Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was the dictator of Nazi Germany.

Background
In 1943, when Gumprecht obtained a fragment of the Ark of the Covenant, Hitler ordered him to send it to Germany. However, the plan was foiled by Woman of Letters Delphine Seydoux, who took the fragment and used its power to kill Gumprecht.

In 1945, As the Soviets were closing in on his location, Hitler decided to commit suicide to avoid capture. His wife Eva Braun had already bitten into a cyanide capsule and killed herself. However, as he was about to pull the trigger, Commandant Nauhaus suggested there was another way. Using knowledge gained from the Thule Society, Nauhaus was able to save Hitler's soul by placing it in a pocket watch.

However, the watch went missing in 1945, after the Thule agents transferring the watch were killed by Soviets.

The watch would end up with a Russian family, before moving to China and Peru, before eventually arriving in Columbus, Ohio in 2016.

Season 12
In The One You've Been Waiting For, the Thules track the pocket watch containing Hitler's soul to Columbus, Ohio and retrieve it. In order to resurrect Hitler using a spell, the Thules kidnap his descendant Ellie Grant despite interference from the Winchesters and, using a transfusion of Ellie's blood, resurrect Hitler in the body of the Thule leader. Upon resurrection, Hitler acts highly erratic before ordering Ellie's blood drained and her fed to dogs. The Thule capture the Winchesters, but Ellie gets free and kills one with Sam's gun. Dean then grabs a gun and kills the other two Thule before turning the gun on Hitler, leaving him begging for mercy. Dean knocks Hitler out, tells him "heil this" and shoots Hitler in the head, killing him once more. Afterwards, the Winchesters and Ellie burn the bodies of Hitler and the Thule, preventing them from being resurrected again. Dean is left highly amused by the fact that he killed Hitler, a fact which no one will ever believe him about if he tells them.

Power and Abilities

 * Possession - As a soul, he is able to possess another person's body. Unlike angels or demons that are capable of possessing the human body directly with or without permission of the vessel respectively, he is only capable of possessing a vessel via a special spell involving a relative.

Weaknesses

 * Mortality - As a human, he is affected by mortality. Specifically, as both human and Thule, he can be killed by a gunshot.
 * Fire - As a Thule, he can only be dispatched by torching his body soon after killed, to prevent resurrection.

Appearances

 * Season 5
 * Abandon All Hope
 * Season 8
 * Everybody Hates Hitler


 * Season 11
 * The Bad Seed
 * The Vessel
 * Season 12
 * The One You've Been Waiting For

Trivia

 * Hitler's Nürnberg speeches were part of Amara's "education" when her vessel was a child.
 * Hitler is shown to have a passion for dogs. This is consistent with the real-life Hitler, who owned a dog named Blondi and was said to be very fond of her.
 * After his resurrection Hitler appears to be completely insane. The Thules seem surprised by his crazy behavior though. This is possibly because of the many decades of being trapped in a pocket watch.
 * In reality, Hitler shot himself. His body, along with his wife, Eva Braun's body, were carried outside to the bombed-out garden behind the Reich Chancellery by Soviet Red Army, where their corpses were placed in a bomb crater, doused with petrol and burned.
 * Ironically, in this episode, he died of a gunshot wound to the head and was also burned.