Love letters to Hitler

[Kyt]

And I was always lead to believe that women were more sensible then men (admittedly lead to believe thus by women themselves )

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770

Hitler's correspondence revealed: Love letters to a dictator

He received more fan letters than Mick Jagger, Madonna and the Beatles combined.

Many were from women wanting to marry him, others from men wanting to be like him, still more from people wanting him to repair their drains or visit their clubs.

What Adolf Hitler thought of this mass hysteria died with him in the flames of Berlin in 1945.

But thousands of the letters survived and have now been compiled into a fascinating book called "Letters to Hitler: A People Writes to its Fuehrer."

The letters were found by the conquering Russian at his destroyed chancellery in Berlin, at his mountain home – the Berghof – in Bavaria and in his residence in Munich.

They are testament to the spell Hitler wove over a people he led to destruction and death in the bloodiest war in history. The letters go back to 1925, eight years before his Nazi party was to achieve power, and go right up to April 1945 when just 100 die-hard fanatics sent him wishes for his 56th – and last- birthday in the bunker in Berlin. Some were tortured tomes about the greatness to which the writer believed Hitler was leading Germany, others were more prosaic.

Fritz Vogel from Erfurt thought that the Bavarians were not as grateful to his idol as they should be. In a letter to "Dear Mr Hitler" he wrote: "One is generally surprised that you insist on going to unwelcoming and ungrateful Bavaria so often.

"It would be better if you held your meetings outside of Bavaria in order to make the movement large and strong.

"I advise you, above all, to acquire German nationality."

He went on to enquire if Hitler would be "able to do something about the drains in our town" but Austrian-born Hitler, who did not take kindly to being offered advice, did not answer the letter.

In 1926 lawyer Dr Reinhardt Niedermeyer wrote to Hitler: "I am charged with disposing of the estate of Frau Margarete Meindl in Munich.

"She greatly venerated your political efforts and shortly before her death asked me if you would accept her giant palm tree that she kept in her apartment."

Rudolf Hess again wrote back: "Herr Hitler would be delighted to accept the palm. Please arrange to have it collected."

Frau Troeltzsch of Berlin sent Hitler three silk handkerchiefs with pictures of Hitler sewn into them which Hess sent back saying "you do not have permission to send handkerchiefs with pictures of Herr Hitler."

Such women were later put under the monitoring of the Gestapo as Hitler feared that his cult of personality could lead to a destabilisation of home life in the Reich. As he climbed further up the ladder of power so the tempo of the letters increased.

A special department was created in the postal services in both Munich and Berlin to deal with tsunami of paper wending its way to him every day. On April 25 1932, one day after elections made the party an unstoppable force in national politics, a Peter Beck from Silesia – now part of Poland – wrote:

"We don't want to know about the government any more – we only want Adolf Hitler as leader, as dictator. "We National Socialists want to see a ban on all newspapers that inject poison into our Fuehrer, to see Jews classified as what they are, a reckoning with all local government chiefs who have cheated their citizens. "We will give our blood to Adolf Hitler! Take an iron hand and fulfill you programme with a dictatorial will. Do not negotiate but act!

"We trust our Fuehrer and donate to him our hearts with every pulse!"

There are postcards from Nazi party members holidaying in Majorca, letters from lovelorn women - "I would like to make you my little puppy my dear, my eternal, my lovely Adolf" – and from party bigwigs who crept shamelessly in print to their boss. "My desire! It is swelling across all the German countryside – a cry! A single, powerful, longing cry! Heil Hitler, you who sees off all enemy gangs, Heil Hitler and make us free again!" said Karl Leiff, leader of a Nazi party regional office in eastern Germany in December 1931.

He added: "If only all Germans could be as pure of heart and as noble of purpose as you." Hitler was said to despise this kind of blatant crawling.

But Elsa Walter was the kind of woman who epitomised his misty-eyed view of German womanhood.

She penned to him at Christmas 1930: “What ails our dear Fatherland? Above all else it is the women, and a woman means the soul of a home and a country.

"Therefore the soul of our people is sick. The biggest part of German womanhood has lost the place that God intended for it... man at his work and woman at the stove and motherhood revered once more as holy! Heil!"

Hitler had her declared the woman of the year in 1940 and made her a Nazi party functionary. The letters were discovered in the State Military Archives of Moscow by historian Dr Henrik Eberle.

He said: "The letters are a fascinating glimpse into how a people were mesmerised by Hitler and how they reacted to him."

[marcus69x]

Amazing how someone with such an extreme attitude to human rights could generate this amount of 'fan mail'. I bet they wouldn't be saying that if they knew what we know now.

marcus

[Kyt]

It's amazing the effect "power" has on some people. And not just power, but things like intellect. For example, Sartre (and in no way am I comparing him with Hitler) was an absolute genius but was probably one of the ugliest men around, and yet, all through his life he had the most beautiful young women throwing themselves at him......

......*goes off to get his beret and pipe*....hmmm, doesn't seem to work for me

[spidge]

Originally Posted by Kyt

It's amazing the effect "power" has on some people. And not just power, but things like intellect. For example, Sartre (and in no way am I comparing him with Hitler) was an absolute genius but was probably one of the ugliest men around, and yet, all through his life he had the most beautiful young women throwing themselves at him......

......*goes off to get his beret and pipe*....hmmm, doesn't seem to work for me

Rasputin was no oil painting either however he attracted women like bees around a honey pot! Maybe it was just so called power that attracted them to him.

[Kyt]

OK, we need to ask the ladies.....Kitty? SP?

[marcus69x]

Speaking of power, I saw something on TV a whila ago where the producers had pictures of different men ranging from the average Joe Bloggs to important people in power and rockstars. They showed these pictures to women who were connected to heart monitors. Regardless of looks, the important figures with power proved to be the biggest 'heart throbs'. And you'll never guess who caused the biggest, racing pulse?

The ugliest of them all....... Mick Hucknall.

[Kyt]

Originally Posted by marcus69x

The ugliest of them all....... Mick Hucknall.

That proves it then......women are definately from another planet. OK, I can see the attraction in, say, Sartre, and even the warped attraction of Hitler, ...but...but..Hucknall??

[sgt petts]

Blimey!!!
It must have been his moustache.
Horrible Little Man. lol

[Kyt]

Originally Posted by sgt petts

Blimey!!!
It must have been his moustache.
Horrible Little Man. lol

I didn't know Hucknell had a moustache

[Antipodean Andy]

What, the bloke from Simply Red? Ginger Meggs? Effing hell.