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The Review of Mein Kampf (Atlantic Monthly, 1933)
With Hitler's rise to power in 1933, the German-speaking Alice Hamilton (1869 - 1970; sister to the classics scholar, Edith) was assigned the task of reviewing "Mein Kampf" (1925) by Adolf Hitler for The Atlantic Monthly". She didn't like it.
"He loves rough, red-blooded words - 'relentless', 'steely', 'iron-hearted', 'brutal'; his favorite phrase is 'ruthless brutality'. His confidence in himself is unbounded." The royalties generated by the sales of "Mein Kampf" made Adolf Hitler a very rich man. To read about this wealth and Hitler's financial advisor, click here.
| Adolf Hitler: Ten Years Before his Rise (Literary Digest, 1923)
This article was written shortly after the French occupation of the Ruhr and at a time when Hitler did not have much of a following -he was something of a curiosity to the Western press:
"A principal reason why Hitler's followers have begun to doubt him, it appears, is that the 'dreaded gathering' of the National Socialists in Munich came and went without 'accomplishment.'"Click here to read what the Kaiser thought of Adolf Hitler.
| Hitler's Sisters Tell Their Story (Ken Magazine, 1938)
"For twenty years Ida and Paula Hitler lived in a Vienna garret, never hearing from their lost brothers, Gustav and Adolf. Ida was a war widow, Paula a stenographer. When Adolf Hitler became Chancellor, he at last wrote to them. Ida joined him at Berchtesgaden, but Paula, embittered by his long desertion and the loss of her youth, declared that he was no longer her brother. She gave out an interview revealing that their father was an illegitimate child. The Fuehrer's emissaries told her to keep quiet, she refused. But finally when Hitler came as ruler to Vienna, there was a reconciliation, and family anschluss."
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| Hitler's Military Options in 1940 (Click Magazine, 1940)
A Phony War magazine article by Major General George Ared White (1880 - 1941) in which he muses wistfully (as Oregon men are wont to do) as to all the various, dreadful choices that were spread before Herr Hitler in the early months of 1940.
As varied as Hitler's military options were, the General believed that France's Maginot Line was impregnable and he did not think that Hitler would commit to such an undertaking. General White believed Hitler had six options before him which are all illustrated on the attached cartoon map.
| Speculation About Hitler's Romantic Fixations (Physical Culture, 1937)
Attached is a 1937 ad for the long forgotten magazine, "Physical Culture". The editors of this magazine wanted all to know that they were on the job when it came to detecting the inevitable outcome that would spring from the sexual frustrations of Adolf Hitler. In this advertisement, they promote an article concerning the psychological studies of one Lawrence Gould, who believed that the Fuhrer was an odd pervert who's maladies could only trigger war.
"According to Mr. Gould, Fuhrer Hitler is possessed of an amazing and dangerous sex complex which may involve the world in war at any moment." The O.S.S. also suspected as much.
| Hitler's Last Days (Yank, 1945)
YANK reporter Harry Sions listened in as sixteen Nazi officials, having known and worked with Hitler in various capacities through the years, sat back and recalled the events of Hitler's last year. Much was said regarding the failed assassination attempt (project Valkyrie) but some of the more interesting content refers to the closing days in the bunker with Bormann, Keitel and Jodl."Later in the evening the early tension breaks, and bottles of wine are opened, cigarettes are passed around. They talk of events that made history, discussing them in the clinical tones of surgeons discussing operations. One of the men was a stenographer at the Reichstag fire trials.
"Who had been guilty?" He shrugs his shoulders..."It was all so mysterious. There were reports that Goering had ordered it, but no one really knew. Dimitroff, the Bulgarian Communist who was one of the chief defendants had made a powerful impression."
"Yah, Dimitroff," he says. "A strong personality, without a doubt a strong personality."
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