The two men who were probably closer to him for a longer period than even Karl Wolff, the chief of his personal staff, Dr Rudolf Brandt, and his ‘magic Buddha’, Felix Kersten, both referred to his vacillating nature and inability to make up his mind.[32] Yet this apparent contradiction is surely one of the keys to understanding him: was it not because he was so little able to make up his mind that he needed a creed to hold on to and a master to obey?
