HITLER STORIES

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 September 1940, Page 8

HITLER STORIES

ORIGIN OF “MEIN KAMPF.” Otto Strasser, in “Hitler and I,” (writes “Peterborough” in the London “Daily Telegraph”) tells how his brother Gregor and Hitler were imprisoned in Landsberg fortress after the abortive Munich putsch in 1923. They lived quite comfortably together. The drawback was the incessant speechifying of Hitler, which bored the others to distraction. One day Strasser had the brilliant idea of suggesting that Hitler should write his memoirs. “Adolf positively leapt at it.” After that the others had peace, .and the first draft of “Mein Kampf” was written. Some years later, at a meeting of Nazi leaders, someone asked which of them had read “Mein Kampf.” No one of them had. “Goebbels shook his head guiltily, Goering burst into loud laughter, Reventlow said he had not had the time.”

HITLER IN NEW YORK. A passenger arriving in New York on the Atlantic Clipper said he had met a non-German officer at Bordeaux who was present when Hitler posed to his personal photographer, Hoffmann, at the Eiffel Tower. He heard the Fuehrer say: “Take this one, Hoffmann, then the next one in Buckingham Palace and the next after that in front of the skyscrapers (Vor den Wolkenkratzern).” From New York I heard that Americans who read the story in the papers yesterday received the impression that Hitler was referring to the skyscrapers in New York. Their indignation was magnificent.

HITLER—MAY, 1941. Mr D. W. Gann, a Wall Street operator and president of the Miami firm of “Investment Counsellors,” has also made a name for himself in the United States as a political prophet.

In April, 1918, he predicted the end of the World War for the following November. He has now turned his investigations in “time cycles” to the present war. From August onwards he fore-

tells German reverses and finds Noy. 1-12 very unfavourable to the Nazis. The latest end of the war, which he says Hitler already knows he cannot win, he fixes for the first half of May next year.