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Thread ID: 11781 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2004-01-07
2004-01-07 21:21 | User Profile
smoter.com has a full-length book on line, a good bio of Uncle Wolf, from pre-childhood through the Weimar period and up to his political success. Especially interesting to the researcher should be the descriptions of how the Communists basically raped and pillaged any areas they could and Germans were in fear for their lives - it is every detailed all through, and on this section of history no less. I urge readers to read, enjoy, and archive in case the site is ever shut down.
faem.com has, in their Books section, "The Young Hitler I Knew" by Kubizek, which is another great read. Imagine knowing another kid in high school, say, who would walk about your town with you and tell you for hours about his plans to rebuild the whole place, and apparently have the visuo-spacial abilities to design a coherent whole, and to draw up full plans. Imagine this odd friend of yours sitting down for a week or so and writing an opera. Imagine being friends with a genius. This is what Kubizek experienced, and benefited also, since Hitler convinced Kubizek's parents to let him pursue a musical career at which he was very successful until interrupted by WWI. Most telling is the final chapter where Kubizek tells in too-few words how he was put into an Allied concentration camp, probably tortured, and asked repeatedly why he didn't kill Hitler when he had the change. Kubizek's simple anwer: "He was my friend".