For Langer’s team, Hitler’s infatuation with his mother, and his loathing for his father was a perfect fit for Freud’s famous Oedipus Complex. ibid.
Syphilophobia. ibid.
Hitler’s mother’s obsessive cleanliness was significant for Langer. It indicated that the toilet-training phase of Hitler’s childhood may have gone wrong. ibid.
He [Langer] was most interested in Hitler’s relationship with his niece, Geli Raubal. There was speculation in the Hitler literature that he was more than just an uncle to the teenager. He couldn’t talk to Geli because she had committed suicide in 1930, apparently following a row with Hitler. ibid.
Langer believed that Hitler found a way to deal with the terrible psychological consequences of his perversion by adapting a political ideology which was a prevalent and powerful part of mainstream culture – Anti-Semitism. ibid.
This is what Freud called the Messiah Complex. ibid.
He [Hitler] became more reclusive, just as Langer predicted. ibid.
Langer was convinced that the conflict would culminate with the complete destruction of Germany. There would be no surrender, no peace negotiations. ibid.
25 years later Hitler revisited the battlefields of the First World War ... How much truth is there in the version he gave of his early life? Timewatch: The Making of Adolf Hitler
What of Hitler’s sexuality? ibid.
The truth is that Hitler was a dispatch runner, carrying orders to the front line. Though the job was highly dangerous, he never mentioned in Mein Kampf that this was how he spent most of the War. ibid.
To his fellow soldiers Hitler was known as something of an eccentric ... His lack of interest in women. ibid.
‘People have difficulties with sexuality. They have fears, fears that were highly obvious in Hitler ... He compensated his inadequacy through politics.’ ibid. Dr Brigitte Hamann, historian
Recently there has been speculation that Hitler and Kubizek were homosexual. ibid.
The wounded self ... He described a very sadistic father. Dr Jerrold Post, psychological profiler
He developed this compensatory messianic self. Dr Jerrold Post
Hitler the messiah, Hitler the saviour ... He identified in fact with Christ ... Christ the Fighter who had to fight against the Jews from being destroyed. Dr Jerrold Post
My wife checked the sheets and there was no sign of sexual activity. None. Herbert Doring, administrator Hitler’s Berghof 1936-43
Hitler in very important ways represented much of German society, represented German values. He was leading a nationalist revolution ... Not to see him as some alien figure foisted on the German people. Professor Richard Overy, Kings College London
German women adored Hitler. Professor David Cesarani
Armed SA commandos stormed trade union buildings and arrested officials. Members and assets were absorbed into the German Labour Front. With no resistance and no general strike. Many Germans were satisfied. The end of the political parties did not worry them. And the National Socialists became the state party. Many people had been waiting for Hitler to come along. He fulfilled their desire for a strong man, someone at last who took drastic action, who cleaned up the quarrelling among the parties, someone who provided peace and order, someone who assumed responsibility. Hitler: A Profile I II III IV V VI, 1995
By the time the German Empire collapsed, the foundations for Hitler’s criminality were laid. But his career as a criminal began only with his entry into politics. ibid.
Contempt for democracy and humanity, glorification of war, nationalistic intolerance, hated of the Jews: in his book Hitler set out the full range of his obsessions and dark symbolism. That author reveals himself as a future mass murderer. ibid.
In March 1935 Hitler broke the Treaty of Versailles. He introduced universal conscription, and began building up an army of thirty-six divisions. ibid.
The Fuhrer Cult taken to excess. Twilight of the Idols in all its splendour. Where Madness rules, the Absurd is not far away. ibid.
Hitler’s rule also meant corruption, intrigue, the exercise of arbitrary power. ibid.
This cult worship is almost incomprehensible today. Were the Germans blind? ibid.
Hitler celebrated his fiftieth birthday with the greatest military parade Germany had ever seen. The birthday of an absolute ruler. For him, the people were merely an instrument bound to his own fate. ibid.
He is not thinking of peace. He has reached the pinnacle of his power and not yet achieved his final ambition. As long as Hitler had been in power he had wanted war but talked about peace. ibid.
He over-estimated himself and the strength of his Reich. ibid.
He only showed doubt in private. ibid.
He never visited the bombsites. ibid.
The final account: an ocean of blood and tears. ibid.
Ruler of the kingdom of death: he had people killed simply because he had ruled them enemies … that is what set Hitler apart as a criminal. ibid.
Hitler made murder an instrument of government policy. ibid.
Hitler made use of the fascist Jozef Tiso to precipitate the fall of Czechoslovakia. ibid.
At six in the morning German troops crossed the border reaching Prague the Czech capital three hours later. This was no longer a war of flowers. ibid.
That very day Hitler entered the city ... Neither England nor France mobilised. ‘I knew it!’ he said euphorically. ‘In two weeks no-one will even mention it.’ ibid.
In reality Hitler was a hypochondriac who for years had been hooked on an extraordinary cocktail of drugs. High Hitler, History 2004
Despite [Theodor] Morell’s unconventional methods Hitler fell under his spell. But Hitler’s stomach complaints were the least of the problems facing Morell. Nazi propaganda tried to maintain the myth of the invincible dictator. The truth was starkly different: Hitler was suffering from not one but several serious medical conditions that may have determined the outcome of the two most decisive battles of the Second World War. ibid.
In 1938 the King of Italy told his foreign minister that Hitler was being injected with narcotics and stimulants. ibid.
As the Allies closed in on Germany in 1944 and early 1945 Adolf Hitler was reduced to a physical wreak. A shuffling walk, pronounced stoop and above all tremors that made him seem weak and frail. ibid.
Throughout the Second World War the Fuhrer of Nazi Germany ... was a physical wreck ... [Theodore] Morell propped up the Fuhrer with a cocktail of addictive narcotics and bizarre home-made drugs. Hitler the Junkie, National Geographic 2015
Hitler took over seventy different medications during the Second World War. ibid.
On May 8th 1931 a sensational trial took place at the Berlin Central Criminal Court. The star witness was the leader of Germany’s fastest growing political movement. Two years before he came to power Hitler was summoned to Berlin by a young Jewish lawyer called Hans Litten, who forced him to account for the murderous violence of his followers in the city. Hans Litten vs Adolf Hitler: To Stop a Tyrant, BBC 2011
At stake in that Berlin courtroom was Hitler’s political future. ibid.
This was Weimar Berlin: into this city, into these lives, the Anti-Semites of the Nazi Party came in 1926. ibid.
Goebbel’s arrival in the capital would change the face of Berlin. ibid.
It was the men of Storm 33 who were destined to give the battle for Berlin a new twist of viciousness. ibid.
Storm 33’s assault on the Eden Dance Palace came at a critical time in the career of Adolf Hitler. ibid.
At the Eden Dance Palace trial Hans Litten showed Germany who Hitler really was. Afterwards it was no longer possible for an adult German to pretend that the Nazi Party was either a party of the law abiding middle classes or that it was a party of violent stormtroopers – it was clearly both. ibid.
In the following months his [Hitler] star continued to rise. ibid.
To stay in German as Hans Litten did now meant trying to exist without the protection of a constitution. ibid.
The Decree for the Protection of People and State as it was called allowed the Nazis to use the police to round up their chief political opponents. Hans Litten was one of them. ibid.