In today’s post I will be talking about my catalyst project. We had to pick a new’s story And transform it. My story was about Era Braun, Hitler’s lover. More precisely about her panties being sold in auction .
Original story:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2095878/silk-knickers-worn-by-adolf-hitlers-lover-eva-braun-are-up-for-auction-for-450/
After some research into Hitler’s bizarre personality, to say the least , l started changing and adding to the story . The story is as follows;
The panties weren’t Eva’s. They are Hitler’s. E.B doesn’t stand for Eva Braun; It stands for Eva’s bitch. Hitler enjoyed role playing and dressing up as a woman. This is due to the amount of estrogen the British spies were putting in his food. Therefore Hitler was struggling with his feminine side/gay/transgender… all of the above? In fact this is why he spread his wrath upon the rest of the world. Because he was a little bitch that couldn’t deal with his own emotions and his growing sensitive nipples.
Following the ‘mood’ or direction of my story, the research that I found interesting to get into were theories such as… was Hitler gay? Hitler’s peculiar sexuality, what Hitler’s sex life was really like. I went in that direction as through research I read many times that Hitler could have suffered of the Oedipus complex;
“(in Freudian theory) the complex of emotions aroused in a young child, typically around the age of four, by an unconscious sexual desire for the parent of the opposite sex and wish to exclude the parent of the same sex. (The term was originally applied to boys, the equivalent in girls being called the Electra complex .).”
Click here to find an interesting article about this by Vanity Fair;
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/1934/09/hitler-oedipus-complex
I wanted to understand how someone could become what he became, what could push someone to being this way. How much his sexuality could have to do with it. Specially as it is said that ‘Hardly any other prominent figure in history so covered his tracks, as far as his personal life was concerned.’ (Joachim Fest).
It is argued that Hitler suffered from a multitude of severe psychological disorders, paranoid schizophrenia, narcisstic personality disorder… But most interestingly of mood swings that evidenced he had contracted syphilis “as well as sudden criminal behaviour, paranoia, grandiosity and mania, all of which changes show in cases of neuro-syphilis.”
It is this information that pushed me into that kind of research and gave me my spin on the story. As it is such a serious subject, I wanted my work to make fun of him, to be a satire of Hitler in a light hearted way that wouldn’t make us think of his horrible crimes.
The following articles are of the kind I mentioned before, Hitler being gay, having a sexual obsession over his niece….
Adolf Hitler had a VERY dark sexual fetish, according to secret spy documents
http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2013/05/09/new-evidence-from-his-doctors-shows-hitler-was-gay/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/11165627/Adolf-Hitler-sex-life-Eva-Braun.html
https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/features/the-peculiar-sex-life-of-adolf-hitler-offers-insight-into-the-dictators-gay-partners-391500.html
SALOMÉ GAUTIER 