1989, 275.
142. Christa Schroeder, Er war mein Chef. Aus dem Nachla? der Sekretarin 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 Doring, 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 nachster Nahe’, 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 Brunnhilde in the Bayreuth performance of Wagner’s Gotterdammerung, 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.
179. In August 1938, after a lengthy conversation with Hitler about his marital problems with Magda, Goebbels would note in his diary: ‘The Fuhrer is like a father to me’ (TBJG, I/6, 44 (16 August 1938).
180. TBJG, I/3, 266 (14 September 1937).
181. See Sereny, 109, 138–9, 156; and Joachim C. Fest, Speer. Eine Biographie, Berlin, 1999, 459ff.
182. TBJG, I/3, 221 (1 August 1937).
183. Sereny, ch.5.
184. See Gerhard Weinberg (ed.), Hitlers Zweites Buch. Ein Dokument aus dem Jahr 1928, Stuttgart, 1961, 129–30 for his views on the USA. In his view, only a strong, racially purified Germany, built up on the principles of National Socialism, could combat the USA in the contest for world hegemony that would inevitably occur in the distant future. See also Milan Hauner, ‘Did Hitler want a World Dominion?’, JCH, 13 (1978), 15–32, especially 24.
185. See TBJG, I/3, 104, 115, 119, 236, 261, 316, 321, 325 (10 April 1937, 17 April 1937, 20 April 1937, 15 August 1937, 10 September 1937, 28 October 1937, 2 November 1937, 4 November 1937). See in general on Hitler’s monumental building plans, and their connection with his Utopian goals of domination, Jochen Thies, Architect der Weltherrschaft. Die ‘Endziele’ Hitlers, Dusseldorf, 1976; and Jochen Thies, ‘Hitlers European Building Programme’, JCH, 13 (1978), 413–31.
186. TBJG, I/3, 119 (20 April 1937). Hitler had revealed his schemes for the rebuilding, including the gigantic hall, a few days earlier (TBJG, I/3, 115 (17 April 1937)).
187. TBJG, I/3, 236, 316 (15 August 1937, 28 October 1937).
188. TBJG, I/3, 261 (10 September 1937).
189. David Irving, The Secret Diaries of Hitler’s Doctor, paperback edn, London, 1990, 31.
190. Irving, Doctor, 34.
191. Irving, Doctor, 35.
192. Irving, Doctor, 30, 36.
193. Irving, Doctor, 38.
194. TBJG, I/3, 177, 224 (18 June 1937, 3 August 1937).
195. Irving, Doctor, 38.
196. Irving, Doctor, 18.
197. Domarus, 745.
198. Domarus, 661–768; Milan Hauner, Hitler. A Chronology of his Life and Time, London, 1983, 116–23.
199. Domarus, 667. Following his speech, the Reichstag, without formalities, unanimously renewed the Enabling Act for a further four years (Domarus, 676). In this same speech, Hitler advanced the German demand for colonies (Domarus, 673). The colonial question would be raised on a number of occasions during 1937 (see, for example, TBJG, I/3, 46 (16 February 1937)), but largely for tactical reasons. (See Domarus, 759.) Hitler told Goebbels that he had consciously included colonial demands in his proclamation to the Reich Party Rally in order to demonstrate greater assertiveness to the outside world (TBJG, I/3, 258 (8 September 1937). His unchanged interest was not in the reacquisition of colonial territory in Africa, but in a continental empire in eastern Europe. See Hildebrand, Vom Reich zum Weltreich, 501–2; Klaus Hildebrand, Das vergangene Reich. Deutsche Au?enpolitik von Bismarck bis Hitler 1871–1945, Stuttgart, 1995, 640; and Hauner, Hitler, 120
