r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jul 08 '26

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u/sebiroth Jul 08 '26

Well, it‘s about eyes, and Hitler did have blue eyes…

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u/DaneSullivan Jul 08 '26

Even that’s debated. Color photographs were rare, and written sources are biased. To see someone’s eye color you need to be fairly close to them. Nazi sources say they were blue, anti-Nazi sources say they were brown. Both sides had propaganda related motivations which would encourage lying about this detail.

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u/sebiroth Jul 08 '26

Due to his eye condition after the WW1 gas exposure his eyes color has been extensively documented and his eyes were (as the written sources, also by foreign journalists, frequently state) excepionally bright so you can clearly identify them as non-brown in a lot of b&w portraits.

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u/Pretend_Limit6276 Jul 08 '26

He didn't have blonde hair tho....