THE BIZARRE - AND VERY PRIVATE -LIFE OF THE MASTER OF THE THIRD REICH What were the strange secrets in Adolf Hitler's life? The secrets that motivated his every act? In this startling and riveting study, Gerald McKnight looks at the formative relationships in Hitler's life - the brutal, sexually insatiable father and the gentle mother whom he loved deeply - and traces their importance in his later life. But Hitler's relationships with his family can only hint at an explanation for his inability to lead a normal life. He had a horror of being touched, he refused to have children and, above all, degradation and violence characterised his sexual encounters. There has to be something else. And Gerald McKnight's stunning conclusions, based on exhaustive interviews with women who knew the Führer, shed new light on the life of the man responsible for the most horrific nightmare of the twentieth century.