QUOTE (unsere @ Dec 21 2007, 05:35 AM)

First of all, what exactly does homosexuality have to do with being a madman? You're comparing gays to Hitler??? Secondly...still at large??? The man was born April 20, 1889!! You expect a 118 year old man to be running around in Iran??? I'm not sure which one of these theories bothers me more, but I genuinely hope you are kidding on both counts.
IMO, Hitler did indeed take his own life. His megalomania would have prevented him from ever being captured and brought to trial.
Hitler was known for persecuting inner weakness he and other's suffered. Homosexuals in the Reich were murdered. Because, of immorality. Oft, they we used for technical gatherings of weapons info. This is true.
The mentally challenged were used to vamp Nazi Germany's attempt at mass-murder super-bomb. Poisonous gases and other methods were tested on them.
The decrepit, unsuitable for service due to drunkenness, drug use, whatever; were intentional injured. So as to model viable treatments for battlefield injury.
It's become common knowledge now that Hitler invested in personal drug use. A concoction of synthetic drugs, opiates, and cocaine. He also had in his blood line a Jewish Ancestor. A factor which should have excluded him from the Reich. Several of his undersecretaries were known to keep the company of male prostitutes.
This is where the term 'dogma' essentially stems. To strike at an inner weakness, by crushing those around you for 'known' problems, thereof. Therefore conquering your induced lack of will, and losing all forms of inhibition along the way.
Along the path of Hitler being a madman; there's a very specific reason his political rallies dwindled in the later war years. Drug induced psychosis led him to believe all were enemies, especially the ones that were actually plotting against him. He was very unstable, and after his 2nd assassination attempt, he was eventually ineffective as a leader. This was seen in the shift of his cabinet, were propaganda focused instead on popular culture of the war. Hitler's Youth, Gestapo, and the Luftwaffe support-in materials, and aiding a downed pilot.
Some of the archival footage where he is shown leading a march through Munich, while the Allies were about 40 miles away, shows that even though the sound editors did well removing the artillery rounds striking, he was very much shaken at each one. Missing footage, about 20-30 seconds, indicates he might have even collapsed at one of these barrages. As, his demeanor greatly shifts, as does his dress.
The level of diaries indicating he had lost control from those around him, and the assassination attempts on him prior to his death seem to indicate he was 'pre-occupied'. Most likely delusional--in a shifted sense. Total speculation on my part, but the movements he ordered would indicate that for part of the day, victory was imminent. The rest of the day, where others had to assume on his previous orders, he was most likely somewhere in solitude, for his protection.