When Adolf Hitler was cornered by Allied Forces in 1944, he somehow thought it was a joke and a passing phase. He refused to accept reality and suicidally, he thought he was still on the verge of winning the Second World War. As his empire was crumbling around him, Hitler’s spin doctor and propaganda maestro, Josef Goebbels, was telling him a different story. According to Goebbels, the armed forces of the Third Reich were on the ascendancy and the Allied Forces were retreating. But we all know that what Goebbels was telling Hitler was a lie. A blue lie! Hitler didn’t survive for long. He chose to believe that he was super-human and unbeatable. He got intoxicated by his own psychosis and rabid propaganda. Put simply, he was in denial and he completely refused to accept reality. He was dreaming. When he woke up from dreamland, both himself and the Third Reich had been totally annihilated. A similar fate befell dictators in the mould of Idi Amin Dada, the man who notoriously ref