Flipping through the channels, I caught part of a program about the Hitler Youth organization for young girls. It mentioned how many of them often had crushes on der Fuhrer, and some wanted to be “Mrs. Hitler”. Some wondered why he didn’t marry.
With the Nazi propaganda for women about being good little hausfraus, her ultimate purposing in being a wife and producing new Aryans, why didn’t Hitler set the ultimate example and marry Eva and produce a bunch of little Hitlers?
He supposedly liked little children.
Hitler’s “one true love” was probably his niece, Geli Raubel, and after her suicide he didn’t appear to have much inclination toward the ladies. Those close to Hitler would ofetn say of his continued bachelorhood “He considers Germany to be his bride.” So between his love for his lost Geli and his “devotion to the job”, so to speak, Braun got the short end of the stick. Albert Speer once described her as the most profoundly unhappy person he’d ever met
Hitler, for the most part, kept his relationship with Braun, secret. He almost never appeared in public with her, and even most of the people he was close to didn’t know exactly what their relationship was. She was almost his prisoner, isolated at Berchtesgaden and then in Berlin, with only him for company.
Why did he do this? I have no idea. Hitler tended to be jealous and possessive, so that could have been part of it. He also was (ironically for a dictator of a state where privacy became unknown), a private individual, without many intimates and reluctant to share his personal life with the world. Also, he was 23 years older than she was, and he might have been worried about matters of propriety or prestige if their relationship had become public.
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[li]Hitler -Voman! Go avay! I ahm busy offerrunning der Sudetenland![/li][li]Eva -But Shotzi ! (Shotzi the Nazi. Some fun, huh folks?)[/li][li]Hitler -BUT NUZZING! Here I am, Competing vith Stalin offer who can wrrreck hiss Russia faster, me vit der Army or him mit his own goffernment, undt you vish to talk about girly tings. Just like Gobbels. [/li][li]Eva -YOU DON’T BRING ME FLOWERS ANYMORE![/li][li]Hitler -VOMAN! I BROUGHT YOU POLAND! [/li][li]Eva -But I want to talk about our relationship![/li][li]Hitler -Oh mein gott! Vhere are der cyanide capsules! Anyting but dott![/li][/ul]
Why? I mean, before WWI, he was an unemployed vagrant who made a living selling sketches and sponging off his roommate, during WWI, he was a corporal in France, after the war, he was a radical political agitator who sponged off donations to his political party, and then he was Fuehrer of Germany, who had almost absolute political power and was a demigod to most Germans. In the first three instances, he wasn’t really a “good catch”, and after he became Fuehrer, he didn’t have to care what people thought, because if you criticized him, he’d have you strangled with piano wire. So, socially, a marriage was never neccesary, and psychologically, Hitler liked playing the tormented Bohemian (note the pun there) artist, who put himself beyond mundane things like family, so great was his passion for his work.
Hitler had the type of personality, in which, if he hadn’t become dictator, would have been happiest locked up in a garret somewhere, creating paintings which nobody would buy while he was alive, and which he would order destroyed upon his death, because “modern society can’t appreciate my greatness.”
In reading the biography books, and what Eva said to her close friends.
Hilter never had sex with any woman. He used women for his fetishes, too perverted to post here. Eva said “he never came to me as a man comes to a woman.” Early on Hilter hired prostitutes for his play, then the SS would follow the woman home and kill her. His niece was just another object of his lust. She killed herself to get away from him.
It was reported that he had only one testicle, but this couldn’t be verified from his remains.
He sometimes went to a psychiatrist when his mental pain became too great.
When he received bad news from his officers, he would fall to the floor and bite pieces out of the carpet. His office was frequently recarpeted.
We are lucky he was so messed up. Many decisions he made were very bad and resulted in defeat for his armies.
Love
Germany after WWI had a huge number of widowed women. The general male shortage (about 1.7 young German men died in the war) also meant many women in the 1910s and 1920s didn’t even get married to begin with. These women were a big block of Germany’s voters after the war, when the Weimar Republic gave them the right to vote. Hitler, by being a confirmed bachelor, probably appealed even more to some in this large group of unmarried women.
Hitler may be an ugly cretin - but has anyone seen Triumph of the Will? The young women who greet Hitler in Nuremburg look completely enfatuated with Hitler.
There was a story that Hitler fathered a son in France during World War I. Its generally considered unproven, but it used to show up from time to time in biographies. The one testicle story and other World War II era accounts of Hitler’s bizarre sexuality are also not confirmed.
I think its most likely that he simply had no sex life at all.
I saw a show on the History channel, Hitler’s Women?, that believed that Hitler was really in love with one of Wagner’s heirs, but circumstances wouldn’t permit them to get married.
For an interesting look at all of this, please read Hitler’s Niece, the story of Hitler and Geli. First of all, y’all are crazy if you think that she killed herself. She was opposed to the more extreme views of the NAZI party and angered Goebbels on more than one occasion. Also, she had a short affair with Emil the limo driver for Hitler, which enraged Hitler. There’s no question in my mind she was murdered for speaking out. Also, Eva HATED HER.
As for Hitler’s fetishes, they’re not so extreme as cannot be posted here. He was a leatherman, he liked Kabuki dress, high leather boots, riding crops. He wanted to be punished, and the one time he tried to seduce his niece sexually to bring their relationship to another level, he demanded that she beat him merciliessly while dressed in a specific costume.
You must have read the same biography I did.