Many of us are now familiar with the home movies shot by Hitler’s mistress, Eva Braun, where the main Nazi power-brokers were seen relaxing informally on the terrace at the Fuhrer’s mountain-top retreat. But whether any of those leading Nazis were genuine ‘friends’ of Hitler is an interesting question. Do dictators have any real friends? One of my history dissertation students at Kingston last year became very interested in the ‘inner circle’ around the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, and the extent to which any of the top officials around him became really close to the Nazi leader at a personal level, perhaps becoming a genuine friend in the process.
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