7.2.2 Accommodation.
Hitler’s modest living quarters prior to the 14-18 war have been noted above. On leaving the army he rented a sparse two-room apartment in Vienna which he would stay in between 1920 and 1929, by which time he was a significant political figure.
At this point, Hitlers asceticism changes to becoming more grandiose. In 1929 he bought with party donated funds a luxury apartment , the Nazi party eventually buying out the whole building. This is the apartment where Geli was found dead in 1931. In 1928, he had rented a holiday retreat, a small chalet in the Obersalzberg where he wrote the second volume of MK. In 1933 he bought it apparently from profits from MK, then in 1935 it was extensively renovated, becoming the Berghof, …show more content…
The major facet in relation to buildings was the grandeloquency of Hitlerian architecture, more a function of his leadership style.
7.2.3 Personal Finance
Exact details about Hitler’s personal finance are difficult to clarify. Throughout, from his being in the army and for six months pursuing his political career in the small NSDAP while still drawing an army salary, there was a link between his political and personal finance and income. Kershaw concludes that
His proclaimed modest demands in matters of food and clothes – a constant element of his image as a humble man of the people – fell within a context of chauffeur-driven Mercedes, luxury hotels, grand residences, and a personal livery of bodyguards and attendants.
Hitler’s personal finance was controlled by Martin Bormann who as his personal secretary and with a lead role in the NSDAP – was in an extremely powerful position, latterly (following the departure of Hess) controlling access to …show more content…
Langer interprets the distinction as a qualitative difference in personality brought about by the psychiatric illness a biological depression. Thus for three or four months between 1909 and 1910 Hitler became a different man, subjectively depressed and hopeless and biologically with altered brain chemistry that materially altered his personality and characteristic way of reacting to his environment. Within this hypothesis – his depression may have been triggered by the combination of the death of his mother and his twice being rejected by the Viennese Academy of Art combined with the narcissistic wound of being penniless in a city with a prominent and affluent middle class with whom he identified but was excluded from, following the drying up of his
Hitler’s modest living quarters prior to the 14-18 war have been noted above. On leaving the army he rented a sparse two-room apartment in Vienna which he would stay in between 1920 and 1929, by which time he was a significant political figure.
At this point, Hitlers asceticism changes to becoming more grandiose. In 1929 he bought with party donated funds a luxury apartment , the Nazi party eventually buying out the whole building. This is the apartment where Geli was found dead in 1931. In 1928, he had rented a holiday retreat, a small chalet in the Obersalzberg where he wrote the second volume of MK. In 1933 he bought it apparently from profits from MK, then in 1935 it was extensively renovated, becoming the Berghof, …show more content…
The major facet in relation to buildings was the grandeloquency of Hitlerian architecture, more a function of his leadership style.
7.2.3 Personal Finance
Exact details about Hitler’s personal finance are difficult to clarify. Throughout, from his being in the army and for six months pursuing his political career in the small NSDAP while still drawing an army salary, there was a link between his political and personal finance and income. Kershaw concludes that
His proclaimed modest demands in matters of food and clothes – a constant element of his image as a humble man of the people – fell within a context of chauffeur-driven Mercedes, luxury hotels, grand residences, and a personal livery of bodyguards and attendants.
Hitler’s personal finance was controlled by Martin Bormann who as his personal secretary and with a lead role in the NSDAP – was in an extremely powerful position, latterly (following the departure of Hess) controlling access to …show more content…
Langer interprets the distinction as a qualitative difference in personality brought about by the psychiatric illness a biological depression. Thus for three or four months between 1909 and 1910 Hitler became a different man, subjectively depressed and hopeless and biologically with altered brain chemistry that materially altered his personality and characteristic way of reacting to his environment. Within this hypothesis – his depression may have been triggered by the combination of the death of his mother and his twice being rejected by the Viennese Academy of Art combined with the narcissistic wound of being penniless in a city with a prominent and affluent middle class with whom he identified but was excluded from, following the drying up of his