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¤ckel The Guardian, London Paula Hitler’s Journal Discovered TWO historians yesterday acclaimed the discovery in Germany of a journal written by Adolf Hitler’s sister, saying it offers remarkable insights into the dysfunctional nature of the Führer’s family. Paula Hitler ‘s journal, unearthed at an undisclosed location in Germany [SEE PANEL AT RIGHT] , reveals that her brother was a bully in his teens, and would beat her.
Recounting the earliest memories of her childhood, when she was around eight and Adolf was 15, Paula wrote: “Once again I feel my brother’s loose hand across my face.” David Irving comments: AFTER SIXTY YEARS: it just goes to show what lame ducks the world’s conformist historians are, if they have failed to unearth such vitally important documents as these in Germany — provided that they are genuine (see last paragraph).
For several years I drove around the country — before I was banned in 1993 — visiting high-ranking WW2 widows and veterans of the Nazi years, and obtaining copies of their private papers. The conformists prefer to skulk in archives and libraries, plucking books (preferably printed) from shelves. For Hitler’s War I used one or two interrogations of Paula Hitler , conducted by an American unit. These revealed her abiding fondness for her big bad brother. She had a hard time after the war.
Once, thanks to the late François Genoud , she did have a windfall: For her publishing rights in Hitler’s Table Talk , which Genoud had acquired from Martin Bormann ‘s widow, publisher George Weidenfeld , an Austrian Jew (today Lord Weidenfeld) paid her a cheque for £40,000. That was back in the late 1940s, and that wasn’t peanuts in those days. Weidenfeld not only did Hitler’s sister a favour, he did a great service to history.
At Nuremberg she wrote extensive memoirs also; these are typed on US legal size paper and each page is signed by her. I glanced through them, and am sure they are genuine. This document is in the hands of an American collector who lives in Michigan — I have so far been unable to persuade him to let me have a copy although he has often promised; I came within an ace of setting up a scanner to do so, when his wife emerged from their bedroom — it was around 3 a.m. — and protested.
AS for the infamous Dr Erwin Jekelius : what a coincidence. His name figures on the mysterious entry for Nov 30, 1941 of Heinrich Himmler’s handwritten telephone log . I was the first historian to take the trouble to transcribe these historical documents. It always puzzled me why Himmler should have taken an interest in this obscure Austrian. Now we know.
He visited Hitler in his bunker that day — Hitler ordered, in vain, that the trainload of Jews just transported from Berlin should not be liquidated — and he had perhaps also asked the Reichsführer to look into the fellow who was messing with his little sister. INCIDENTALLY, and on a controversial note: why is it a criminal act to gas 5,000 euthanasia victims, but not a criminal act to kill by the most brutal means 5 million unborn babies each year? But that’s another debate entirely.
FINALLY, what about the source of the Paula Hitler documents? The Hitler family stuff comes from a file in the Wiener Staatsarchiv. No sensation there. As for the rest, the fact that these two historians tested the authenticity is one clue.
That they “also located a joint memoir by Hitler’s half-brother, Alois” tells me all I need to know: the location was none other than the famous Fake Hitler Diaries accomplice Gerd Heidemann , and that is why the two historians are a bit, ahem, coy about revealing the location. The last time I saw Alois’s memoirs (a thick typescript), in about 1980 they were in Gerd’s fabulous archive, and I believe he mentioned to me something about having Paula’s papers too.
In March 2005 I asked Gerd about these items and certain others, which I need for my Himmler biography, indicating that I am prepared to pay, and he stated that he was negotiating with Mr Beierl and ZDF television. I just hope the pages of Paula’s Diary do not have the thumbprints of a certain Konrad Kujau all over them. The typewritten journal is among an assortment of documents which have been disclosed by historians Timothy Ryback and Florian Beierl .
Dr Ryback is the head of Germany’s Obersalzberg Institute of Contemporary History , which is dedicated to research into Hitler, while Mr Beierl has written several books about the Nazi party leader and Third Reich chancellor. They said that scientific tests had verified the documents’ authenticity. Other insights include the revelation that Paula, always thought of as the innocent bystander of the Hitler family, was engaged to one of the Holocaust ‘s most notorious euthanasia doctors. Dr Ry