Adolf Hitler

It will depend on you if you dominate, but he will also lash out at you because, despite his need for a protector, his pride will not allow him peace, and he is also very quick-tempered and vulnerable (the latter is hidden by the same rage). It will also depend on you if you admire him or find him intellectually interesting. If you are very devoted, he will keep you close, but will involve you in squabbles and intrigues with his circle, lest you become too powerful or they become upset. If you directly expose his vulnerability, he will fly into a rage or try to change the subject, because he doesn't know himself well and is not ready for intimacy. He will never be ready for it; he is incapable of it. He is very sensitive, although he hides it behind an unreadable expression.

His left hand twitches frequently. He tries to hide it. He's self-conscious about his figure. You'll have to approach him very carefully and over a long period of time to get him to stop manipulating you and reveal his true nature. He needs care, control, self-admiration, peace, help (physical and psychological), and support, but he hides it very carefully. Be careful; if you approach him carelessly, he could alienate you emotionally or even shoot you.
You also need to argue carefully, otherwise he'll become irritable, even furious or apathetic. Otherwise, the left side of his body will start twitching, and you, as a witness, will be killed without explanation, either in person or through a tribunal.
Sweets are a weakness. This will help you get closer to him, but only a little. Besides, he hides his love for sweets. It's best to secretly follow him to find out what he likes and dislikes, but you should never tell him.
He's paranoid. He might suspect you of betrayal out of the blue. Even if he doesn't shoot you, the very thought will cause him psychological trauma, which he'll naturally try to hide.
He can't talk about his family, only about his father. His father became an idol for him, even though he was the one who broke him, making him that way.

He never acknowledges his own trauma or vulnerability. If you want to help, do so carefully and silently, otherwise things will end badly. He's confused, but if you push him... The minimum is moral distancing, the maximum is execution. He doesn't care who he shoots, whether you're friend or foe. Of course, there will be some leeway for a friend, but it's only marginal. He develops attachments over time, but quickly breaks off relationships (even though it hurts him, he can't do anything about it).
Despite his delusions of grandeur, he's extremely self-critical. He enjoys humiliating himself, but if someone else does, it'll either lead to serious psychological trauma or rage and execution. However, if you've already gained enough trust, he might enjoy your tyranny because of his childhood (but even then, the risk of execution is just as high).
He's extremely insecure and won't allow anyone to be more intimate than just hugs, otherwise he'll become hysterical and paranoid, making him a hardcore asexual. He believes sex is only for procreation, and since he doesn't want children, he'd rather kill you for trying to get physically close in that way. He might shoot you impulsively, out of paranoia or rage, and then feel sorry for you or look at the body indifferently and order it burned—it depends not on how close you are, but on his mood.
He's timid, though he hides it with all his might. He adores people with strong personalities, or, conversely, those too weak to completely subjugate. Many are jealous of him, and he enjoys it, but he'll never show it. If you ask directly, he'll show icy indifference, even if you're very close.

If the rage is strong - shooting or throwing things/furniture (usually at you).
He considers physical disabilities or illness humiliating. And since he has many of them himself, he secretly hates himself.
If you love architecture or drawing (or any other art), it will help you get closer (only if you are talented).
If you make a mistake, he will think that it is a conspiracy against him due to his strong paranoia.

On the one hand, Goebbels created the image of an ascetic Führer, devoid of worldly weaknesses. On the other hand, Hitler's personal preferences were full of contradictions: his ostentatious simplicity often clashed with his real habits and eccentricities.

Food: Ritual and Addiction to Sweets

Vegetarianism is questionable: Hitler publicly positioned himself as a vegetarian, calling meat broth "corpse tea" and condemning hunting. However, historians debate the strictness of his diet: there is evidence that he occasionally indulged in chicken, pigeon, and even Bavarian sausages.
· Last supper: He is known to have eaten scrambled eggs and mashed potatoes before committing suicide.
· Main weakness: Despite abstaining from meat, he adored baked goods, especially Austrian pastries and cakes, which his cook baked in huge quantities. For breakfast, he preferred an apple, a marmalade roll, and a glass of warm milk.

Clothing: From ostentatious modesty to hidden vanity

Appearance as a weapon: Hitler was extremely sensitive to his image. He demanded that photographers destroy any photos of him wearing Bavarian leather trousers (lederhosen), as he considered his knees "unworthy" of the leader of the empire.
· "Practical" wardrobe: In everyday life, he wore loose, comfortable clothing, preferring a gray field uniform that concealed his figure. He was also afraid to take off his coat in public, even in hot weather, and detested perfume.
A secret passion for expensive things: Despite his feigned asceticism, his tailor's bills were exorbitant. In 1932, he spent the equivalent of £4,000 on underwear, and wore monogrammed underwear.

Art and Music: An Unrecognized Artist

· The tragedy of a loser: In his youth, Hitler dreamed of becoming an artist, but twice failed the exams for the Vienna Academy of Arts. This defeat, according to many, shaped his hatred of modern avant-garde art, which he later declared "degenerate".
· The Cult of Wagner: His main passion was the music of Richard Wagner, in which he saw the embodiment of the German spirit. His collection also included Liszt, Grieg, Chopin, and even American marches.

Habits and Oddities

· War on smoking: Hitler fiercely fought smoking, considering nicotine to be a "poison". He joked that the best way to kill an enemy was to send him boxes of cigarettes. He planned to completely ban smoking in Germany after the victory.
· Newspaper junkie: He needed to read all the latest newspapers and magazines instantly, even if he interrupted important conversations for the sake of the new press.

Early illnesses

In his youth, Hitler had health problems that could affect his later life. One of the main mysteries is his discharge from the army in 1918. Officially, he went blind after a gas attack, but according to some reports, he was diagnosed with hysterical amblyopia (hysterical blindness), that is, a neurological disorder. There is also an assumption that in his youth he could have suffered from epidemic encephalitis, which is sometimes associated with his further problems. It is also known that in 1905 he had a lung disease.

The real

turning point in his state of health came with the appearance of his personal physician Theodor Morell in 1936. Hitler suffered from chronic eczema in his legs, abdominal cramps, and bouts of depression and exhaustion. Morell quickly alleviated his suffering, and Hitler became dependent on him.

The doctor began to actively use potent drugs. Among them were:

· Cocaine: Hitler was prescribed to rub 10 percent cocaine ointment into the nasal mucosa.
· Pervitin (methamphetamine): This powerful psychostimulant was prescribed to him to raise his spirits and combat loss of strength. At one point, he may have received up to 4 injections a day. Its use was similar to a "marathon": periods of intensive intake were replaced by complete exhaustion.

In total, according to various sources, Hitler took up to 82-90 different medicines and food supplements.

Hitler's attitude towards animals is one of the most paradoxical aspects of his personality, where sincere affection coexisted with monstrous cruelty towards people.
His most famous love is the German shepherd Blondie, presented in 1941. Hitler often took pictures with her, called himself "the wolf" (his pseudonym is Herr Wolf) and believed that his only friends were misfortune and Blondie. The tragic ending of this story is symbolic: on April 29, 1945, he poisoned Blondie to test the effect of potassium cyanide.
Hitler actively promoted vegetarianism and considered the rejection of meat a sign of "Aryan purity". His personal taster later said that he ate only vegetables. However, historians argue whether he limited meat due to health problems or it was an image move by Goebbels. It is known that in the Third Reich, vegetarian societies were banned.
It was under the Nazis that Germany adopted some of the toughest animal protection laws in the world (1933): vivisection was prohibited, cattle were stunned before slaughter, and even crayfish were forbidden to be boiled alive. Hitler publicly condemned slaughterhouses. But this animal protection had a sinister underside: the laws were directed, among other things, against Jewish kosher slaughter. Animals were divided into "Aryan" breeds (shepherds, wolves) and "unworthy" (for example, cats were equated with Jews). Thus, love for animals in Nazi ideology did not contradict, but as if justified hatred of "inferior" people.

Hitler's daily routine was more characteristic of an artist than a statesman. Albert Speer noted that his working day was rather short, and he spent most of his time "squandering."

· Late rising: Hitler got up closer to midday, around 10–11 a.m.
· Morning: Started with reading the press and correspondence right in bed. Breakfast was served around 11 o'clock.
· Day: In the afternoon, meetings were held, but they were often interrupted by the Führer's interest in his architectural projects.
Evening and Night: His real activity began late in the evening. Around midnight, he would discuss sketches in detail with Speer, dragging out conversations until 2 or 3 a.m. During the war years, discussions of the situation at the front often continued well past midnight.

After becoming Führer, Hitler sought a complete reorganization of the world, guided by the ideas set forth in Mein Kampf. Its goals can be divided into three interrelated areas: racial purification, the conquest of "living space" and the establishment of world domination.

The

internal goal was to "cleanse" the Aryan race of "foreign blood" and create a single "national community." This meant the destruction of all opposition political forces and, above all, the eradication of Jewry, which he considered the main enemy behind communism and world capital. The elimination of internal "enemies" was considered as a necessary condition for the beginning of external expansion.

The

key foreign policy goal was the seizure of Lebensraum (living space) in the East. Hitler believed that the German people needed new lands and resources, and these territories, he believed, were "historically destined" for the Germans. The plan provided not only for the conquest of Eastern Europe and the USSR, but also for the replacement of the "inferior" local population with Germans, which was to be carried out through mass murder and ethnic cleansing.

In

the final analysis, all these plans were part of a larger strategy to establish the world domination of the German race. The basis for this was to be the transformation of Germany into an invincible military power. The first steps on this path were the militarization of the country, the revision of the humiliating terms of the Treaty of Versailles and the Anschluss (annexation) of Austria.

Hitler thus sought not merely territorial gains, but a new racist order in which Germany would play a dominant role and all "inferior" peoples would be enslaved or exterminated.

Adolf Hitler's youth was a period when his failed dreams, marginal existence, and first political impressions fused into a worldview that determined his future.

A failed career as an artist

After leaving school in 1905, Hitler moved to his mother in Linz, where he lived for two years without certain occupations, fond of drawing and reading. In 1907, he went to Vienna to enter the Academy of Fine Arts, but failed the entrance exams. An attempt to repeat them in 1908 also ended in failure. The rector of the academy advised him to study architecture, but Hitler did not have a certificate for this.

Life at the bottom of Vienna

The death of his mother in December 1907 was a turning point. The inheritance and orphan's allowance quickly dried up, and by 1909-1910 Hitler was in complete poverty. He lived in flophouses and shelters for the homeless, slept on the street and made a living with odd jobs: he cleaned snow, carried luggage, drew for sale.

The turning

point came when he met Reinhold Hanish in a flophouse. He offered to sell his paintings, and things went uphill. Hitler photographed views of Vienna, which sold well at a price of about 5 kroner apiece. This allowed him to move to the men's dormitory at Meldemannstrasse 27, where he lived for three years, until May 1913.

The

Vienna period became for Hitler the "university of life". For the first time, he faced mass poverty and the social bottom, which, according to him, changed his worldview forever. It was here that he absorbed the anti-Semitic ideas and radical German nationalism that reigned in Karl Lueger's Vienna. He also began to discover his oratorical talent, making passionate speeches in flophouses and reading rooms.

In 1913, in an attempt to avoid conscription into the Austrian army, he moved to Munich. But already in August 1914, with the outbreak of the First World War, he voluntarily went to the Bavarian army, seeing in it a chance for a new life.

Death of his parents

Hitler's father, Alois, died on January 3, 1903 of a hemorrhage in the lungs (according to other sources, a heart attack). He was 65 years old. Adolf was 14 years old at that time.

His mother, Clara, died much later, on December 21, 1907, in Linz from breast cancer. After a long and painful illness, she died at the age of 47. Her doctor, the Jewish Eduard Bloch, later recalled that he had never seen a young man as heartbroken as Adolf.

After

the death of his father and leaving school in 1905 without a certificate, Hitler moved in with his mother in Linz. In 1907, he went to Vienna to enter the Academy of Fine Arts, but failed the entrance exams. He made a second attempt in 1908, but it was also unsuccessful.

After his mother's death, his main source of income was an orphan's allowance, which he received until 1911, as well as small sums from the sale of his watercolors and painted postcards. For some time he lived on these funds as a "slacker", but by 1909 the inheritance was exhausted.

In Vienna, he led a marginal lifestyle: he lived in flophouses and men's dormitories, got by with odd jobs, including as a laborer (for example, shoveling snow, working at a construction site) and a draughtsman of small pictures for sale. He also received a government allowance for some time.

In May 1913 he moved to Munich, and in August 1914 he volunteered to join the Bavarian army, which was a turning point in his life.

Fear replaced love. Alois Hitler, a customs official, considered himself a king in his own castle. His word was law, and any dispute or objection was dealt with harshly and immediately. He had no tolerance for noise, childish games, or displays of weakness. In his view, education meant breaking the will.

Little Adolf grew up feeling like he was constantly under trial. He could be found guilty for any trivial offense: a wrong look, a poorly timed word, or a bad grade. Alois might hit him with a belt for not understanding a problem right away, or put him in the corner for hours for daring to cry. These punishments weren't pedagogical, but sadistic—the father reveled in his power and the child's utter helplessness.

The boy learned to lie and hide. He retreated into dreams of heroes and distant battles, because his real home offered him no refuge. The contrast was especially painful when his father would shout in anger, while his mother, Klara, would only quietly weep in a corner, not daring to intercede. She feared her husband almost as much as the children did. This double humiliation—being beaten and seeing his only protector humiliated—instilled in Adolf a hatred of all weakness. He swore he would never be a victim, and that the world would be divided into those who command and those who obey. His father's cruelty became the matrix on which he built his future notions of the right of the strong.

On April 20, 1889, on the Austrian border, in the backwoods of Braunau am Inn, in the house No 219 on Forstadt Street, a boy was born who was destined to change the course of history. To the midwife he was just a baby, to Clara's mother he was a welcome light in solitude, and to Father Alois he was the third son, whom he immediately began to measure by the harsh standards of his own success. From that day on, Adolf Hitler's life became a battlefield between two opposing forces: his mother's tenderness, which turned into blind adoration, and his father's despotism, which knew no mercy.

Alois Hitler, the customs officer, was the living embodiment of bureaucratic power. His universe was built on a hierarchy, where every step was regulated, and any deviation was punished. He didn't just raise children, he trained them. The belt became the main argument in any argument, and shouting became the usual background. The house turned into a barracks where the child never felt safe. Adolf remembered how he froze when he heard his father's footsteps on the stairs, and learned to read his mood by the smallest details: by the way he hung his hat or threw his briefcase on the table. This early school of survival instilled in him a paranoid vigilance and the conviction that the world is an arena where the weak always lose.

Clara, on the other hand, was the living embodiment of meekness. A downtrodden, pious woman, she found the meaning of existence only in children. She hid Adolf from his father's wrath, secretly fed him when he left him without dinner, and sewed his favorite toys. It was from her that the boy adopted the craving for the theatricality of Catholic rites, for candles and incense smoke, for the feeling of mystery. However, her weakness in the face of her husband was a terrible lesson for him: love without power is only more humiliation. He saw her tears and resignation, and there was rage inside him, not only for his father, but for this helplessness itself.

At the age of five, the family moved to Fischlham, then to Lambach. Each change of home was a new test for Adolf. The schools he attended were nothing more than a continuation of the home hell: the teachers demanded obedience, and he had already been taught to hide his rebellion. His peers seemed stupid and narrow-minded to him, he despised their games and reached for books about heroes, preferring solitude to noisy companies. He had an insatiable imagination: he spent hours redrawing pictures, creating entire worlds where order and grandeur reigned.

A special shock for him was Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin, which he first saw at the age of 11 in Linz. The stage flooded with light, the knights in armor, the music penetrating the soul – it was a revelation. He realized that true life is not here, among slaps and humiliation, but where there is beauty, sacrifice and purification by fire. From that moment on, his dreams of his own greatness took on flesh.

The death of his younger brother Edmund when Adolf was six opened a new wound. For the first time, he was faced with the absurdity of death: God took the innocent, but the tyrant father continued to live. The world in his eyes became even more cruel and illogical. He made a promise to himself never to be powerless, never to rely on leniency.

By the age of twelve, the conflict with his father reached its peak. Adolf announced his desire to become an artist, and Alois demanded a career as an official. Then the boy showed character for the first time: he completely stopped studying, defiantly failing exams, which infuriated his father. In this war of wills, there were no more vanquished - only the tempering of the future dictator.

Alois's death in 1903 was a turning point. The iron fist disappeared, but in Adolf's mind, his father managed to turn into the archetype of the "leader", to whom they obey without question. Childhood ended, leaving behind not a child, but a young man imbued with hatred for weakness and a thirst for absolute power. So in the shadow of the Alps, among the smell of church candles and father's tobacco, a monster was born.

His father, Alois, was the embodiment of bureaucratic power. His world consisted of customs duties, official reports, and an unshakable belief that children should fear and respect the head of the family. Later, Adolf recalled how he froze at the sound of his footsteps. The father's belt was not just a tool of education, but a symbol of a reality in which weakness was punished, and strength was the only thing that mattered.

His mother, Clara, was the complete opposite. A quiet, pious and downtrodden woman, she saw her salvation in Adolf. She pampered him, hid him from her husband's wrath and instilled in him a love of Catholic rites. In the church, looking at the stained-glass windows with burning candles, the boy first felt a craving for theatrical grandeur. But even here a conflict awaited him: the father despised the church, considering religion a relic, and this constant vacillation between the mother's love and the father's tyranny formed an acute need for recognition in the child's soul.

His passion was drawing. He sat for hours with a pencil, copying pictures from books, trying to capture the world in perfect, clear lines. Teachers considered him capable, but lazy. He hated the discipline of the school, but he adored stories about heroes, such as Theodoric the Great or Bismarck, who forcibly created empires.

A special role in his life was played by Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin, which he saw in Linz at the age of 11. It was a shock. The stage flooded with light, the knights in shining armor, the music that lifted the spirit above the gray routine — all this struck him to the heart. He realized that the world in which he lived—the world of his father's slaps on the head and boring lessons—was not real. True peace is where there is victory, blood, and purification.

The death of his younger brother Edmund when Adolf was six was the first deep trauma. For the first time, he encountered the injustice of the universe. He saw his mother's tears and felt his own helplessness. It was then that the idea that life is a struggle where the weak die and the strong must survive by any means took root in him.

By the age of 12, he had a rebellious desire to become an artist, against the will of his father, who saw his son only as a civil servant. The conflict has reached its peak. Adolf stopped trying hard at school, demonstratively failing exams. He lost himself in his dreams of Vienna, of art galleries and future glory. But these dreams were saturated with bitterness. Even then, he hated his small town, his father, and the boring fate that was predicted for him.

Hitler's character was a tangle of contradictions, where ostentatious charisma and charm coexisted with monstrous cruelty, and uncertainty with megalomania. Contemporaries and historians describe him as a man who knew how to charm, but was absolutely incapable of normal human relations.

Charisma and charm

Hitler had a hypnotic ability to persuade. Many who met him noted his magnetic gaze and ability to feel the mood of the audience. He could be charming and friendly, especially with those he wanted to win over. However, this was only a mask - he used his charisma as a tool to achieve goals.

Despite

his outward affability, Hitler was deeply withdrawn and incapable of sincere intimacy. He had no real friends, only associates and subordinates. The only woman with whom he had a long-term relationship was Eva Braun, but their relationship was devoid of warmth and looked more like a deal.

Uncertainty and fear of

weakness Behind the mask of greatness was a deeply insecure and vulnerable person. He was afraid of looking ridiculous, weak, or incompetent. This manifested itself in his fear of doctors, distrust of advisers, and a constant need to prove his genius.

Outbursts of anger and paranoia

Hitler was prone to fits of uncontrollable rage, especially when his plans were thwarted. At such moments, he could scream, stamp his feet and throw objects. Over the years, paranoia intensified - he saw betrayal and conspiracies even among his most loyal comrades-in-arms.

He

sincerely believed in his divine mission and considered himself an instrument of Providence. This conviction made him impervious to criticism and logic. He explained any failures by the intrigues of enemies, and not by his own mistakes.