A Cook for Hitler

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 60, 12 March 1938, Page 2

A Cook for Hitler

FAMOUS CHEF ENGAGED. Adolf Hitler may be the dictator of 70,000,000 Germans, but he has not always found it easy to get his food prepared just as he likes it. The Fuehrer is very exacting in his diet. A confirmed non-smoker, who objects even to others smoking in his presence, ho is practically a vegetarian, but at the same time likes plenty of variety in his menu. For many years these culinary problems were solved by able Fraulein Hitler, the dictator's elder sister, who in her capacity as housekeeper saw that all cooking was entirely to her brother’s liking. Recently, however, the household was more or less disrupted when the fraulein, marrying a university professor, left to assume the management of

her own establishment. After the departure of his sister, Hitler tried out a rapid succession of cooks, male and female. None of them, it seems, had the right touch till the happy advent of one ILerr Artur Ivaunenberg, who has received his permanent appointment under the imposing title “Superintendent of the Household."

Herr Kannenberg is no amateur at the job of satisfying captious vegetarian diners. In pre-Nazi days he was manager of a noted vegetarian restaurant in a fashionable Berlin district, which was attended largely by artists and intellectuals of the day. Such, indeed, was his skill at originating endless variations on a vegetarian theme that he became famed to non-meat caters the world over.

Now his talents will find employment in the sumptuously equipped kitchens of the Reich Chancellor’s Palace in the Wilhelmstrasse, where a complete set of utensils is provided for Hitler's personal cooking, to prevent contamination from any of the meat dishes prepared for others. An' added safeguard to the vegetarian purity of the Furhrer’s diet is provided by the constant attendance in the kitchens of a medical officer astensibly present to supervise hygiene and cleanliness.