Adolf Hitler (20.04.1889 – ∞)
Friday, 30 April 2021
Tuesday, 27 April 2021
Saturday, 24 April 2021
Thursday, 22 April 2021
Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 754 – 16 March 1945
1. USA. Dispersal of labour demonstrations in the United States.
– Police disperse protesters.
– The arrest of demonstrators.
2. Western Front.
The fighting in the flooded area with the advancing Anglo-American troops.
– Grenadiers are going on a mission, the soldiers put machinegun belts and Panzerfausts, one camp stove on his shoulders.
– Soldiers marching down the road past the houses.
– The position of the river.
– The Germans are firing on enemy positions.
– General talking with the soldiers.
3. Germany.
General Vlasov inspects units of the Russian Liberation Army (ROA).
– Parade.
– Vlasov and a German general for foreign volunteers recruitment Ernst August Kostring.
– Arriving soldiers with Panzerfausts.
4. The USSR. Eastern front.
Reflection of Russian offensive by German infantrymen on a section of the front in the Courland.
5. East Prussia.
Transporting the wounded on the ice on an iceboat from areas threatened by the Soviet army.
– German refugees from East Prussia on carts, soldiers are chasing a herd of cows.
– The ruined city of Marienburg.
– Street fighting against the Bolsheviks.
– Officer award distinguished themselves in combat soldiers.
– Destroyed Soviet tanks.
– Burning tank.
Second retaking by German troops of the city of Guben.
– A woman is giving water to a soldier.
– Street fighting.
– German soldiers with Panzerfaust.
– Soviet prisoners.
6. Germany.
District of Görlitz, the battles on the way to Dresden.
– Dr. Goebbels officers watching shooting self-propelled guns.
– Reich Minister Dr. Goebbels visits the ruins of the city Lauban freed by German troops, he made a speech to the soldiers.
– On the square in Lauban, before the formation of soldiers Dr. Goebbels shakes hands with Colonel General, Commander of the Army Group “Center” Ferdinand Schörner.
– Dr. Goebbels is shaking hands with the young soldier, gives him the Iron Cross.
– The Bolshevik atrocities - disfigured corpses.
– In Görlitz Dr. Goebbels is calling for a fierce defence - 11.3.1945.
7. Germany.
Hitler was surrounded by staff officers.
– He talks with the generals.
– Soldiers greet Hitler.
Tuesday, 20 April 2021
Germany’s Hitler - by Heinz A. Heinz
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One of the most suppressed English-language books ever to emerge from Germany: the 1938 authorized biography of Adolf Hitler.
The professional journalist author interviewed Hitler’s old school friends, army colleagues, landlords, his jailer, and early party comrades to provide an unprecedented insight into the German leader’s background and pre-war policies. Included are vivid and unique descriptions of Hitler at school, his First World War battlefield experiences, early politics, the amazing truth behind the November 9th Putsch, Hitler in prison, and the struggle to power from 1926 to 1933. It ends just after the Austrian Anschluss and the end of the Czech/Sudeten crisis.
This book was the foremost Hitler myth-buster of its day, and is full of personal and political insights. Read, for example, about the handicapped child who was amazed to find the Reichschancellor personally deliver his Christmas present; how Hitler always refused to take his salary and instead ordered the state treasury to divert it to poor relief work, and of the massive social reforms which boosted German living standards to the best in Europe. This work is vital for anyone interested in understanding why Hitler won the total adulation and support of the German people.
Saturday, 17 April 2021
Letters from the German People to the Führer – Part II
Stanislaus Jaros, from Lobstädt in Saxony, a Party member and a member of the Stormtroopers since 1930, sent his oath of allegiance to Hitler on 13 July 1934. He indicated that he was relieved by a radio speech in which Hitler explained the assassination of Rohm and other Stormtrooper leaders.
My Leader and People’s Chancellor!
I followed your speech from the Reichstag building, sentence for sentence with a pure heart and deep reflections. It penetrated my heart and soul like a deliverance, a salvation for the whole German people. My heart bled inwardly, and tears came to my eyes.
I congratulate you, my Leader, on your energy and your prompt decision by which you have saved us from this bitterly difficult fate and called to account the mutineers and condemned them to just punishment.
May Almighty God continue to give you the energy to protect us Germans from every fate.
I am prepared, like my father, even to sacrifice my life, when Germany is involved and you, my Leader, call.
Hail, my Leader
In true loyalty, Storm-trooper and Party member
Stanislaus Jaros
The master hairdresser Curt Rudolf Kempe from Seiffen in the Ore Mountains, also known as the Erzgebirge, on the border between Germany and the Czech Republic, had a very unconventional idea, which he communicated to Hitler’s office on 4 April 1935.
As a resident of the Ore Mountains, I want to see our Leader, and I ask very politely whether it is possible that I could come to Berlin and see our Leader. In addition I would also like to ask very politely whether if I am allowed to see our Leader it might be possible that at the same time I could also cut his hair?
I am a professional hairdresser, 46 years old. It would be for me the happiest moment of my life if this were also possible. I would gladly bring with me from here the tools that would be needed.
I would also be prepared, if the condition were set, to walk from the Ore Mountains to Berlin. I would very much like to fulfil this condition.
It could not happen that I would not cut our Leader’s hair correctly, because I was able to acquire sufficient knowledge in my profession in order to meet any demand, through years of work as an assistant abroad. I am also very willing to submit my curriculum vitae, which I had certified by the community authorities.
I request very obediently that our Leader be made aware of this letter so that our Leader can make his decision.
Likewise I request very politely that should you give me permission, you inform me promptly, since it would in any case take a fortnight to walk from Seiffen in the Ore Mountains to Berlin.
Should my letter to you seem untrustworthy, I beg you to seek information regarding me personally from the local Seiffen Nazi Party group and from the Seiffen community authorities.
Hoping that my wish can be fulfilled and that I will receive a reply to the effect that I shall be allowed to cut the Leader’s hair, and with the request that should it be possible, you would let me know the exact time and place where I should appear.
Hail Hitler!
Curt Rudolf Kempe
Master Hairdresser
A family from Berlin described for Hitler a dispute that had taken place between their two children. On 12 April 1935 the parents reported the dispute in the form of a humorous narrative and gave it the title ‘Children’s logic! Oh, these children!’
Oh, these children! Today of all days, when their poor mother has just turned 29, these kids make her aware of her future calling as a mother-in-law. And whose mother-in-law I am supposed to become! Listen and be amazed:
My seven-year-old daughter is once again too lazy to help clean up in the children’s room. Her big brother has to do everything all by himself; her little brother has deliberately slipped away. He doesn’t like cleaning up either. And the big brother’s patience is also not very extensive. ‘You, Gina, help a little this time. You can really put away your doll stuff all by yourself, and kindly clean up the dishes too.’ ‘No,’ says the Gina-swallow, ‘I’ll start working when I’m grown up and have a husband.’
‘Ooh, you’ll never get a husband, Princess Lazybones!’ ‘That’s what you think, you stupid idiot! I’ll get the best husband in all Germany.’ ‘Hmmph, who is that then, if you know already?’ ‘What, you want to join the German Youth [the subdivision of the Hitler Youth for boys aged 10-14], and you don’t know who the very, very best man in Germany is? And you want to be a Hitler Youth?’ ‘Listen, Gina, you’re getting really out of line! Of course I know who the best man in Germany is, but I don’t know who the best one will be when you finally want to marry a man.’ ‘When I want to and when I’m big enough, then he will still be the same as he is now.’ Aribert stood there flabbergasted and speechless. ‘You don’t want to marry our Hitler?’ ‘Just Hitler, no one else,’ the little girl says proudly. ‘I want no other husband.’
‘Daddy, Daddy, come here! Daddy, Daddy!’ The father comes rushing into the room, wondering crossly who has a bump on the head and who is going to have to be spanked for it. ‘Daddy, just think, Gina wants to marry the Leader! And she’s only seven years old! Our Princess lazybones wants to marry the Leader! Gina, Gina, he’d die of hunger if he was your husband!!! Oh, the poor man!’ Aribert is beside himself with laughter, he can’t get over it. Little Gina stands in the middle of the room, furious and offended. ‘You don’t have to shout so stupidly, I’ll get him. Right now he still doesn’t have time to get married; but when I’m grown up, everything will already be going much better, and then he won’t have so much to do. Then I’ll become his wife.’
‘But Gina,’ says the father, smiling. ‘He doesn’t know you. You don’t know whether he would love you or not.’ ‘He has already loved me as long as you have’, the little lady says boldly. And then she cries with rage and bitterness: ‘All his men have got wives and children, he is the only one who is all alone. I love him so much, and I am so sorry for him.’ We are astonished: all his men have got wives and children? ‘Well yes, Dr Goebbels has got a wife and children, and now the other one has also got a wife in the cathedral.’ ‘Who then, little swallow?’ the father asks. Gina stamps her little foot, exasperated by so much stupidity. ‘But Daddy! I mean the man who is also his friend, and whose trousers have such colourful sides. And then he’s always wearing something as if it were raining.’ Now it begins to dawn on us! ‘You mean Hermann Goring?’ The father says, at a loss: ‘But darling, you don’t need to feel sorry for the Leader for that reason. He’s happy when his friends are happy.’ ‘Hmm, are you happy too, Daddy’, Little Gina says, giving her father a sideways glance, ‘when everybody else gets something wonderful and you are the only one who doesn’t? Are you really happy then, without being sad, because you haven’t got anything?’ ‘But Gina, do you mind!’ says the father indignantly. ‘And so I’ll marry him! Why should he remain alone? If he is the very best man in Germany, then he will also have the very best children.’ ‘And’, Aribert scoffs, ‘the very best wife, and that’s what you claim to be, Gina?!’ ‘Shut up, old stupid Aribert! You shouldn’t always annoy me so much. I am not the best wife; but I love him, and I don’t want him to be all alone.’ ‘My darling’, the father says earnestly, ‘he is not alone. He has all of us, men, women, and children in Germany and far beyond it. We all love him. That is worth more than the love of just one person.’ ‘Yes, I already know all that, and that is all true, Daddy. But he also has to have someone who really and truly loves him. When I am his wife, then I shall set the table for him, he will always have flowers, and I shall caress and kiss him.’ ‘Gina, you dummy’, Aribert says, ‘when you’re grown up, Hitler will be old. He’ll still be our Hitler, but a man like that is not for a woman. Then he will no longer have any teeth, and his hair will be falling out too. He won’t be handsome any more, and . . .’ ‘Phooey, you’re an old toad’, sighs our little swallow. ‘Daddy, that isn’t true! He’ll still be just as handsome as he is now, won’t he, Daddy? You darned old rascal! Once I’m with him, we shan’t ever invite you over. And if you get married, you’ll get a stupid old witch.’ ‘Now, that’s enough!’ says the father. ‘Leave the little girl alone! Get out of here, Aribert!’ He takes the dumb little girl in his arms, and she cries herself to sleep. As the little swallow is laid in her little bed, she murmurs drowsily, ‘and I will be his wife’. Then she sticks her thumb in her mouth, and falls sound asleep.
Outside, in our tiny little garden, Aribert and Pips are hopping around and singing a rhyme of their own:
Gina wants to marry Hitler
ohoho!
Gina will someday be his wife
ohoho!
Then Father comes, grabs his two boys by their collars, gives them a shake and says: ‘Off to bed! And if either of you annoys little Gina - you know how - he’ll have to deal with me.’
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On 5 June 1935 Albert Bormann replied:
Dear Mrs S.,
Your nice, lively little episode has given the Leader real pleasure. The Leader wishes to thank you for the birthday greetings that you sent at the same time.
With a German salute!
[no signature]
On 8 March 1936 two women from the Saarland thanked the Leader for his remilitarization of the Rhineland.
Dear Leader,
We are all still under the spell of yesterday’s events. The jubilation and enthusiasm that we people of Saarbrücken felt when German soldiers finally moved into our city again after seventeen years were indescribable. With overflowing hearts, we would like to thank you for having restored its honour and freedom to our beloved Fatherland. May Heaven bless you and your work, esteemed Leader, so that you can lead our German Fatherland to greater heights. We pledge you our unfailing loyalty in good times and hard times. So please come soon to Saarbrücken. We Saarlanders are longing to see you and would like to show you our veneration and loyalty.
Loyal German greetings from the Saar
two Party members from Saarbrücken
Klara and Elly Walterhöfer
New Year’s greeting sent by the city of Frankfurt am Main in December 1937.
My Leader!
Along with the whole of the German people the city of German crafts commemorates with the deepest gratitude its head of state on the occasion of the New Year. I beg you to accept, from myself and the city of Frankfurt am Main,
Heartiest good wishes for a merry Christmas and a Happy
New Year.
Frankfurt am Main, 23 December 1937.
In unwavering loyalty and devotion
Friedrich Krebs
Lord Mayor and Prussian State Councillor
A letter of a loyal SS-man from Halle.
My Leader,
I beg your pardon for taking a few minutes of your valuable time, but my heart forces me to write to you, my Leader, to ask you to take me with you when you travel to Italy. I know that this is not a pleasure trip, but I also know that as a... man of the general SS I would do my duty just as fully as the SS-men who are lucky enough to be at your side all the time. For me it would be the best opportunity to set eyes on you at least once in my life, my Leader, and maybe even to shake your hand. - Forgive me, my Leader, but I really can’t think of anything more wonderful. - Please, my Leader, take me along.
Master Baker Oskar Jankowski,
Halle
bom 21 April 1912 in Halle
SS-Corporal in the 3rd Battalion Halle
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The answer from Hitler’s private office dated from 22 January 1938.
Dear Party Comrade!
The receipt of your letter to the Leader dated as above was noted with great gratitude. I regret that I must inform you that the wish you have expressed cannot be granted.
With a German salute
on behalf of Albert Bormann
A letter from the Colonel of the Marine Storm Battalion and mayor of Helgoland, a small group of islands in the North Sea.
Mr Reich Chancellor! My Leader!
For your birthday I send you, on behalf of the people of Helgoland and myself, our sincerest good wishes. May Providence long preserve you for the German people.
As its local leader I also permit myself to convey to you, my Leader, the best wishes for your birthday from the Marine SA 12 and 13/55.
As a birthday gift the people send you, as our honorary citizen, a picture offering an overview of the island as a symbol of love and veneration and as an expression of gratitude for all that you have achieved for Germany - and also for Helgoland.
With a German salute Bohm
Colonel and Mayor
Wednesday, 14 April 2021
Ludwig van Beethoven – “Symphony No. 9 in D Minor Op. 125”
Conductor: Herbert Von Karajan
Performance: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
1. Allegro ma non troppo [00:13]
2. Scherzo: Molto vivace [15:16]
3. Adagio molto cantabile [25:48]
4. Presto [41:28]
5. Finale: Presto. Allegro assai [47:28]
Total time: 65:30
Monday, 12 April 2021
Die Deutsche Wochenschau – Newsreel No. 753 – 05 March 1945
– Civilian Population Construct Barricades in Berlin;
– Atrocities of the Soviets Depicted;
– Dr. Joseph Goebbels Inspects German Positions in Frankfurt on the Oder;
Friday, 9 April 2021
Adolf Hitler - Proclamation to the German Folk - 06.04.1941
Since British imperialism set out to conquer the world, it was its endeavor to entangle Europe and its folks in ever new internal wars and to thereby weaken them. England has in the process all too often found in part blinded, in part bribed statesmen and folk leaders, who put their lands into the service of British world domination. For centuries, the simultaneously biggest beneficiary of these wars incited by England was Jewish high finance. Under the slogan “democracy”, this conspiracy of imperialism and capitalism has led the world, and particularly Europe, into countless entanglements.
In the year 1914, these forces managed to attack the old Germany and force it into a fight. The goal was the destruction of German economic life and the plundering of German economic strength as well as the making defenseless of the nation.
But the fight back then was not aged against the National Socialist Third Reich, rather against the constitutional-democratic German federal state.
Hardly had it been possible, after a 1 ½ decade long, terrible decline of the German economy and of German life, to lift up the German folk through the energy of the National Socialist movement and lead it to a new ascent, when the same forces immediately proclaimed their old goal again: the independent Germany reconstructing itself had to be destroyed again!
And again - like before - one believed to be best able to trigger the conflict through hired forces.
Poland was selected to start a fight with Germany without any reason and to reply with violence to the efforts to secure a peaceful cooperation through reasonable compensation.
This attack was thwarted in a few weeks by the strength of the meanwhile emerged new German Wehrmacht of the Third Reich.
Now Great Britain tried to be able to execute via Norway the thrust into the right German flank. With a few hours head start, this blow could be intercepted and in weeks long heroic struggle likewise brought to failure. German soldiers stand from Kirkenes to the German Bay and thereby certain German living space.
These defeats forced Churchill to look for new opportunities. So he came to the decision to advance through Belgium and Holland, allied with England, into to the heart of the German economy. This time, France was selected to bear the main burden of the fight. In a historically unique triumphant march, the German Wehrmacht thwarted this attack as well and cleansed Europe’s west of the English!
Rejecting my renewed peace proposals, Churchill now decided to turn the might of the British Empire against Italy and, above all, to get the North African coast into his hands with the help of New Zealand and Australian troops. This attempt as well can already now, thanks to the coordination of German and Italian forces, be viewed as failed.
Since the beginning of the war, it was England’s constant endeavor to be able to gain the Balkans as a war theater. British diplomacy, with reference to the example in the World War, actually managed to first snare Greece through a guarantee offered to it and then finally to misuse it for its own purposes.
The today published documents provide an insight into the practice of a procedure that again and again tries, according to oldest British recipes, to let others fight and bleed dry for English interests.
I have conversely always stressed:
First, the German folk has no quarrel at all with the Greek folk, but that we
second, will never allow that, like in the World War, a power entrenches itself on Greek territory with the goal of being able from there at the given time to thrust from the southeast into German living space. We have swept the northern flank free of the English; we are determined not to tolerate such a threat in the south as well!
In the sense of a genuine consolidation of Europe, it was my endeavor from the day of the rise to power to establish, above all, with Yugoslavia, a friendly relationship. I intentionally forgot everything that had once happened between Germany and Serbia. In the process, I offered the hand of the German folk not only to the Serbian folk, rather, beyond that, strove as honest broker to help with the bridging over of all the difficulties the existed between the Yugoslavian state and individual folks allied with Germany.
Actually, it also seemed to succeed, instead of an unbearable atmosphere, to pave the way for a not only politically, rather, above all, also economically fruitful cooperation. And what other goal could Germany have had in a region in which it put neither territorial nor political demands or championed interests?
In order to take from Yugoslavia any feeling as if the policy taken by Germany could now or in the future change to its disfavor, I had tried to integrate the Yugoslavian state into that power group that is determined, in shared work, in calm and peace, to build up the European continent in the future according to the principles of the consideration of the justified interests of all. 1 believed to thereby be able to best counter the Yugoslavian fears as if, in this goal toward Yugoslavia, say, a difference between Germany and Hungary existed or were to be feared in the future.
I did this even though the leadership of the Yugoslavian state as well as that of the Greek - as is known to us from French documents - supported in an irresponsible manner the interests of the western democratic war agitators.
On March 25, 1941, Yugoslavia’s entry into the Axis Pact was solemnly carried out in Vienna.
I and the whole German folk were happy about this; for an expansion of the war to the Balkans thereby seemed to be prevented and perhaps the faint hope justified to be able, in the end, to solve the already existing conflict in a rational settlement.
But hardly had the treaty signing minister arrived in Bel-grade, when the elements in English pay of an eternally coup d’etat organizing military clique prepared the counterstrike.
The government striving for peace with Germany was overthrown, and indeed with the public declaration that was necessary due to its stance toward Germany. Beyond that, however, steps now took place that in the life of folks represent a shame, and which the German Reich as a great power is not willing to patiently accept. The German emissary was insulted, the German military attaches attacked, an officer as aide of the military attaches injured, numerous officials, representatives of firms etc., publicly mistreated, German exhibit rooms, businesses, office buildings as well as schools demolished and ransacked, countless women and men, especially our ethnic Germans as well, beaten, their businesses and residences in part looted, a number of ethnic Germans murdered in the process.
The events were instigated by the same creatures who, al-ready in the yea 1914, through the assassination in Sarajewo, had plunged the world into nameless misfortune. And so, like back then, this military criminal clique was financed and incited by the English Secret Service.
If these events as well are the same as back then, then something has nonetheless changed:
The now attacked state is not the Austria of back then, rather the present-day German Reich!
The new Serbian government has ordered general mobilization. It has admitted that for days already this has already been the case in secret. It has thereby given to be recognized that it believes to be able to replace peaceful relations with the German Reich with violence!
The violence that it has summoned will now destroy it!
The German folk has no hatred against the Serbian folk. The German folk sees, above all, no reason to fight against Croats and or Slovenians. It wants nothing from these folks.
But the German folk will now settle accounts with that Serbian criminal clique, which believes it can for a second time put the Balkans at the disposal of the British assassination at-tempt against European peace.
Since I must again experience that eight years of efforts to build a friendship have again been futile, I have decided, for the restoration of bearable relations and an order also just to folkish principles in this part of Europe, in agreement with the views of my ally, to entrust the further representation of German interests to that force, which - as it again turns out - is apparently solely in the position to take right and reason under its protection.
The German Reich finds itself since this morning in the fight against the usurpers of Belgrade and in the fight against those formations that Great Britain again tries to be able to send ahead from the Balkans against Europe’s peace.
The German Wehrmacht will only then lay down weapons in these regions, when the Belgrade conspirator clique is definitively overthrown and the last Briton has left the continent in these regions as well.
May the unhappily blinded folks recognize that they owe this only to the worst “friend”, whom the continent for three hundred years possessed and possesses: England!
The German folk, however, can enter this fight with the inner knowledge that its leadership has done everything that is at all humanly possible in order to spare it this conflict. From Providence, however, we now only want to ask that it guards and blesses the path of our soldiers like previously!
Berlin, April 6, 1941
Signed Adolf Hitler