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Israeli newspaper in 1932: Hitler makes better impression than expected
The date is Jan. 28, 1932. Haaretz' journalist in Berlin, Gershon Savitt, reports from the courthouse. Defendant Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi party, is facing a libel suit filed by his former friend Walter Stennes. In the article "Hitler up close and personal" he emerges as an exotic figure. "I must note right away that the impression Hitler makes is immeasurably better than expected. He is 46, but looks younger... Self-satisfaction and self-confidence are apparent in his movements; he acts and feels as if he himself is a 'star.' Because the world's eyes are now turned upon him and this pleases him."     [ haaretz :: 2008-04-30 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

Adolf Hitler - How great was the nazi dictator?
Most of the world sees Adolf Hitler as the great archenemy of the 20th century, but some think that he could have achieved great and good things if he had gone the right way. Hitler criticised the Western concept of democracy because of its slow pace, and that individuals are not able to work with their fullest potential due to compromises both in principle and practice that take place. in Mein Kampf he writes: "The Nazi Party must not serve the masses, but rather dominate them." It is beyond contention, that for good or evil Adolf Hitler irrevocably changed the course of history.     [ zeenews :: 2008-04-22 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

Bruno Ganz: I had some doubts when I was offered the part of Hitler in Downfall
The producers sent me a recording, secretly taped in Finland in 1942, with Hitler's natural voice: not the screaming orator, but a soft voice. I'm sure that Hitler had Parkinson: there is newsreel of him giving medals to the Hitler Youth a few days before his death, and you can see his hand shaking. There was no strategy to say: "Let's show a new Hitler," just to show him as he was. Witnesses say he was kind to dogs, charming to women, nice to children - but when he was talking about military problems, one general says: "What about the 100,000 young German officers on the eastern front? They are going to die." Hitler replies: "But they are born to die."     [ scenta :: 2008-02-16 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

Did Adolf Hitler think he was doing good - The paradox of evil
The Treaty of Versailles blamed Germany for starting the war, forced it to pay compensations, took land away from it while millions of Germans were starving. It was in this context that Adolf Hitler dreamed of making Germany into a great empire based on law and order. In his mind, Hitler believed that he was making a better world, at least for the Germanic people. Military historian John Laffin thinks the West has an erred image of Hitler, seeing him only as evil. He proves his point in "Hitler Warned Us" by reprinting photos of Hitler from the 1935 Nazi Party book "Adolf Hitler" - filled with pictures of Hitler smiling, embracing the young and elderly, and consoling mourners.     [ ncronline :: 2008-02-06 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

Hitler's Rise to Power - 75th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's attainment of power
It took the Führer just 12 years to plunge Europe into the gloomiest chapter of its history. But how did a failed painter manage to bring Germany under his thumb? It was a chilly winter day in 1933, and at 10 a.m., Adolf Hitler, head of the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP), made his way down Wilhelmstrasse. Hitler was on his way to the Reichskanzlei, seat of the Weimar Republic's govt, where his cabinet were to meet with President Paul von Hindenburg. The swearing-in ceremony was set for 11 a.m. It was a moment Hitler had been working towards for years. His first attempt, the Beer Hall Putsch in Nov. 1923, would fail in a hail of bullets in Munich.     [ spiegel :: 2008-01-31 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

Unity Mitford had Adolf Hitler's love child?
Unity Mitford had been so entwined in the Führer's inner circle that secret services described her as "more Nazi than the Nazis". When Britain declared war on the Third Reich in 1939, Mitford was so devastated that she shot herself in the head with a pearl-handled pistol in Munich. She returned to Britain living as an invalid in the Cotswolds until her death in 1948. Martin Bright describes a phone call he got from Val Hann: "She explained that her aunt Betty Norton had run a maternity home ... and that Unity Mitford had been one of her clients." When asked who the father might be, Hann paused before replying: "Well, she always said it was Hitler's."     [ timesonline :: 2007-12-13 :: British Nazis: Royals - Oswald Diana Mosley ]

Adolf Hitler's correspondence revealed: Love letters to a dictator
Adolf Hitler received more fan letters than Mick Jagger, Madonna and the Beatles combined. Many were from women wanting to marry him, others from men wanting to be like him. What Adolf Hitler thought of this mass hysteria died with him in Berlin in 1945. But thousands of the letters survived and have been compiled into a book "Letters to Hitler: A People Writes to its Fuehrer." The letters were found by the Russian at his chancellery, at the Berghof and in his residence in Munich. One woman wrote: "I would like to make you my little puppy my dear, my eternal, my lovely Adolf." Karl Leiff wrote: "If only all Germans could be as pure of heart and as noble of purpose as you."     [ dailymail :: 2007-10-09 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

10 things you didn't know about dictator Adolf Hitler
(1) His Nazi Rallies were Inspired by Harvard Cheerleaders: Hitler's friend Ernst Hanfstaengl, who had studied at Harvard, described the cheerleaders to Adolf, who became obsessed with the idea of stirring enthusiasm in this way. "'Rah, rah, rah' became "Sig Heil, Heil Hitler." --- (10) His dog, German Shepherd named Blondi, had a large effect on his war policy. Hitler spent hours training her. The generals realized that if Blondi did well, Hitler was in a better mood, and more likely to take their advice. One of the officers said, "I sometimes had the impression that the outcome of the Russian campaign depended more on Blondi than the German general staff."     [ rite2ankit :: 2007-09-11 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

Hitler's personal music collection surprising, found from Moscow attic
It's no surprise that music from Adolf Hitler favorite composers such as Richard Wagner would turn up in the Nazi leader's personal record collection. Yet a Moscow attic of Lew Besymenski, a captain in Russia's military intelligence unit, has yielded a complex picture of the Führer's musical taste. Nearly 100 records suggest Hitler also listened to Russian and Jewish musicians declared "subhuman" by the Nazis. In 1945 Besymenski went to the captured Reich Chancellery in Berlin. The HQ of the Nazi party were located near the underground bunker where Hitler committed suicide. Besymenski's comrades took silverware engraved with Hitler's initials with them as souvenirs.     [ dw-world :: 2007-08-07 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

Adolf Hitler, Holocaust and psychiatrists
An encounter with a Jewish prostitute may have led to Adolf Hitler's genocidal Holocaust, claim a team of psychiatrists headed by Dr Bassem Habeeb. They believe he may have caught the syphilis which, if untreated, can eventually cause madness. Habeeb said that there had been speculation that Hitler had syphilis from diary entries made by his personal doctor Theo Morrell. In his diary Morrell noted Hitler's severe gastric crises, skin lesions, Parkinson's disease and violent mood swings as evidence that he had syphilis, as well as "sudden criminal behaviour, paranoia, grandiosity and mania", all characteristic of cases of the advanced stage neuro-syphilis.     [ dailymail :: 2007-06-22 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

Adolf Hitler has was a big fan of British comedy
In 1945 Albert Speer let slip the revelation that The Führer was an avid listener to the BBC. His favourite show was ITMA aka It's That Man Again, with Tommy Handley: a vaudeville romp set aboard a fake pirate radio station called Radio Fakenburg (Radio Luxembourg). "Oh yes," Speer recalled fondly chuckling as he spoke: "The Führer loved your Tommy Handley." He then proceeded to imitate the voice of Mrs Mopp. When Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator came out during WW2, a satirising of Hitler by Chaplin designed as anti-Nazi propaganda, lampooning his every pompous gesture, Hitler ordered a number of copies, watching it over and over again laughing throughout.     [ guardian :: 2007-05-06 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

Adolf Hitler was ordered to trim his Prussian moustache in WW1
His moustache is the most recognisable in history. Yet, according to new research into Adolf Hitler's early life, the toothbrush shape that adorned his scowling face was not his first preference. A unpublished essay by Alexander Moritz Frey who served alongside Hitler in World War I trenches reveals that the future Führer was only obeying orders when he shaped his moustache into its tightly-clipped style. He was instructed to do so, that it would fit under the respirator masks, introduced in response to British mustard gas attacks. Had that order never been issued, he would be remembered as a man with a large Prussian moustache.     [ telegraph :: 2007-05-06 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

Eye-Witness account of Hitler's WWI years: "coward, that's not true"
Adolf Hitler's years in the German army during World War I have been a mystery due to the lack of eyewitness accounts. Until now: Stefan Ernsting rediscovered the work by Alexander Moritz Frey, who served alongside Hitler in the 16th Bavarian Reserve Regiment in the German trenches during WWI as a medical assistant. "The Fantastic Rebel Alexander Moritz Frey" republishes his accounts. "... I immediately had the same impression that many had of him later - that he took the military maneuvers of the enemy personally, as if they wanted to take his precious life in particular." and "When people claim that he had been a coward, that's not true."     [ spiegel :: 2007-05-01 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

Werner Maser, a Leading Adolf Hitler historian, Dies at 84
The German historian Werner Maser, considered one of the leading experts on Adolf Hitler and nazi regime, died at 84. He won acclaim with a biography "Hitler: Legend, Myth and Reality." "Hitler's Letters and Notes," gave insight into the dictator's thoughts and theories. Maser was praised for his painstaking research. He tracked down Hitler's medical records 1905-1945, which were for decades believed to have been lost, and was the first historian to assert that the diaries of Hitler published by Stern in 1983 were forgeries. His credibility was compromised when he claimed to have tracked down Hitler's illegitimate son.     [ nytimes :: 2007-04-11 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

March 19, 1945: Adolf Hitler orders to destroy all German infrastructure
1945: His Thousand-Year Reich in shambles and his armies shattered, Adolf Hitler issues his infamous "Nero Decree," the order to destroy all German industry and infrastructure in order to deny anything to the advancing Allies. The official order was issued under the heading "Demolitions on Reich Territory" but entered history as the Nero Decree. Fortunately for the German people the duty for carrying out this order fell to Hitler's armaments minister Albert Speer. Speer was appalled, and embarked on a series of delays and stalling tactics before admitting to Hitler that he had sabotaged the decree.     [ wired :: 2007-03-19 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

Move to strip Adolf Hitler of German citizenship - Stateless 7 years
Adolf Hitler may be stripped of his German citizenship in what would be a "symbolic step" against the Nazi leader. A deputy in the state legislature of Lower Saxony, Isolde Saalmann, is behind a motion to review whether the citizenship extended in 1932 can be rescinded. Adolf Hitler, born in Austria, needed to become German to advance his political career. His wish was granted in the Braunschweig on Feb 25, 1932, less than a year before Hitler became German chancellor. Hitler requested release from his Austrian citizenship in 1925 on the grounds that he had been living in Germany since 1912 and served in the German army in WWI.     [ dailytelegraph :: 2007-03-12 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

Geli Raubal: suicide or shot by uncle Adolf - Secret affair of Führer
Sept 18, 1931, the body of Adolf Hitler's niece Angela "Geli" Raubal was found at the Fuhrer's Munich apartment. Her death, by a bullet from the Nazi leader's own pistol, was recorded as suicide. But there is evidence to suggest the pretty 19-year-old was shot. She was in no mind to end her life: she was writing a cheerful letter, when she put a gun to her chest and pulled the trigger. The first detective on the scene, Heinrich Muller, who become head of the Gestapo, called off the probe. Gregor Strasser claimed he had to stop Hitler killing himself after he'd shot Geli. He was killed when the Nazis settled scores in the Night of the Long Knives in 1933.     [ mirror :: 2006-09-17 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

The Young Hitler I Knew by August Kubizek - Reveals Hitler's Girl?
Much of Adolf Hitler's early life - his years in the Austrian cities of Linz and Vienna - remains shrouded in obscurity. For decades, biographers have relied on the memoirs of Hitler's best - only - friend during 1904-1908, August Kubizek. Now his book "The Young Hitler I Knew" has been published in English in full. And while there have been earlier versions - notably the heavily edited version used by the Nazi party as an official biography - his uncensored account throws a fascinating light on the mind of the future Fuhrer. For it contains, for the first time, the full story of Hitler's obsession with a pretty girl called Stefanie Isak.     [ dailymail :: 2006-09-09 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

Former Waffen SS officer building Shrine to Hitler
Ted Junker seems like an ordinary farmer until he starts to talk about Adolf Hitler. Junker, who says was an SS officer, believes Hitler was a great leader who was misunderstood, so he built a memorial to the Führer. It's a beautiful location for a concrete structure memorial to a man, who most believe started World War II, in which 50 million people died. He paid $200,000 to build the memorial. His father spoke highly of Hitler and that left an impression on Junker. He volunteered to join the German Waffen SS, in 1940 and he served in Russia, where he said he and his countrymen worked to free Russians from communism.     [ jsonline :: 2006-06-14 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

Memories fresh for the last witness of Hitler's final days
For former SS officer Rochus Misch, the last living witness to the final two weeks of Adolf Hitler's life in the fuhrerbunker, the memories are still fresh. But as the Third Reich came to an end, Hitler withdrew to the underground shelter beneath his chancellery and dismissed most of his staff, retaining only those whose services were essential. Misch's account of Hitler's last days is worn smooth from years of retelling. "Hitler was not, as the press writes, from February on down here vegetating. He always came out and went up to his apartment in the flat and I went to my room. He came down when there was an air raid warning and so I came down too."     [ reuters :: 2006-06-13 :: Last days & final hours in Berlin führerbunker ]

British PM Baldwin's letter praising Adolf Hitler goes on sale
A letter written by the former British prime minister Stanley Baldwin in which he pays tribute to Hitler as "a remarkable man" who made "great achievements" is to go on sale. Mr Baldwin wrote in glowing terms about the German leader in 1936, three years before the Second World War broke out. The letter reads: "Like you, I acknowledge (Hitler's) great achievements since taking over that troubled country. The German people obviously love him, even if that love puts a burden on them both. ... Yes, Herr Hitler is a remarkable man but I feel he must use these gifts wisely or I fear greatly for the consequence."     [ telegraph :: 2006-05-17 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

Adolf Hitler may have been gay and open to blackmail
Adolf Hitler may have been gay, according to a book "Adolf Hitler: The Final Analysis", by physician Andrew Norman. Book studies how the leader of Nazi Germany's mental and physical state affected his judgement and conduct as he led the country into Word War Two. The book suggests the leader's past left him open to blackmail. Hitler may have suffered from a variety of conditions which led to his fanaticism including paranoia and anti-social personality disorders. Many of the warmonger's colleagues were gay, such as Ernst Rohm, the head of the Nazi SA storm troopers, known as the Brownshirts.     [ pinknews :: 2006-05-09 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

Killing Hilter - The numerous attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler
Few leaders have been the target of so many assassination attempts. Hitler's almost 50 would-be assassins ranged from simple craftsmen to high-ranking soldiers, from Resistance fighters to patriotic Wehrmacht officers, and from enemy agents to his closest associates. Explaining why the British at one time declared that assassinating Hitler would be "unsporting," and why the ruthless Joseph Stalin was unwilling to order his death. It is also the remarkable story of the survival of a tyrant against all the odds, a dictator whose repeated escapes from almost certain death convinced him that he was invincible.     [ randomhouse :: 2006-05-03 :: Killing Hitler: Assassination attempts ]

Doctor of Hitler family: Interview With Dr. Eduard Bloch
It was definitely established that Dr. Bloch treated the Hitler family in 1906 and 1907. "As a youth Adolf Hitler was quiet, well-mannered and neatly dressed ... He was tall, sallow, old for his age. He was neither robust nor sickly. Perhaps 'frail looking' would best describe him. His eyes - inherited from his mother- were large, melancholy and thoughtful. To a very large extent this boy lived within himself. Klara Hitler adored her son, the youngest of the family. She allowed him his own way wherever possible."     [ nizkor :: 2006-03-29 :: World War II Interviews ]

Dissecting Hitler - The Hitler Book
Stalin felt betrayed by Hitler, but the German dictator also fascinated him. Why else would Stalin have commissioned a detailed study of the man who was his greatest enemy? The Hitler Book, officially titled "Affair No. 1-G-23: Concerning Hitler and his Associates", purports to be a special study of Adolf Hitler prepared by security-police researchers at the behest of Josef Stalin, who sought to better understand the mind of his defeated foe. Based largely on information obtained from Hitler's associates.     [ moscowtimes :: 2005-12-27 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

A dossier on Hitler prepared for Stalin's eyes only
The book's authorship-the two German historians are editors-is unique. Soviet secret service agents 'wrote' the book. Stalin ordered two of Hitler's aides, his adjutant, Otto Gunsche, and his personal valet, Heinz Linge, be interrogated - whatever that term means in the context of NKVD (Soviet secret police) methods - and the results were to be given to Stalin. A dossier on Hitler prepared for Stalin's eyes only-there's enough drama in that to make blurb writers employed by publishers drool. But for critics, that poses the danger of missing the wood of new insights for the trees of details.     [ indianexpress :: 2005-12-18 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

The Origins of the II World War - Revised view of Hitler
Taylor wrote in his The Origins of the II World War: I want to offer a story without heroes and perhaps even without villians. Central to Taylor's thesis is a revised view of Adolf Hitler: He was an extraordinary man and that his policy is capable of rational explanation. Hitler did not cause the war because he did not intend it. Like many leaders, Hitler rarely made distant plans. He did have some general aims, such as wanting to free Germany from the burden of the Versailles Settlement. He was also happy to exploit situations in order to realize those aims. For Taylor, Hitler's pronouncement in 'Mein Kampf' were no more than dreams.     [ newstodaynet :: 2005-12-15 :: Causes & Origins of WWII ]

The Medical Casebook of Adolf Hitler
The Medical Casebook of Adolf Hitler, by Leonard L. Heston, M. D., and Renate Heston, R. N., with an introduction by Albert Speer, published in 1979. Available used, unfortunately out of print. Adolf Hitler was variously diagnosed as bipolar, schizophrenic and paranoid schizophrenic. He was also diagnosed as having had Parkinson's disease. Yet Hitler had none of these disorders: he was an amphetamine and barbiturate addict.     [ preventragedy :: 2005-12-04 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

Napoleon the inspiration for Hitler, says historian
Napoleon massacred more than 100,000 Caribbean slaves and should be remembered as a genocidal dictator and inspiration for Hitler rather than a military genius and founder of modern France, a French historian said. Book, Napoleon's Crime, is published this week, on the bicentenary of the emperor's great triumph at the battle of Austerlitz this Friday.     [ Guardian :: 2005-11-29 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

Love Letters to Hitler
Of all the books about the Third Reich that have flooded Germany as it marks the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, few are as bizarre and provacative as one called Love Letter to Adolf Hitler. "Sweetest love, favorite of my heart, my one and only, my dearest, my truest and hottest beloved," one of the letters begins. "I could kiss you a thousand times and still not be satisfied. My love for you is endless, so tender, so hot and so complete." All the letters are genuine. They were discovered strewn about the destroyed Chancellery from which Hitler had directed his campaign of war.     [ New York Times :: 2005-10-22 :: Documents, letters, diaries of World War II ]

American Opinion About Hitler During World War II
What did Hitler's contemporaries think? Using feature stories and editorials from the New York Times, this paper tracks American opinion of Adolph Hitler from 1940 to 1945 - during Second World War. By 1940, many people saw Hitler as a great intellectual, and many news stories focused on Hitler's character and personality.     [ iusb.edu :: 2005-10-08 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

A 1943 psychiatric dossier aimed to humiliate the German dictator
Snatch the dictator and hold him prisoner to deny him the chance of becoming a martyr. Keep him in isolation, take humiliating photographs and film of him and release them to the public to discredit him. Portray him as a madman, label him the No. 1 world criminal. The recommendations were made in a 230-page dossier that provided a psychoanalysis of Hitler by psychologist Dr Henry Murray for the Office of Strategic Services. The dossier portrays Hitler as a cowardly, deeply disturbed personality racked by paranoia, schizophrenia, homophobia, impotence, masochism, hysteria and an Oedipus complex.     [ The Age :: 2005-10-08 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

Hitler's library - Now known as the Third Reich Collection
"I realised this book had never been touched since Adolf Hitler was reading it in his dug-out in 1917,"said Mr Ryback. "After he had finished reading by candlelight, he had closed it and no-one had opened it again." The 1,200 volumes known as the Third Reich Collection were found hidden in Schnapps crates buried in a Munich salt-mine by United States soldiers from the 101 Airborne Division in the spring of 1945. They were delivered to the Library of Congress in 1952.     [ Scotsman :: 2005-09-30 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

The Unknown Hitler reveals curious details about Fuhrer
The book The Unknown Hitler based on the statements by two SS officers from that were close to Hitler and who were watching his life closely during many years. SS Sturmbahnfuhrer Heinz Linge was Hitler's personal servant since 1935. He was taken Soviet prisoner 02.05.1945. SS Sturmbahnfuhrer Otto Günsche joined Hitlerjugend In 1931. In 1934 he was admitted to Leibstandart Adolf Hitler, and in 1935 he joined NDSAP. He was Hitler's personal adjutant until August 1943. Then he was a commander of the SS tank division and later was appointed Hitler's personal adjutant again. He was taken Soviet prisoner 02.05.1945.     [ Pravda :: 2005-09-22 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

The Mystery of Hitler's Lost Art Collection
Art experts have long been fascinated with the story of Adolf Hitler's dream of creating a huge museum in the Austrian city of Linz. Book "The Brown House of Art" by historian Hanns Christian Löhr looks at where the Nazi leader's collection came from - and where it went.     [ Deutsche Welle :: 2005-08-26 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

Adolf Hitler sought sanctuary in Japan?
Aware that his Third Reich was on the verge of collapse just 12 years into the 1,000-year reign he had promised, German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler tried to flee the rampaging Russians battering his Berlin bunker and sought sanctuary in Japan, according to Shukan Shincho. On Oct. 9, 1945, just after the war ended, the Pacific Stars and Stripes ran a story by Jack Smith claiming that the Imperial Japanese Navy had a secret plan to spirit Der Fuhrer out of Nazi Germany and into Japan. Quoting a former Imperial Navy officer, Smith said that a top secret meeting had been held in Tokyo on March 3, 1945, during which the final decision was made to send a sub to bring Hitler to Japan.     [ Mainichi :: 2005-08-07 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

Body of Adolf Hitler reburied 8 times
A badly charred corpse of Hitler was found in a bomb crater in the Imperial Chancellery's garden 60 years ago. His mortal remains were reburied 8 times and eventually destroyed by fire. The first burial took place on April 30th, 1945. The Fuhrer, his newly-fledged wife Eva Braun, and his two dogs were buried in the garden of the Imperial Chancellery. A Russian soldier Ivan Churakov found two unidentified corpses in a crater on May 4th. The Russians removed the remains but put them back into the ground on the same day because Hitler's body was thought to have been already found.     [ Pravda :: 2005-08-06 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

Adolf Hitler's bodyguard - Rochus Misch
"I saw Hitler, dead, lying on a chair. Eva Braun on the couch completely clothed." Among the last living relics of the Nazi era, Rochus Misch served as bodyguard, courier and telephone operator in the direct service of Adolf Hitler from 1940 to 1945. And he's been rediscovered -- the character of Misch is portrayed in Oliver Hirschbiegel and Bernd Eichinger's movie "Downfall." After the war, Misch was taken into custody by the Red Army; he spent 9 years enduring torture and returned to Germany in 1954. "Hitler was always a completely normal person. I only knew him as a wonderfully good boss, right? He was never authoritarian."     [ salon :: 2005-07-30 :: Rochus Misch - Führerbunker ]

Hitler in Colour - Newly discovered WWII colour footage
Adolf Hitler stands before the Nazi faithful at Nuremberg, exhorting them to realise the destiny of the thousand-year Reich. A familiar image in black and white, this time the scene is played out in full colour, a legion of swastikas set on blood-red banners. But this is not a clip from the film Downfall - it is newly discovered, colour footage which renders him more real than ever before. One of the discoveries was film shot by Hitler's pilot, Hans Baur, unearthed at a Hamburg film library which was always assumed to possess only newsreels made after 1945. Hitler maybe was the most filmed person in the world up to his death.     [ guardian :: 2005-04-10 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

Hitler dodged taxes - By 1945 earned 7.6m RM out of Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler spent years dodging taxes, accumulating enormous debts as he led his Nazi party to power, a tax expert has revealed. He owed the authorities 405,500 Reichsmarks (6m euros) by 1934, when as German chancellor his debts were forgiven. A retired Bavarian notary found Hitler's tax secrets from the Bavarian State Archive. Mr Dubon told that Hitler had earned 1.2m Reichsmarks in 1933 from sales of his book Mein Kampf. But he failed to pay tax on 600,000 Reichsmarks of that income. In his correspondence with tax inspectors, Hitler repeatedly asked to pay in instalments. But once installed as chancellor in 1933, his tax troubles were over.     [ bbc :: 2004-12-18 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

Hitler's secretary Traudl Junge tells of Hitler, the friendly boss
Hitler's former secretary has given an intimate account of her "easy going" and "friendly" boss. Traudl Junge who typed Hitler's last will and testament in his Berlin bunker tells of the fascination she felt for the Nazi leader she loved working for in a book entitled To the Last Hour. It is one of the most vivid - and probably the last - first-hand accounts of his final hours from a member of his inner circle. "I have to say I was fascinated by Adolf Hitler and he was a pleasant boss and a fatherly friend," she writes. Hitler asked Ms Junge: "How are you my child? Have you had some rest? I want to dictate something." It was his final will and testament.     [ telegraph :: 2002-02-04 :: Last days & final hours in Berlin führerbunker ]

Kind and paternal man who passionately loved his dog
Adolf Hitler, one of the greatest mass murderers in history, is remembered by his secretary Traudl Junge as a kind and paternal man who ate little aside from mashed potato and passionately loved his dog. Hitler's greatest pleasure was when his sheepdog Blondie would jump a few centimetres higher than the last time, and he would say that going out with his dog was the most relaxing thing he could do.     [ bbc :: 2002-02-04 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

Hitler was gay - and killed to hide it, book says
Adolf Hitler was gay - or so says a sensational biography on the Nazi dictator. Eyewitness accounts from Hitler's former lovers, and historical documents that for the first time illuminate rumours that have circulated for over half a century. The respected German historian Lothar Machtan even claims in his book that Hitler ordered the deaths of several high-ranking Nazis to prevent the secret of his homosexuality from surfacing. Ernst Röhm, the leader of Hitler's Sturm Abteilung or Storm Troopers, tried to blackmail Hitler by threatening to reveal his sexuality. Röhm, who was also gay, was murdered as a result.     [ guardian :: 2001-10-08 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

UK Soldier spared Hitler's life - Historians dispute legend
A First World War legend that Adolf Hitler's life was spared by a soldier who had him in his sights has been questioned by new research. Pte Henry Tandey, who was serving with the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, reputedly had a chance to kill the future Führer during fighting at Marcoing, near Cambrai, France, on the day he won a Victoria Cross, Sept 28, 1918. But he could not bring himself to kill a wounded man and instead let Hitler go. Hitler was indeed wounded in northern France, but work by historians has cast new doubt on the story. Documents in the Bavarian State Archive show that Corporal Hitler was on leave on the day in question and nowhere near the battle.     [ telegraph :: 1997-10-27 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

Spitzy: Hitler was charming, humoristic and a very good mimic
Reinhard Spitzy, who deserted the Nazis to become a member of the German resistance, worked with Hitler in Austria. "Nobody is bad all their life. Hitler was charming, humoristic, and a very good mimic." Hitler enjoyed telling jokes about the British. "He particularly liked Colonel Blimp jokes, not sex or political ones. He always talked nicely about England - he never wanted to endanger it." Hitler was handsome, particularly in the morning. "In the morning his eyes were big and wonderful deep blue." Before the war Spitzy was right-hand man to the Reich's foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and during it worked for the head of the Abwehr, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris.     [ telegraph :: 1996-06-18 :: Adolf Hitler: Dictator, Fuhrer, Biography ]

See also

'Belongings of Hitler'

'Hitler Movies'

'Hitler Photos'

'Assassination attempts on hitler'

'Family'

'Mein Kampf'

'Eva Braun'

'Hitler's Birthday'

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