Hitler 1889-1936 Hubris

Ian Kershaw in his brilliant biography of Hitler gives the example of the city of Breslau, now Wroclaw in Poland, and he says there, you know, he talks about a Jewish theatre director, for example, being beaten up in broad daylight, being stripped and whipped in public by stormtroopers, by SA men.

Ian Kershaw in his biography of Hitler talks again and again about this idea of working towards the Fhrer.

As a dad, he's remembered generally as a strict authoritarian figure, but most people who knew the family when his dad was alive say that Alois wasn't particularly violent or bad by the standards of the time towards his kid or his wife.

When his circle of acquaintances got around to discussing women and doubtless their own former girlfriends and sexual experiences, the best Hitler could come up with was a veiled reference to Stephanie who had been his first love, though she never knew it, because he never told her.

But his prudishness went far beyond this; it amounted, according to Kubizek's account, to a deep disgust and repugnance at sexual activity.