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D-Day: The Tide Turns
The hosts cited the book to illustrate Hitler’s tendency to summon people late at night for lengthy, dreaded monologues, using the author’s insights as evidence of his behavior. They referenced Professor Thomas Faber’s observations from the title to support this point.
Episode: 9. Katastrophe
The author described Hitler's habit of summoning people late at night, engaging them in lengthy monologues that could last for hours, often dreaded by those close to him.
Professor Thomas Faber, author of Becoming Hitler, The Making of a Nazi.
Ever since being in power, he had got this tendency to, late at night, to summon people around him.
He would ask them questions, but ultimately he would give these monologues that could last half a night.
They were often actually dreaded by people closest to him, because they knew if they were called into one of those monologues, they wouldn't get much sleep that night.
