He was also a dog person and was a painter.

He was an odd man. Unique among dictators in his New Age Occultism.

We forget that many of the ideas were also in vogue among the ruling class in other western countries too, including America, such as eugenics. A lot of it never went away, it was just rebranded and repackaged post-war.

Naturalism and spiritualism were strong movements within his party, which was an amalgam of various considerations that had recently emerged in the wake of industrialism's technological and societal changes. Many conveniently forget that this was true for the entire Western world and beyond. He wasn...