Subscribe to Print Edition | Fri., March 07, 2008 Adar2 1, 5768 | | Israel Time: 21:08 (EST+7)
Haaretz israel news English
web haaretz.com
  Back to Homepage
Rosner's Domain
Diplomacy
Defense Jewish World Opinion National
Print Edition
Advertising
Books Arts & Leisure Business Real Estate Easy Start Travel Week's End Anglo File
Adolf Hitler.
Last update - 14:02 10/10/2007
German historian publishes chilling read: Hitler's fan mail
By Assaf Uni, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: fan mail, Adolf Hitler, Jews 

BERLIN - For around three generations, the enormous bulk of Adolf Hitler's fan mail remained hidden from the public's eyes. Some of the contents of this postal multitude have recently been published in a new book by Henrik Eberle, a German historian.

Eberle found the Nazi fan mail in a government archive in Moscow. Excerpts from Dr. Eberle's book, "Letters to Hitler - a People Writes to its Leader," were published this week in the German daily tabloid Bild.

"Honorable Reich Chancellor, like lightening from a sunny sky the storm has broken over me. My customers have disappeared," Heinrich Herz, a Jewish craftsman, wrote Hitler on April 27, 1934.
Advertisement
"Honorable Reich Chancellor, give the order that life will become possible again. I would thank you many thousands of times."

Another correspondent, a member of the Nazi Party since 1932, wrote Hitler for advice after learning that his grandmother was Jewish.

"Great leader, what am I to do? Should I terminate my activity? Are we not human? Please help me." The first letter went unanswered. The second received a curt reply: "Maybe you can help out at the local party branch."

Throughout his career, Hitler received tens of thousands of letters. The researcher found the letters in their Moscow storage place after the Red Army took over Hitler's central chambers in Berlin at the end of World War II.

The letters date back to Hitler's initial forays into politics in the 1920s until the very end, when he was holed up in his bunker before committing suicide in April 1945.

Hitler's fan mail from his staunch supporters is at times as chilling as the letters he received from some of his victims.

"Dear good Uncle Hitler," wrote one ethnic German woman, Annelene K., from northeast Prussia, which is today in Lithuania.

"We've been waiting so long for you, when are you coming to our region? We would be very happy if we could belong to Germany again. The Jews and the Lithuanians would all then have to leave, wouldn't they? The Jews not only take our bread - they also slaughter Christians for Easter."

One letter from a Nazi Party member was written in 1932, one year before Hitler became German chancellor.

"We don't want anyone else in government, we want only ADOLF HITLER ... as the dictator," the letter reads. "We National Socialists want the prohibition of all newspapers that have spread poison about our leader, and the expulsion of all Jews."

More Jewish World news and features
Bookmark to del.icio.us  
 
Hunting journalists
Who leaked the details of a CIA-Mossad plot against Iran?
Farming organic
At Or-Gani, Israel's organic revolution is taking on new forms.
  1.   Fans? 05:26  |  sweis Melbourne 10/10/07
  2.   We want the names of those fans 08:03  |  Nora 10/10/07
  3.   Fan mail 08:14  |  Dani Reiss 10/10/07
  4.   A Belated Message To Hitler 08:50  |  Mahmoud Ahmadi-nejad 10/10/07
  5.   Propaganda, appealing to the most basic instincts, works 09:04  |  Clickfool 10/10/07
  6.   I can only wonder 09:10  |  Ron 10/10/07
  7.   letter from Jew unanswered 09:32  |  aj 10/10/07
  8.   #5the yellow streak knows all about propaganda for sure ! 10:30  |  victor hardman 10/10/07
  9.   Hitler et al (Goebels, Eichmann, etc.) 10:53  |  Ilan 10/10/07
  10.   Response to Clickfool in Britain (Post No. 5) 11:03  |  Johnny Weintraub 10/10/07
  11.   Dear Reichsfuehrer 11:27  |  roland 10/10/07
  12.   THERE ARE ALSO SCORES OF ZIONIST FAN MAILS ! 11:30  |  TrippleJump 10/10/07
  13.   Not surprising at all 11:45  |  Jonathan Sachs 10/10/07
  14.   nora 2 11:48  |  realism 10/10/07
  15.   victor hardman 8 11:50  |  realism 10/10/07
  16.   To Sweis 12:11  |  Radka 10/10/07
  17.   we want the names 12:12  |  Radka 10/10/07
  18.   There is an old saying... 12:18  |  Natallie Durson 10/10/07
  19.   Sachs 12:18  |  Radka 10/10/07
  20.   For Victor Hardman/Paul Harris # 8 12:24  |  Clickfool 10/10/07
  21.   Question for Johnny Weintraub # 10 12:26  |  Clickfool 10/10/07
  22.   For Roland # 11 12:29  |  Clickfool 10/10/07
  23.   Nora some of these fans are the trolls writing to the talkback 12:29  |  Jasmine Murphy 10/10/07
  24.   For Nora # 2 12:31  |  Clickfool 10/10/07
  25.   TO TRIPPLEJUMP 13:42  |  Nicole 10/10/07
  26.   Rosenbaum the Nazi hunter caught one in Georgia 14:15  |  The Equalizer 10/10/07
  27.   another belated letter of thanks 14:31  |  emc2 10/10/07
  28.   Durson, clickfool, Ben Alofs, Marlene, Dana, Indrajaya 15:04  |  Herbert Kaine 10/10/07
  29.   The true nature of anti semitism=murder and theft 15:12  |  Ky 10/10/07
  30.   Clickfool # 24. 15:15  |  David Nigel Braham 10/10/07
  31.   Bus in Munich 15:16  |  Jackie 10/10/07
  32.   To Johnny Weintraub 15:20  |  Persian Kitty 10/10/07
  33.   Clickfool 22... 15:24  |  THK 10/10/07
  34.   Natallie Durson # 18 - I Take It You Write From Personal 15:27  |  Eli 10/10/07
  35.   To Roland # 11. 15:41  |  David Nigel Braham 10/10/07
  36.   to #13 Sachs - Oh yes 15:55  |  Peter 10/10/07
  37.   An Historical Inquiry I think is Equally Important 16:17  |  Chick 10/10/07
  38.   hitler could do nothing on his own just like olmert couldn`t 16:17  |  yahn goodey 10/10/07
  39.   Jews kills Christian children for Easter? 16:40  |  Is that true? 10/10/07
  40.   #36 Peter of Hamburg 16:47  |  Jonathan Sachs 10/10/07
  41.   Intellectual Poverty 16:59  |  True Moral 10/10/07
  42.   For Chick in Chicago 17:07  |  Jonathan S 10/10/07
  43.   #39 17:09  |  Michael K 10/10/07
  44.   #39 Is that true? 17:22  |  Chris Linthwaite 10/10/07
  45.   What happened to all the FANS after 1945? 17:23  |  Jonathan S 10/10/07
  46.   Radka 17:33  |  sweis Melbourne 10/10/07
  47.   ClickFOOL and the fans in Britain 17:49  |  Jonathan S 10/10/07
  48.   FAO Jonathan - post# 45 17:56  |  Frederique 10/10/07
  49.   Today`s fans 18:06  |  David 10/10/07
  50.   #5 - Clickfool 18:22  |  MichaelF 10/10/07
  51.   Chris Linthwaite # 44 - so true 18:24  |  ChanahS 10/10/07
  52.   #18 - Natallie Durson 18:30  |  MichaelF 10/10/07
  53.   #39 - Is that true? 18:36  |  MichaelF 10/10/07
  54.   To Jackie 18:38  |  Angel 10/10/07
  55.   What happened to FANS after 1945? 18:38  |  Leser 10/10/07
  56.   For Frederique 18:42  |  Jonathan S 10/10/07
  57.   For Jonathan S, on the American Jewish Lobby # 47 18:55  |  Clickfool 10/10/07
  58.   "Love Letters to Hitler" produced in NYC 1995 19:06  |  Phil Rubin 10/10/07
  59.   Jonathan S 19:19  |  Frederique 10/10/07
  60.   For Phil Rubin on "LOVE LETTERS TO HITLER" #58 19:50  |  Clickfool 10/10/07
  61.   Never again, Do you mean it!!!!!!!!!! 19:55  |  Hakeem 10/10/07
  62.   #57 - Clickfool 20:06  |  MichaelF 10/10/07
  63.   To Clickfool 20:06  |  Phil Rubin 10/10/07
  64.   #61 - Hakeem 20:09  |  MichaelF 10/10/07
  65.   Is there a letter from the Palestinian leader? 20:16  |  Mark Hamil 10/10/07
  66.   Hostile post? 20:28  |  Motic 10/10/07
  67.   #10 Johnny Weintraub in Sugar Land 20:32  |  Chick 10/10/07
  68.   For Michael F # 62 20:35  |  Clickfool 10/10/07
  69.   Any from Amira Hass? 20:37  |  Haaretz reader 10/10/07
  70.   Re 24 are you worried click 20:39  |  Alan the real one 10/10/07
  71.   For Chick in Chicago 20:44  |  Jonathan S 10/10/07
  72.   Re 57 whos left old click 20:44  |  Alan the real one