To future biographers of Adolf Hitler Frederick C. Oechsner, longtime (twelve years) United Press Central European manager just home from internment, offered a juicy sheaf of notes. Items:
> Hitler has had his fat nose streamlined by a plastic surgeon. He has had himself painted with a halo around his brow. For the benefit of posterity he has had his head measured by scientists, who prepared a 130-page report; he has willed that after death his brain shall be dissected.
> On his first ascent to his glassy Eagle's Nest above Berchtesgaden, Hitler got stuck in the elevator for four hours.
> One of Hitler's favorites was his longtime chauffeur, the late Julius ("Pistol") Schreck, who sometimes concealed as many as seven guns about his person. In 1937 one of Hitler's adjutants told Schreck, who had a swollen jaw from an abscessed tooth, that, looking as he did, he ought not to drive the Führer. Schreck went to his garage, slashed at the abscess with a screwdriver, tried to extract the tooth with a pair of pliers, left for his drive with a raging fever, subsequently died of infection. Hitler wept openly at his death.
> A doctor close to Hitler has observed him strong homosexual traits. He likes phallic conversations. He wants only male animals around him; he has a distaste for mares and bitches.
> In recent years, however, he has shown an increasing, if spare-time, interest in women. He has enjoyed nude dancing exhibitions. He had a platonic admiration for the sightly young English aristocrat Unity Freeman-Mitford, as the "perfect example of Nordic beauty." The bullet wound with which she returned to England after the outbreak of war (TIME, Jan. 15, 1940) was self-inflicted.
> Shortly after he came to power, Hitler met healthy, olive-skinned Eva Braun, 20 years his junior, assistant to his official photographer, Heinrich Hoffman. For seven years she was Hitler's mistress, with her own apartments in Berlin's Reich Chancellery and at Berchtesgaden. Under her influence he shifted from nightshirts to pajamas. He gave her an engagement ring and bought a custom-built Mercedes intended as a wedding present. But war, not Eva Braun, claimed Adolf Hitler.
> Hitler has 100 uniforms and suits, 60 pairs of shoes, 35 hats and caps.
> He likes to draw bizarre eight-legged animals, fantastic warships and submarines, exotic human heads.
> He has undoubtedly read most of the 7,000 military books in his library. He likes cheap fiction, often reads himself to sleep with typical Wild West stories by a German named Karl May, who has never been in the U.S. In a book on diet, Vegetarian Hitler penciled this marginal note: "Cows were meant to give milk, oxen for drawing loads."
> He is fascinated by astrology and spiritualism, has photographs of the stellar constellations at important moments of his life.
> In the middle of last winter, the desperate Russian winter, after years of confining himself to near-beer, "Adolf Hitler took to drinking several hot grogs a night.