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Summary: FICTION
Review: This book was published in late 1939 by a disaffected minor official from National Socialist Germany. It contains some of the more lurid anecdotes of Hitler's life, supposedly based on
numerous personal conversations between him and the author.
You are referred to the article in the German newsmagazine,
Der Spiegel, 37:92-99, 1985. A Swiss schoolteacher, Wolfgang
Haenel, demonstrated that the book is a compendium of works by
Ernst Juenger, Erich Ludendorff, Guy de Maupassant (the short story, The Horla) - in short, fiction. Dr. Rauschning had no
private conversations with Hitler and met him (formally) only
a couple of times. The book is no longer cited in histories and
biographies of the era. This is not to say that it is without
historical significance, as the Soviets entered it into evidence at the Nuremberg trials and it may well have influenced the judges into handing down more severe sentences than they otherwise would have done.
PS Dr. Rauschning died (a farmer!) in Portland, Oregon, in 1982.
Before that, he was quoted: "Herr Haenel will mich entlarven!"
(Mr. Haenel wants to expose me!)
Those with a genuine interest in seeing this article, and who cannot obtain it themselves, may write me at: Eric Rachut, M.D., 12641 FM 2601, Moody, Texas 76557.
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