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134. Schmidt, 342–6. See also the extensive account of Lloyd George’s visit by Thomas Jones, who accompanied him on his trip to Germany and noted how impressed he was with Hitler (Jones, 241–52). Just over a year later, Lloyd George wrote to a friend: i have never doubted the fundamental greatness of Herr Hitler… I have never withdrawn one particle of the admiration which I personally felt for him… I only wish we had a man of his supreme quality at the head of affairs in our country today.’ Cit. Martin Gilbert, Britain and Germany between the Wars, London, 1964, 102. And see Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War. Vol.1: The Gathering Storm, London 1948, 224–5: ‘No one was more completely misled than Mr Lloyd George, whose rapturous accounts of his conversations make odd reading today. There is no doubt that Hitler had a power of fascinating men…’

135. Schmidt, 350; TBJG, I/3, 119, 142 (21 April 1937,12 May 1937). See Lansbury’s comment in a private letter written on 11 May 1937: ‘…A soft word, a tiny recognition of Hitler’s position by diplomats, would make all the difference… He will not go to war unless pushed into it by others.

136. He knows how a European war will end.’ Cit. Gilbert, 102. Lansbury had roundly condemned Hitler in the book he had published the previous year (George Lansbury, My England, London, n.d. (1936), 193–6).

137. Schmidt, 349–50.

138. André François-Poncet, Souvenirs d’une ambassade à Berlin, Septembre 1931-Octobre 1938, Paris, 1946, 262.

139. Cit. Ludwig Volk, ‘Kardinal Faulhabers Stellung zur Weimarer Republik und zum NS-Staat’, Stimmen der Zeit, 177 (1966), 173–95, here 187.

140. Henry Picker, Hitlers Tischgespräche im Führerhauptquartier 1941–1942, ed. Percy Ernst Schramm, Stuttgart, 1963, 478 (26 July 1942).

141. August Kubizek, Adolf Hitler, mein Jugendfreund, 5th edn, Graz/Stuttgart, 1989, 275.

142. Christa Schroeder, Er war mein Chef. Aus dem Nachlaß der Sekretärin von Adolf Hitler, ed. Anton Joachimsthaler, Munich/Vienna (1985), 4th edn, 1989, 47, 60.

143. Schroeder, 54, 58.

144. Below, 20.

145. Schroeder, 269.

146. Schroeder, 55–6.

147. See Schroeder, 269 and 78: ‘Before dictation I didn’t exist for him, and I doubt that he often saw me sitting at the typewriter.’

148. Below, 31. Hermann Döring, who referred to himself as ‘manager’ (Verwalter) of the Berghof, spoke of Hitler as ‘extremely strict’ (‘unwahrscheinlich streng’) about cleanliness and organization, and the atmosphere as tense when he was present, with everyone alert to his rapid changes of mood (BBC Archives, London, ‘The Nazis: A Warning from History’, transcript of roll 242, pp.22, 27–9).

149. Schroeder, 269.

150. Schroeder, 78, 81.

151. Schroeder, 38–9, 58, 289–90, n.18.

152. Schroeder, 326 n.99.

153. Schroeder, 55. See Willi Schneider, ‘Hitler aus nächster Nähe’, 7 Tage. Illustrierte Wochenschrift aus dem Zeitgeschehen, Nr.42, 17 October 1952– Nr.1, 2 January 1953, here Nr.42, 8, for Hitler’s high expectations and Kannenberg’s nervousness.

154. Below, 10, 28; Schroeder, 269.

155. Schroeder, 37–46; Below, 29–30.

156. Below, 18, 29–32.

157. Schroeder, 48.

158. Below, 29, 31. The Reich Chancellery had been renovated by Troost and Speer after 1933. The Neue Reichskanzlei was begun by Speer in 1938 and completed on 7 January 1939.

159. Below, 29, 31–2; Schroeder, 47.

160. Below, 20.

161. Gitta Sereny, Albert Speer: His Battle with the Truth, London, 1995, 113.

162. Below, 32.

163. Below, 28–9, 32.

164. Schroeder, 79.

165. Below, 32–3.

166. TBJG, I/3, 378 (22 December 1937).

167. Below, 33.

168. Below, 33–4.

169. Domarus, 606.

170. Below, 22–3; see Schroeder, 170–96. And for Hitler’s dislike of Berlin, see Tb Irving, 268 (25 July 1938).

171. Schroeder, 317 n.326.

172. Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler was my Friend, London, 1955, 162–3.

173. Schroeder, 167.

174. Sereny, 109.

175. See Sereny, 110. Enthused by Resi Iffland as Brünnhilde in the Bayreuth performance of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung, Hitler had told Goebbels that summer of ‘his preference for large wome’ (TBJG, I/3, 221 (1 August 1937)).

176. Nerin E. Gun, Eva Braun-Hitler. Leben und Schicksal, Velbert/Kettwig, 1968, 74–8; Werner Maser, Adolf Hitler. Legende, Mythos, Wirklichkeit, 3rd paperback edn, Munich, 1973, 325–69; John Toland, Adolf Hitler, London, 1976, 375–7.

177. Gun, 78–9; Maser, 362–3, 368–9, 369m; Toland, 377–8.

178. Domarus, 677; Speer, 87–93, especially 90.