Adolf Hitler

Hitler Gets a Bad Review (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) 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 adviser, click here.

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Although Hitler didn’t mention it his book, German-Americans drove him crazy.

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Hitler Gets a Bad Review (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) 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 adviser, click here.

Read another review of Mein Kampf.

Although Hitler didn’t mention it his book, German-Americans drove him crazy.

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Adolf Hitler and Women (Click Magazine, 1939)

This article about Adolf Hitler and women appeared on the newsstands two months prior the start of the Second World War, when the world learned how evil a man the lunatic truly was. The journalist wanted to confirm that there was no truth to the 1939 rumor that Hitler was dead and quickly began musing about other rumors:

More feasible is the theory that the sexless madman of Naziland is still alive and has merely discovered that he gets a vicarious thrill out of having women around him and likes to watch acrobatic dance routines.

Photographed in this article is Frau Scholtz-Klink, who had been dubbed the perfect Nazi woman by the Reichfuehrer, in addition to three curvy American burlesque dancers who performed before Hitler.


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Hitler Goes Wife Shopping (Ken Magazine, 1938)

An illustrated five page article that will key you in on all the actresses, nieces, Mifords and assorted divas courted by handsome Adolf throughout the Twenties and Thirties. It was said that the dictators co-tyrants wished deeply that he would marry if only to end his moods of melancholy, storms of anger, alternate depression and driving energy, hoping it will make Hitler more human.


Click here to read about the magic Hitler had with German women…

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Hitler’s Sister Tells Her Story (Ken Magazine, 1938)

For twenty years Paula Hitler lived in a Vienna garret, never hearing from [her] lost brothers, Gustav and Adolf… When Adolf Hitler became Chancellor, he at last wrote to [her]. 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.


Click here to read about the fall of Paris…

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Mein Kampf Reviewed (L.A. Times, 1940)

1940 was a pretty good year for Adolf Hitler, but then the L.A. Times review of Mein Kampf came out:

It is obviously the book of an ignorant man, unaccustomed to logic or literature. It is sincere, and done in the style of the soap-boxer, the rabble-rouser. And it is Red; redder than any of the utterances of Emma Goldman or the I.W.W. street speakers. What Hitler calls National Socialism seems to us, although the man denies it on page after page, merely another form of Stalinistic Communism, only this is the German variety…his system blots out the businessman, banker, manufacturer, professional man, teacher, writer, and artist – just as effectively as Stalin’s [Soviet’s]; property goes to the state in both cases; and all freedom of press, church and person dies as wholly in Germany as in Russia.

Finally, to an American, a lemon by any other name, is just as sour.


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The Plot to Kill Hitler (Yank Magazine, 1945)

During the summer of 1945, Yank reporter Corporal Howard Katzander, spent some time among the Third Army’s prisoners of war where he happened upon a German senior officer who was in a very talkative mood:

The story he was telling was the story of why the war did not end last July. It was the story of the attempt to assassinate Hitler and he knew all about it. Because this was Lieutenant Colonel Wilhelm Kuebart, a member of the Wermacht General Staff, and one of the original plotters.


Published in June of 1945, this must have been the first English language article about the Valkyrie plot.

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Speeches by Hitler and Chamberlain Compared (Pathfinder Magazine, 1940)

We shall fight until the terror of the plutocracies has been broken.


– so blathered Adolf Hitler in a radio address from early 1940 in which he attempted to clarify the Nazi war aims. Never forgetting that the zi in Nazi is derived from Sozi for socialist (Compare with ‘Commie’ for ‘Communist’) – the dictator was heard here doing what he did from time to time in his speeches; borrowing the street hustle of the proletarian underdog (many thanks to WIKIanswers).


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What Hitler Wanted (Omnibooks Magazine, 1942)

Hearst reporter H.R. Knickerbocker (1898 – 1949) had been closely watching Hitler since 1923 and pointed out that on April 29, 1941 the Axis forces had printed a trial balloon on the pages of the JAPAN TIMES ADVERTISER that clearly indicated the peace terms that were acceptable to the Nazis. Attached is Knickerbocker’s outline of this proposal, as well as the correspondent’s astute commentary that he had prepared for his 1942 bestseller, Is Tomorrow Hitler’s?


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The German economist who made the Reich’s rearmament possible was named Hjalmar Schacht, click here to read about him…

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