Assassination attempt 21: to kill Hitler as he delivered his speech to a packed hall of prominent Nazis. His [Georg Elser] weapon was a homemade time-bomb … Elser was apprehended at the Swiss border. ibid.
Attempt 22: The Poles planted 500 kilograms of TNT under a main intersection … The explosive inexplicably failed to go off. ibid.
The Soviets formed at least three separate plots to kill Hitler. ibid.
Operation Foxley: British snipers were to kill the Fuhrer at his home in the Alps. Fearing a backlash the British eventually abandoned the operation. ibid.
Hitler’s plane landed without incident … The fuse simply failed to flare. ibid.
By the spring of 1944 Hitler’s own officers launched at least four plots to shoot him, six to blow him up and one to arrange a so-called fatal accident. ibid.
As the smoke cleared, [Claus von] Stauffenberg was on his way to Berlin to help manage the transition of government power. ibid.
In the heart of Berlin children play innocently over what was once Adolf Hitler’s death tomb. It was here in the Fuhrer-bunker on April 30th 1945 that Hitler made the final preparation for his suicide. Outside in a devastating final assault on the heart of the Third Reich, the Russian army closed in on the Fuhrer. Hitler’s death brought to an end his dream of a thousand-year Reich: it lasted only twelve years but changed the world. History’s Most Hated s1e4: Hitler & Stalin, 2017
They were both mass murderers. Hitler was responsible for nearly ten million deaths in the Holocaust … Stalin murdered more than twenty million of his own people. ibid.
Both Hitler and Stalin suffered from inferiority complexes. ibid.
Adolf sold his paintings on the streets. It is interesting that he only painted landscapes, never people. Two years in a row, Hitler applied to and was rejected from the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts … The Academy told him he had no aptitude for painting. ibid.
Hitler’s relationships with women were equally troubled. ibid.
Eva Braun will prove a great disappointment to historians. Hitler’s Last Secrets s1e1: Fatal Liaison: The Strange Affair of Adolf & Eva, Albert Speer, Amazon 2015
She had been Hitler’s faithful companion for almost 14 years, but when she died, she had been married to the Fuhrer for just 40 hours. ibid. narrator Bob Carruthers
After 1936 almost nobody could dare to challenge her position. ibid. historian
The exact nature of the relationship between Hitler and Geli Raubal will never be known. The gossip at the time was that they were lovers. ibid. narrator
Friedrich Braun, Eva’s straight-laced father, detested Hitler, whom he suspected of being a homosexual. ibid.
Flanders: Hitler had actually found more time to come to Flanders than he did to go to Paris. Hitler’s Last Secrets s1e2: Private Hitler’s War 1914-1918
Throughout the 20s and 30s there were constant whispers that the myth of Hitler as a front line fighter was a lie.
The Fuhrer was obsessively eager to revisit the battlefields where he had seen service. ibid.
That was the music of Richard Wagner who lived from 1813 to 1883 … Wagner is primarily known for his operas which celebrate a mythical German past. Hitler’s Last Secrets s1e3: Wagner
By his own testimony, as recorded in the pages of Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler was a fully formed volkisch German nationalist from an early age … Hitler is personified as the architect of the occult aspects of Nazi party doctrine, but was he really the sole driving force behind this bizarre phenomenon? Hitler’s Last Secrets s1e4: Hitler & the Occult
In every major city cults devoted to spiritualism, astrology, magic and the occult flourished among the disciples of Life Reform. ibid.
‘Racism was one of the fundamental values of the Volkisch movement.’ ibid. Bob Curruthers
The outlandish ideas of Helena Patrovna Blavatsky centred on the idea that there was lost Aryan races which she claimed had perished with the destruction of the lost city of Atlantis. ibid.
A more noble and heroic age … The myth of the Aryan race was readily accepted and was by 1905 so familiar it had become a self-evident truth. ibid.
By 1906 Hitler’s father had died … In 1927 Klara Hitler died. Hitler was obviously distraught. Hitler’s Last Secrets s1e5: Hitler the Drifter
The exact narrative of Hitler’s stay in Vienna becomes impossible to piece together. Hitler found himself friendless and alone. ibid.
It would appear that Hitler had undertaken a series of manual jobs to earn what money he could … He was clearly unsuited to manual labour. ibid.
Policemen arrived at his home to inform Hitler that he was now faced with the immediate prospect of having to report for military service … He failed his medical examination. ibid.
Hitler the recent Austro-Hungarian reject volunteered for service in the Bavarian army. ibid.
That is not to say that Hitler was popular … Hitler was excessive in his dedication to duty. ibid.
In the pages of Mein Kampf, Hitler recalled the violent events surrounding the launch of the Nazi manifesto. Hitler’s Last Secrets s1e6: Hitler & The Beer Hall Putsch
Hitler was an advocate of political violence. ibid.
‘Hitler didn’t believe that the party could progress through compromise.’ ibid. Curruthers
The Hitler Gang 1944: ‘We must appeal to their emotions … Give them a scapegoat. Someone to blame. Someone to hate.’ ibid. Hitler to gang
Hitler’s enthusiasm for political violence was perverse and rather juvenile. ibid.
The Hitler Gang 1944: ‘I feel my strength growing with every ibid. Hitler
Adolf Hitler has come to embody the ultimate evil. Dictator of Nazi Germany, orchestrator of the Holocaust, and instigator of a world war which left over 60 million people dead. But Hitler did not act alone. The atrocities of the Third Reich required a vast network of collaborators. Nazis: Ultimate Evil, History 2019
After treatment, Goering returned to Hitler’s side and helped orchestrate the Nazis earliest atrocities. ibid.
Goering helped fund his life of excess by stealing on a grand scale … ‘The most massive art theft in the history of the world.’ ibid. expert
A chicken farmer who many believe was even more depraved than Hitler: Heinrich Himmler. ibid.
During the Nazis’ reign of terror perhaps no event unnerves Allied Europe more than the May 1940 invasion of France. The tactic is called Blitzkrieg or Lightning War. Adolf Hitler claims these victories prove the superiority of his Aryan soldiers. But they have a hidden advantage: ‘There is no doubt that Methamphetamine powered the Blitzkrieg.’ Nazis on Drugs: Hitler & the Blitzkrieg, History 2019
By 1944 the Fuhrer himself is an addict: hooked on Oxycodone ibid.
Soon [Dr Theodore] Morell is treating Hitler and keeping track of their daily meetings with an assortment of notes and diary entries. ibid.
The Nazis planned for Pervatin pills to even the odds. ibid.
‘The RAF called them wakey-wakey pills’ … The British also begin using amphetamines with their ground troops. ibid.
Morell’s secret diary makes clear that the drug he gave Hitler is Eukodal, the German word for an addictive synthetic opioid. Eukodal is twice as strong as morphine and just as addictive. It’s more commonly known today as Oxycodone. ibid.
D9: a combination of Meth, cocaine, and opioids to give to teenage submarine pilots. But the D9 drug is deemed a disaster. ibid.
‘Hitler was going through heavy withdrawal. On top of that of course he was losing World War II.’ ibid. Norman Ohker, author Blitzed
For Germany in the early 1920s the First World War is barely over. Now, revolution is in the air. Shaken by the country’s catastrophic defeat, communists and nationalists fight each other in the streets. Project Nazi: Blueprints of Power s1e1: Designed for Power, History 2019
In Munich, the spiritual home of German nationalism, many former soldiers are drawn to a new growing political force with its charismatic leader Adolf Hitler. A veteran of the trenches himself, he’s winning the city over to his new darker more violent brand of politics. ibid.
Hitler’s credibility as a street fighter and die-hard anti-communist is now established. ibid.