure (Aryan) race which concludes 6'3-6'4 people with fair hair and pale faces and Hitler didn't fit .That's why the Allies made hit look midget-just to be even more different from his ideal appearance.You know , one lie repeated 100 times becomes a true

Daniel says on 15/Jun/10
mitak says on 14/Jun/10
Wow ,5'8 really .That was average height in the 30s-40s .Why was he described as a short man then ?

I wish I knew. Since the abundant photograph evidence of Hitler shows us a man of average -sometimes a little above average- height.

mitak says on 14/Jun/10
Wow ,5'8 really .That was average height in the 30s-40s .Why was he described as a short man then ?

Mussolini says on 12/Jun/10
Hitler was a sensitive man

Coolio says on 6/Jun/10
Maybe the Dutch are not the biggest people in the world (Dinaric Alps are taller), but sure as hell, they are bigger than life !!!

Daniel says on 26/May/10
Please Rob, could you ban such jokers like "Wise-man"? Too many people come to this site just to post stupid statements that are not even related to height.

DH says on 26/May/10
Wise-man you are an idiot!

Hitler was a disgusting and evil person with a horrible vision and he was also a terrible patriot- he led his nation down an abominable path that brought the world to war costing many lives and scarred future generations of his his own country for many years.

An average person who smokes, drinks or has other vices you may care to mention doesn't equate to genocide. Get some perspective.

Shame on you Wise-man.

Wise-man says on 26/May/10
I will not talk about Hitler’s height but someone here said that he was a drug addict. I strongly disagree with that. In fact Hitler had strong disliking for smokers. He had neither smoked nor drank in his life. I think that makes him better than an average American. I am not justifying Hitler’s “Way of doing things” but I consider him a man of vision and a great patriot.

Bullion says on 10/May/10
Hitler was significantly shorter than some of his generals.Albert Speer, his chief architect was 6ft.Hitler also slouches.
Just so you know, Hitler was a drug addict.Speer said it affected his mentality and made him issue unreasonable orders in politics and in military operations.

Well says on 10/May/10
Hitler is seemingly shorter than some of his generals.Albert Speer, his chief architect was 6ft. Hitler also slouches considerably.
If you should know, Hitler was also a drug addict.Speer said it affected his mentality and made him issue unreasonable orders in both politics and military operations.

Big Red says on 10/May/10
I disagree with 5'8. He looks atleast 5'9 or so. I've watched enough war videos to see he is not that short. During the war, he was made to look small in the eyes of Americans, for obvious reasons. I think that sticks in peoples brains from all the animated parodies and such. And one more thing; BRAZIL, you are a dick squeezer! Hitler was anything but kind, you ass.

Shaun says on 1/May/10
I recently saw a photo of Mao with a southeast Asian monarch and the guy looked very tall in comparison. I'm surprised. I heard Mao of China was 5'11"-6' and I have to say he looked around 6 ft next to the monarch who was maybe 5'3". 5'11"-6' for a Chinese of that generation was very tall, and still is.

Brazil says on 15/Apr/10
@Anonymous

Hitler WAS a good man (not good. A great, kind, brilliant man). Stop critizing people simply by what you hear; go read Mein Kampf instead to learn what did the man wanted.

German says on 14/Apr/10
Well i'am a German and i'am almost 6'1 with 15 years old.....

PB says on 12/Apr/10
@peter colenso
you're a complete tool bag. There is no evidence of the aryan invasion. Stop spewing facts out of David Dukes arse.

Anonymous says on 13/Mar/10
I´m disappointed in seeing quite a few people here demonizing short people as if stature has anything at all to do with a person´s "evilness". Simply pathetic. Besides when will you people get it through your thick skulls that the average height in the early 1900s was entirely different to what it is nowadays. Hitler by no means was short in his time. Never. In fact he might´ve been slightly above average. I hope certain people here read up a little more on history and stop so viciously attacking shorter people.

Marcus says on 13/Mar/10
Hitler was avarage height. Sometimes looks short, sometimes tall. Depends on ancle of shooting.

superdiscount says on 8/Mar/10
Dutch dude says on 13/Aug/08
@ Austrian

Well, I live in the Northern part of Holland, and I can tell you, people are extremely tall here. I've got a couple of mates, one is 2 meters tall, another 1.9 meter tall, and most are around 1.85 m tall. Now, most women I see here are 175 cm tall. Men who are 1.9 meter here are considered normal. And I live here so I know what I'm talking about.



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True! Dutchmen are tall,especially teenagers.If you visit some high schools in Groningen and Friesland, you will find that even youy hight is 6'5, you are not tall.

rafa says on 25/Feb/10
I believe the 174 cms measure, when he was measured by austrian army he was maybe 173 cms (being 20???) he could have grown one centimeter and be 174 cms in his forties

Anonymous says on 24/Feb/10
"Hitler was not Evil he was a Good man."

If you are joking, you are a moron.

If you're not joking, you're a moron.

If you are joking, you're a moron.

Anyways, in all his pictures he does seem to be around 5'8".

thegiant2010 says on 19/Feb/10
i personally believe tht hitler shouldnt be discussed to such extents on here but never mind. i think he was a short arse weiner schnitzel tbh.

Adolf says on 12/Feb/10
Hitler was the same height as Himmler who was 5'9. Hitler was slightly taller than the average man of his time. You can tell from Pictures that Hitler is taller than was the German average at the time. Hitler was not Evil he was a Good man.

anonymous says on 3/Feb/10
I've noticed a lot of discrimination against short people here, trying to make mass murderers shorter than they really are to fit the stereotype of "short man syndrome", and people wonder why I did limb lengthening surgery.

peter colenso says on 31/Jan/10
The Aryan race

From World Book Encylopedia volume I- For India History of:

Aryans invaded India in 1500BC, they were a tall red/blonde war like people on chariots & horses. They brought with them the Sanskrit (Indo European Language), & created the Caste System in India, and wrote original Hindu texts. (they never lived in Europe) Nazi knew this.

Aryan means land lord in Sanskrit. Svas Tika means good luck in Hindi and this is where swastika comes from, it is not a German word, the Germans called the sign Hagencreuz (hooked crosss) Swastika comes from the English being in India.

pete

Jacob says on 23/Jan/10
@ 111

Okay, first of all, I doubt you're a Jew, because you wouldn't defend the man who massacred 5.5 million Jews in the first place. Second, go try it out, go open a daycare for little kids and hang up a portrait of Hitler, and tell the visiting parents you sympathize with Hitler, then see how much of your kids will come back? This actually happened in our country, a daycare mom who sympathized with Hitler her daycare got closed, she lost her license and was challenged to court for sympathizing with racist ideas. Third, to Catherine, he was indeed a struggling artist, but he wasn't good for ****. We all know this, he tried twice to get into art school but wasn't allowed each time because of his lack of talent.

111 says on 20/Jan/10
Oh pipe down, Jacob, she wasn't sympathizing, just telling an anecdote. And I don't know what country you reside in but it is most certainly not illegal in the United States. The day having sympathetic thoughts about anything becomes illegal I'm sticking my head in the oven and blowing my brains out. And I'm a freakin' Jew, fer chris'sakes. Maybe bad choice of words there. Anyway, please know what you're talking about before you tell people they're breaking the law.

Jacob says on 19/Jan/10
@ Catherine

Sympathising with Hitler is not legal, i hope you realise this.

catherine says on 17/Jan/10
I know someone who's great aunt when on a date with hitler before he tried to take over the world. From what was told in the family who is austrian that he was not real tall so 5'8 or smaller would make sense and I am gathering the aunt was tall because that family is pretty tall all the women are around 5'10 I am sure the aunt was around that height. She said Hitler was a quiet, shy and intense nice man who at the time was a struggling artist. Who knew.

Sam says on 21/Dec/09
Yes Hitler is a celebrity now get over it. You all came to this page because you wanted to see his height so stop being hyporcrites. And stop trying to make Hitler shorter than he is.

David says on 17/Dec/09
I guess this is just for american celebrities, since all you know about european politics is Hitler. Where are all those european presidents? Not famous enough? It seems you have to do more than just be president of a country to be a celebrity. Maybe if you play the bass once or twice with a band you'll make it... Or maybe you can become president AND kill millions...

Danimal says on 27/Nov/09
Shock of Electric says on 21/Mar/09
Good or bad, Hitler was one of the most influential and talked about leaders of all time. If they were to remove his page, they might as well remove a lot of other people on here who don't add up to even 1 billionth of his importance in history. Hitler and I, coincidentally, the exact same height.

WOW, very much something to be proud of Shock of Eletric Shock of Eletric Shock Electic, the fact that you and Hitler share the same height. Must make you feel great!!!!!!!!!

Danimal says on 27/Nov/09
Whose next? Dr. Joseph "The Angle of Death" Mengele?

Alex5 says on 26/Nov/09
Seriously, Hitler is a celebrity? LOL, I'm just surprised to see him on here.

~~Marwa~~ says on 25/Nov/09
Small height people are usually big heads ... but hitler seemed shorter than to me

guyfrommars says on 6/Nov/09
Height depends on breed and country very much. Since the SS was put up to have "northern-type blonde blue-eyed well-built men", they expected these to be over 6ft tall, hence the height requirement. Look at Swedish movies from the 1940s - 1950s. The male actors are usually around 6ft3. People wasn't that short 50-60 years ago. Of course the Nazis made some exceptions, so the leaders like Himmler could be on the SS.

Answering someone asked: Churchill was 5ft6 - 5ft7.

Goldeneye007 says on 25/Oct/09
I've always been confused about my height. I've recently been measured at exactly 5'8". If I'm not mistaken, the SS height requirement was originally 6 ft but then it was relaxed to 5'9", and Heinrich Himmler is 5'9" exactly. I'm led to believe that 5'8" was a very common height for men around this time.

sSs says on 24/Sep/09
I heard Hitler was short, but 5'8" really isn't that short. And should Hitler really be on celebheights?

the historian says on 4/Sep/09
Mr. KroatZG wake up!: You're right about the 19. century - but Hitler was living as an adult in the early - til mid 20. century...

During this period average male height in Europe north of the Alps was somewhere around 174 (growing from about 171 to about 176) All in all Hitler's height must have pretty near normal for his time - and is hardly the explanation of anything. Tons of pictures were taken of Hitler (before as well as after he rose to power) and they all seem to confirm a pretty normal height for his time (172-175)... And BRUCE are you total idiot? When the red army seized the Führerbunker in Berlin Hitler had commited suicide, and had been burned to ashes on his own command - the russians never got the chance to meassure him...

bruce says on 29/Jul/09
when the russian army go to the bunker in berlin , 1 may 1945, hitler was 1.65 , 5.5 ft (=5' 5" not 5'6".) This seems reliable.

Orlando says on 18/Jul/09
To Bouncer: The "Hitler passport" in Google is a fake created by British Intelligence during WW2.

KroatZG says on 7/Jul/09
Bouncer
I guess in your head everything is possible. He probably killed Ernst Rohm too because he was taller than him.
Instead of making up information, you should go and google some pictures of Hitler.

Average height in 19th century europe was around 165cm. So he was certainly above the average.
Hitler being short is just a myth created by Allies, deal with it. And you know what is the funniest thing? That those allied leaders were significantly shorter than "short Hitler who had complexes about his height".

tubbs says on 13/Jun/09
What was Churchill?

Daniel says on 29/May/09
Good photographs rabid. As I've stated before, Hitler has never ever looked short, so he was at least 1.73m, which was quite average in Germany at that time. To me he even looked slightly above average when comparing to other men around him.

Rusty says on 28/May/09
This is what i found of the Rammstein heights:

Lindemann-6'3" or 191cm
Kruspe-5'10 3/4" or 180cm
Schneider-6'4 3/4" or 195cm
Landers-5'9 1/4" or 176cm
Lorenz-6'6" or 198cm
Riedel-6'7" or 201cm

I also saw a 6'9 1/2" listing for Riedel or 207cm.

rabid says on 23/May/09
Click Here
shows hitler with most of the nazi brass. take into account he is slightly closer to the camera, so i'd guess he was as tall as most in the picture.
and here too. Click Here

Bouncer says on 21/Apr/09
Well, Michael, that's the question what you want to express.
Surround a dictator with taller people and you'll think he's short (negative) or has power over tall people (positive) or surround him with shorter people and think he's tall (positive) or has "only" power over short people (negative).
That's the question what you want to express.
Hitler was described in his passport as being "mittel" (engl.: "medium"), i don't think he was very short but i neither believe he was tall or above average because then he obviously wouldn't described as being mittel.
And as shown in older posts, there also exist different measures, the shortest is 5'6.5 and the tallest is 5'8.5 so actually you can't know for sure what's true or not.

Dan says on 15/Apr/09
I was always led to believe Hitler was short, but in reality, he seemed to be average for his day — about 5'8" or 5'9" I believe Allied propaganda worked to portray him as short, so as to diminish him and paint him as having a Napoleanic complex.

Michael says on 26/Mar/09
"KroatZG, if you were a dictator who believes in some physical-perfection ideology, would you surround you with people who are taller than you to look short? Nobody would."
Yeah, I would. Why not? It adds a fair bit to someone's apparent power and influence. Napoleon's elite guard, for example, was hand-selected to look tall compared to him. True, though - midget dictators like Kim Jon-Il do select bodyguards not taller than a certain size (5'7-5'8 in his case, I believe), but certainly not shorter than him.

Shock of Electric says on 22/Mar/09
I'm 5'8" even, 5'8.25" when I wake up, 5'7.75" when I go to bed.

Bouncer says on 21/Mar/09
So, how tall are you, Shock of Electric?

It may help to know how tall Ludendorff was, but i don't know.
Anyway, here are very good pictures for heightjudging with Hitler and Ludendorff:





Click Here

Shock of Electric says on 21/Mar/09
Good or bad, Hitler was one of the most influential and talked about leaders of all time. If they were to remove his page, they might as well remove a lot of other people on here who don't add up to even 1 billionth of his importance in history. Hitler and I, coincidentally, the exact same height.

Danimal says on 20/Mar/09
Why is Hitler even on here? He doesn't deserve this much conversation, unless to discuss how he wasn't taller than 2cm's.

Bouncer says on 20/Mar/09
KroatZG, if you were a dictator who believes in some physical-perfection ideology, would you surround you with people taller than you to look short?
I guess nobody would. And especially Hitler always wanted to look good in public and always mystified as much as possible from his disputable past and private life, and that's a fact.
Like i wrote, it is very likely that the physical prefered to add 1 or 2 inches instead to say something possibly bad or not good enough for the "aryan-masterrace"-Leader.
I don't think he was a midget, but i doubt that he was above average.

strauss says on 20/Mar/09
There was a wealthy woman who recently died in Palm Beach who dated Hitler in the 1920s. She published 3 or 4 photos of a young Hitler in civilian garb looking fit and relaxed in her dormitory waiting room. She said 5'8" all day long

Bouncer says on 18/Mar/09
Google "Hitler passport" and look at it.
It describes Hitler as being "mittel" (engl.: "medium") and with a height from 5'8 or more you wouldn't get classified as being "mittel" at this time.

Bouncer says on 18/Mar/09
Anonymous, because this site is made to discuss about heights.

KroatZG, if you were a dictator who believes in some physical-perfection ideology, would you surround you with people who are taller than you to look short? Nobody would, and especially Hitler always wanted to look good and mystified as much as possible from his past and private life, and that's a fact.
I don't think he was a midget, but i really doubt that he was above average.
It is very likely that the physical was afraid to say something bad and maybe add 1 or 2 inches.

KroatZG says on 18/Mar/09
He was above the average height of his time thats for sure. There is a picture of him when he was a kid, and he was clearly taller than other kids around him. Also in other pictures he never appeared short. And he wasnt wearing lifts, just ordinary military boots like everyone around him.

That statements that he was being on purpose surrounded by short people to appear taller, I wont even comment that. It reveals us more about your pathetic personalities, than others.