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...bulletin from Berchtesgaden, no communique from the Reich Chancellery told the German people and the world where Adolf Hitler was. He had not spoken or made any public appearance for four months and a half (a few public statements had been read for him). The U.S. State Department had seen reports that Hitler had suffered a complete nervous breakdown, added that these reports were wholly unconfirmed. Stockholm reported that a famed brain surgeon, Professor Herbert Olivecrona, had been in Germany to treat an important patient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Anyhow, He's Busy | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

...like a movie being made about Hitler. There is a British agent lurking around Berchtesgaden to kill the Fuhrer. Time & again he has a beautiful chance, but he never pulls the trigger. Why? Because he is never able to draw a bead on Hitler's heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Moscow Aware | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...first ascent to his glassy Eagle's Nest above Berchtesgaden, Hitler got stuck in the elevator for four hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Inside Hitler | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

...Shortly after he came to power, Hitler met healthy, olive-skinned Eva Braun, 20 years his junior, assistant to his official photographer, Heinrich Hoffman. For seven years she was Hitler's mistress, with her own apartments in Berlin's Reich Chancellery and at Berchtesgaden. Under her influence he shifted from nightshirts to pajamas. He gave her an engagement ring and bought a custom-built Mercedes intended as a wedding present. But war, not Eva Braun, claimed Adolf Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Inside Hitler | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

Last week, Stockholm reported Adolf Hitler had quit his Berchtesgaden hide away for the Moscow front, there to take personal command and starch the spines of his very weary warriors with an inspiring personal appearance. The obvious question-what can Germany do now?-had its usual gossip-born answers: a German turn to the south in an all-out effort to rid the Mediterranean of British power and avenge the Libyan defeats ; a German move against Turkey; German occupation of Spain, Portugal, an attack against Gibraltar; German assumption of the French Fleet, occupation of Dakar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: One Way to Lose a War | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

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