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- Hitler: Inside Hitler
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--Hitler Portrait
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- June 22, 1942
- Inside Hitler
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> To future biographers of Adolf Hitler, Frederick C.
- Oechsner, longtime (twelve years) United Press Central European
- manager just home from internment, offered a juicy sheaf of
- notes. Items:
- </p>
- <p>-- Hitler has had his fat nose streamlined by a plastic
- surgeon. He has had himself painted with a halo around his brow.
- For the benefit of posterity he has had his head measured by
- scientists, who prepared a 130-page report; he has willed that
- after death his brain shall be dissected.
- </p>
- <p>-- On his first ascent to his glassy Eagle's Nest above
- Berchtesgaden, Hitler got stuck in the elevator for four hours.
- </p>
- <p>-- One of Hitler's favorites was his longtime chauffeur, the
- late Julius ("Pistol") Schreck, who sometimes concealed as many
- as seven guns about his person. In 1937 one of Hitler's adjutants
- told Schreck, who had a swollen jaw from an abscessed tooth,
- that, looking as he did, he ought not to drive the Fuhrer.
- Schreck went to his garage, slashed at the abscess with a
- screwdriver, tried to extract the tooth with a pair of pliers,
- left for his drive with a raging fever, subsequently died of
- infection. Hitler wept openly at his death.
- </p>
- <p>-- A doctor close to Hitler has observed in him strong
- homosexual traits. He likes phallic conversations. He wants only
- male animals around him; he has a distaste for mares and bitches.
- </p>
- <p>-- In recent years, however, he has shown an increasing, if
- spare-time, interest in women. He has enjoyed nude dancing
- exhibitions. He had a platonic admiration for the sightly young
- English aristocrat, Unity Freeman-Mitford, as the "perfect
- example of Nordic beauty." The bullet wound with which she
- returned to England after the outbreak of war was self-inflicted.
- </p>
- <p>-- Shortly after he came to power, Hitler met healthy,
- olive-skinned Eva Braun, 20 years his junior, assistant to his
- official photographer, Heinrich Hoffman. For several years she
- was Hitler's mistress, with her own apartments in Berlin's Reich
- Chancellery and at Berchtesgaden. Under her influence he shifted
- from nightshirts to pajamas. He gave her an engagement ring and
- bought a custom-built Mercedes intended as a wedding present. But
- war, not Eva Braun, claimed Adolf Hitler.
- </p>
- <p>-- Hitler has 100 uniforms and suits, 60 pairs of shoes, 35
- hats and caps.
- </p>
- <p>-- He likes to draw bizarre eight-legged animals, fantastic
- warships and submarines, exotic human heads.
- </p>
- <p>-- He has undoubtedly read most of the 7,000 military books
- in his library. He likes cheap fiction, often reads himself to
- sleep with typical Wild West stories by a German named Karl May,
- who has never been in the U.S. In a book on diet, Vegetarian
- Hitler penciled this marginal note: "Cows were meant to give
- milk, oxen for drawing loads."
- </p>
- <p>-- He is fascinated by astrology and spiritualism, has
- photographs of the stellar constellations at important moments of
- his life.
- </p>
- <p>-- In the middle of last winter, the desperate Russian
- winter, after years of confining himself to near-beer, Adolf
- Hitler took to drinking several hot grogs a night.
- </p>
-
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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