It’s not hard to believe that Adolf Hitler, the world’s most hated man, also had a depraved sex life. But even during his lifetime controversy raged about what exactly Hitler was doing behind closed doors. Some said that he was a chronic masturbator, or that he got his sexual kicks from voyeurism. Women believed that he was impotent. Others thought that he was homosexual. What is known is that Adolf Hitler spun a tangled web of lies to hide the truth about his twisted sex life. Hitler’s Secret Sex Life s1e1, Sky History 2021
His sexual behaviour which left a trail of dead bodies and shattered spirits. The women who became ensnared in Adolf Hitler’s twisted world were crushed by the shame and humiliation of what he demanded of them. ibid.
Adolf Hitler avoided sex because it terrified him. ibid.
Hitler’s bent for voyeurism blossomed into a full-blown porn addiction. ibid.
Acts of extreme masochism: and they came from two different sources. ibid.
Adolf Hitler believed he possessed super-human qualities. In public he claimed he’d never been ill in his life. But in private he was hiding a terrible secret he had to keep covered up for his entire life … Hitler’ drug-fuelled madness was taking its toll. Hitler’s Secret Sex Life s1e2
According to US military medical reports, Hitler regularly took over 82 medications while in power. ibid.
He came from a pool of genetic stock that may have been weakened by centuries of inbreeding. ibid.
Like the populist schoolboy song, it seems Hitler did only have one ball. ibid.
There was incest, there was family inter-generational breeding, and very loose boundaries. Sex cruises through all Hitler’s dysfunctional behaviours. Hitler’s Secret Sex Life s1e3: Family Matters, Professor Robert Kaplan
Hitler’s mother and father were either uncle and niece or first cousins, once removed. ibid.
The suggestion that Hitler may have had Jewish ancestry is one of the most controversial claims about his pedigree … He was not the pure Aryan he so desperately wanted to be. ibid.
The abnormal attachment Hitler had for his mother. ibid.
Hitler would describe his mother’s passing as the greatest loss he ever had. ibid.
The greatest loves of Hitler’s life were so corroded and diminished by him that they saw only one way out: his beloved niece turned lover shot herself with his pistol. A German film-star lover fell from a hotel balcony. And Nazi insiders gave jaw-dropping accounts of how and why these women died revealing Hitler as a controlling sexual psychopath. Was suicide their only way out? Hitler’s Secret Sex Life s1e4: Suicidal Maidens
What kind of leader murders millions and takes on the world’s major powers on multiple battlefronts? Could a disease caught in the trenches during World War I have accelerated this delusional personality? Could another contribution factor have been a raging drug addiction? It was a recipe for disaster which led to a consummate crushing defeat for Hitler and the Nazis. How the Nazis Lost the War IV: Drugs, Delusion and Demise, History 2021
His blundering coupled with his increasingly unstable personality proved ultimately to be one of the Allies’ greatest weapons. ibid.
From 1941 on a regular basis Hitler was injected with methamphetamine and morphine. ibid.
Hitler has publicly tied his own fate to the conquest of Stalingrad. Rise of the Nazis s2e2: Stalingrad, BBC 2022
By 1943 Hitler has lost the battle of Stalingrad. The German army are retreating across the Eastern Front. Rise of the Nazis s2e3: War, captions
For once, there is no masterplan. Hitler leaves it to the men around him to pull Germany back from the abyss. ibid.
Ultimately, it’s a study of why dictatorships are flawed, and how those who rule through fear and terror can never trust even the people closest to them. ibid.
June 1940, the German army has swept through France. Paris has fallen. Rise of the Nazis s2e1: Dictators at War: Barbarosa, BBC 2022
‘Hitler decides to make a private sightseeing grip to Paris on 23rd June 1940 when Paris is occupied and controlled by the German forces.’ ibid. Professor Sir Richard Evans
‘He comes to believe ever more strongly in his own invincibility.’ ibid.
Hitler offers Stalin a deal to split the world between them. But Stalin has to work out if Hitler can be trusted. ibid.
In June 1942 Hitler travelled to Finland to have talks with the Finnish leader, [Carl] Mannerheim, in a railway carriage. The talks were being recorded by the Finns for posterity. Rise of the Nazis s2e2: Stalingrad
Furious with this failure, Hitler has sacked or sidelined his top Generals and appointed himself head of the German army. ibid.
Zhukov’s reward for the success of the Battle of Moscow is that he is sidelined and sent to the front. ibid.
So now both Hitler and Stalin have taken charge of their own armies; there’s no-one left to hold them back. ibid.
By 1943 Hitler has lost the battle of Stalingrad. The German army are retreating across the Eastern Front. Rise of the Nazis s2e3: War, captions
For once, there is no masterplan. Hitler leaves it to the men around him to pull Germany back from the abyss. ibid.
Ultimately, it’s a study of why dictatorships are flawed, and how those who rule through fear and terror can never trust even the people closest to them. ibid.
December 1944: Germany is losing the war on all fronts. Its armies are depleted and demoralised. Rise of the Nazis: The Downfall s1e1, captions, BBC 2022
‘Hitler always had a capacity to imagine things no matter what the reality was. He was very capable of self-delusion.’ ibid. Richard Evans
This is the story of the collapse of the Third Reich as the Allied troops close in on Germany. ibid.
This pursuit of total war will play out as a psychological drama in Hitler’s inner circle. ibid.
Hitler decides now is the time to launch his surprise attack on the west: the Battle of the Bulge. ibid.
Hitler descends fifteen metres under the Chancellery gardens in his heavily fortified hideaway – the Fuhrer-bunker. ibid.
120th March 1945: Hitler is filmed on camera for the last time. Rise of the Nazis: the Downfall s1e2
By early April 1945 Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime is on the verge of collapse. In the west American troops have crossed the Rhine. The British are closing in from the north. The French from the south. From the east a vast Soviet army has paused to regroup just forty miles from Berlin. Allied aircraft now control the skies over Germany, launching devastating air-raids almost at will. ibid.
Hitler issues an order to fight to the last. ibid.
They [Nazi hierarchy] are all trying to come out of the war alive. They are essentially cowards. ibid. historian
April 1945: In this concert hall the Nazis organised a final concert by the Berlin philharmonic. Rise of the Nazis: The Downfall s1e3, Richard Evans
At the end of the concert there are Hitler youth handing out suicide capsules. ibid. Evans
Who will stay loyal to Hitler? And who will betray him. And when? ibid.
April 1945: The War Hitler started has come back to haunt him. Germany is on the brink of total defeat, and the all-powerful Fuhrer is living in an underground bunker. ibid.
Behind the Fuhrer’s back, Himmler is secretly making plans for peace with Germany’s enemies. ibid.
The Soviets are now taking Berlin street by street, hour by hour, brutalizing the German people as they go. ibid.
They didn’t stand up when he entered the room. Didn’t give a Nazi salute … Hitler is in some sense is already dead. No longer treated as if he is the great leader. ibid. Evans
‘Eva’s fantasy is about her place in Nazi history.’ ibid. Clare Mulley