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Book SynopsisThe object of this book is not to prove that Adolf Hitler was insane. So much is obvious, both intuitively and from a clinical perspective. Nevertheless the reasons for arriving at such a conclusion will be reiterated and enlarged upon. Instead, the aim of the author is to discover what light Hitler’s associates were able to shed on the personality and modus operandi of the Führer, and to determine the extent to which they (and indeed, Hitler himself) realized that their leader was insane. The aim is also to investigate the cause of his insanity. In this regard, the testimony of the leading Nazis, who were tried for war crimes at Nuremberg during 1945 and 1946, are of particular relevance. These captured Nazis surely realized that in all probability, they would be found guilty, and their lives would terminate at the end of a rope. Surely, therefore, they had nothing to lose by giving the `low down’ on their late Führer, i.e. revealing their innermost thoughts as to his sanity, or otherwise.
Table of Contents1 Eduard Bloch: the Hitler Family’s Doctor; 2 Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels; 3 Hans Mend; 4 Dietrich Eckart; 5 Ostara and its Influence on Hitler; 6 Hitler’s Secret Book; 7 Alfred Rosenberg; 8 Rosenberg and the Myth of the 20th Century; 9 Julius Streicher; 10 Herman Göring; 11 Rudolf Hess; 12 Heinrich Himmler; 13 Wilhelm Frick; 14 Baldur von Schirach; 15 Josef Goebbels; 16 Franz von Papen; 17 Joachim von Ribbentrop; 18 Walther Funk; 19 Hjalmar Schacht; 20 Martin Bormann; 21 Konstantin von Neurath; 22 Hans Frank; 23 Hitler, and a Possible Jewish Ancestor; 24 The Further Testimony of Hans Frank; 25 The Accounts of Heinrich Pfeifer and Walther Korodi; 26 The Account of Fritz Thyssen; 27 Was Either Salomon or Anselm von Rothschild Hitler’s paternal grandfather? Conclusion; 28 Albert Speer; 29 Erich Raeder; 30 Wilhelm Keitel; 31 Ernst Sauckel; 32 Walther von Brauchitsch; 33 Erich von Manstein; 34 Alfred Jodl; 35 Wilhelm Canaris; 36 Friedrich (`Fritz’) Thyssen; 37 Erwin Rommel; 38 Arthur Seyss-Inquart; 39 Friedrich Paulus; 40 Ernst Kaltenbrunner; 41 Karl Dönitz; 42 Claus von Stauffenberg; 43 Bridget Hitler; 44 William Patrick Hitler and Paula Hitler; 45 Ulrich de Maizière; 46 Hitler’s Table Talk; 47 Hitler and the Alleged Bolshevik Threat; 48 Hitler’s Irrational Hatred of the Jews and Others; 49 Hitler and his Jewish Associates; 50 Theodor Morell; 51 Eva Braun; 52 Nazi Cruelty Explained; 53 Hitler and His Voices; 54 Drilling Down on Hitler’s Madness; 55 Hitler’s Schizophrenia: The Most Dangerous Type of All; 56 The Origin of Hitler’s Schizophrenia; 57 Syphilis Catches up with the Führer; 58 The Fate of Hitler and Others; Epilogue.
