Ok... Despite long standing rumors, Hitler might have been a fan of Schalke 04, the club which won the most titles between 1934 and 1945, Schalke did commission a study by the Gelsenkirchner Institut für Stadgeschichte about the club's history during the Third Reich and it found that Hitler was not a Schalke fan – he also never turned up to see them play.

There apparently are theories (because of course there are, apparently the key to understanding the Third Reich lies in knowing everything about Hitler) that allege that Hitler was a fan of either the Linz football club LASK, the Vienna Club Admira Wacker Mödling, Bayern 1860 or the Nürnberg Football Club but so far they have all been unsubstantiated.

The more accepted theory is that Hitler was no football fan at all since we know only of one game he ever saw (Germany vs. Norway at the Olympics in 1936) and he only mentions football once in the table talks when he talks about a Russian football team visiting Bulgaria as evidence for the destructive force of pan-slavism.

And that is the extent of academic historical knowledge concerning Adolf Hitler and his preference in football teams.