History Main / WeDidntStartTheFuhrer

It is revealed that Hitler was not just a (particularly disturbed) human being, but was ''supernaturally evil'', and existed with the primary purpose of deliberately going about causing large-scale misery, or was himself either possessed or being directly manipulated by otherworldly forces (of evil). Aliens may also stand in for supernatural beings. Either way, the message is that UsefulNotes/WorldWarII was inflicted on us by otherworldly forces, not something mankind brought about by itself.

* It is revealed in ''The Lost Hero'', the first book in the second series of books for the ''Literature/{{Percy Jackson|and the Olympians}}'' series, that all major world wars are actually fought between the Greek and Roman demigods, who, being natural military types, end up leading mortals into conflict. Since the series also tends to portray prominent historical figures as demigods, Hitler may have been a demigod, implied to be a child of Hades/Pluto. Also it is claimed the Titan Kronos influences people to conquer the world, one being Hitler.
** Implied in ''The Son of Neptune'' that he is actually a son of Pluto, due to looking ''very'' similar.
** Also implied in the original series, where the destruction of the second World War (fought between sons of Zeus and Poseidon on one side and sons of Hades, who lost the war, on the other) was supposedly the reason the three of them swore not to have demigod children again. Ironically, Hades was the only one to take this vow seriously-- his youngest children were all born in the 1920s and '30s.

* ''Film/IronSky'''s upcoming sequel, ''Iron Sky: The Coming Race'', has Hitler surviving to the present day as a TyrannosaurusRex-riding Creator/DavidIcke-style [[ReptilianConspiracy reptilian]] in the HollowEarth, who presumably orchestrated the events of the first movie and will use the resulting chaos and destruction to try to TakeOverTheWorld once more. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWo3ydIY_sc Enjoy the trailer.]]

* In ''The Secret Visitors'' by James White, aliens are trying to wipe out the human race so they can take Earth's riches for themselves. The protagonist learns that Hitler's mania was caused or at least aggravated by the aliens, who deliberately egged him on in the hope that the Second World War would do the job for them. (The first World War was all our own doing, though.)

* ''Film/IronSky'''s upcoming sequel, ''Iron Sky: The Coming Race'', has Hitler surviving to the present day as a TyrannosaurusRex-riding Creator/DavidIcke-style [[TheReptilians reptilian]] in the HollowEarth, who presumably orchestrated the events of the first movie and will use the resulting chaos and destruction to try to TakeOverTheWorld once more. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWo3ydIY_sc Enjoy the trailer.]]

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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K'': The daemon prince known as Doombreed is one of the strongest and oldest of his kind, ascended by Khorne due to the immense bloodshed he'd caused. About his mortal life, little is known, and while there is no shortage of warlords causing wanton slaughter on such vast scales, it is strongly implied that he was originally known as UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan (although other candidates include Hitler himself, Stalin, or Pol Pot). Which makes the existence of the White Scars SpaceMarines even funnier (being ''heroic'' Space Mongols with bikes and boltguns instead of horses and bows).

* It seems that Hitler himself was totally human in ''Literature/NightWatch'', but he and the Nazis in general were strongly influenced by the Night Watch's [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans attempts to create a utopia]]. (There have actually been several such attempts, and they all backfired horribly in one way or another.)

* The ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'' has another Inverted example, as of ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasqueradeFifthEdition'': [[TheWarOnTerror September 11th, 2001]]. Sadly, no one told the Camerilla this before they pulled every sting they could trying to confirm The Sabbat's (non-existent) involvement... [[BreakingTheMasquerade And reviewed the existence of the Kindred to the Global Intelligence Community]]... [[NiceJobeFixingItVillain Whoops...]]

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* In ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' Vol 1 2 it is claimed the God Mars, who has conquered the planet Mars, is responsible for war on Earth. His three lieutenants, the Earl of Greed, the Duke of Deception and Lord Conquest, are influencing the Axis Leaders. In the second chapter Greed is shown contacting Hitler, Agent NZ-1, whose 'warped mind' picks up the radio waves. When Greed in astral form speaks to Hitler, Hitler thinks it is his own intelligence.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K'': The daemon prince known as Doombreed is one of the strongest and oldest of his kind, ascended by Khorne due to the immense bloodshed he'd caused. About his mortal life, little is known, and while there is no shortage of warlords causing wanton slaughter on such vast scales, it is strongly implied that he was originally known as UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan. Which makes the existence of the White Scars SpaceMarines even funnier (being ''heroic'' Space Mongols with bikes and boltguns instead of horses and bows).

* In the ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'', Adolf Hitler himself was just a run-of-the-mill genocidal madman. His senior advisors, on the other hand, were mostly devil-worshiping sorcerers bound and determined to bring down human civilization in the name of their ungodly overlords, and they played Hitler like a puppet.

* Inverted in the classic ''[[TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness World of Darkness]]''. Though the setting attributes many historical events to hidden supernatural causes, the creators felt putting one of the (many) supernatural groups in the FantasyKitchenSink behind the Nazis' horrors would be in bad taste. If any supernaturals were involved in the conflict, they were either a) corrupted monsters (the Sabbat, Black Spiral Dancers and fomori, Nephandi, etc.) picking at the sides of the conflict, or b) trying to stop the carnage.

* [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in the video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC-_O08mEjg TOP 5 ALIEN HITLERS & FIDGET SPINNER UNBOXING]] by WebVideo/Vinesauce Jabroni Mike. Although it's more a mockery of asinine, Alex Jones-Esque conspiracies that [[PoesLaw Genuinely promote this]]. The Video describes Adolf Hitler as not being a human, but rather an entire species of alien of [[PlanetofHats that are genocidally racist, have toothbrush mustaches & are obsessed with painting]] and that our world is not "unique" for having only one Hitler.

* ''Series/TheTomorrowPeople'':

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** In another novel by the same author, ''Autumn Visits'', Hitler had a supernatural clone, the Vector of Art, who competed with six others like him (e.g. Stalin's clone, the Vector of Power, who [[KillAndReplace killed and replaced]] the original) for WorldDomination and lost.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K'': The daemon prince known as Doombreed is one of the strongest and oldest of his kind, ascended by Khorne due to the immense bloodshed he'd caused. About his mortal life, little is known, and while there is no shortage of warlords causing wanton slaughter on such vast scales, it is strongly implied that he was originally known as UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan. Which makes the existence of the White Scars SpaceMarines even funnier (being ''heroic'' Space Mongols with ikes and boltguns instead of horses and bows).

-->-- ''Literature/EmpireFromTheAshes'': ''Mutineer's [[ThatsNoMoon Moon]]''

* ''TabletopGame/Warhamme40K'': The daemon prince known as Doombreed is one of the strongest and oldest of his kind, ascended by Khorne due to the immense bloodshed he'd caused. About his mortal life, little is known, and while there is no shortage of warlords causing wanton slaughter on such vast scales, it is strongly implied that he was originally known as UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan. Which makes the existence of the White Scars SpaceMarines even funnier (being ''heroic'' Space Mongols with ikes and boltguns instead of horses and bows).