Hitler: The Memoir of the Nazi Insider Who Turned Against the Fuhrer

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Hitler: The Memoir of the Nazi Insider Who Turned Against the Fuhrer

Ernst Hanfstaengl

Language: English

Pages: 320

ISBN: 1611450551

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Of American and German parentage, Ernst Hanfstaengl graduated from Harvard and ran the family business in New York for a dozen years before returning to Germany in 1921. By chance he heard a then little-known Adolf Hitler speaking in a Munich beer hall and, mesmerized by his extraordinary oratorical power, was convinced the man would some day come to power. As Hitler’s fanatical theories and ideas hardened, however, he surrounded himself with rabid extremists such as Goering, Hess, and Goebbels, and Hanfstaengl became estranged from him.

But with the Nazi’s major unexpected political triumph in 1930, Hitler became a national figure, and he invited Hanfstaengl to be his foreign press secretary. It is from this unique insider’s position that the author provides a vivid, intimate view of Hitler—with his neuroses, repressions, and growing megalomania—over the next several years. In 1937, four years after Hitler came to power, relations between Hanfstaengl and the Nazis had deteriorated to such a degree that he was forced to flee for his life, escaping to Switzerland. Here is a portrait of Hitler as you’ve rarely seen him.

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Add up at all. I wondered for a moment whether I should return, but my family was still there, so I sent a guarded message to Neurath through the German Consul-General in New York and he indicated in reply that I should come back at all costs. The sailing dates so coincided that I found myself on board the Europa again. In the English Channel we heard on the wireless Hitler’s apologia before the Reichstag for the action he had taken. As probably the only man on board with real inner knowledge I.

All that has happened, the outcry will go on. You must not forget that many of them have been here for a long time. They knew many of the people involved and will continue to draw their own conclusions.” “I ought to send the whole bunch of them packing,” Hitler exploded. “They have plenty of dung-heaps to rake over in their own countries and have to turn every mole-hill in Germany into a mountain. They are nothing but a danger to us.” I was not going to let him off so lightly and returned to the.

Society, they had narrowly escaped with their lives at the time of the Munich Soviet Republic in 1919. He had also come greatly under the influence of the Bavarian General Haushofer, who had spent a period of duty in the Far East and had come back a rabid Japanophile. Haushofer had a chair at Munich University and his geo-political nonsense helped to provide a number of the mental barriers which I had to try and surmount in order to influence Hitler’s mind. The only foreign ally of which the.

Then turning to me he added: “Perhaps, after all, Hanfstaengl, this Putsch was a good thing, at least no one can say I am unknown now, and that gives us a basis to start on again.” For the benefit of the new guest, he started giving a long explanation of his reasons for organizing the Putsch, the imminent danger of the separatist movements, the disorganization and disunity, the need to restore German pride and prestige, and then, coming to the point, almost musing to himself: “What else could we.

My opinion of Goering as a moderating influence. It is probably not generally known that the famous Horst Wessel Lied, which became the Nazi anthem and had been composed by the victim, was not original at all. The tune is exactly that of a Vienna cabaret song at the turn of the century, from the Franz Wedekind Überbrettl period, although I do not think that Wedekind wrote it himself, to which the words originally ran more or less like this: Und als dein Aug’ das meine einst erblicket Und als.

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