A CHANGED HITLER

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 41, 18 January 1944, Page 6

A CHANGED HITLER

WEEPS AND RAGES

Extraordinary inner changes in Hitler are. reported by travellers from Germany who have bad opportunity to study him under Avar conditions, states a London cable to the Sun, Sydney. The. best picture is supplied by a Rumanian who met him lour times last year, the last time, only a month ago. ''Before the Avar he was hall-mys-tic and hall-brutal opportunist, lie says. "Opportunism has, laded, and with his growing personal solitariness he is becoming other-worldly. He sleeps badly and. still rises late. —rarely before 10.30 or 11 a.m. "He insists on being alone tor at least an hour a day, when no one in any circumstances must disturb him. His; habits arc even simpler than three years, ago. Pie lias occas-. ional parties for male guests at Berchtesgaden (Bavaria), giving them only French wines, for which lie has developed, a strong liking. "His moodiness has increased and his taste for solitude has intensified. ''One of his aides told me that violent rages are. often followed by fits of weeping and talk of needless bloodshed. "These outbursts are hushed up by his stall'. "He has not been in Berlin since the big bombings began. He never had manj' intimates, and to-day lie has none. "llibbentrop (Foreign Minister) was probably closer to Hitler than anyone, but lie. too, has lost, face because of his conviction that Britain and Russia could never work together. ''At his H.Q. lie still sees all frontline reports and attends all High Command meetings, but he. 110 longer tries to overrule majority decis-< ions, of his generals." A report that Franz von Pa pen (German Ambassador to. Turkey) has been talking freely about Hitler's downfall and naming himself as life successor is published in "Collier's Magazine" by Frank Gervasi, its Mid-East correspondent. . Papen is credited with haw king a peace plan which would restore all stolen lands except the Sudetenland and Austria.