He wore them as necessary in private but would never appear in public wearing them. ‘The Führer’, he explained to me, ‘does not wear glasses.’ Nevertheless when in a small circle he would toy with them in his hands which often resulted in their being broken when he got tense. I had to carry a reserve with me everywhere so that he would never be without reading glasses when he needed them. I also had to make sure that atlases, a magnifying glass, compasses, writing materials and red, green and blue coloured pencils were always to hand. Psychologists may draw conclusions from something Hitler
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