The result of our conversation was his instruction that the marriage must be annulled, which was done. The divorced husband remained with the lady, however, which Hitler was prepared to overlook. After the war I saw the couple again. After the SS-Führer’s release from internment, they remarried. ‘What people do in their beds’, Hitler used to say, ‘does not interest me so long as relationships do not prejudice the State and its leadership.’ And he kept to that.
