Long thread: interesting excerpts from With Hitler to the End—firsthand account by Hitler's valet
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Führer's obsession with time
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Hitler against marriage—"he gave me a lecture on the destructive influence of women on great men"
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Himmler's idea to introduce a system of knighthoods for the SS
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Mussolini is shocked upon finding out SS-men don't attend church
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Hitler's idea for a hybrid mine-torpedo
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Against Franco
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Hitler made fun of Göring's obsession with uniforms by giving him a cardboard medal to wear on his nightshirt
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Hitler believed a French girl had borne him a son in 1918
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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"
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On Göring
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On Goebbels
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On Himmler
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On Hess
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Speer on the National Socialist architecture
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Hitler the Architect
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On positive Eugenics
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Hitler knew about Final Solution—"for him it was clear that the ends justified the means"
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Churchill sabotaged both the idea of a strong European bloc led by Germany and the British Empire
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Against the Cigarette Nationalism—"Tobacco was 'the brown man's revenge' on the white man"
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Hitler was convinced that if Italy provided demonstration of readiness to fight in 1939, there would have been no declaration of war from Britain and France
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Linge claims Hitler independently came up with Manstein's plan
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Von Stauffenberg's assassination attempt
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"Hitler's predictions in most cases were the right ones, and his orders to the fronts, based on his own remarks, were frequently ignored or sabotaged"