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'Last year top-secret war files were released to the Public Record Office'

'Called the Sexologist's Stories,...

They give a tantalising glimpse of how a clandestine government department

used sexual smears against top Nazis'

'While His Majesty's pornographers undermined German morale, through so-called black propaganda,..

..the Americans investigated the sex life of Adolf Hitler.'

'This film tells the story of the Allies' sex files on the Nazis.'

BIG BEN CHIMES

"This is London calling."

'Throughout the war, all over Nazi Germany and occupied Europe,...

..people risked punishment by tuning in to the BBC's Foreign Service.'

"London calling. At the beginning.."

..and were known in Whitehall as white propaganda.'

'But other British radio stations...

..transmitted programmes based on innuendo, lies and smears.'

'This was black propaganda.'

Black propaganda was so awkward, so nasty, so sly,...

the Government didn't want any part in it. Wouldn't admit any part in it

When you think about the dulcet tones of the BBC...

..and the... and "This is Britain calling"...

..it was a... it was a bombshell.

'In 1943, Molly Izzard joined a covert government department called the Political Warfare Executive.'

'She was posted to a secret location in the country, 45 miles from London'

'It was a mystery to the locals. A total mystery.'

There was a big compound,...

and you were hidden from the village

'It now looks very dilapidated.'

We were told in no uncertain manner

..never to say anything about what we did or where we did it...

The brigadier told me if I divulged anything, I'd go to prison for years

'The Political Warfare Executive was an offshoot of the top-secret Special Operations Executive.'

'Both organisations had secret agents operating behind enemy lines.'

'While the SOE's job was sabotage, the PWE's role was subversion.'

Its brief was to destabilise any area under enemy control.

And to produce revolutions among the subject peoples...

..and complete loss of faith in the Nazi hierarchy on the part of the Germans themselves.

'The PWE used a variety of techniques to disseminate its black propaganda.'

"Achtung, hier Gustav Siegfried Eins."

'Gustav Siegfried Eins was one of its most imaginative creations -

..a covert radio station purporting to come from inside the Third Reich.'

'In fact, its headquarters were here in the Rookery,...

a private house in the Hertfordshire village of Aspley Guise.'

'The first programme hit the airwaves on May 23rd 1941...

..and focused on a remarkable event that had taken place that month.'

"David McLean saw Rudolph Hess come down in the darkness by parachute."

"But let him tell you his story."

I captured Rudolph Hess.

'When Rudolph Hess landed in Scotland on an ill-judged peace mission...

..the black propagandists at the PWE went on the air for the first time.'

"Es spricht der Chef.'

'A character calling himself Der Chef

..began ranting and raving about Hess, the traitor.'

"As soon as he learns a little about the darker side that lies ahead,...

..what happens ? He loses his head completely and flies off...

..to throw himself and us on the mercy of that flat-footed bastard of a drunken old Jew, Churchill."

We would refer to Churchill as this drunken nigger.

And the king was referred to as that stuttering fool on the throne.

The things that you wouldn't... wouldn't expect for a moment...

..would sound as though it was coming from Britain.

This made people think it was genuinely coming from Germany.

'Der Chef purported to be a Nazi,...

..who thought Hitler and his cohorts had gone soft.'

'He claimed to be broadcasting from a secret radio station somewhere inside the Third Reich.'

..the head of the German Section of the PWE.'

Delmer had the bright idea of just simply having dirty stuff on the air

And that would be soon talked about and people would think of ways...

The pornographic material was not aimed at the officer class. That was aimed at ordinary soldiers,

..who it was thought had an ordinary man's interest in sex...

..and an ordinary man's capacity

But this was not meant for officers.

in the minds of the frontline troops'

'The PWE would weave stories of incompetence in with the bawdy tales about the Nazi commanding officers.'

Pornography was intended to make sure they got listeners...

..to take in what was being said.

It was mostly stories, either about the private life of high command,...

..quite often based on fact,...

..or stories of what foreign workers in Germany were doing...

..to the wives and girlfriends of soldiers at the front.

'None of the PWE's pornographic broadcasts survive,...

..but the files at the Public Record Office contain draft scripts...

for the black propaganda broadcasts.'

'The Sexologist's Stories are a list of the rumoured sexual peccadillos of Nazi Party dignitaries.'

'They use information from agents...

"Bockmann is a depraved homosexual."

"His particular favourite, Fritz, dresses as a woman."

"Tienemann is a flagellant."

"He breaks a couple of canes across his maid's back."

"Oberleutnant Schmidt is a homo...

..who indulges in the most fantastic orgies."

'Some of the material was, as noted in the files, "improved".'

'But much had good factual basis.'

..would read the German papers and wire over any stories or details

..that might be weaved into the black broadcasts to give them authenticity'

'It was important to add verisimilitude.'

You wanted to know what the man's nickname was.

And you used that and showed you really did know.

And if you're purporting to be broadcasting from inside Germany,...

..then it's essential to get these things right.

So, accurate information, which you would then distort.

'One PWE target was Munich party boss

'Files from July 1942 read...'

"There was a large roulette wheel on which a naked girl was strapped."

"Weber, drunk as usual, was croupier and set the table in motion."

"The gentleman opposite the girl when the wheel stops then obliges."

'Der Chef's broadcasts were so authentic they fooled the Americans.'

'In 1941 the US embassy in Berlin reported to Washington...

..that there was an illegal radio station using obscene language.'

"It is violently patriotic and is supposed by many German officers...

..to be supported by the Wehrmacht in secret."

BIG BEN CHIMES

'In London the Government was split over the use of obscenity.'

'One minister wanted to lose the war

..rather than win it by using the methods employed by Sefton Delmer.'

'They thought it was not British.'

They didn't want to be contaminated. Better to have nothing to do with it

If Delmer wants this foul stuff, let him have it,...

..but we don't want to have anything to do with it.

'The prudes did not prevail. This was war with the gloves off.'

'The PWE was ordered to expand.'

'In 1942, at the height of the battle for the Atlantic,...

..the Admirality asked for a station to attack the U-boat crews' morale.'

'The PWE created Radio Atlantic Sender, which had a highly successful way of attracting an audience.'

# JAZZ MUSIC

'It played jazz, which had been banned by the Nazis as decadent.'

Down in a U-boat, you're fiddling with the wavebands...

..and if you picked up some decent jazz, you'd listen to it.

That would attract an audience.

'They would then mix in with this some political and sexual propaganda

..inferring that the high command of the U-boats wasn't any good.'

"Albrecht is 61 and keeps Jute Freber. Owing to his age he is mainly a voyeur."

"Jute picks up a bunch of really sex-starved U-boatmen."

"After a hearty meal, the boys are allowed to mount her one by one."

'The most successful PWE station by far was Soldaten Sender Calais,...

..which broadcast to German troops occupying Northern France.'

'Lance Corporal Alfons Schulz was a regular listener.'

..because it used the language of the soldiers.

It addressed the soldiers. It played the music we wanted to hear.

It broadcast in a language appropriate to the soldiers.

It was familiar with their songs, it was aware of their concerns.

It touched the right spot. The vulnerable spot in them all.

'As the Minister of Labour he ran the Third Reich's war machine.'

"Ley is generally known to be a whoring old drunk."

"He recently picked up a tart from La Baule, called Giselle."

'The PWE mounted an attack on Ley.'

'They broadcast an entirely unsubstantiated rumour...

..that he received luxury rations, while he urged the German people to go without.'

'One woman was sentenced to six months in prison for repeating this.'

'And Ley was forced into making a public denial.'

'The broadcasts were reinforced by a leaflet, dropped all over Germany.'

'It was produced by a special unit at the PWE, responsible for printed black propaganda.'

'Marion Whitehorn was 21 when she began working as a PWE artist.'

'We sniggered sometimes at the silly things we had to do.'

But we did it and hoped whatever we did do would be successful.

If we hadn't had our hearts in it, we would have made a bad job of it.

'By the end of the war, Marion's unit had designed thousands of leaflets...

..and had millions of them printed.'

'Their work was distributed through the Third Reich by ingenious means.'

'Many of the leaflets were smuggled into Europe by secret agents.'

'Another novel method used time-delayed drops from balloons.'

'The leaflets were aimed at frontline troops and used authentic typeface...

..to give the impression they were produced by German resistance groups'

'This was one of a series demanding "How much longer ?"'

'Faking resistance material was one of Marion's specialities.'

And the word "scheisse" means shit and these two things are Ss.

And they also represent the SS.

And it's gummed at the back and these were sent out by the million.

The spies took them and stuck them on to whatever...

..and the backs of people and goodness knows where it all went.

'As in the radio broadcasts, they weren't bashful about using sex.'

'Several explicitly pornographic leaflets were produced.'

'Despite their efforts to sanitise history, some rare examples escaped.'

'Playing on the racial prejudice imbued in ordinary Germans,...

..a slogan on this leaflet reads...

.."Dear Fatherland, you can rest assured,...

'Thousands were distributed among German troops.'

'Another pornographic leaflet was planned for the printing presses...

..at the highest level of the PWE.'

I was asked to go to a meeting...

..and I went there and I was ushered into a sort of boardroom.

There were lots of men

'The postcard was a picture of Adolf Hitler wearing lederhosen -

traditional Bavarian leather shorts.'

"You, Marion, will impose a penis on this card."

And I looked what it was

Hitler with his hands folded over his trousers.

And the caption was "What we have we hold."

"You're going to impose a penis on there - but not too big."

'Marion's artwork has been lost,...

..but a similar example survived the war.'

'This PWE version enjoyed a very limited print run.'

'The top brass put a stop to it.'

'Such tactics, they believed, were simply not British.'

'The Americans had no such compunctions.'

'In 1943, they undertook a top-secret report into Hitler's sex life.'

'Its conclusions made the PWE's salacious gossip about Nazi bigwigs..

..look like a children's bedtime story.'

"It hasn't been long since Roosevelt announced that American troops would be sent to the British Isles."

'When the Americans arrived in ration-weary Britain, they had everything they needed and more.'

"Oranges I said. Remember oranges ?"

'But the Americans lacked one thing - a secret intelligence service.'

'So Roosevelt ordered a maverick hero from WWI, General "Wild Bill" Donovan

..to set up the Office of Strategic Services.'

'Betty McIntosh was one of the new secret agency's first recruits.'

When Donovan set up the OSS he was counting on British help.

We all know the British were into this sort of work...

..since Queen Elizabeth's time.

'With help from the PWE, the OSS set up its own black propaganda unit -

..the Morale Operations Department.'

The Morale Operations were charged with doing any activity...

..outside traditional military activity.

To upset the enemy, weaken its will to resist.

And we had black propaganda of all types, as you can imagine.

..on behalf of the OSS during World War Two.

'The Morale Operations Department didn't shy away from targeting Adolf Hitler himself.'

what made the Fuhrer tick.'

If we could only find out what made Hitler act the way he did,

..we could then get to him through many ways.

Through psychological warfare, through people trying to kill him.

But this would be the basis for what we could work from.

'At the time Dr Walter Langer was one of Harvard's leading psychoanalysts.'

'In 1943, "Wild Bill" Donovan asked him to use his Freudian training...

..to understand the workings of Hitler's mind.'

'Walter Langer was a very reclusive, introspective personality.'

I found him unusual and extremely professorial.

'In April 1943, Langer recruited a team of researchers to help him.'

'Donovan had given him just four months to complete his report.'

'They relied on two basic sources of information.'

'Firstly, the shelves of the New York Library,...

..where they consumed every written word about the Fuhrer.'

'But Langer wanted more than just books for his analysis.'

'The FBI scoured America for anyone who'd known the Fuhrer.'

'They found dozens of witnesses, including emigres, refugees

'The interviews provided Langer's most controversial evidence.'

It was a top-secret undertaking.

They drew on any number of sources,

..but it was very closely guarded and very secretive.

'Langer's source material and final report consists of 269 entries...

..and runs to over 1,100 pages.'

'An intricate index of Hitler's every personality trait was constructed.'

'His affection for animals sits next to his anti-Semitism.'

'His love of dumplings next to his Messiah complex.'

'As a Freudian psychoanalyst, Langer believed Hitler's sexual behaviour...

would give clues to his personality.'

There was a lot of gossip in those days concerning his unusual sexual personality.

And that was a very large aspect of the study.

Not all, by far, but large.

Because, as is well known, sex plays an important role

So the report could have been used for blackmail ?

It could've been used for blackmail,

'But the evidence Langer gathered was far from consistent.'

'Some witnesses said the Fuhrer

'The index includes the names of women associated with Hitler.'

'On the list are several young girls'

"He liked a girl's first seduction."

"Henny was 14 when Hitler seduced her into sexual play with him."

'Langer's view of Hitler's sexuality

..was shaped by the allegations of a group of key witnesses.'

'He had made movies in Germany in the early '30s.'

'Zeissler told Langer how Hitler asked him to send actresses over to the chancellery.'

'Hitler would entertain them with stories of medieval torture methods.'

'According to Zeissler, film actress Renate Muller became a favourite.'

# It's a hard life, such a hard life

# But I keep on keeping on Never crying... #

'Renate was desperate to have an affair with him.'

'On one occasion he's reported to have shown her...

..how he could keep his right arm in a Nazi salute for hours on end.'

'Sometimes his behaviour was stranger still.'

'We have reconstructed what he wrote using his own words.'

Zeissler found Muller depressed. She said the night before had gone wrong

She'd been sure Hitler was going to have intercourse. They'd undressed.

But he begged her to kick him.

He pleaded with her and grovelled in an agonising manner.

She finally acceded to his wishes.

He became more excited and as a final climax masturbated before her.

He then thanked her for a pleasant evening.

'The most important by far was a Nazi defector, Ernst Hanfstaengl.'

'The 1934 Nazi Who's Who lists the highest-ranking members of the party'

'Hanfstaengl is listed as Hitler's Foreign Press Secretary.'

'Rich, urbane, sophisticated, he charmed the foreign press.'

'But his chief role had been that of Hitler's entertainer.'

Very important always was his piano playing...

..with which he at times actually resuscitated Hitler...

..and infused fresh energy into him.

'Hanfstaengl had been a personal confidant of Hitler's for a decade.'

'But after a power struggle with Goebbels, he fell from grace.'

'In 1937, he fled Germany in fear for his life.'

'Hanfstaengl offered his services to Allied intelligence.'

'He ended up hiding at a plantation house in Bush Hill, Virginia.'

'The Americans thought his knowledge of Hitler was unique outside Germany'

'They codenamed his debriefing the S project.'

The activity of my father in the S project...

..was what might be subsumed under the heading of psychological warfare

He wrote profiles of all the leading figures of the Third Reich...

..to give a sort of key to the Americans and the Allies...

..as to what these people could do and were likely to do.

'In Spring 1943, Dr Langer secured a visit to the Bush Hill safe house..

..and talked to the Nazi defector.'

'Afterwards he recorded what Hanfstaengl had told him.'

His favourite phrase is "If you go to a woman, don't forget your whip." Hitler always carried a riding whip.

The most serious affair was with his niece, Geli Raubal.

It was assumed Hitler was using Geli in an abnormal sexual way.

He probably beat her with his whip, deriving sadistic pleasure from it.

'Allegations about Hitler and his niece, Geli Raubal,...

..were to feature prominently in Langer's final analysis.'

'Since the war, historians have tried to separate fact from fiction.'

'Angela was known as Geli. The daughter of Adolf's half-sister,

..she spent her childhood in the small town of Peilstein in Austria.'

TRANSLATOR: 'Geli was simply unique.'

Mid-blonde she was and she had a broad face.

She was very beautiful and very friendly. So friendly.

She was a nice girl. Yes, very nice.

'Geli was very physical. The embodiment of the Nazi ideal woman.'

'Geli loved outdoor pursuits...

'She'd take her clothes off and go for a swim.'

We'd say "Geli, it's very cold" and she'd say "I don't mind" and jump in and swim across the whole lake.

'By 1928, Geli's mother was Hitler's housekeeper just outside Munich.'

'Her 20-year-old daughter went with her and enrolled as a medical student at Munich's university.'

'The relationship between uncle and niece grew increasingly warm.'

She was relaxed, easy-going.

She could tease him. Few people

..who was soon on his dignity. But, with Geli, they'd both laugh.

'And despite the age gap, which was nearly 20 years, they just got on.'

They could relax with each other and the relationship started like that.

'While with her uncle, Geli fell in love with his driver, Emile Maurice.'

'When Hitler found out, he made Geli break off the relationship.'

'Dr Anna Maria Sigmund has seen the letter.'

She writes "Dear Emile, I love you,

..but my uncle says we are far too young and I should resume my studies

..and we shouldn't see each other, only in his company."

And then she writes "Can you imagine this ? I can't kiss you any longer."

"And Uncle A will be always with us"

'She was only seen from that time on in the company of her uncle.'

They went everywhere together. To the theatre, to concerts, every day to the restaurant.

'With Hitler's encouragement Geli gave up studying medicine and embarked on a singing career.'

# ..meine Welt und sonst gar nichts#

'In May 1943, Walter Langer interviewed another Nazi defector.'

'Like Hanfstaengl, Otto Strasser had fallen foul of the Nazi regime.'

'He'd fled Germany in 1933.'

'Strasser told Langer that by 1931, Hitler's infatuation with Geli had become obsessional.'

'She could not meet young people.'

Hitler would make her undress and he would lie down on the floor.

Then she would have to squat over his face where he would examine her and this would excite him.

The whole performance was extremely disgusting to her.

'According to Langer, the testimony of other witnesses confirmed...

..that Hitler's relationship with Geli was far from normal.'

'Ernst Hanfstaengl told Langer

'Hanfstaengl had heard about it from the then Nazi Party treasurer.'

He had had to buy someone off who had been trying to blackmail Hitler.

The man had found a folio of pornographic drawings by Hitler.

They were intimate sketches of Geli Raubal with every anatomical detail.

'But if the allegations about his sexual perversions were sensational,

other testimony was to accuse him of killing the only woman he ever loved'

'Munich -

'Hidden away in the state archives is a thin booklet -

..the suicide register for 1931.'

'In that year 334 citizens of Munich

..shot, hanged, poisoned or drowned themselves.'

'Suicide number 193 is Hitler's niece, Angela Raubal.'

'Geli met her death in the luxury flat...

..where she and Hitler had been living together for two years.'

'On 18th September, after an argument about a trip Geli planned to Vienna,

Hitler left Munich for a party rally'

'Geli went into her room and locked the door.'

'She wrote to a friend about an impending visit.'

'In the morning, the housekeeper couldn't wake Geli.'

'She asked her husband to force the door.'

'Geli's body was lying on the floor. Hitler's pistol lay on the sofa.'

She fell forward, crushed her nose and suffocated...

..and had a horrible, slow and most painful death.

'Hitler immediately drove back to Munich and gave a statement to the detective investigating the case.'

'The police report still exists.'

"He said it was easy to take the pistol as she knew where he kept it"

"Her demise upset him since she was the only close relative he had...

and now this had to happen to him."

..had nothing more to say than "It is really a thing... This has happened to me."

He thought of his political career..

..and what his political enemies would make of this affair.

'It happened at a bad time. The Nazi Party was on the brink of power.'

CHEERING

..der eins mit den Verantwortlichen an diesen Opfern ein unerbittliches Gericht zu halten !

'The party was the second biggest in Bavaria, but was under intense fire from the opposition press.'

'Throughout the summer of 1931,...

..they'd splashed stories of sleaze at the party HQ.'

'Homosexual scandals vied for space with lurid details of whoring amongst the Nazi hierarchy.'

'Geli's death was further ammunition for the anti-Nazi press.'

TRANSLATOR: The rumours started immediately...

..because it was, of course, a very atypical situation.

That a niece, 20 years younger, should be living at her uncle's,...

..the leader of an important party.

And a little bit strange, with boots and a whip and a leather coat and also his political views.

And she kills herself with his gun.

Well, you can imagine that the rumours would quickly boil over.

'After Geli's death, senior party officials had raced to the scene...

'Fear of a singing engagement had driven Geli to suicide.'

'But despite the best efforts of the Nazi propaganda machine, press speculation ran wild.'

'According to the Munich Post, there was clear evidence of foul play.'

"The nose bone was shattered and the corpse evidenced other injuries."

It was claimed Hitler had killed her in a fight, that she was pregnant,..

'Hitler went on the offensive.'

'He forced the Munich Post to carry a retraction of the allegations.'

'But the rumours were to resurface years later.'

'In 1943, during the course of his investigation, Langer's key witness

Hanfstaengl believes Hitler murdered Geli to stop her seeing other men.

Hanfstaengl says his main source for this information is Gregor Strasser,

present when Geli's body was found.

He adds Strasser was killed because he knew the truth about Geli's death

'There's no historical evidence to link Strasser's death with Geli's.'

'Strasser was killed in a power struggle between Nazi factions...

..in what came to be known as the Night Of The Long Knives.'

'Nevertheless, the debate about whether Hitler was involved in Geli's death still continues.'

This is guesswork, but I think it's almost certain that she was killed..

..either with his consent...

..or on his orders or by him.

She had to be squeezed out and she had to be silenced...

..because he had made various perverted sadistic demands on her...

She talked to other people about it,

..which meant she was a danger to the Nazi Party.

'It was clear from the doctors that she killed herself - it was suicide'

We can only guess what happened at that time.

That she was unhappy, that she was restrained,...

..that she didn't take up a career,

..and so she was really desperate and ended her life.

'Amazingly, Geli was not the Fuhrer's only suicidal lover.'

'18-year-old Mimi Reiter, Hitler's first acknowledged girlfriend, tried to hang herself in 1927.'

'Film star Renate Muller jumped to her death from a Berlin clinic.'

'And two women intimate with the Fuhrer made attempts on their lives.'

'Last but not least, Eva Braun,...

..Hitler's most famous mistress, made two suicide attempts in the 1930s.'

'Both were hushed up in Nazi Germany,

..but during his investigation Walter Langer heard about them.'

Eva Braun, his present female companion,...

..has twice attempted suicide.

Geli was either murdered or committed suicide.

Rather an unusual record for a man who's had so few affairs with women.

'The home movies Eva Braun shot during the war are an enduring image of her relationship with Hitler.'

..it was a relationship deliberately hidden from the world.'

'As a member of the Fuhrer's staff,..

..Herbert Doehring was one of the few people to observe their affair.'

TRANSLATOR: From what I observed,...

..Eva Braun was not happy with her relationship with Hitler.

'Walter Langer wrote that Hitler's affair with Eva was not exclusive,...

..noting "He has also seen a good deal of two movie actresses."'

'One was Leni Riefenstahl.'

'But Riefenstahl denies any physical relationship and has said that Hitler wasn't her type.'

'While the Fuhrer hosted glamorous receptions Eva was kept out of sight'

'Actors, theatre people, singers, they'd all be invited for dinner.'

'He liked to surround himself with beautiful women. He appreciated it.'

Eva Braun became terribly angry.

She'd ring and the servants said "We can't connect you, he's with guests"

She would get angry because she was alone and he was with these people.

'In 1932 Eva Braun attempted suicide'

'She took her father's gun and shot herself over the heart.'

'Hitler visited her in hospital and spoke to the medical staff.'

He did ask "Did she want to kill herself ? Was it not pretended ?"

And when the doctors told him it was a serious effort,...

..well, then he liked it very much.

'For a while Hitler seemed more attentive, but it didn't last.'

"I am mortally unhappy. As I haven't permission to write to him, this book must record my lamentations."

'Fragments of Eva's diary still exist for a short period of 1935.'

'Certain passages give a hint of their sexual relationship.'

"He needs me for certain purposes. It can't be otherwise."

'She's reported to have complained to a friend "I've had absolutely nothing from him as a man."'

'On 28th May 1935, Eva tried to kill herself again.'

'Her diary entry is blunt.'

"I'll take 35 pills. That will make him see."

'She was discovered just in time.'

'Unable to face another scandal, Hitler set her up in secret.'

'Hitler bought her many things including high-powered automobiles...

..and a house in the country.'

'Langer completed his top-secret report in late summer 1943.'

'It had taken him just four months.'

'On the basis of the evidence and his experience as a psychoanalyst,...

An extreme form of masochism where he derives sexual gratification...

..from having a woman urinate or defecate upon him.

'From Langer's Freudian view, this was at the heart of Hitler's madness'

which his subconscious turned into an aggressive hatred of other nations.'

It was an extensive volume, seen by very few people -

..most particularly by the US President...

..and the British Prime Minister.

'Churchill found it fascinating...

..and Roosevelt personally congratulated Walter Langer.'

'But the war was changing. Rommel had been defeated in North Africa...

..and the German army had suffered major setbacks on the Eastern Front.'

'The Allies felt a military victory

'His psychological analysis of Hitler remained locked away in OSS files

'When it was declassified, a few historians accepted it as valid.'

'But most dismissed its findings.'

There is no historical evidence whatever for perversions of any kind

They usually can be traced back to his political enemies.

I agree you have to distrust the people who had been Nazis...

..and who had turned against Nazism and were willing to oblige the people who were asking questions

..by producing evidence that one must suspect,...

I'm a historian, I'm not a psychiatrist,...

..but it seems that his private life was... quite normal.

There were no sensations whatever.

Stories about sadism, masochism, unsavoury sexual practices,...

..not all these stories can be untrue, particularly when you get witnesses telling the same story.

'Whether or not Walter Langer's more sensational conclusions are true,...

..he did show remarkable psychological insight in one respect'

'His report considers how the war might end for the Fuhrer...

..and suggests a range of possibilities.'

'Hitler may die of natural causes.'

'The German military might revolt and sieze him.'

'He may be assassinated or go insane'

'But at the end of the list he made a startling prediction.'

Hitler might commit suicide. This is the most plausible outcome.

He has threatened to commit suicide and from what we know of his psychology, it is a possibility.

It would not be a simple suicide. He has much too much of the dramatic

Since mortality is one of his dominant motives, he would stage a dramatic and effective death scene.

'Walter Langer wrote those prophetic words nearly two years...

..before Hitler and Eva Braun killed each other in a dramatic suicide pact

..as Germany collapsed around them.'

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