Historians and psychologists struggle to understand the mentality of the man who has become a byword for evil in the modern era.Hitler himself famously declared,'My love is Germany',as though idealistically he were married to all the women of the Fatherland.He never intended the world to know details of the individuals he loved.

Yet there were some who became truly close.For the few personal servants and physicians who cared for him,and above all for the circle of young women who surrounded him-Mimi,Geli,Eva Braun and the rest- being with Hitler was 'like sitting next to the sun'.

Historians and psychologists struggle to understand the mentality of the man who has become a byword for evil in the modern era.Hitler himself famously declared,'My love is Germany',as though idealistically he were married to all the women of the Fatherland.He never intended the world to know details of the individuals he loved.

Yet there were some who became truly close.For the few personal servants and physicians who cared for him,and above all for the circle of young women who surrounded him-Mimi,Geli,Eva Braun and the rest- being with Hitler was 'like sitting next to the sun'.

From eye-witness accounts,interrogation reports,personal confessions and hitherto unknown private papers,Douglas Botting and fan Sayer,acknowledged experts of Nazi history,present an extraordinary and detailed portrait of the Fuhrer's love life,with all its complexities and inadequacies,its alternating tenderness and aberrations.In a ground-breaking work for a new generation,the authors succeed in shedding flesh light on one of the most hated and despised figures of the twentieth century.

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Preface

Part 1 The Beauty and The Brute

A Walk on the Wild Side

A Room with No View

'This character was looking at my legs'

'A somewhat dishevelled man'

'Potiphar's wife'

'The asphyxiating perfume of modern eroticism'

'King of Munich'

Mimi

Geli and Uncle Alf

'You'll never believe the things he makes me do'

'Beyond good and evil'

'I was never as happy as during that night'

Part 2 Valhalla Nights

Eva

'Like sitting next to the sun'

'This copulation business'

'And besides, she's over thirty'

'Laughable cosmic bacterium'

'Me, the mistress of the greatest man in Germany'

'Casual enchantments'

'Class, clout, brain - and even beauty'

The Mountain Palace

'A young cock and a hen'

'A very avant-garde kind of position'

'My own life is of no account now'

The Damsel and the Demon King

'My place is with him!'

Part 3 Champagne - and Cyanide

Angel of Death

The Concrete Submarine

'A madhouse run by the inmates'

'Do you think I'm crazy?'

'I am so terribly frightened!'

'I want to be a pretty corpse'

'A collection of German arseholes'

Wagner at the Opera

'You can call me Frau Hitler if you like'

Transcendentally Wicked

'The Russians will be able to spit in our windows!'

Gotterdammerung

Time to Get Out - or Die

The Three Messengers

Last Man Out

Hour Zero

Part 4 End Game

'There are legs here!'

'Ashes in my hand'

'The beast has escaped us!'

Oxbridge Spy in Specs

The Three Messengers Revisited

Humanoid Gunge

Part 5 Postscript-The Unsolved Puzzle

The Mystery Man

The Last Card

Death at the Barricades

The Last Letters of the Man who Married Hitler

Bibliography

Index