Adolf Hitler

A Military Genius? (Ken Magazine, 1939)

This is a small segment from a longer article on this site that can be read here.
Just months prior to the start of the Second World War, this anonymous correspondent asked, Is Hitler a strategic genius? For much of the following year many of Europe’s anointed would find themselves asking much the same question; but this reporter was not impressed with the man one jot and wished his readers to keep in mind that throughout the slaughterous environment provided by the Entente Powers of the 1914 – 1918 war, Hitler was entirely unable to rise above the rank of corporal – in spite of the fact that his regiment was losing a sergeant each day.


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What is Next for Europe? (Literary Digest, 1933)

Can we trust him?‘

That is the question asked by some British and French editors as they consider Chancellor Adolf Hitler‘s speech on the disarmament question in which, while he firmly champions the German case for equality in armaments, ‘he broke no diplomatic china’


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

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1933: Hitler Comes to Power (Literary Digest, 1933)

This magazine article appeared on American newsstands not too long after Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor in the office of President Hindenburg (Paul von Hindenburg 1847 – 1934), and presents a number of opinions gathered from assorted European countries as they considered just what a Nazi Germany would mean for the continent as a whole:

‘Whether or not Hitler turns out to be a clown or a faker, those by his side now, and those who may replace him later, are not figures to be joked with.’

With this grim thought the semiofficial Paris ‘Temps’ greets the accession of ‘handsome Adolf’ Hitler to the Chancellorship in Germany. The event, it ads, is ‘of greater importance than any event since the fall of of the Hohenzollererns.’

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Hitler Rejects Old Treaty Obligations (Literary Digest, 1937)

This magazine article covered a speech made by Hitler four years into his rule:

In his efforts to wipe out the country’s status as a pariah among the nations, Hitler boasted Saturday, he had rearmed the Reich and seized the disarmed Rhineland. Still denouncing Versailles, he last week erased one of the most painful of the treaty’s blots on German honor with a few words:


‘I hereby and above all annul the signature extorted from a weak and impotent Government against its better knowledge, confessing Germany’s responsibility for the late war.’


Click here to read about Germany’s treaty violations…

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Hitler’s Secret Love (Quick Magazine, 1960)

Attached is a sensational article that appeared in a super market tabloid some fifteen years after Adolf and Eva saw fit to call it a day:

Was Adolf Hitler the great lover who had to cover up his escapades because of affairs of state? Or was the great Adolf a full-blown homosexual who made his appointments to the upper hierarchy of Nazidom based on the pervert talents of the Master Race. Read about the latest revelation that throws the rumor factories and historians into a cocked hat and may prove Adolph’s manliness.


The article was written anonymously.

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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.

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Hitler’s Final Days (Pageant Magazine, 1960)

This article pieces together the last few days of Hitler’s bunker experiences – who was there, how did he pass his time and the subjects he addressed. All the matters discussed herein was gleaned from the intelligence agencies of the three victorious armies that marched into Berlin during the Spring of 1945. The author goes into some detail as to whether he and his entourage could have escaped on foot plane or tank and rules each one out categorically. He further examines the possibility as to how this same group could have escaped to Argentina by submarine or air – and rules these possibilities out as well (the author, however, omits the possibility that they could have escaped through the elaborate tunnel system below the streets of Berlin).

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