41. Storr, The Essential Jung, p. 210, The Development of Personality’, 1934.

42. Lewis, Hitler Cult, p. 47.

43. IWM, FO 645/161, interrogation of Christa Schroeder, 13 September 1945, p. 5.

44. See, for example, G. Ueding ‘Rede als Fürherproklamation’ in J. Kopperschmidt (ed.) Hitler der Redner (Munich, 2003), pp. 441–53.

45. M. Dodd My Years in Germany (London, 1939), p. 180.

46. M. Loiperdinger ‘“Sieg des Glaubens” – Ein gelungenes Experiment nationalsozialistischer Filmpropaganda’, in U. Hermann and U. Nassen (eds) Formative Ästhetik in Nationalsozialismus (Weinheim, 1994), pp. 40–45.

47. V. Cowles Looking for Trouble (London, 1941), pp. 153–4.

48. Lewis, Hitler Cult, p. 39.

49. J. H. Billington The Face of Russia (New York, 1998), p. 210.

50. See, for example J. Stalin Problems of Leninism (Moscow, 1947), pp. 250, 285, 439.

51. Resis, Molotov Remembers, pp. 175–6.

52. Hitler’s model was the unmarried mayor of pre-war Vienna, Karl Lueger. See B. Hamann Hitler’s Vienna: a Dictator’s

Apprenticeship (Oxford, 1999), pp. 375–8; See too Public Record Offi ce, Kew, London FO 1031/102 ‘Women around Hitler’, Memorandum by Karl Brandt, 6 February 1946: ‘Hitler wished to keep the mystic legend alive in the hearts of the German people that so long as he remained a bachelor, there was always the chance that any out of the millions of German women might possibly attain the high distinction of being at Hitler’s side.’

53. Speer, Inside the Third Reich, p. 114.

54. E. Barker Refl ections on Government (Oxford, 1942), p. 375.

55. Kolnai, War against the West, p. 153.

56. Kolnai, War against the West, pp. 156, 158.

57. Stalin, Foundations, pp. 109–10.

58. Bonnell, Iconography of Power, pp. 157–9.

59. Tumarkin, Lenin Lives! pp, 252–3; Rosenthal, New Myth, New World, pp. 375, 379; S. Davis The Leader Cult: Propaganda and its Reception in Stalin’s Russia’, in J. Channon (ed.) Politics, Society and Stalinism in the USSR (London, 1998), pp. 117–18.

60. Labin, Stalin’s Russia, p. 71; see too van Ree, Political Thought of Joseph Stalin, p. 162.

61. Bonnell, Iconography of Power, pp. 162–4; Labin, Stalin’s Russia, p. 67.

62. van Ree, Political Thought of Joseph Stalin, p. 165.

63. C. Schmölders Hitlers Gesicht: Eine physiognomische Biographie (Munich, 2000), p. 145.

64. Schmölders, Hitlers Gesicht, pp. 39–40; on the presentation of the image see too U. Kühn ‘Rede als Selbstinszenierung – Hitler auf der “Bühne”’, in Kopperschmidt, Hitler der Redner, pp. 368–79; K. Protte ‘Hitler als Redner in Fotografi e und Film’, in Kopperschmidt, Hitler der Redner, pp. 243–54.

65. Schmölders, Hitlers Gesicht, p. 104.

66. Schmölders, Hitlers Gesicht, pp. 148–9; see too C. Koonz The Nazi Conscience (Cambridge, Mass., 2003), pp. 77–9.

67. Bonnell, Iconography of Power, p. 137.

68. Bonnell, Iconography of Power, p. 157.

69. Rosenthal, New Myth, New World, pp. 380, 386.

70. Löhmann, Der Stalinmythos, p. 27.

71. G. F. Alexandrov et al. Joseph Stalin: a Short Biography (Mocow, 1949); see too van Ree, Political Thought of Joseph Stalin, pp. 162–5.

72. J. J. Barnes and P. P. Barnes Hitler’s Mein Kampf: Britain and America: a Publishing History 1930–39 (Cambridge, 1980), pp. 1–2; see too W. Maser Mein Kampf: Der Fahrplan eines Welteroberers: Geschichte, Auszüge, Kommentare (Esslingen,

1974) and, more recently, B. Zehnpfennig Hitler’s Mein Kampf: Eine Interpretation (Munich, 2000).

73. Laqueur, Glasnost Revelations, p. 182.

74. History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: short course (Moscow, 1942), p. 206.

75. Fenander, ‘Author and Autocrat’, p. 297.

76. Fenander, ‘Author and Autocrat’, p. 297.

77. Davies, Popular Opinion in Stalin’s Russia, p. 149.

78. Labin, Stalin’s Russia, p. 68.

79. H. G. Baynes Germany Possessed (London, 1941), pp. 107–8.

80. Schmölders, Hitlers Gesicht, p. 145.

81. Bonnell, Iconography of Power, pp. 148, 166.

82. Labin, Stalin’s Russia, pp. 64–5.

83. Davies, Popular Opinion in Stalin’s Russia, p. 161.

84. F. J. Miller Folklore for Stalin: Russian Folklore and Pseudofolklore of the Stalin Era (New York, 1990), ch. 2.

85. Miller, Folklore for Stalin, p. 69; F. J. Miller The Image of Stalin in Soviet Russian Folklore’, Russian Review, 39 (1980), pp. 57–8.

86. Miller, Folklore for Stalin, p. 143.

87. Baynes, Germany Possessed, p. 107.

88. R. Marsh Images of Dictatorship: Stalin in Literature (London, 1989), p. 31.

89. Marsh, Images of Dictatorship, p. 39.

90. Marsh, Images of Dictatorship, p. 27.

91. Labin, Stalin’s Russia, p. 65.

92. Davies, Popular Opinion in Stalin’s Russia, p. 165; Laqueur, Glasnost Revelations, p. 183.

93. Davies, Popular Opinion in Stalin’s Russia, p. 174.

94. G. Neesse Die NSDAP: versuch einer Rechtsdentung (Stuttgart, 1935), pp. 196–7; see too H. Brausse Die Führungsordnung des deutschen Volkes: Grundlegung einer Führungslehre (Hamburg, 1940) pp. 14–25, 52–5.

95. Storr, Essential Jung, p. 201.

96. M. Perrie ‘Nationalism and History: the Cult of Ivan the Terrible in Stalin’s Russia’, in G. Hosking and R. Service (eds) Russian Nationalism: Past and Present (London, 1998), p. 120.

97. Joseph Stalin: a Short Biography, pp. 201–3.

98. Kolnai, War against the West, p. 20.

99. Davies, Popular Opinion in Stalin’s Russia, p. 172.

100. Kershaw, The ‘Hitler Myth’, p. 60.

101. In general on the cult see Kershaw, The ‘Hitler Myth’; G. Gill ‘The Soviet Leader Cult: Refl ections on the Structure of Leadership in the Soviet Union’, British Journal of Political Science, 10 (1980), pp. 167–86; R. H. Tucker The Rise of Stalin’s Personality Cult’, American Historical Review, 84 (1979), pp. 347–66; S. Davies, ‘The Leader Cult: Propaganda and its Perception in Stalinist Russia’, in J. Channon (ed.) Politics, Society and Stalinism in the USSR (London, 1988), pp. 115–38.

102. Davies, Popular Opinion in Stalin’s Russia, p. 170.

103. Davies, Popular Opinion in Stalin’s Russia, p. 174.

104. N. Mandelstam Hope against Hope (London, 1970), p. 203; see too Marsh, Images of Dictatorship, pp. 36–8.