Jean-Albert Vilmer wrote: > > > The French left-wing newspaper Libération published today an article > about EJ & Hitler letters. Here is a very rough summary/translation. > > Sorry for my very poor English : I read almost every day your > contributions and translations (special congratulations to Bertil > Haggman, Thomas Friese, Ulrich Oswald, John King, Umberto Rossi and > many others), and by inserting this mail I feel like a beginner > musician starting to play in the middle of a famous orchestra. Anyway, > here it is (for those who understand French, article may be found at > http://www.liberation.fr/quotidien/semaine/990118lunzh.html) : > > "Adolf Hitler and his secretary Rudolf Hess had a brief > correspondence as revealed yesterday the newspaper Welt am > Sonntag. In the personal archive of Jünger, the newspaper > found three letters from Rudolf Hess and one from Hitler, > dated may 27th 1926. "I read all your writings. I valued one > of the few testimony of an actor of the WWI" wrote Hitler, > thanking EJ for a copy of "Fire and Blood" that Jünger sent > him dedicated. A letter from Rudolf Hess, dated June 1926, > thanks EJ for another letter and diaries that EJ would have > sent to Hitler, and announces an Hitler visit at EJ home in > Leipzig. This visit was cancelled due to a change in Hitler > Program. > > Welt am Sonntag interprets these letters like the evidence > that EJ was paid court by Hitler but kept distances. Heimo > Schwilk, the journalist who found these letters and is > working on a biography of EJ writes that "he could have > become the "lighthouse" of the nazis but always resisted to > the temptation.". EJ himself summarised his own thinking > about Hitler as follows : "This man is right" he thought > when he assisted to Hitler speech in Munich in 1923, "a key > event" he said. Then EJ found Hitler "ridiculous" and then > "sinister, awful". > > EJ differed very quickly differed from the national > socialism because the tactic they use to conquer political > power seemed to betray the "purity" of the national fight. A > letter from Rudolf Hesse in 1929 tries to explain to EJ why > the nazi party broke away from the assassination done by > nationalists farmers : EJ had reproached the NSDAP to > abandon revolutionaries. In 1927 Hitler asked EJ to be > candidate for the Nazi party at the Reichstag : "I would > prefer to write only one verse rather than representing 60 > 000 fool people at the parliament". > > Although the discovery of these letters is new, the > closeness of EJ with the beginning of the Nazi party was > already known. It did not kept other political men, much > latter, to pay court to the writer : François Mitterand and > Helmut Kohl were big fans of EJ, to who they paid several > visits." >
Sorry to respond so late and so rude, but who's Hitler? Ulrich Oswald
