In the World of a Dictator

A column by Dorothy Thompson in The Ladies’ Home Journal in 1955 tells that an eminent psychiatrist of Prague was summoned to Adolph Hitler’s villa in Berchtesgaden but no one seemed to know who sent him. The doctor drove there with his wife, as they were vacationing in Innsbruck near Hitler’s place. After the visit, they saw a “detour” sign, and, turning off the highway, around a corner, he drove straight into a lake where he and his wife drowned. The detour led nowhere else.

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