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You want to ask them?" Jessica said sarcastically. "Let's call them and leave a message. 'Please call us back with your murderous plot at your earliest convenience!

The challenges we face in life are not meant to be some sort of punishment; rather, they are an invitation to change — and an opportunity to create something even better than before.

It’s amazing how desperately you want to live when you are about to die.

Hitler nurtured his personal image with great care to ensure that his adoring public perceived him to be the father figure of the nation.

Hitler had contempt for people or nations that were weak.

Joseph Stalin at Yalta in 1945: Stalin was a typical Russian despot, ruling a backward country with a rod of iron.

The ISI was founded, in 1948, by an Australian – General William Cawthorn, a British army officer, who stayed on after partition to help Pakistan establish its military.

Enigma code 48 and bombe machine 56, 57–9,

American artillery was now taking its toll on Rommel's Panzers.

Fifty-two German tanks were completely destroyed, while the British lost none at all and only one squadron was engaged in the fighting.

In March 1935, Germany admitted the existence of the Luftwaffe,

of a luminous being,” said friend Rosa Monckton.

The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything but they make the most of everything.

The Hitler Myth created by Goebbels was so successful that many Germans who encountered the Führer immediately began to swoon.

Writer and politician Otto Strasser was one of the people who understood Hitler’s deep joylessness and lack of humour.

When Hitler took over as leader of Germany, there was only one outcome: war. He was determined to bend the country to his will.

Adolf Hitler is thought to come third in the league of mass murderers.

He saw himself as the saviour of the German nation, though he was not himself German.

In the early days, Hitler modelled himself on Mussolini. The Munich Putsch was Hitler’s attempt to recreate the March on Rome.

Hitler bows to Hindenburg in Berlin, 1934. The pose was designed to give the impression he was no threat to the established order.

Nazi photographer Heinrich Hoffmann took thousands of photos of Hitler, including these ones of him rehearsing his speeches.

The Great Dictator: Chaplin said he would not have made this film if he had understood the full extent of Hitler’s monstrousness.

Hitler at school in Lambach at the age of ten; he was far from an outstanding pupil. Teachers considered him quite able but lazy.

Alois Hitler was a cobbler turned civil servant; he was described as ‘stern, correct, industrious, punctual and clear-headed’.

Though in Mein Kampf Hitler claimed to have had a serious lung ailment, his family doctor Eduard Bloch said this was not true.

Ernst Röhm and Hitler at the cenotaph during the 1933 Nuremberg Rally; Hitler’s fantasies of taking over power were coming true.

Hitler’s early association with Ernst Röhm, leader of his storm troopers, and other homosexuals sparked gossip, but reliable sources denied that Hitler had any proclivities in that direction.

Siegfried awakens Brunhilde in this scene from Wagner’s The Ring; Hitler was besotted with Wagner’s work.

When depressed, he needed to talk to prove his own strength by dominating others.

Nuremberg was chosen for the annual Nazi Party Congress because of its association with Wagner.

He had an excessive fear of poisoning, taking extreme precautions with his food, and his bed had to be made up in a specific way.

There were other symptoms of maladjustment. He suffered from severe insomnia and when he did sleep he had violent nightmares. At times he had hallucinations and often heard voices on his long, solitary walks.

He had an excessive fear of poisoning, taking extreme precautions with his food, and his bed had to be made up in a specific way. He could not work steadily, but only in explosive outbursts of energy or not at all. Even the smallest decision demanded the greatest effort and he had to work himself up to it. When thwarted, he would have a hysterical tantrum, scolding others in a high-pitched voice, foaming at the mouth and stamping uncontrollably in fury. On several occasions, when he was to make an important speech, he stood in silence before his audience, then walked out, and one international broadcast was inexplicably taken off air. And he threatened to commit suicide if the Nazi Party was destroyed or his plans for the German Reich failed.

Vernon thought that Hitler probably fell into the athletic, verging on the pyknic.

Vernon also referred to the system developed by American psychologist William Herbert Sheldon, classifying Hitler as a ‘443’ with a considerable degree of gynandromorphism – that is, an essentially masculine body but one also showing feminine characteristics.

In a strongly patriarchal society, his father was particularly aggressive and brutal towards his son.

Hitler also exhibited an extreme attachment to his mother.

But his deep-rooted hatred of Jews was inflamed by violent anti-Semitic literature.

Hitler’s mother Klara was a devout Catholic and regularly went to church with her children. She doted on her son Adolf.

December 1941 and Hitler launches into his diatribe against Roosevelt in the Reichstag as Germany declares war on the USA.

According to Vernon, syphilophobia often had its roots in the childhood discovery of the nature of sexual congress between the parents.

According to Vernon, the key to Hitler’s personality lay in his troubled childhood relations with his parents.

Hitler’s personality structure, though falling within the normal range, may now be described asof the paranoid type with delusions of persecution and of grandeur. This stems from a sado-masochistic split in his personality.

In 1938, the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt asked Professor Henry A. Murray, MD, of the Harvard Psychological Clinic to investigate the psyche of Hitler. One of the early champions of psychoanalysis in the United States, Murray was inspired by Carl Jung, an early associate of Freud, and was a founder of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society. Also a leading authority on the life and work of Herman Melville, he once gave Freud a copy of Moby Dick and reported that the father of psychoanalysis promptly proclaimed that ‘the whale was a father figure’.

He suffers from frequent emotional collapses in which he yells and weeps. He had nightmares from a bad conscience; and he had long spells when energy, confidence and the power of decision abandon him. Sexually he is a full-fledged masochist.

New technology, radio, meant Hitler could reach a vast audience; he could rant to his heart’s content and know he was being listened to.

In the face of opposition, Hitler resorted to emotional outbursts, tantrums of rage, accusations and indignation, ending in tears and self-pity.

Fresh from the barber’s chair, Hitler addresses a mass rally of the SA in Dortmund, 1933. You can easily imagine the feeling of power.

Hitler’s nightmares were ‘very suggestive of homosexual panic’, Murray said.

Murray claimed that Hitler was ‘ideocentric’, since he was clearly devoted to the Prussian militarism ideal for Germany. He could also be seen as ‘sociocentric’, as he had a plan in which the majority of Germans would supposedly benefit. But these characteristics were clearly secondary to his egocentric craving for fame and immortality.

His personal frustrations required a scapegoat – and, traditionally, Jews did not fight back. He could also project on to Jews his sensitivity, weakness, timidity and masochism.

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He also took another swing at cyclists with his five handy hints for those setting out on a bike for the first time in the Sun. They were: “Do not cruise through red lights. Because if I’m coming the other way, I will run you down, for fun. Do not pull up at junctions in front of a line of traffic. Because if I’m behind you, I will set off at normal speed and you will be crushed under my wheels. Do not wear Lycra shorts unless you are Kate Moss. I do not wish to cruise down the road looking at your meat and two veg. Do not, ever, swear at or curse people in cars or trucks. You are a guest on roads that are paid for by motorists so if we cut you up, shut up. Do not wear a helmet. It makes you look ridiculous.

The image of Che Guevara adorn the walls of students’ bedrooms and T-shirts the world over. Looking out over the head of the viewer he cuts a Christ-like figure. In fact, he was a murdering racist psychopath. A direct descendent of the last viceroy of Peru, he hated Black people and American Indians almost as much as gringos. Only pure-blooded Spaniards were good enough for him – despite his Irish blood He happily shot his own men in the back of the head for minor infractions. In Havana he summarily executed so many allies as well as enemies in the football stadium, Taliban-style, Fidel Castro had to beg him to stop. He helped establish labour camps in Cuba. A Stalinist, he backed the bloody suppression of the Hungarian Uprising An Argentinian, he played host to dictator Juan Perón. A hardline Communist, he back-channelled with President Kennedy. During the Cuban missile crisis he urged a pre-emptive strike against the US, though America’s retaliation would have wiped Cuba from the map. “The Cuban people are willing to sacrifice themselves,” he said. Did anyone ask them? He alienated the Cubans, the Russians and the Chinese in turn. The people of the Congo are suffering from his bungled intervention to this day. The Communist Party in Bolivia did not want him there. Nor did any of the other Communist parties in the surrounding countries. When he was captured, the only people that tried to rescue him were the CIA. Still, he takes a great photograph.

How could she know what anyone truly believed if they wouldn’t come out and say it? How could she know what anyone was truly capable of? People like Cawthorn were the easy ones. But it was the ones we thought we knew, those were the ones who broke our hearts.