Incredible World War II Facts That Will Open Your Eyes

11. Man of the Year, 1938

In 1938, Hitler was named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year because he had not only re-armed Germany but had stolen Austria. The whole world was watching and waiting for what Hitler would do next and what the world would do in response.

Time has a thing for dictators. Hitler was named Man of the Year in 1938, on the eve of World War II. Hitler was the dictator of Nazi Germany when he won. In November 1938, Nazi’s destroyed Jewish-owned buildings on Kristallnacht and sent at least 30,000 Jewish Germans to concentration camps, foreshadowing the horrors of the Holocaust to come.