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Hello, and thank you for listening to a history of World War II, Episode 38, The Long Dark Tunnel.

Last time, Adolf embarrassed by his being barred from even sitting for the exam again, ran away from the room he shared with his more successful and only friend.

He spent the next nine months at a Felberstrasse address, only a few blocks away, but it might as well have been on the other side of the world as he rarely left his room.

There are no eyewitness accounts of his doing for these nine months, but it's assumed he was alone and enjoying not having to face his friend and therefore his shame.

It's assumed that he read or followed one of the more popular magazines called Ostarra, a radical pro-German magazine.

After all, in the future, he would espouse very similar hate-filled views, and there was a new stand right outside his front door.

The paper Ostarra was started in 1905 by former monk, known as York Lanz von Liebenfelds.

He later founded an order that used mysticism and symbols to draw people in.

One of the more prominent symbols was the swastika, and it's almost certain Adolf would have seen it as he entered and left his door.

Liebenfeld's order was obsessed with the heroic blonde race pitted against predatory dark men.

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