Chapter 82 Chapter Thirteen The Triumph of the Will (4)

As Adolf Hitler's political life expanded, so did his private life.Two inner circles formed around him - one made up of the likes of Goebbels, Goering, Hess (and their wives); By.The innermost layer includes an architect, Speer, and an airplane pilot, Bohr.It also included some younger military adjutants, such as Lieutenant von Puttkammer, Army Representative Nicholas von Bellow, and others of varying ranks.Some belong to both circles.The most notable of these was Martin Bowman.This person followed Hess in his early years and is now Hess's representative in Berlin.For this reason, Borman had the opportunity to be close to the Führer, and worked tirelessly for the Führer's daily needs.Although he was unknown to most Germans, the indefatigable Bormann was inseparable from Hitler, recording the Führer's every word on his sleeve or in his notebook.

Hitler himself shuttled back and forth between these two circles, and also haunted many senior civil and military officials.What he couldn't do was, he couldn't do the business of the high office with all seriousness.He is a night owl, usually not at his desk until a few minutes before noon.As soon as he sat down, he glanced over the main contents of the newspapers collected by Otto Diederich, and then hurried to lunch.When he came back, he concentrated on those official duties that interested him.And postpone the things that bother him until after get off work.He often discussed with Speer and Gessler the urban reconstruction work of Berlin, Munich and Linz for hours, while the State Secretary Hans Rams and Otto he had inherited from Hindenburg Messner waited impatiently for a decision that only a head of state could make.

His working methods often caused Captain Weidmann great concern.His personal aides had difficulty getting him to sit down with documents before making important decisions. "He thinks," Weidmann writes, "that many things will go well if you don't mess with them. He is rarely wrong about that. The question is simply how these things should be done. In choosing He was also wild with his visitors. Some officials had to wait days in the living room to see him. But if some old friend came to visit, he immediately sent him to lunch and asked him to ask questions at the table. Bring it up. Problems are often resolved right around the dinner table.”

Hitler's work schedule was already irregular, but busy international affairs often made it even more chaotic.Thus he could scarcely move away to see his mistress.Adolf Hitler's love had become Eva Braun's whole being, even though he had made it clear to her that he could not marry her as long as he was the Reich Führer. "As far as I'm concerned, marriage could be my disaster," he told his inner circle seven years later. "There are bound to be times of misunderstanding between husband and wife; Misunderstandings arise when it's all given to her." A woman lives only for her husband, and she wants him to be that way.Men are slaves to her mind, subject to responsibility. "I would not enjoy the happiness of marriage, but only see the scowling face of my neglected wife, otherwise I would have to be so careless about my work... The bad thing about marriage is that it creates power. So, it is better to have a mistress than to marry a wife Much. It lightens the burden and bases everything on a gifted entitlement level.” When he spotted his two middle-aged maiden secretaries, Johanna Ulf and Krista Schroeder, they turned their faces When he slumped down, he quickly changed his words and said: "Of course what I just said is only applicable to higher-level people!"

Eva was unhappy, but the rare lover who came even once could temporarily relieve her pain. "Yesterday, I didn't expect him to come," she wrote in her diary on February 18. "I had a great night... He loves me so much, it makes me so happy. Hope it will always be like this." Two weeks later she Added: "Again I am in agony. I cannot write to him. This diary has to become a repository for my unspeakable pain." He came on Saturday but spent "a few hours of wonderful moments with her "After that, he left again without saying when he would come back. "I was on pins and needles thinking he could come any moment."

A week later, she wrote in her diary again, but it was disorganized, as if written in haste or under extreme emotional pressure: "Haven't heard from him for eight days. I wish I was sick. Why didn't something happen to me, why did I put up with this. Wish I hadn't seen him. I was desperate. Now, I'm going to buy sleeping pills, at least, I can feel drowsy and don't think about it so much...Why did he torture me like this and not cancel this romantic debt in one go. " A few days later, she made another excuse for him: he had "too many political affairs".But when he invited her to the Four Seasons Hotel, her determination to "wait patiently" evaporated.

"I sat beside him for three hours without being able to say a single word. At parting, as before, he handed me an envelope with money in it. He wished he could write a greeting or a couple of words in it." A nice word, that would be pretty, and it would please me. But he just can't think of these things." By the end of the month, when gossip was heard that Hitler had taken another woman, Valcourie, her loneliness turned into utter jealousy. "...I think it's unfair that he doesn't tell me. He should know me. If he suddenly finds that his heart belongs to someone else, I won't get in the way."

At the end of May, in despair, she wrote him a letter that seemed to be pleading, and then wrote in her diary: "...if I don't get an answer by 10 o'clock tonight, I'll swallow 25 pills and sleep gently in another world. "If he doesn't write me a word of comfort for three months, is this the great love he often confesses to me? "Even if his mind is full of political issues these days, he can always find some time to relax! How was last year? Didn't Roma and Italy give him a lot to do? But he still has time for me... "I'm afraid there's something else behind it.

"It's not my responsibility. Of course not. "Perhaps it was another woman—but not the Valkyrie girl, that doesn't seem true; but there are many other girls. "Is there any other reason? I can't find it." Hours later, she wrote these last pitiful lines in her diary: "Dear God, I'm afraid he's ignoring me today. If only someone could help me, it's all terribly hopeless. Maybe my letter arrived at the wrong time. Maybe I shouldn't have written it at all. "In any case, it is better to die immediately than to be so unpredictable.

"Dear God, help me! Let me talk to him today! Tomorrow will be too late." Unbeknownst to Eva Braun, Hitler was undergoing surgery when he received her desperate letter.For months, he had had a sore throat.Due to the many speeches, which were endless, his voice became hoarse, and he also found something growing in his throat.His old fears were revived.For months, according to Speer, he was talking about Kaiser Frederick III, who died of throat cancer.A sore throat doesn't count, but it also has a stomachache-maybe it's the same as when you were young?It was similar in Vienna.He has been serving New Palesto.It was obvious that he was overdosing because the drug contained adhesive oil.Once, he was poisoned because of this, and panicked, and hurriedly called Dr. Grawitz.He complained of headaches, dizziness, tinnitus and stress. On May 23, two days after the Führer delivered an important diplomatic speech, Professor Carl von Eiken, director of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at the University of Berlin, removed a one-centimeter-sized polyp from the Führer's vocal cords.It was a minor operation (performed in the Chancellery) and only a small amount of morphine was used as a sedative.Even so, Hitler slept for 14 hours. "I was worried," Aiken later revealed.After the operation, Professor Eiken advised him not to speak loudly within a few days, and not to be impulsive in the future, "Don't shout..." He admitted that someone had said this to him, but he forgot all about it after the speech (*quoted from 1938 Die Zeit of November 14, 1999. The paper reported that Hitler had his throat examined by the world-renowned otolaryngologist, Professor Heinrich von Neumann of Vienna. Neumann was an Orthodox Jew, so he rejected).

Erken assured his patients that what he removed was a "simple polyp," that is, a benign growth.But Hitler was still worrying about getting cancer like his mother wanted.The reason why he didn't reply to Eva's letter or instruct his adjutant to call her to comfort her was probably because his mind was focused on suspecting that he was ill. Feeling hopeless and left behind, Eva swallowed 20 "Wanuofeng" (sleeping pills) in the early morning of May 29.It was her sister Ilse who found her unconscious.Ilse learned a little about first aid by working as a receptionist for a surgeon.After giving first aid to her sister, she called her employer, Dr. Martin Marx, whom she trusted.Eva's diary was discovered by Ilse when the doctor was treating her.Determined to keep her sister's second suicide a secret, she tore out the most important pages so as not to embarrass Dr. Marx, who was Jewish.Ilse was also afraid of a strong reaction from his father, and of the Führer asking if his lover was mentally stable.So, she said, her sister's suicide was partly staged.After all, Eva only took sleeping pills that were less potent than Verona—she knew that when the sisters came home, one of them would say goodnight to her. Dr. Marx zealously described the cause as fatigue, the result of an overdose of sleeping pills.Hitler accepted this explanation (but Ilse Braun is still convinced that the Führer guessed the truth).In any case, this "accident" achieves what language fails to achieve. That summer, she found her home. On August 19, 1935, she and her sister Gretel moved into a three-room apartment.The apartment is located in the quiet residential area of ​​Bogenhausen, just a stone's throw from the Führer's residence in Munich.The rent was paid indirectly by him through Hoffman.He also bought furniture and furnished the house. Hitler was rarely there.If he comes, it will be after the neighbors are asleep.Even so, his date with Eva is difficult to keep secret, because the secret police are secretly guarding inside and outside the building.Also, he had to clear his throat loudly because his throat was still tormenting him.On the eve of Eva's move into the new house, he went to a doctor in Berchtesgaden and said there was still something in his throat.He said that someone once sent him a bouquet of flowers, and when receiving the flowers, he got a thorn in his nail, and he bit it with his teeth.He was afraid of accidentally swallowing the thorn while biting it.The doctor found nothing, and only washed his throat with 2.5% silver nitrate solution.But Hitler told Professor von Eiken that he was afraid of getting cancer inside.The doctor had to send a series of specimens to a colleague in the department (Professor Eckon called his patient Adolph Miller). On August 21, the conclusion came: "Adolph Miller" had nothing to worry about, the polyp was benign. Hitler's unease was lessened—at least for now—but he still had little time to see Eva, as he was again preparing for the celebration of the party's birthday in Nuremberg in 1935.In addition, his late-night private visit to Eva has led to many rumors, which may bring him political troubles.Eva's newfound freedom also poses another problem.Her father was humiliated by the affair, even with the head of state in Germany. On September 7, Fritz Braun mustered up the courage to write to Hitler, asking him to let Eva return to "the arms of the family."Braun was very cautious and asked Hoffmann to deliver the letter to the Führer himself.But the photographer was more cautious: he handed the letter to Eva.She tore up the letter, but deliberately gave her father the impression that the Führer had read the letter but didn't bother to answer it.Mrs. Braun wrote a similar letter, without telling her husband, and sent it directly to Hitler.The letter was never answered. Hitler's main speech at Nuremberg was made on September 11.What started as a call for cultural development turned into another attack on the Jews.He attacks that the Jews have never produced and never will produce an art of its own.But the attacks have been so mild that foreign observers have wondered whether his anti-Semitic agenda, as he has promised to the major powers, has actually changed.On the contrary, the growing boycott of German goods in the West has convinced him that the time has come to implement some of the legal measures he announced almost exactly 16 years ago. On September 13, he ordered a law to be drafted within 24 hours, called the "Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor". " No sooner had the men assigned to this task drawn up a decree prohibiting marriage or extramarital intercourse between Jews and citizens of "Germanic or related blood" when Hitler sent in new orders to draw up the Citizenship of the Reich. Law".Distressed authors quickly ran out of paper and had to make do with the old menu.It was not until 2:30 am on September 15 that everyone agreed that only those with "Germanic or related blood" could be citizens. No other terms were in dispute.So, at 9 o'clock the next morning, Hitler delivered a speech at a special conference held in Nuremberg.The passage of these laws, he said, was actually beneficial to the Jews.This could "pave the way for a tolerable relationship between the Germans and the Jews." These mild words were immediately followed by threatening language: "If this wish is not fulfilled and Jewish fanning at home and abroad continues, then, This position of ours needs to be re-examined."