Hitler demurred, denying the request because of how it would look, and told Goebbels to stop seeing Lida on 16 August 1938. This did not set well with Goebbels' wife, Magda, who retaliated by asking Hitler to grant them a divorce. Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels openly paraded Baarova around as his consort in the mid-1930s (Goebbels controlled Reich cinema). Hitler with Austrian/Czech actress Lída Baarová. Saying that Hitler was asexual because he was a germophobe (which is a vast exaggeration) is kind of like saying that someone who grows a beard would refuse to touch a kitchen knife because of an aversion to cutting tools. Any weirdness can be ascribed to Hitler now because of politics and the lack of contrary proof. There has been recent speculation that Hitler's fanatical views about personal hygiene prevented any intimate touching, but that is mere supposition. It's surprising that this picture survived.There is no proof that Hitler ever even had sex. However, otherwise, the girls are either too tired, too uneasy or too stupid to realize that they are supposed to be smiling in the presence of the Fuehrer.
I like this picture because it is difficult to find shots of random girls with Hitler who are not smiling. Hitler visiting with some BDM girls out in the field. The psychological effects of his particular romances are impossible to pinpoint, but history is replete with seemingly minor or background facts affecting major decisions. He constantly returned to that subject at times of stress during the war, such as the surrender of the Sixth Army at Stalingrad, when he ranted on and on about how his Generals did not measure up to his dear Geli. His devotion to half-niece Geli Raubal, who shot herself, lingered to the end of his life. Hitler maintained a military bearing around the ladies.Hitler's relationships are of more than academic interest. Hitler chatting with an unidentified woman, 1940, perhaps at the opera.