The Nazi Party succeeds in spreading its cancer throughout Germany. ibid.
The SA uniform is created by a select team of German designers. Among the manufacturers is Stuttgart designer Hugo Boss. ibid.
The anti-Semitic Henry Ford will strongly support the Nazis. ibid.
When Hitler became dictator of Germany he applied what he’d written in his book – Mein Kampf. Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler II: The Fuhrer
Hitler rallies small business owners and home owners to his cause by denouncing the threat of the Red Plague – the egalitarian Marxists. ibid.
In just a year he comes to dominate the extreme right in Germany. ibid.
He [Hitler] had conceived a passion for his own niece ... Geli Raubal has just committed suicide. ibid.
Hitler becomes a serious candidate for the presidency. ibid.
Hitler is now head of the country’s strongest political party. ibid.
Hitler calls his government the Cabinet of National Concentration to make it sound like a nationalist coalition rather than a predominantly Nazi government. ibid.
The baleful shadow of dictatorship spreads over Germany. ibid.
Anti-Semitism has contaminated the universities; Nazism is perverting people’s minds, turning them against modern culture, imposing an intolerant sectarian ideology that will lead the students themselves to burn books. ibid.
The Night of the Long Knives – the SS murders Rohm and other potential opponents and embarrassing witnesses of Hitler’s past. ibid.
All soldiers must swear an oath of loyalty to the Fuhrer. ibid.
Their aim is to destroy one race and replace it with another. A master-race bound by hatred, their goal is create a New World Order based on the ideals of a man who would anoint himself a messiah. His apocalyptic vision of one pure race means millions will die so white power can reign supreme. Nostradamus Effect: Hitler’s Blood Oath, History 2009
At the time the young Adolf Hitler was an aspiring artist and school drop-out: an unlikely saviour. But in 1919 he combined his political ambition with an interest in the occult when he became involved with the mysterious Thule Society. ibid.
After receiving this much-needed affirmation Hitler consulted Hannusen on all spiritual matters and even sought his advice on how to improve his public speaking. ibid.
To realise his dreams of a New World Order Hitler put into action the next phase of his plan: the systematic extermination of those he considered racially, morally, physically and mentally inferior. ibid.
Blood became an important Nazi symbol rooted in occult teachings of a master-race. ibid.
Martyred blood would become the holy water of the Third Reich. And the Sacred Flag its silver chalice. ibid.
Hitler’s enduring legacy may be he paved the way for other despots to portray themselves as saviours. Hitler was a self-appointed prophet who created a blueprint for a New World Order, a bible of racial hatred. A template for his thousand-year Third Reich. And it may yet destroy our world. ibid.
In the great Nazi stage show Hitler was the almighty leader who claimed to be a modest man of the people. The Propaganda Minister presented his Fuhrer as a humble servant who worked his way up from poverty. It was a distortion of the truth. Nazi Secrets: Hitler’s Millions, National Geographic 2012
Adolf Hitler, a pampered bohemian who feasted on cream cakes, was also a tax evader. ibid.
Hitler opened his criminal record by becoming involved with the Bavarian insurgency in 1923. ibid.
They got support from wealthy benefactors at home and abroad. The iconic American car maker and anti-Semite Henry Ford was reported to be one of them. ibid.
Foreign currency came from overseas benefactors including American companies. ibid.
Hitler earned more than 11,000 Marks in just one quarter in 1925. But he continued to portray himself as a poverty-stricken man who had no assets anywhere. ibid.
A powerful donor reinforced the party’s coffers – the Ruhr steel baron Fritz Thyssen. ibid.
According to Hitler’s tax file his annual income amounted to 1.2 million Deutschmarks during the first year of his rise to power alone. ibid.
Hitler’s tax file was closed. ibid.
The main Krupp factory donated almost five million Marks to Hitler over the course of the war. ibid.
The Fuhrer handed out estates and titles. ibid.
Hitler’s once immense fortune – the man of the people, the great servant of Germany – was a tax evader and handler of stolen art. ibid.
Maria Reiter was sixteen; her brother-in-law only just saved her from suicide when Hitler spurned her. Geli Raubal was Hitler’s niece: she was only twenty-three when she killed herself in Hitler’s apartment. Unity Mitford was the English aristocrat infatuated with Hitler who shot herself when she was twenty-five. Nazi Secrets: Hitler’s Damned Women
A host of women who fell under Hitler’s often fatal attractions. ibid.
Hitler was shy and impotent among women. ibid.
Charlotte [Lobjoie] fell pregnant in June 1917 ... He [son] was convinced he was Adolf Hitler’s son. ibid.
Hitler also attracted older respected women of Bavarian high society. ibid.
Winifred Wagner was a British-born German nationalist. She was married to Richard Wagner’s son, Siegfried. After he passed away, Hitler proposed marriage. A calculated move. ibid.
Hitler’s most important benefactor was Helena Bechstein. ibid.
Legions of female fans across Germany. ibid.
Eva Braun was a laboratory assistant for Hitler’s personal photographer. ibid.
Eva Braun had already tried to kill herself once ... Their love was doomed to fail. ibid.
Hitler’s Nazi cult was built on the myth of racial purity. Family background was critical. The Fuhrer’s followers had to prove they came from solid German stock. But while others were excluded and eventually murdered because of their family backgrounds, the Fuhrer’s ancestors were a mystery. Nazi Secrets: Hitler’s Family Skeletons
Hitler’s half-brother Alois was a bigamist; his sister Paula was engaged to a mass-murderer; his niece took her own life; a distant cousin was murdered by his own henchmen; one nephew was sacrificed on the savage Eastern front; another declared war on him. By Nazi standards, Hitler’s family tree had suspect roots ... The product of a dubious dysfunctional background. ibid.
There were cases of insanity in the family. ibid.
Rumours circulated that Hitler had Jewish blood. ibid.
The name Hitler was popular among the Jewish population in one part of Poland. ibid.
It definitely was a positive thing. Why otherwise did the masses follow this man? Why? There must have been a reason. That’s the way it was – a lot of things got better. Erna Kranz, Munich resident
It would be a tragic thing for the world if Hitler were overthrown. Hitler is the right and logical leader of the German people. He is a great man. Duke of Windsor, interview Liberty magazine editor
Hitler saw Duke of Windsor as ‘no enemy’ US files reveal. Guardian on-line headline 25th January 2003
The greatest vengeance on a world he despises. Dr Walter C Langer, The Mind of Adolf Hitler
The most likely possibility is that he will commit suicide. ibid.
What lay behind this facade? In 1943 at the height of the war the American Secret Service tried to get inside the mind of the Fuhrer. They ordered a team of Harvard psychologists to put together a top-secret profile of Hitler to try and work out what he might do next ... What they discovered was shocking: a disturbing cocktail of abuse, obsession and sexual perversion. A Psychological Analysis of Adolph Hitler: His Life and Legend by Walter C Langer, Office of Strategic Studies, Washington DC. Timewatch: Inside the Mind of Adolf Hitler, BBC 2005
He [Langer and team] tracked down the Hitler doctor in New York: Herr Bloch. And he was Jewish. ibid.
For Hitler his mother’s grave became something of a shrine. ibid.