During the post-Valkyrie investigation Rommel’s name was said to have been mentioned during certain interrogations. ibid.
Hampshire County, September 2012: ‘My name is Edgar Feuschtwanger. I am 88 years old. I have lived here for quite a long time … I was born in Munich in 1924. I was a German Jew. And I lived right across the road from Hitler’s private flat.’ Hitler Was My Neighbour, History 2019
At the age of 40 Hitler was a comfortable man. He left the room he’d occupied in a lower-class neighbourhood ... [for] a luxurious nine-bedroom three-hundred-metre square apartment. ibid.
‘He [Hitler] was always underestimated.’ ibid. Edgar
Hitler had a thing for Munich … He made it the symbolic capital of Nazism. ibid.
He’s one of History’s most hated men. Millions wanted him eliminated. But few would take action to end his reign of terror. From his early grab for power to the final days of the Third Reich, new research reveals there are at least 42 plots to kill Adolf Hitler. 42 Ways to Kill Hitler, History 2019
1932: A group of anonymous gunmen fired on his train outside Munich. Hitler was unharmed but this was just the beginning. In June he narrowly escaped attempt number two: an armed ambush … One month later his head was grazed during attempt number three: an attack on his car at Nuremberg. ibid.
Roger Moorehouse is the author of Killing Hitler, a book which details the various assassination attempts. ibid.
As Hitler’s aggression escalated, the attempts to kill him increased. ibid.
Assassination attempt 21: to kill Hitler as he delivered his speech to a packed hall of prominent Nazis. His [Georg Elser] weapon was a homemade time-bomb … Elser was apprehended at the Swiss border. ibid.
Attempt 22: The Poles planted 500 kilograms of TNT under a main intersection … The explosive inexplicably failed to go off. ibid.
The Soviets formed at least three separate plots to kill Hitler. ibid.
Operation Foxley: British snipers were to kill the Fuhrer at his home in the Alps. Fearing a backlash the British eventually abandoned the operation. ibid.
Hitler’s plane landed without incident … The fuse simply failed to flare. ibid.
By the spring of 1944 Hitler’s own officers launched at least four plots to shoot him, six to blow him up and one to arrange a so-called fatal accident. ibid.
As the smoke cleared, [Claus von] Stauffenberg was on his way to Berlin to help manage the transition of government power. ibid.
In the heart of Berlin children play innocently over what was once Adolf Hitler’s death tomb. It was here in the Fuhrer-bunker on April 30th 1945 that Hitler made the final preparation for his suicide. Outside in a devastating final assault on the heart of the Third Reich, the Russian army closed in on the Fuhrer. Hitler’s death brought to an end his dream of a thousand-year Reich: it lasted only twelve years but changed the world. History’s Most Hated s1e4: Hitler & Stalin, 2017
They were both mass murderers. Hitler was responsible for nearly ten million deaths in the Holocaust … Stalin murdered more than twenty million of his own people. ibid.
Both Hitler and Stalin suffered from inferiority complexes. ibid.
Adolf sold his paintings on the streets. It is interesting that he only painted landscapes, never people. Two years in a row, Hitler applied to and was rejected from the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts … The Academy told him he had no aptitude for painting. ibid.
Hitler’s relationships with women were equally troubled. ibid.
By his own testimony, as recorded in the pages of Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler was a fully formed volkisch German nationalist from an early age … Hitler is personified as the architect of the occult aspects of Nazi party doctrine, but was he really the sole driving force behind this bizarre phenomenon? Hitler’s Last Secrets s1e4: Hitler & the Occult, 2017
In every major city cults devoted to spiritualism, astrology, magic and the occult flourished among the disciples of Life Reform. ibid.
‘Racism was one of the fundamental values of the Volkisch movement.’ ibid. Bob Curruthers
The outlandish ideas of Helena Patrovna Blavatsky centred on the idea that there was lost Aryan races which she claimed had perished with the destruction of the lost city of Atlantis. ibid.
A more noble and heroic age … The myth of the Aryan race was readily accepted and was by 1905 so familiar it had become a self-evident truth. ibid.
By 1906 Hitler’s father had died … In 1927 Klara Hitler died. Hitler was obviously distraught. Hitler’s Last Secrets s1e5: Hitler the Drifter
The exact narrative of Hitler’s stay in Vienna becomes impossible to piece together. Hitler found himself friendless and alone. ibid.
It would appear that Hitler had undertaken a series of manual jobs to earn what money he could … He was clearly unsuited to manual labour. ibid.
Policemen arrived at his home to inform Hitler that he was now faced with the immediate prospect of having to report for military service … He failed his medical examination. ibid.
Hitler the recent Austro-Hungarian reject volunteered for service in the Bavarian army. ibid.
That is not to say that Hitler was popular … Hitler was excessive in his dedication to duty. ibid.
In the pages of Mein Kampf, Hitler recalled the violent events surrounding the launch of the Nazi manifesto. Hitler’s Last Secrets s1e6: Hitler & The Beer Hall Putsch
Hitler was an advocate of political violence. ibid.
‘Hitler didn’t believe that the party could progress through compromise.’ ibid. Curruthers
The Hitler Gang 1944: ‘We must appeal to their emotions … Give them a scapegoat. Someone to blame. Someone to hate.’ ibid. Hitler to gang
Hitler’s enthusiasm for political violence was perverse and rather juvenile. ibid.
The Hitler Gang 1944: ‘I feel my strength growing with every ibid. Hitler
Adolf Hitler has come to embody the ultimate evil. Dictator of Nazi Germany, orchestrator of the Holocaust, and instigator of a world war which left over 60 million people dead. But Hitler did not act alone. The atrocities of the Third Reich required a vast network of collaborators. Nazis: Ultimate Evil, History 2019
After treatment, Goering returned to Hitler’s side and helped orchestrate the Nazis earliest atrocities. ibid.
Goering helped fund his life of excess by stealing on a grand scale … ‘The most massive art theft in the history of the world.’ ibid. expert
A chicken farmer who many believe was even more depraved than Hitler: Heinrich Himmler. ibid.
During the Nazis’ reign of terror perhaps no event unnerves Allied Europe more than the May 1940 invasion of France. The tactic is called Blitzkrieg or Lightning War. Adolf Hitler claims these victories prove the superiority of his Aryan soldiers. But they have a hidden advantage: ‘There is no doubt that Methamphetamine powered the Blitzkrieg.’ Nazis on Drugs: Hitler & the Blitzkrieg, History 2019
By 1944 the Fuhrer himself is an addict: hooked on Oxycodone ibid.
Soon [Dr Theodore] Morell is treating Hitler and keeping track of their daily meetings with an assortment of notes and diary entries. ibid.
The Nazis planned for Pervatin pills to even the odds. ibid.
‘The RAF called them wakey-wakey pills’ … The British also begin using amphetamines with their ground troops. ibid.
Morell’s secret diary makes clear that the drug he gave Hitler is Eukodal, the German word for an addictive synthetic opioid. Eukodal is twice as strong as morphine and just as addictive. It’s more commonly known today as Oxycodone. ibid.
D9: a combination of Meth, cocaine, and opioids to give to teenage submarine pilots. But the D9 drug is deemed a disaster. ibid.
‘Hitler was going through heavy withdrawal. On top of that of course he was losing World War II.’ ibid. Norman Ohker, author Blitzed
For Germany in the early 1920s the First World War is barely over. Now, revolution is in the air. Shaken by the country’s catastrophic defeat, communists and nationalists fight each other in the streets. Project Nazi: Blueprints of Power s1e1: Designed for Power, History 2019
In Munich, the spiritual home of German nationalism, many former soldiers are drawn to a new growing political force with its charismatic leader Adolf Hitler. A veteran of the trenches himself, he’s winning the city over to his new darker more violent brand of politics. ibid.
Hitler’s credibility as a street fighter and die-hard anti-communist is now established. ibid.