Hitler vs Adolf - What's the difference?
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A surname of Austrian origin.
, dictator of Germany between 1933 and 1945.
* {{quote-book, year=1964, author=David Hugh Freeman, title=A Philosophical Study of Religion
, passage=The question makes no sense, unless the questioner is satisfied with such answers as: Death is evil, pain is evil, Hitler is evil.
* {{quote-book, year=1977, title=Providence and Evil, author=Peter Thomas Geach
, passage=Similarly, the description we give of God’s knowledge concerning Hitler' has to be different after '''Hitler'''’s death; it is manifest that there has been a change on ' Hitler ’s side, and that this, in view of the logic of omniscience, makes a difference to what we can truly say about God’s knowledge; ...
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* {{quote-book, year=2007, title=The God Delusion, author=Richard Dawkins
, passage=People do evil things (Hitler , Stalin, Saddam Hussein).
(derogatory) An unnecessarily dictatorial person.
* {{quote-book, year=1986, author=William Borman, title=Gandhi and Non-Violence
, passage=How does he support his position against the prima facie case in favor of the strongly counterintuitive claim that non-violence would necessarily defeat a Hitler ?}}
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, a variant of Adolph, very rarely given to children after World War II, because of its association with Adolf Hitler.
As proper nouns the difference between hitler and adolf
is that hitler is a surname of Austrian origin while Adolf is a given name derived from Germanic, a variant of Adolph, very rarely given to children after World War II, because of its association with Adolf Hitler.As a noun Hitler
is an unnecessarily dictatorial person.hitler
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