Wednesday, October 10, 2007
German historian publishes chilling read: Hitler's fan mail
BERLIN - For around three generations, the enormous bulk of Adolf Hitler's fan mail remained hidden from the public's eyes. Some of the contents of this postal multitude have recently been published in a new book by Henrik Eberle, a German historian.
Eberle found the Nazi fan mail in a government archive in Moscow. Excerpts from Dr. Eberle's book, "Letters to Hitler - a People Writes to its Leader," were published this week in the German daily tabloid Bild.
"Honorable Reich Chancellor, like lightening from a sunny sky the storm has broken over me. My customers have disappeared," Heinrich Herz, a Jewish craftsman, wrote Hitler on April 27, 1934.
"Honorable Reich Chancellor, give the order that life will become possible again. I would thank you many thousands of times."
Another correspondent, a member of the Nazi Party since 1932, wrote Hitler for advice after learning that his grandmother was Jewish.
"Great leader, what am I to do? Should I terminate my activity? Are we not human? Please help me." The first letter went unanswered. The second received a curt reply: "Maybe you can help out at the local party branch."...
...Hitler's fan mail from his staunch supporters is at times as chilling as the letters he received from some of his victims.
"Dear good Uncle Hitler," wrote one ethnic German woman, Annelene K., from northeast Prussia, which is today in Lithuania.
"We've been waiting so long for you, when are you coming to our region? We would be very happy if we could belong to Germany again. The Jews and the Lithuanians would all then have to leave, wouldn't they? The Jews not only take our bread - they also slaughter Christians for Easter."...
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"The Jews not only take our bread - they also slaughter Christians for Easter."..."
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose:
http://www.engageonline.org.uk/blog/article.php?id=1463
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Ahmadinejad warns against passage of Holocaust bill
You are all sick ignorant bastards who will join hitler in his special nazi pit for the crazed murders of this world. God favours Satan over you and your sensless bile. Hitler's ideas were there only to get into power you fools, nothing is true. The only book that you should ever burn is his pinnacle of hollow, bitter, ranting Mein Kamph. He didn't even write himself for gods sake. Wake up and realise that the world would be better without people like you. Oh, and if Hitler ever reads this fan mail I have only one word for him. Arschloch.
i never liked him, he was a rubish child, always killing things and spending time alone in his room, i always hated him....
and for all these people who loved him and think his ideas are so good, it all made up he never cared he was just pissed and board....."Hitlerburnsinhell" had the right idea
Right up Hitler's mum, that's one more for the good guys
To be quite honest Hitler was a sad little man who was both hypocritical and sadistic as well as twisted and utterly insane. Every word that came out of his filth ridden mouth was utter drivel and completely contradicting! He speaks of an Aryan race yet he had brown hair and brown eyes and in my opinion a slightly Jewish nose! What an absolute outrageous load of crap he came out with and the fact that he commited suicide proves he was a coward with no sense of pride. Basically he was a humiliation to the German Race.
That's three you facist scum. Not to author but to all those who support hitler. let them read teh truth
who asked for ur opinion u son of a bitch? and how about ur uncle Bush? was he a wise man? how about the fucking american President during WWII who completely destroyed two Japanese cities in the split of a second? if he really didnt know how deadly the bomb was, he would have only tried the first one, he saw what damage it did, and had no problem using the second one, if he had a third, he would have not hesitated to use it, look at the damage USA made to vietnam, look at the damage USA made to the whole world, palestine, hawaii, philippines, they said Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and used it as an excuse to enter iraq, please, its not the weapons that attracted u guys there, its the oil, and now, u guys wanna attack Iran, a country that never "began" a war against another country since 300 years, so please, we do not need the likes of u in our website. and to the asshole who said hitler is a coward coz he committed suicide, well let me see u commit suicide, at least he is better than the chicken saddam. there are more scandals about USA, y doesnt anyone talk about them? ha? go ahead lemme hear them
Hitler was very smart for that fact that ONE man could get so many people on his side to kill., apparently he had a way with words! I cont like how he killed people but his strategy and way of thinking is very smart, i actually think he inspires me because if he could do that i think ill be able to fulfill my dream becoming a doctor!