Why did Hitler always stay up until 6 in the morning and sleep until the afternoon?
Albert Speer (Hitler’s architect and eventually somewhat of a friend) often wondered this himself and came to the conclusion that Hitler’s mind and personality seemed to work more like that of an artist and therefore embraced the night as a sort of ‘creative’ stimulant. He described this in his book “Inside the Third Reich”. He mentioned Hitler to be somewhat more free minded in his personal ways, with occasional intense outbursts of energy where he would have beyond excellent focus/thinking (brilliant even), then followed by (usually) longer periods of downtime where his thinking was more clouded. A strong repetitive 'regular' schedule especially where bedtimes are concerned was also therefore not something Hitler considered to be a necessity, rather the other way around. He preferred to stay up late with his guests. He loved the nighttime. Even though he was no drinker or smoker. And then of course there were the endless late night repetitive speeches (monologues really, sa...