>"She [Hanfstaengl's wife] saw Hitler as a warm man and was moved by his feeling for her two-year-old son, Egon. "Evidently he liked children, or he was a good actor." One day the youngster ran to meet Hitler at the door, bumped his head sharply against a heavy chair, and began crying. "Hitler with a dramatic gesture beat the chair severely, reprimanding it for hurting 'good little Egon' [...] from that day, each time Hitler came he would have to repeat this act; Egon urging him 'Please, Uncle Adolf, spank the naughty chair.'"
