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- [Narrator] What sort
of woman falls in love
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with a murderous dictator?
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Adolf Hitler's private
relationships with women
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were a ferociously guarded secret.
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He wanted the world to see him as a man
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of high moral character,
a perfect gentleman.
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In reality, he was anything but.
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- He doesn't want a woman
who will threaten him,
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who will challenge him.
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A best woman for a man is a young woman
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that you can mold and shape.
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- [Narrator] The greatest
loves of Hitler's life
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were so corroded and diminished by him
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that they saw only one way out.
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- He patently had a very, very potent,
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traumatizing and almost
desolating effect on
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women to cause them to
try and kill himself.
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- [Narrator] His beloved
niece turned lover,
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shot herself with his pistol.
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- He's controlling her as much
as he controls anything else
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and she's starting to see
aspects of him that are,
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to her, frankly horrifying.
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- [Narrator] A German film star lover fell
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from a hospital balcony.
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- It's my belief that she
was pushed outta the window
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and didn't jump.
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- [Narrator] And Nazi insiders
gave jaw dropping accounts
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of how and why these women died.
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Revealing Hitler as a
controlling sexual psychopath.
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- Undoubtedly, something very,
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very traumatic was being
done to her at that time.
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- [Narrator] Was suicide
their only way out?
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- I think it's simply a
case of the terrible power
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that he had over them and the realization
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that they could never escape it.
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- [Narrator] In April, 1889
inside a tiny apartment
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above a brewery in a
small Austrian village,
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Klara Hitler gave birth to Adolf Hitler.
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After bearing three
children who died young,
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Klara poured all her
affections into her young son.
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He was the light of her life.
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To young Adolf, his mother was a saint
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and his father, a monster
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Hitler's father, Alois, was
a heavy drinker and violent.
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- His father was a pretty
angry guy and would take
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that anger out on Adolf
and on his brother,
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he would take that out physically
by beating them with some
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kind of a whip or an object.
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And it apparently took
place on a daily basis.
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- [Narrator] Klara would
hear her boys' screams.
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And when the beatings were over,
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Adolf would run to his mother
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and they formed a secret alliance.
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- Hitler's relationship with
his mother was extremely close.
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It would seem that a mother
who's lost three children
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and then has a child who survives is bound
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to be extremely devoted to the child.
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His mother would line up to
protect Adolf from his father.
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- [Narrator] For Klara,
this extremely close bond
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with her son may have helped Adolf deal
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with his father's cruelty,
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but there are those that
claim this attention
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by Adolf Hitler's mother
would war his view
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of female intimacy and would play out
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in his distorted sexual
relationships with women.
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- If you're virtually an only child
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with a completely devoted mother,
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you really do believe you're
the center of the universe.
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Hitler was the greatest
narcissist in history.
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A narcissist is somebody
totally self-obsessed.
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Everybody around them either
has to make them feel better
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or be punished for not doing that.
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- [Narrator] The teenage
Hitler was already showing
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the first signs of a dark and dangerous
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obsession with women.
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When he was 16 and living in Linz,
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Hitler was very taken
with a well to do blonde
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music student, Stefanie Isak.
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She was a little older than Hitler,
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tall, elegant, and Jewish.
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Hitler's childhood friend, August Kubizek,
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claims he saw firsthand
Hitler's infatuation.
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Stefanie would walk with her
mother in the early evening
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and every day Hitler would
wait on the street corner
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to watch her pass by.
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Because they hadn't been
formally introduced,
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Hitler could only look.
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He would never actually speak to her.
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From the first time he
saw her Hitler could
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not take his eyes off Stefanie.
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- The relationship with the
woman that he did follow around
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for four years but as
a very distant figure
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and never daring to make
any contact with her
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fits in with a number of features.
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Firstly, at that stage, he
was completely socially inept.
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He just didn't know how to
deal with people at any stage.
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- [Narrator] He was deeply
fixated on the young woman
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and according to Kubizek,
would become enraged
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at the male attention she attracted
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particularly from young
Austrian army officers.
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- Hitler was a person of extremes,
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so he either loved totally
or he hated totally.
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So you can see that
this devotion from afar
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would drive him round following her,
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but never daring to break
the spell by approaching her.
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- [Narrator] When Stefanie didn't respond
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to Hitler's brooding intense stares,
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his rage led him to hatch a deadly plan.
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He told his friend Kubizek that
he wanted to kidnap Stefanie
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and marry her.
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After thinking it through and realizing
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he couldn't support her,
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he instead plotted to jump
off a bridge into the Danube
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with Stefanie in a horrifying
murder-suicide pact.
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- His threat, if this
relationship doesn't come to pass,
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had a couple of elements.
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The first one is of course
it was very operatic,
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and he was crazy about Wagner,
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but I really think it's
possibly the first indication
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we have of his deep and
pervasive obsession with death,
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and death comes as a part
of every act that he plans.
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And this is an absolute
recurring theme his life,
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particularly the idea of
if things don't work out,
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I will kill myself.
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The world must come to me, otherwise I go.
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- [Narrator] Although
Hitler didn't go through
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with his evil plan,
according to August Kubizek,
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in the four years Hitler
stalked Stefanie Izak,
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they never spoke a single word.
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But this obsession with love
and death gave a disturbing
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glimpse of the fate of other
women who came into his life.
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His stalking of Stefanie
Izak came to an end in 1907.
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In December, a few days before Christmas,
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his beloved mother Klara died of cancer.
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Hitler was bereft.
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He worshiped his mother
and they were very close
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and now she had abandoned him.
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In 1908 he moved from Linz to Vienna
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and struggled to survive.
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At one point, living in a men's shelter.
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He had ambitions to become an artist,
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but was rejected from art school twice.
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He scraped by selling postcards
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he'd painted of German landmarks.
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in 1915, having him been
rejected by the Austrian army
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on health grounds, he
joined the German army
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to fight against the western allies.
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At war's end lance corporal Adolf Hitler
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was devastated by Germany's loss.
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- There's no question there's
bitterness and there's anger.
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And he comes up with this
idea of the stab in the back.
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That is that Germany was not going to lose
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in the First World War,
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Germany was doing very
well in the First World War
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but for the fact that we were
stabbed in the back by Jews,
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by socialists, by this
undercurrent of people
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who do not have German interests at heart,
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even if they are Germans.
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- [Narrator] Hitler's hatred found a cause
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in the vicious antisemitism
of Germany's political right.
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He joined a small band of
disaffected German nationalists
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known as the Workers Party,
the future Nazi party.
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- I think there's a lot of
delusion going on there.
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And when you are working in
those radical right circles,
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you can talk publicly in racist terms
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and there's a lot of racist
literature and there's a lot
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of pseudoscience about
what the racists are.
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Hitler himself has consumed a lot of this.
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Among his earliest letters in 1919,
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he talks about the fact that
the first point of agenda
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for any German government needs to be
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get rid of the Jews altogether.
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- [Narrator] As Hitler
solidified his position
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in the Nazi party, he sought
out new maternal figures
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to replace his beloved mother.
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Like Winifred Wagner, the daughter-in-law
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of the famous composer Richard Vagner.
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Another influential older
woman in Hitler's life
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was the wealthy socialite
Helene Bechstein.
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She lavished Hitler with
love, attention and money.
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And once again, he became the adored son.
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- These are people who are
rich Munich society women,
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so they have two things.
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They had money and they
had influence in society.
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He needed influence and he needed money
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and he found it very easy to charm them.
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- [Narrator] Otto Strasser, a
former confidant of Hitler's,
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claimed Helene and Hitler
where abnormally close.
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She called him her little
wolf and stroked his head
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as he sat at her feet.
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Wolf was Hitler's pet name used
only by those close to him.
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- Helene Bechstein referred
to him as like a son,
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and he was frightfully
good at playing on that.
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I mean, that's what he'd been doing.
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He'd spent a lot of his
time being the beloved son
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of an adoring mother.
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And here he had this whole
group of women who were adoring
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this young man and they flattered him.
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And it sort of worked on that level
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of people flattering a
young man who was used
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to getting his way with his mother.
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- We can see a pattern in his life as he
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was advancing towards his leadership.
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He developed strong
relationships with older women
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like Bechstein and Wagner,
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and I think that fitted in
with the underlying pathology
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of never being able to let
go of his mother and needing
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maternal figures who weren't threatening,
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but we're cosseting and supporting him.
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- [Narrator] But there may also have been
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a more primal agenda at work.
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Hitler's bodyguard, Brunp Gesche,
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later claimed Helene Bechstein's
relationship with Wolf
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was more than maternal.
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In a 1974 interview, Gesche
claimed that in return
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for their patronage
Hitler poured on the charm
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thick like glue and the
rich ladies ate it all up.
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And that he may even
have had sex with Helene
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occasionally to keep the cash flowing.
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While Hitler was courting mother figures,
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he was also gaining rockstar
status with younger women.
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At Hitler's early rallies,
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female supporters were
given front row seats.
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Their adoration for Hitler
was plain for all to see.
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Hitler's love life was a hot
topic of much speculation
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and people were curious
why Hitler wasn't married.
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His answer was always "My
bride is my motherland."
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By 1923, Hitler was the undisputed
leader to the Nazi party
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and its growing popularity
gave Hitler confidence.
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Impatient with political posturing,
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he ordered his storm troopers
to ferment armed insurrection
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from a beer hall in Munich
and to seize power by force.
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- The Beer Hall Putsch was
a statement of intent rather
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than a desire to really seize
control in Southern Germany.
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It shows Hitler being the risk taker
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that he was always going to be.
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- [Narrator] His grand
plan was to seize control
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of Munich's state government,
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then march on Berlin and
overthrow the federal government.
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Hitlers plan failed.
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(light dramatic music)
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He was arrested and
sentenced to nine months
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in jail for treason.
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- Going to jail was something
that he was well aware
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could be the outcome of his endeavors
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to seize power locally.
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But he was willing to accept that.
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Time spent in prison would
give oxygen to his ideology
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and indeed it would be in prison
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that he would write "Mein Kampf"
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and further refine his political thinking.
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- [Narrator] After his
release from prison,
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Hitler returned to his
mountain top retreat,
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the Eagle's Nest in Berchtesgaden.
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It was here in this mountain village
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where he first saw Maria Reiter.
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Pretty blonde Maria was working
at her family's clothing
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store in Berchtesgaden when
she first met Adolf Hitler.
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She was a vulnerable
young woman as her mother
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had died just two weeks earlier.
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- Maria Reiter, later
known as Mimi Reiter,
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was a young woman who actually Hitler
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knew when she was about 16.
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He was obsessed with her.
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Hitler once wrote that the
ideal woman would be young,
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pretty and as pliable as wax.
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(light dramatic music)
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- [Narrator] After a
chance meeting in a park,
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Hitler was persistent in his
attentions and visited her
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several times in the store.
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Finally, against her
older sister's wishes,
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Maria agreed to accompany him
to a local Nazi party rally.
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She was 16 years old.
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Hitler was 37.
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- As a narcissist, he
would've liked very attractive
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young women that made him look better.
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So you've got this older man
who's becoming a high flyer.
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So he doesn't want a woman
who will threaten him,
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who will challenge him.
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- [Narrator] Watching him speak,
Mimi as Hitler called her,
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was captivated by his
oratory and his hypnotic
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effect on his audience.
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She felt he was speaking just to her.
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He just kept fixing his eyes on her.
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His stare was intense.
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She said she would never
forget how unsettled
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and exposed it made her feel.
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Afterwards, they shared an
intimate dinner for two.
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For young Mimi Reiter,
it was intoxicating.
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Hitler knew exactly what he
was doing when he turned his
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attention to a girl young
enough to be his own daughter.
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- Hitler didn't make firm relationships
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with the women at his own age,
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and I think that was
for a number of reasons.
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Firstly, he was very socially inept.
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The second issue is he was threatened,
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and I think that this
plays into deeper issues.
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If you have somebody your own age,
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you are supposed to have a relationship,
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you're supposed to
expose yourself to them,
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and that really threatened him.
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- [Narrator] Over the course of 1926,
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Hitler would often visit Mimi
when he was at Berchtesgaden.
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On one visit, he picked her
up in his car and insisted
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that she go for a walk with
him alone in the nearby forest.
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According to Mimi, it was here
they had their first kiss.
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She said Hitler was forceful
and pressed her tightly.
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Three months after her 17th birthday,
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Hitler and Maria had
sex for the first time
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in his Munich apartment.
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She was besotted.
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In the coming days,
Hitler returned to Munich.
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They wrote to each other and Mimi kept all
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their correspondence that
detailed their affair.
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Hitler wrote how ardently he desired her
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as if it were the first time.
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But the letters stopped coming.
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Once he had shaped her
into his devoted slave,
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Hitler had quickly tired of
her and Maria was distraught.
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She couldn't bear the
thought of life without him.
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She took a clothes line,
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tied it around her neck
and tried to hang herself.
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But her brother found her in time.
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Maria Reiter's suicide attempt had failed.
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- He patently had a very,
very potent, traumatizing,
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and almost desolating effect on women
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to cause them to try and kill themselves.
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And nothing we know about
Maria Reiter suggests
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that she had any kind
of suicidal tendencies.
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- I think he was fundamentally
a destructive character.
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I think at his core,
there was an emptiness.
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He was not capable of loving.
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He was a man who needed to possess
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and a man who cared
little about other people.
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- [Narrator] But one young woman,
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perhaps the only woman
he really did care about,
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was his niece Geli Raubal.
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Like Maria Reiter, Geli was just 16
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when she came into contact
with the rising political star.
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And like Maria, Geli would
be at first flattered,
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then utterly consumed by
the suffocating attentions
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of her uncle turned lover.
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Unlike Maria, for Geli
there would be no escape.
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She was under Hitler's guardianship
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and completely controlled
by his all seeing eye.
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As infatuation turned to
obsession and ultimately
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to self destruction.
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Most historians believe Geli
was the only deep love affair
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of Hitler's life, and that
when she died, age just 23,
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something broke within him.
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- Geli Raubal was without any doubt,
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the most important woman in
Hitler's life after his mother.
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She was his half niece,
daughter of his half sister,
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and she came to Munich at the
age of 17 to lodge with him.
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She was, we know, extrovert.
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She wanted to be on stage.
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She wanted to be an opera singer.
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So she was the kind of
person that loved to perform.
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She was in her element amongst young men.
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She wanted a proper boyfriend.
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She was fun.
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If you look at the photos of her
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she's got a laughter spilling out of her.
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She must have thought
I'm going to the big city
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and life is gonna be a ball.
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(light dramatic music)
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- [Narrator] But once Geli moved in,
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Hitler became obsessed with her.
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A former close friend of Hitler's,
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Ernst Hanfstaengl, claimed
she cast a spell over Hitler.
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He called her an empty headed little slut
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with no brains or character.
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Saying she never gave any
impression of reciprocating
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Hitler's twisted tenderness.
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- What came into my mind was what's called
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the Lolita Syndrome, and
you only have to look
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at the fictional character.
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Lolita was flirtatious, she was seductive,
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she was not promiscuous, but she certainly
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had an awareness of her sexuality.
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Now we know Geli was promiscuous
and she was not exactly
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a deep thinker, she just was a fun girl.
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So she slides into this relationship.
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Her Uncle Wolf, who's
a big man in Germany,
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going places is very impressive.
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- [Narrator] Uncle Wolf and
17-year-old Geli rode horses
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through the mountains,
visited cafes and cinemas.
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Wherever he went, she
was always at his side.
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As a family member, it
was the perfect cover
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for a more intimate relationship.
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In 1929, Hitler purchased a nine bedroom
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luxury apartment in Munich.
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He moved Geli into a separate
bedroom adjoining his.
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- To begin with, presumably
Geli saw Hitler as a benevolent
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patriarch of the family who
was going to look after her
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and maybe enable her.
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But as she must rapidly have
realized it was not gonna be
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that kind of relationship.
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It was going to be intensely controlling.
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And the rows about where she went,
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who she saw, were not what she dreamed of.
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- [Narrator] Hitler wanted to control Geli
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and was crazy with jealousy
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when she went out with other men.
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As their relationship developed,
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it seems there were echoes of
his obsession with Stefanie
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all those years earlier.
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He wanted Geli all to himself and kept
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a very close eye on her.
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- We know that he became
infatuated with her.
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She was much younger than him,
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significantly younger than him,
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and she wanted to go out
and she started an affair
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with his chauffeur, who was her boyfriend,
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and Hitler was outraged at this, furious,
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and balled her out with terrible argument.
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- And then slowly it starts sinking in.
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He's controlling her as much
as he controls anything else.
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This is totally what she didn't want.
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And she's starting to see aspects of him
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that are, to her, frankly horrifying.
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- [Narrator] The most disturbing account
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of Hitler's relationship with Geli
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came from his own inner circle.
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Geli confided in Otto Strasser,
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a one time Nazi insider who
had been close to Hitler.
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Years later, under oath,
Strasser was interrogated by
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the U.S. Office of Strategic Services
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where he revealed
intimate details of Hitler
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and Geli's sexual relationship.
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Strasser said Geli revealed
in a tearful conversation
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that Hitler loved her,
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but she couldn't stand it anymore.
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She was repulsed by what
he wanted her to do.
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Hitler made her undress
and stand over him naked
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and then urinate on him to
give him sexual pleasure.
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She said everything about Hitler's demands
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was extremely disgusting to her.
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(man speaks foreign language)
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If Uncle Alfie, as Geli called him,
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was debasing his young
niece in such a way,
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then this had the potential to destroy
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Hitler's relentless rise to power.
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On the 19th of September, 1931,
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Geli Raubal was found dead in her bedroom
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in Hitler's apartment.
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A lethal bullet lodged in her chest
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and Hitler's pistol by her side.
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Hitler and Geli had been in
a relationship for six years.
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Why did Hitler's 23-year-old niece die?
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- Undoubtedly, something
very, very traumatic
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was being done to her at that time
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and the enormous conflict that
she must have felt between
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responding to Hitler as a dutiful niece
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and what he was asking her to do led her
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to this incredibly dark place.
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- If you took Geli as she
was before Hitler, you'd say,
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this is not a person who commits suicide.
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She's a superficial, good time fun girl.
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She bounces around without any problem.
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And I think that tells
you how desperate a state
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she'd got into then.
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The realization, at some level,
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he will not let me get away.
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- She was obviously at
the vortex of terrible
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and conflicting emotions
that made her feel
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there was no way out.
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- [Narrator] In the following days,
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questions and rumors swirled
around the scandalous death
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over Hitler's niece.
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Newspapers reported that
the day before Geli's death,
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she had argued with her uncle.
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Geli wanted to go to Vienna,
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where she intended to become engaged.
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A furious Hitler stormed
out of his apartment.
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Journalists wrote that Geli's body
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was only meters from Hitler's bedroom.
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Her nose bone was shattered,
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and there was evidence of
other serious injuries.
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Speculation was rife that Hitler
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may have murdered his niece.
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He claimed it was all lies and attempted
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to refute all the claims.
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It seems astonishing that he
felt he needed to go to those
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lengths to try and stop
the rumors flying around.
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It begs the question:
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Did Hitler have something to hide?
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Certainly, investigative journalist
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Fritz Gerlich thought so.
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He believed Hitler murdered Geli
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and continued to pursue the story.
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In March, 1933, just as
Gerlich was about to publish
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00:31:32,190 --> 00:31:37,190
an expose, he was beaten up,
his manuscripts destroyed,
505
00:31:37,410 --> 00:31:38,733
and he was arrested.
506
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:43,470
Gerlich was executed at the
Dachau concentration camp
507
00:31:43,470 --> 00:31:45,633
in July, 1934.
508
00:31:47,820 --> 00:31:51,720
The scandal that had the
potential to ruin Hitler
509
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:56,720
was no more, but to those closest
to the seat of Nazi power,
510
00:31:57,390 --> 00:32:01,953
Geli's death had exposed
Hitler's disturbed sexual psyche.
511
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:07,620
- I think it's simply a
case of the terrible power
512
00:32:07,620 --> 00:32:11,220
that he had over them and the realization
513
00:32:11,220 --> 00:32:13,800
that they could never escape it.
514
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,530
And that's typified by the story of Geli.
515
00:32:16,530 --> 00:32:18,600
She started complaining to everybody.
516
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:21,990
He won't let me do this,
he won't let me do that.
517
00:32:21,990 --> 00:32:25,173
And I think she just saw no way out.
518
00:32:30,188 --> 00:32:32,220
(light dramatic music)
519
00:32:32,220 --> 00:32:35,190
- [Narrator] The year
after Geli Raubal died,
520
00:32:35,190 --> 00:32:37,713
Hitler began courting a new lover,
521
00:32:38,820 --> 00:32:41,973
a woman who could match
his powerful status.
522
00:32:43,980 --> 00:32:47,100
26-year-old Renate Muller was
523
00:32:47,100 --> 00:32:50,100
a much admired actress and singer,
524
00:32:50,100 --> 00:32:52,263
one of the most famous of her day.
525
00:32:55,170 --> 00:33:00,170
The Nazi party saw her as the
embodiment of aryan ideals,
526
00:33:00,870 --> 00:33:03,270
and Goebbels was keen for her to appear
527
00:33:03,270 --> 00:33:05,073
in his propaganda films.
528
00:33:06,180 --> 00:33:08,820
- Renate Muller was one of
many actresses actually,
529
00:33:08,820 --> 00:33:12,510
who were invited back
to the Reich Chancellery
530
00:33:12,510 --> 00:33:15,720
for an intimate dinner with Hitler.
531
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:18,090
He did that a couple of
times with other women
532
00:33:18,090 --> 00:33:22,980
and he loved actresses, he
was interested in actresses.
533
00:33:22,980 --> 00:33:27,980
And she was a gossipy
actress who regaled people
534
00:33:29,790 --> 00:33:32,640
after this particular dinner with
535
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:34,293
what had passed between them.
536
00:33:37,590 --> 00:33:40,860
- [Narrator] Her friend,
producer Alfred Zeisler,
537
00:33:40,860 --> 00:33:44,280
claimed Renate told him
an unsettling story of
538
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:47,133
Hitler's behavior behind closed doors.
539
00:33:48,420 --> 00:33:53,420
And once again, they point to
a man whose sexual preferences
540
00:33:53,490 --> 00:33:55,443
were way out of the ordinary.
541
00:33:57,420 --> 00:34:01,350
Muller related to Zeisler
how on one particular night
542
00:34:01,350 --> 00:34:05,640
in Hitler's room, he
demanded they both undress
543
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:06,933
and lie on the floor.
544
00:34:09,690 --> 00:34:13,800
Hitler then begged Muller to
kick him, which she refused,
545
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:17,793
but he was so persistent
that she eventually agreed.
546
00:34:19,500 --> 00:34:23,850
She kicked and beat him,
verbally abusing him
547
00:34:23,850 --> 00:34:26,612
while he declared himself her slave.
548
00:34:27,510 --> 00:34:29,672
Hitler then masturbated.
549
00:34:33,179 --> 00:34:36,780
Muller told Zeisler that
once this violent encounter
550
00:34:36,780 --> 00:34:40,230
with Hitler was over,
they put on their clothes,
551
00:34:40,230 --> 00:34:41,763
sat down and chatted.
552
00:34:43,889 --> 00:34:47,699
At the end of the
evening, Hitler stood up,
553
00:34:47,699 --> 00:34:52,320
kissed her hand and thanked
Muller for a pleasant evening
554
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:55,172
as though nothing out of the
ordinary had taken place.
555
00:34:57,150 --> 00:34:59,550
- The rumors about Hitler engaging
556
00:34:59,550 --> 00:35:04,550
in extreme sadomasochistic
practices fits perfectly
557
00:35:05,190 --> 00:35:06,810
in with his personality.
558
00:35:06,810 --> 00:35:10,260
He internalized everything
that he didn't like,
559
00:35:10,260 --> 00:35:12,360
that the losses in his life.
560
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:16,830
And he sadistically projected
his rage out on everybody.
561
00:35:16,830 --> 00:35:21,240
And it's quite feasible that
somebody like that would have
562
00:35:21,240 --> 00:35:23,073
these kind of sexual practices.
563
00:35:24,177 --> 00:35:27,300
- She might just have
been a chatty actress
564
00:35:27,300 --> 00:35:30,600
who liked to kind of
play up the excitements
565
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:32,220
of an evening with Hitler,
566
00:35:32,220 --> 00:35:35,130
or she might have been telling
the truth about these very
567
00:35:35,130 --> 00:35:38,760
unusual perversions that
she suggested took place.
568
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:43,760
The gossip that Renate Muller
was alleged to have spread,
569
00:35:44,700 --> 00:35:49,560
it was that he was a coprophiliac and that
570
00:35:49,560 --> 00:35:54,560
he enjoyed other debasing
sexual activities.
571
00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:02,163
- Inside the masochist,
outside the sadist.
572
00:36:05,190 --> 00:36:07,980
- [Narrator] It appears
it may not have been wise
573
00:36:07,980 --> 00:36:11,283
to talk about what went
on behind closed doors.
574
00:36:12,810 --> 00:36:15,390
The Gestapo had Renate Muller
575
00:36:15,390 --> 00:36:17,763
under round the clock surveillance.
576
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:25,040
In 1937, she sought
treatments in a sanitarium
577
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:29,790
and asked to see Hitler, but he refused.
578
00:36:29,790 --> 00:36:34,113
It seems this was to be
one of her last requests.
579
00:36:37,380 --> 00:36:41,940
From an upstairs window, Renate
Muller saw four SS officers
580
00:36:41,940 --> 00:36:43,563
approach the sanatorium.
581
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:49,563
Shortly after she fell her death.
582
00:36:52,350 --> 00:36:55,860
- Renate had a terrible end
in that she was being treated
583
00:36:55,860 --> 00:37:00,390
as in a clinic for quotes, depression,
584
00:37:00,390 --> 00:37:02,490
and fell out of a window.
585
00:37:02,490 --> 00:37:07,110
But falling out of a window was
a way that very many enemies
586
00:37:07,110 --> 00:37:08,820
of the regime met their end.
587
00:37:08,820 --> 00:37:12,450
It wasn't an unusual way actually,
588
00:37:12,450 --> 00:37:15,000
to be murdered in the Third Reich.
589
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,190
It's my belief that she
was pushed outta the window
590
00:37:17,190 --> 00:37:18,060
and didn't jump.
591
00:37:18,060 --> 00:37:23,060
She had caused embarrassment
and the things that
592
00:37:23,100 --> 00:37:25,620
she was alleged to have said
593
00:37:25,620 --> 00:37:28,320
she had embarrassing and scandalous.
594
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:32,883
So I think that was why she met her end.
595
00:37:34,950 --> 00:37:38,730
- [Narrator] Renate Muller
was just one more casualty
596
00:37:38,730 --> 00:37:41,463
in the intimate life of Adolf Hitler.
597
00:37:48,450 --> 00:37:53,250
Of all the tragic stories of
the women in Hitler's life,
598
00:37:53,250 --> 00:37:56,313
the most enduring was that of Eva Braun.
599
00:38:00,060 --> 00:38:04,440
Hitler first met Eva in October, 1929,
600
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:07,623
when Geli Raubal was living
in his Munich apartment.
601
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:12,780
Despite his relationship with Geli,
602
00:38:12,780 --> 00:38:16,263
Hitler became obsessed with
another much younger woman.
603
00:38:18,270 --> 00:38:23,270
- Eva Braun was a young,
pretty blonde assistant
604
00:38:24,810 --> 00:38:28,950
at the photographic studio of
Heinrich Hoffman in Munich.
605
00:38:28,950 --> 00:38:33,150
And she was up a ladder
at the back of his shop
606
00:38:33,150 --> 00:38:35,460
one day when Hitler came in.
607
00:38:35,460 --> 00:38:38,130
And he walked in and he
saw this pair of legs,
608
00:38:38,130 --> 00:38:41,070
which belonged to a 17 year old girl,
609
00:38:41,070 --> 00:38:43,173
and he asked her to the opera.
610
00:38:44,674 --> 00:38:48,450
- [Narrator] Hitler introduced
himself as Herr Wolf,
611
00:38:48,450 --> 00:38:50,703
not revealing his true identity.
612
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:57,213
Like Renate Muller, Eva
initially rejected Hitler.
613
00:38:59,490 --> 00:39:01,290
At their first meeting,
614
00:39:01,290 --> 00:39:04,860
she wasn't at all interested
in the old man paying her
615
00:39:04,860 --> 00:39:08,223
compliments and devouring
her with his eyes.
616
00:39:10,770 --> 00:39:14,310
She refused the offer of
a lift in his Mercedes,
617
00:39:14,310 --> 00:39:17,067
worried what her father's
reaction would be..
618
00:39:19,500 --> 00:39:24,500
But Hitler persisted, and
Eva, like those before her,
619
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:29,553
fell for Adolf Hitler and fell hard.
620
00:39:33,270 --> 00:39:37,590
In 1935, when she was just 23 years old,
621
00:39:37,590 --> 00:39:41,340
Eva wrote in her diary
that she was the mistress
622
00:39:41,340 --> 00:39:44,463
of the greatest man in
Germany and the world.
623
00:39:45,540 --> 00:39:49,050
But very few people knew she existed.
624
00:39:49,050 --> 00:39:50,940
Hitler kept their relationship
625
00:39:50,940 --> 00:39:54,963
a closely guarded secret from
all but his inner circle.
626
00:39:55,980 --> 00:39:58,170
- Eva was the hidden girlfriend.
627
00:39:58,170 --> 00:40:01,110
It was important to
Hitler that nobody knew
628
00:40:01,110 --> 00:40:05,467
that he had a relationship
because he had always said,
629
00:40:05,467 --> 00:40:07,530
"I must be married to Germany."
630
00:40:07,530 --> 00:40:09,690
It would've been, he believed,
631
00:40:09,690 --> 00:40:12,990
kind of death to his public
persona if he were to marry.
632
00:40:12,990 --> 00:40:16,020
And you have to remember,
this was somebody who actually
633
00:40:16,020 --> 00:40:18,540
received more fan mail
than all the Beatles
634
00:40:18,540 --> 00:40:20,250
and the Rolling Stone combined.
635
00:40:20,250 --> 00:40:23,550
Wherever Hitler went, he
was surrounded by women
636
00:40:23,550 --> 00:40:25,260
like throwing themselves at him.
637
00:40:25,260 --> 00:40:28,110
You know, sometimes they'd
jump in front of his car
638
00:40:28,110 --> 00:40:30,450
and take their blouses off and things.
639
00:40:30,450 --> 00:40:33,450
So he thought it would be a bad move
640
00:40:33,450 --> 00:40:36,360
should he be seen to be coupled up.
641
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:38,850
So consequently, Eva was kept very,
642
00:40:38,850 --> 00:40:42,600
very much under wraps and this
didn't accord with her view
643
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:46,110
of what a normal relationship should be.
644
00:40:46,110 --> 00:40:50,280
- [Narrator] Like Geli, Eva
Braun's diary entries indicate
645
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:52,650
the traumatic effect Hitler was having
646
00:40:52,650 --> 00:40:54,183
on her state of mind.
647
00:40:56,010 --> 00:40:58,590
She wrote she was miserable and wished
648
00:40:58,590 --> 00:41:00,363
she'd never set eyes on him.
649
00:41:01,597 --> 00:41:02,730
- A couple of times, apparently,
650
00:41:02,730 --> 00:41:04,950
that she was with other
people in the inner circle
651
00:41:04,950 --> 00:41:06,660
and he would walk by, walk up to her,
652
00:41:06,660 --> 00:41:09,090
give her an envelope
of money and then walk
653
00:41:09,090 --> 00:41:11,340
by without saying a word.
654
00:41:11,340 --> 00:41:12,540
And that happened more than once.
655
00:41:12,540 --> 00:41:16,053
And she cringed with humiliation at this.
656
00:41:17,580 --> 00:41:19,590
- Very early on in their relationship
657
00:41:19,590 --> 00:41:24,060
she would write that Hitler
would take her out to dinner
658
00:41:24,060 --> 00:41:26,220
and he wouldn't talk to her all evening.
659
00:41:26,220 --> 00:41:27,570
And then at the end of the evening,
660
00:41:27,570 --> 00:41:30,240
he would slip her an envelope of money
661
00:41:30,240 --> 00:41:35,240
and she went away feeling
dirty like prostitute.
662
00:41:35,460 --> 00:41:39,513
And she hated the way
that he made her feel.
663
00:41:41,190 --> 00:41:43,950
- [Narrator] One shocking
entry in her diary
664
00:41:43,950 --> 00:41:47,583
indicated how fragile
was Eva's state of mind.
665
00:41:48,570 --> 00:41:51,840
She planned to take 35 pills,
666
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:54,603
which she was sure would
be enough to kill her.
667
00:41:55,860 --> 00:42:00,860
- Eva had attempted suicide
twice in the early years.
668
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:05,040
And in a sense, he was then trapped,
669
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:08,310
because after Geli, if he had a partner
670
00:42:08,310 --> 00:42:13,083
who killed themselves again,
his public image would be shot.
671
00:42:14,100 --> 00:42:17,910
- She first attempted
suicide very early on
672
00:42:17,910 --> 00:42:19,230
in their relationship.
673
00:42:19,230 --> 00:42:22,410
She shot herself with a
pistol, not very well,
674
00:42:22,410 --> 00:42:24,870
and it was a kind of cry for help.
675
00:42:24,870 --> 00:42:26,460
She tried to commit suicide again,
676
00:42:26,460 --> 00:42:29,610
this time with Phanodorm,
the sleeping pills.
677
00:42:29,610 --> 00:42:34,610
Her suicide attempts did actually
win her a bit of reprieve
678
00:42:34,830 --> 00:42:36,630
in that they took her closer to Hitler
679
00:42:36,630 --> 00:42:38,820
because of the potential scandal.
680
00:42:38,820 --> 00:42:42,360
But I think she must have
realized as time went on that this
681
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:45,090
happy idea that they were one
day gonna live together and be
682
00:42:45,090 --> 00:42:48,633
a family was never going
to never going to pan out.
683
00:42:51,005 --> 00:42:53,593
- [Narrator] Like Geli
and Mimi before her,
684
00:42:53,593 --> 00:42:56,940
a young woman's relationship with Hitler
685
00:42:56,940 --> 00:43:00,123
led her to take desperate
and tragic measures.
686
00:43:02,730 --> 00:43:05,880
There has been much speculation about Eva
687
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:08,610
and Hitler's sexual relationship,
688
00:43:08,610 --> 00:43:11,280
and it seems that things
weren't satisfactory
689
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:12,813
in that department either.
690
00:43:14,220 --> 00:43:16,380
According to Hitler's physician,
691
00:43:16,380 --> 00:43:21,380
Dr. Theodor Morell, Braun
became so sexually frustrated
692
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:24,480
she asked him to give
Hitler hormone injections
693
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:26,283
to increase his libido.
694
00:43:28,830 --> 00:43:30,750
- Albert Speer was very fond of Eva,
695
00:43:30,750 --> 00:43:34,260
and one evening he came
across her in tears
696
00:43:34,260 --> 00:43:35,640
and asked what was wrong.
697
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:38,370
And she said, well,
Hitler has told me to go
698
00:43:38,370 --> 00:43:41,490
and find someone else because he said
699
00:43:41,490 --> 00:43:43,620
that he could no longer fulfill me.
700
00:43:43,620 --> 00:43:45,990
Which Speer interpreted
is that he was no longer
701
00:43:45,990 --> 00:43:48,273
able to fulfill her sexually.
702
00:43:50,615 --> 00:43:55,260
- [Narrator] In April,
1945, Eva Braun moved into
703
00:43:55,260 --> 00:43:58,380
the Fuhrerbunker under
the Reich's Chancellory
704
00:43:58,380 --> 00:43:59,373
to be with Hitler.
705
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:04,020
As the end neared, he told everyone
706
00:44:04,020 --> 00:44:06,813
they should leave, including Eva.
707
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:11,850
- When the news came through
that they had to surrender.
708
00:44:11,850 --> 00:44:14,077
Hitler said to the women around him,
709
00:44:14,077 --> 00:44:16,020
"You must leave, you must go."
710
00:44:16,020 --> 00:44:19,807
At which point Eva went
up to him and she says,
711
00:44:19,807 --> 00:44:21,360
"You know I'm not going to leave you.
712
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:23,010
Why do you ask me?"
713
00:44:23,010 --> 00:44:24,270
And at this point,
714
00:44:24,270 --> 00:44:27,240
Hitler went across to
her and did something
715
00:44:27,240 --> 00:44:29,220
that nobody had ever seen before
716
00:44:29,220 --> 00:44:31,023
and he kissed her on the mouth.
717
00:44:33,660 --> 00:44:36,150
- [Narrator] In the dying days of the war,
718
00:44:36,150 --> 00:44:39,933
Eva Braun finally achieved
her life's ambition;
719
00:44:40,860 --> 00:44:43,773
to become the wife of Germany's fuhrer.
720
00:44:46,140 --> 00:44:47,793
In the underground bunker,
721
00:44:49,020 --> 00:44:51,663
Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun married.
722
00:44:52,830 --> 00:44:57,150
- What Hitler did in marrying
Eva right at the end,
723
00:44:57,150 --> 00:45:00,600
it's a way of saying
you've served me loyally,
724
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:02,283
and here is your reward.
725
00:45:03,300 --> 00:45:07,830
So yet again, he's failed to
see the person in front of them
726
00:45:07,830 --> 00:45:09,333
and to understand them.
727
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:12,630
And of course it's what
she had always craved.
728
00:45:12,630 --> 00:45:17,130
And she decided to tell
herself that it was great.
729
00:45:17,130 --> 00:45:21,540
So it was a kind of
death wish, but in a way,
730
00:45:21,540 --> 00:45:24,453
her entire relationship with
Hitler had been a death wish.
731
00:45:26,580 --> 00:45:31,580
- [Narrator] 36 hours later,
on April the 30th, 1945,
732
00:45:31,830 --> 00:45:35,010
the newly weds sat
together on a small couch
733
00:45:35,010 --> 00:45:36,690
in the Fuhrerbunker,
734
00:45:36,690 --> 00:45:39,153
beneath the bombed out
Reich's Chancellery.
735
00:45:41,490 --> 00:45:44,110
They both swallowed a capsule of cyanide
736
00:45:45,060 --> 00:45:48,540
and Hitler also shot himself in the head,
737
00:45:48,540 --> 00:45:50,073
just to be certain.
738
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:57,603
Eva Braun became the last of
Adolf Hitler's women to die.
739
00:45:59,940 --> 00:46:03,240
- What you make of the
suicide of Eva Braun,
740
00:46:03,240 --> 00:46:07,590
I think it had a lot to
do with her obsession
741
00:46:07,590 --> 00:46:12,180
about being recognized
as the fuhrer's wife.
742
00:46:12,180 --> 00:46:14,850
Remember he said he was married to Germany
743
00:46:14,850 --> 00:46:16,890
and could never have a wife.
744
00:46:16,890 --> 00:46:20,490
And she was so determined
to kind of trump that.
745
00:46:20,490 --> 00:46:23,220
She just couldn't see any life for herself
746
00:46:23,220 --> 00:46:24,780
away from Hitler.
747
00:46:24,780 --> 00:46:26,190
So what else do you do?
748
00:46:26,190 --> 00:46:28,050
You join him in the bunker,
749
00:46:28,050 --> 00:46:31,920
you have a marriage for one
day, and you kill herself.
750
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:33,720
(dramatic music)
751
00:46:33,720 --> 00:46:35,850
- [Narrator] It's hard to say what part
752
00:46:35,850 --> 00:46:40,170
Hitler's romantic attentions
and sexual perversions played
753
00:46:40,170 --> 00:46:44,820
in compelling these young
women to take their own lives.
754
00:46:44,820 --> 00:46:48,840
But we can say that Hitler's
narcissistic controlling
755
00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:53,550
personality almost certainly
played a significant part.
756
00:46:53,550 --> 00:46:58,550
- I think that any woman coming
into the picture would start
757
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:03,560
to pick up the sheer horror
of what he represents.
758
00:47:03,630 --> 00:47:06,960
And I think that's what
pushes them along that line.
759
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:09,150
I mean, Hitler was not
a guy that you could
760
00:47:09,150 --> 00:47:12,780
write a Dear John letter to
and go on with your life.
761
00:47:12,780 --> 00:47:15,120
They simply could not escape.
762
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:20,120
Every relationship with Hitler
was characterized by despair,
763
00:47:21,030 --> 00:47:23,746
leading to attempted suicide.
764
00:47:23,746 --> 00:47:25,800
(Adolf speaking foreign language)
765
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:29,160
- I would say that almost
all the relationships
766
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:32,550
that Hitler had with women
were abusive and coercive ones.
767
00:47:32,550 --> 00:47:37,550
He had a very kind of potent
depressing effect on people.
768
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:41,910
When this big, powerful,
destructive figure enters
769
00:47:41,910 --> 00:47:44,523
their universe and takes it over,
770
00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:46,560
there isn't any way out.
771
00:47:47,763 --> 00:47:51,013
(light dramatic music)
772
00:47:54,019 --> 00:47:56,602
(eerie music)
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