Stalin's secret files on Hitler, and other new info.

[Dover]

Stalin's secret files on Hitler


THE secret personal files of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin on the private life of his greatest enemy, the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, have been unearthed in a Moscow archive and are to be published next week in Germany.

On 413 pages of closely written and typed Cyrillic script, the papers were buried along with hundreds of tons of other secret documents on the orders of the NKVD - forerunner to the KGB - in the Institute for History in the Russian capital. They are now to be published as The Hitler Book next Monday.

Many are based on interviews with Hitler’s adjutant, Otto Günsche, and his personal valet, Heinz Linge. Both captured in Berlin in 1945, they spent the next ten years in Moscow being debriefed almost daily to provide Stalin with a detailed portrait of his nemesis.

In the 1950s the papers, classified under the former Soviet premier Nikita Kruschev as file 462a, were stored in the Communist Party archives. They were eventually discovered by the German historians Matthias Uhl and Henrik Eberle.

Professor Horst Moeller, director of the Historical Institute in Munich, said: "With minute details it provides a fascinating insight into the lives of both dictators. It is a remarkable portrait about the obsessive nature of one dictator over the habits and mores of another."

It contains many of the private thoughts and biting asides that Hitler delivered to his inner circle - a circle that his two top aides moved in. ...>

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=283512005

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Hitler's wedding secrets

The Sunday Times
March 23, 2005

BERLIN: The bride wore a dark blue silk dress with a soft grey fur cape. The ashen-faced groom was dressed in the same crumpled jacket he had been wearing for days, his Iron Cross and other military decorations pinned to the lapel.

The ceremony, held in a storeroom in a Berlin bunker as Soviet artillery rained down on the city, lasted only 10 minutes. When the couple emerged, Adolf Hitler kissed Eva Braun's hand. There was speculation among aides that she was carrying the Fuhrer's child...>

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,12632017%255E2703,00.html

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Hitler 'tested small atom bomb'

By Ray Furlong
BBC News, Berlin

Rainer Karlsch said that new research in Soviet and also Western archives, along with measurements carried out at one of the test sites, provided evidence for the existence of the weapon.

"The important thing in my book is the finding that the Germans had an atomic reactor near Berlin which was running for a short while, perhaps some days or weeks," he told the BBC.

"The second important finding was the atomic tests carried out in Thuringia and on the Baltic Sea."

Mr Karlsch describes what the Germans had as a "hybrid tactical nuclear weapon" much smaller than those dropped on Hiroshima or Nagasaki.


'Bright light'

He said the last test, carried out in Thuringia on 3 March 1945, destroyed an area of about 500 sq m, killing several hundred prisoners of war and concentration camp inmates..cont'd

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4348497.stm

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The Human Face of Evil

A controversial film about Hitler's final days in the bunker isn't easy to watch, but it's unforgettable
By RICHARD SCHICKEL


Mar. 21, 2005
Here's a moviegoing opportunity you may want to refuse but should not: spending 21/2 hours trapped underground in a dank bunker with world history's most loathsome creature.
Downfall is a German film--epic in scale, painstaking in detail, superbly acted--that recounts the last days of Adolf Hitler and his circle of associate monsters in the spring of 1945. The locale is ruined Berlin, encircled by the implacably advancing Russians as its population descends into anarchy. Belowstairs, Hitler (toweringly played by Bruno Ganz) spirals deeper into unreality. Hunched over his maps, he orders imaginary armies to attack, while his toadies, in their spiffy uniforms, look nervously at one another. Who's going to risk his rage by telling him the truth?

The Führer is even creepier when he succumbs to whispery-voiced, almost catatonic self-pity as he tries to relate to courtiers. Half of them are (as he is) contemplating suicide, while the rest are plotting desperate escapes. There has been some criticism of director Oliver Hirschbiegel's Oscar-nominated film for humanizing Hitler and his gang, but that's nonsense. Because, of course, they were human. The world has since known dictators just as insane. And we can be sure their acolytes exhibited the same range of ugly behavior (denial, cynicism, narcissism) shown in this film. The inclusion of a few innocents and dissidents hardly brightens the picture...>


http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,1037663,00.html

[roguevalley]

1. interesting. I will read it. Have you read "Hidden Hitler"? Interesting

take on the dickhead's sexuality, what there was of it from the few people he allowed to be really close to him.