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The Private Life of Adolf Hitler Copyright 1949 Francis Aldor The Private Life of Adolf Hitler The Intimate Notes and Diary of EVA BRAUN Edited by PAUL TABORI ALDUS PUBLICATIONS LIMITED (FRANCIS ALDOR • PUBLISHER • LONDON) Printed in Great Britain by S. SIDDERS & SON, LIMITED, 115, SALUSBURY ROAD, LONDON, N.W.6 PUBLISHER'S PREFACE The Third Reich, as we know now, was built on a foundation of "bigger and better lies." Hitler, ignoring Lincoln's sound principles, tried to fool all the people all the time. No wonder that when the Nazi regime, which was intended to last a thousand years, crashed after twelve, the most contradictory tales emerged about the Nazi leaders, their crimes and their passions. Much of this material was deliberately manufactured by sensation-mongers; a good deal of it served political purposes. The testimony, the charges and details were so con­ fused that sometimes even genuine disclosures be­ came suspect, and were doubted by those who found themselves bewildered by contradictory evidence. There was another reason for this suspicion and bewilderment. The basic disease of Nazi Germany was moral insanity. Never before in world history, not even in the declining days of the Roman Empire, had such a gang of sadists, sexual perverts and mad­ men gained power over a large country. The Nazis had no moral inhibitions. Their crazy standards, their lunatic conception of good and evil, were so alien to normal men that even to-day we cannot quite believe the proofs of their depravity. This applies especially to Adolf Hitler. Except for the turgid and infamous "Mein Kampf," and his speeches, the late unlamented Fuehrer has left no record of his life and thoughts. Of his personal traits, preferences, aberrations and ideas we have gained scattered evidence from the works of Konrad Heiden, Hermann Rauschning and others. But of his private life, especially after he came to power, practically nothing reliable has emerged. This is the importance of the following work. As far as it is humanly possible, we have investigated the authenticity of Eva Braun's diary and—what­ ever degree of authenticity one may attribute to the proof of her authorship—we are convinced that here is a first-hand, detailed, shockingly frank account of Adolf Hitler's love life. It is necessarily fragmen­ tary and scattered over several years, but even so it gives a vivid picture of the man who unleashed the untold miseries of the second world war upon mankind. We owe the reader an explanation as to how this diary was preserved and its authenticity established. Luis Trenker is a well-known Austrian writer, film-director and film-star who has done the Allies valuable service during the war. Starting as a mountain guide and skier, he graduated to writing books and filmscripts and became one of the favour­ ite outdoor stars of German and Austrian films. Because of this he had many contacts with leading Nazis—whom he despised but, for reasons of his undercover work, continued to frequent. He also met Eva Braun—how and under what circumstances you will read in the first part of this book—and in the winter of 1944/45 spent some days at the same hotel in Kitzbühel, the famous Austrian skiing re­ sort, where the Fuehrer's mistress was staying. During these days Eva Braun handed him a sealed package, requesting him to keep it for her. In the autumn of 1945 Trenker moved to Bozen. There, going through his possessions, he came upon the sealed package again which was marked with the initials "E.B." As he knew that Eva Braun had died with Hitler in the Reich Chancellery on April 30, 1945, he took this package in December, 1945, still sealed, to a public notary in Bozen/Bolzano and opened it in his presence. They found a pile of loose pages in typescript, bearing no handwriting, and no identifying mark. But it soon became evi­ dent that these were the irregular jottings of a wo­ man who was Adolf Hitler's mistress; and further reading revealed that they must have been written by Eva Braun. Luis Trenker put the material at our disposal. He also provided some data for the first part of this book which deals with the other women in Hitler's life, and tries to solve the sexual riddle which he represented. In this first part we collected all the material available from first-hand sources, incor­ porating the testimonies of Trenker, Heiden, Rausch­ ning and many others. The second part of the book contains Eva Braun's diary in literal transla­ tion, except for certain passages which, because of their obscenity, cannot be reproduced, together with some explanatory notes about the personalities and events to which she refers. We believe that this is a valuable contribution to the history of Nazi Germany and to the personal portrait of its Fuehrer, Adolf Hitler. FRANCIS ALDOR PART ONE THE WOMEN IN HITLER'S LIFE 1 PRACTICALLY all the books dealing with Adolf Hitler, from Konrad Heiden's great biography to Hermann Rauschning's Conversations contain a chapter about Hitler's relations to women. This is easy to under­ stand, for in this intimate sphere the character of any human being is disclosed with fewer inhibitions than in any other. But it applies especially to a man who was one of the greatest political mounte­ banks, wearing a thousand masks but never showing his real face. "In the fight for power it was due to the votes of women that Hitler succeeded at last," Heiden says. Rauschning maintains that "the Fuehrer was discovered by women; after the first world war, various ladies smoothed the path of the still young political adventurer." The wives of some great industrialists gave him money and, during the period of the disastrous German inflation, works of art, to finance his political schemes. It was in a circle of politically-minded women that the paid propagandist became a political prophet. "These women spoiled him, increased his self-importance by the praise and admiration which they advanced, so to speak, before he had achieved anything. The adoration of women, heightened almost into a pseudo-religious ecstasy, became for him an essen­ tial stimulation in order to overcome his innate lethargy." 9 This might well be true. But most of these women were elderly wives or spinsters who sat in the first row at all the meetings at which Hitler spoke, and who looked at him with their moist, admiring eyes as if he were a god. They hardly belong to the chapter of Hitler's sex life; at the most, they illustrate the role of eroticism in modern mass pro­ paganda. This evidence does not provide an answer to the question of whether the Fuehrer achieved any personal and private success with women. The official biographers of Hitler keep at a respectful distance from the delicate problem of sex; and even the anti-Nazi biographies only indulge in dark and mostly meaningless hints. They only agree on one point: that Hitler was not a homosex­ ual. Was he "normal"? We know to-day that he pretended to be a man without any private life— which was just as false and untrue as most things about him. More than one woman had committed suicide because of him. Konrad Heiden offers the theory that Hitler was neither homo—nor hetero­ sexual, but a "hörig," man, strongly bound or inhib­ ited in his sexual life. He is certainly right when he states that all his relations with women were "dark and mysterious." It is another question whether Heiden's further conclusions were right. "His affairs," continues Heiden, "all seem to break off at a certain stage, almost without exception, and in many cases it can be recognised that it is Hitler who was deserted and not the women whom he left. One of the women who was an intimate friend of his, declared, when asked about her relations with him, that she had experienced a disappointment which left her with little respect for Hitler as a man. Madame Tabouis, the French authoress and journalist, went even further. She declared that according to the personal experience of a lady whom 10

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Cheap personal assassination of the dead Adolf Hitler. Ham-fisted and hilarious self-parody in parts.
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