Vices, friendships and habits: Hitler’s secret life

BERLIN – The morning of the Normandy landings, Adolf Hitler slept. The Fuehrer, at the end of the war, suffered from an increasingly disturbed sleep. “He fell asleep very late: at four or five in the morning. And the absolute order was not to wake him before noon.” Thus the dictator was not even awakened when the Allies arrived on French beaches and began to liberate Europe from the Nazi nightmare.