Long thread: interesting excerpts from With Hitler to the End—firsthand account by Hitler's valet
Führer's obsession with time
Hitler against marriage—"he gave me a lecture on the destructive influence of women on great men"
Himmler's idea to introduce a system of knighthoods for the SS
Mussolini is shocked upon finding out SS-men don't attend church
Hitler's idea for a hybrid mine-torpedo
Against Franco
Hitler made fun of Göring's obsession with uniforms by giving him a cardboard medal to wear on his nightshirt
Hitler believed a French girl had borne him a son in 1918
Hitler loved bowling, but didn't want it be know about—"If the bowling associations get wind of it, he said, they will make me honorary president of every club"
On Göring
On Goebbels
On Himmler
On Hess
Speer on the National Socialist architecture
Hitler the Architect
On positive Eugenics
Hitler knew about Final Solution—"for him it was clear that the ends justified the means"
Churchill sabotaged both the idea of a strong European bloc led by Germany and the British Empire
Against the Cigarette Nationalism—"Tobacco was 'the brown man's revenge' on the white man"
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