@Narvik:
Born in Austria he was also a passionate mountain climber, and in his later days he build a cottage with view up in the Bergthesgaden mountains. When the Austrian climbers Heinrich Harrer and Heclmeier did the first ascend of Eiger Nordwand in 1934 he would invite them home for dinner just to show his admiration for real heroes. When he arranged the Olympic Games in 1938, no other national leader have ever showed that much enthusiasm as he did, he actually climbed on the chair, jumping up and down yelling RUN RUN RUN to the atleths passing by.
Compared to Churchill he was a saint. He never went to any bordello neither. Churchill on the other hand lived in bordellos instead of hotels when he travelled, he chain smoked as a train, and was always drunk, and would eat nothing but beefs. So basically we got this fat, smoking, drinking, beefeater bordello customer that believed in personal freedom and democracy, and his antagonist the slim, non smoking, non drinking vegetarian athlete with real high morale whos only wish was to enslave the world and subdue every man, except the Jews who he wanted to kill by gas.
Go figure
Indeed, the contrast between Churchill’s hedonism and Hitler’s austere lifestyle was noted by John Keegan in his book The Mask of Command. Keegan says that unlike Churchill, whose daily breakfasts of pheasant or partridge cheerfully exceeded the weekly wartime protein allwoance of British schoolchildren, Hitler spent the war living on bleak fare (such as mashed apples) in miserable surroundings (such as his isolated headquarters at Rastenburg, which was a pure military facility with no luxuries). It should also be noted that Hitler, sensitive and artistically-inclined man that he was, admired not just the well-proportioned physiques of Aryan men and women (as widely depicted in German visual arts of the time, though not quite so widely found in the Fuhrer’s immediate entourage, the devilishly handsome Reinhard Heidrich being a notable exception) but also had a keen eye for the beauties of the natural world, as expressed by a popular German song of the time (which can be heard in the documentary series The World at War) whose refrain roughly translates as “Adolf Hitler’s favourite flower is the delicate edelweiss.”
