Paula Hitler
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Michael Williams: Paula Wolf/Hitler:
Closing
remarks of the Agent.
If
further investigations prove that the declarations of Mrs.
Paula Wolf are true there can be no doubt in her
sincerity, at least as far as she is describing her own
life and her relationship to her brother. Unworthy of
belief, however, is her declaration that she did never
know anything about the innumerable crimes which were
committed during the government of her brother and under
his immediate responsibility, and that she was never told
of these crimes. She also insisted on the fact that she
never noticed his threat to destroy the Jews in Europe and
to crush all his enemies in his speeches which were
transferred by radio over the whole world and also to
Vienna! And what a contrast of this Adolf Hitler who
according to her own declarations was radiant with
kindness with the brutal man he really was! The tactics to
have been unaware of all what happened during 12 years of
Nazi terror are only too well known and unable to convince
even an unprejudiced man.
This
woman is not in the least denying the fact that she was
extremely fond of her brother whose death, by the way she
does not doubt. The likeness to her brother in appearance,
look and physiognomy is striking and intensifies the
longer one is in her presence. I could bring her a
typewriter ribbon she needed for her small Erika
typewriter. After answering my questions dilatorily in the
beginning she was later on talking freely and with
increasing confidence. There was a certain charm in her
modesty and her simple manner of speaking. The
surroundings, the terrace of the Alpenwirtschaft with its
unique view over the land of Berchtesgaden made a strong
impression on the agent. But this woman must not be
allowed to become the protectress of the mountain in which
the sole of her brother is only lying dormant to rise
again to new life and to new crimes against human nature.
Reporters desiring for sensational news are not to work
their way up the mountain to cable into the world with
charming stories the Hitler - Myth which will inevitable
arise. Too many German authors would greedily snatch at
such news to offer an immortal hero of the type of
Barbarrosa to youth always longing for romanticism. What
enrichment for the gallery of heroes of German history,
for the academical youth for spur and emulation!
And
what a chance for skilfully camouflaged militarists like
Doctor Lenz, Laufen who is president of the district of
the OSU is making provoking speeches with the theme:
Germany as a bastion against communism in east and west,
or translated into good German: "Get strong for a
revenge - war against Russia and against the communistic
France!"
No,
it must not come to that! The suffering of innumerable
human beings in concentration camps and penitentiaries the
sacrifice of life of comrades of the European and last not
least of the German underground - movements, all what was
done by Allies Forces to suppress Nazism, all would be in
vain! No vindictiveness against a lonely, at least with
regard to her actions guiltless woman. But get her away
from publicity. She could become a germ cell for a new
disaster, maybe against her own wishes. One thing is
certain: the American, who visited her and declared that
the question who is to blame for all what happened since
12 years war and crimes, destruction and death, can only
be answered by future generations, will not remain the
only one. Many people, Americans and other, will come and
bear a share to show Hitler as what he has never been: a
kind man and a great Leader.
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