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For instance Mit Hitler an die Macht, (1933), Die philosophischen Grundlagen des Nationalsozialismus, (1935) and Der Führer und das deutsche Volk, (1936).
See Hilter’s Table Talk, 1941—1944, (London, 2000), p. 332.
The “private reasons” that Dietrich does not choose to reveal consisted in the discovery that Blomberg’s wife had been a prostitute. Hermann Göring is said to have known of the lady’s past all along and to have furthered Blomberg’s affair with her in order to force Blomberg’s resignation. According to most other testimony, the shifts in the Army High Command, which are pictured here as an incidental outcome of Blomberg case, were the point of the whole affair. Hitler, Göring, and Himmler used the Blomberg case as a lever to pry loose the old Army leadership.—The Translators.
At this point I should like to dispose of a legend that has arisen in connection with Hacha’s trip to Berlin. It is said that during a pause in the conferences at the Chancellery Hitler’s doctor gave the Czech President an injection of a drug which broke down his psychological defenses and made him the helpless victim of Hitler’s will. In reality Hacha submitted only under pressure of military threats. The story of the injection arose from the following incident: During a break in the conference Hacha—so I have been told—suffered from an attack of his cardiac trouble and asked for a heart stimulant. Hitler’s personal physician was called in and gave him an injection which in fact had a reviving effect upon Hacha. Next day in Prague I myself heard the Czech President thanking Hitler’s doctor for the treatment and asking the name of the medicine.
Goebbels, being club-footed, was thus placed at a disadvantage.
Technically, Fegelein was Eva Braun’s brother-in-law, rather than Hitler’s. By the time that Braun and Hitler were married, Fegelein was already dead.