Hitler had a fascinating life. I think he’s been so well defined as evil that many dare not study his life. But they should so as not to have the same happen again. And like most famous or infamous people he was a product of time and place as much as who he was.
Many of us marvel at Trump's ability to bring 35,000 to a political rally early in an election.
Hitler used to bring 700,000 to a million.
He is widely considered the best political orator in the history of man.
I had seen copies of Mein Kampf in a bookshop in Middlesex, England as a small child. It was 1940. Of course I was not interested in it. An act of defiance by the British methinks.
Someone defaced a library book in Canada. It was a biography. The words were "Polish Power" in big black lettering on the cover. The library threw it out and I got it for two dollars.
The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler.
Robert Payne.
Praeger Publishers. New York Washington.
1973.
I reviewed it on my about page. A lot has been written about WW2. Including "Body Guard of Lies". I will never know in my lifetime, as to whether Hess was sent to try to gain a cessation of hostilities. At 90 years of age, just before his release, he was found hanging with electrical cord. British custody, some think murder.
An awful question was posed and I will never see the answer. Could the German Jews have been saved? One day the facts will come out.