All but human, no repressed soul: Hitler secret lover

The book by Austrian historian, Anna Maria Sigmund hits book shops in Germany tomorrow. Entitled Die Frauen Der Nazis III (Women of the Nazis III), the book is the third in a series of biographies of prominent women in the third Reich. Hitler called her his ‘‘forest pixie’’ and wrote of his undying love for her. She in turn spoke well of him decades later, saying ‘‘he was all man’’ and dispelling lurid speculation about sexual inadequacies.

He was a passionate lover and readily signed his love letters ‘‘Wolf’’ in a blatant double entendre.

‘‘Wolf held me closer. I just let it happen. I have never been so happy as I was on that night when we were alone in his home,’’ she wrote of a summer night in 1931.

Mizzi and Wolf had known each other nearly five years by then. They met at her home town of Berchtesgaden when she was 16 — and he was 21 years her senior. On that first meeting, following a rally, the two of them talked about their mutual affection for dogs. She recalled feeling flattered by the attentions of an older man.

Later he invited her out for a spin in his open-top mercedes and wasted no time in kissing her. ‘‘He pulled me to him forcefully and said, ‘Mizzi, dear sweetgirl’ and then he kissed me. I wanted to die and go to heaven, I was so happy.’’

On her 17th birthday on December 23, 1926, Hitler wrote, ‘‘You know, Mizzi, often-times when I have troubles or worries I do so long to be with you and be able to look into your eyes and forget everything else. Yes, child, little do you really know what you mean to me and how I love you.’’ (DPA)