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-136- clrcumberlbad he becomes lonelier and lonelier. He feels to be a c^ptiv* odd often compares his life with that of the Pope (Hanfat&engl, 912)* Fry (£77) flaja, "spiritual loneliness Bust be Hitler'a secret regret", and von Wiegnnd (491) writes: "Perhaps the snow-cromieti peaks of the Alps glistening in the Eoonlight remind Adolph Hitler of the glittering but cold, lonely heights of fajise nnd achievement to whiih ho '." ha a climbed * rI an the loneliest nan on earth1 he soi<l to 'an employe* oJT his h aa," sxe not discouraged by all this* On the contrary, they ijitarpret their fofli-e as proof of their own im- portance;'rather than aa eigua of their fundamental ifeoknesa. Aa Hitler^ persanal world, becomes emoller he must axtami thfi bound- aries of hia physical domainfl*. Jfoeowhile, his image of htJueeLf • evermore inflated in order to conpetisate for hi a deprl- and the nalLtejiaiice of hifl rupreAaioji^, Ha mtis-t build bigger ana better buildings, bridges, stadia and nhat not, ao tengi- bio synbols of hi a ptower and gr&atnefib and then uue these &e evi- dence that he really ia, mhr.t he w^nts to believe he is* ^ I There 1B, however,, little gratification in all this, "Mo *att#r what he,achiaT*fl or what he does i t is never fluffipieat to him that things are what they flWai to be. He is nnd nuflt bolster up his super ^structure by n^- and aore defen$ep. But the,nooce he gets and the higher he builds, the more he ties to worry about and defend. He le caught In a vicious circle> like eo aany other hysterics, which erowa bigger and bigger afr tlaa goos on but never brings theta the sense of security above eTerything else. REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES