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  He was a charming and charismatic clairvoyant. A celebrity showman in 1930’s Berlin, a millionaire media tycoon, friend of high-ranking Nazis, financier of the brown-shirted S.A. storm troopers and…

‘You love us when we’re heroes home on leave,’ wrote the First World War poet Siegfried Sassoon, ’or wounded in a mentionable place.’ For a majority of soldiers, then as…

  In recent a post I was asked about Hitler’s real name. Was it Hitler or Schicklgruber? The difference is significant politically. The former millions were able to yell in…

On Christmas day, in 1920s Berlin, most people enjoyed the bleak festivities on ersatz everything. Men wore pink and blue dickies as substitutes for shirts.  Christmas cakes were made from…

In October 1918, a gas blinded lance-corporal named Adolf Hitler was admitted to a small mental hospital in the Pomeranian town of Pasewalk. There he was examined by Dr Karl…

In 1943, a group of Munich University founded the White Rose Movement as a protest against Nazi tyranny. It cost them their lives. The instigator of the movement was a young…

In his 1943 book, Hypnotism, psychologist Professor George Hoben Estabrooks described Hitler as ‘the world’s best hypnotist.’ He went on to describe the five components of his approach: Emotional contagion…

The years following the signings of the armistice in 1918 were desperate ones for the German economy and its defeated people. There was political unrest, strikes, hyperinflation, and appalling street…