A podgy pooch has shed more than a third of his body weight to become an award-winning pet.

"They'd say: 'You look frightful, what's the matter with you?', 'You look podgy, you look fat as a pig.' "It was good-natured banter.

Meanwhile, in Berlin, Hitler was experiencing his own unreality, with his only ally in the world his podgy, insecure personal physician, Dr Morell.