spy file on young Adolf Hitler discovered
Heinrich
surfaced in the country's national archives, daily Le Monde reported on
Friday
The director of the Archives Nationales Isabelle Neuschwander told the paper
that the report from 1924 was found in a safe that contains some of the
institutions' most important documents.
It refers to Hitler as "Adolphe Jacob," who the French intelligence agents
defined as a journalist due to activities at the NSDAP (Nazi Party) daily,
the V�lkischer Beobachter. Giving Hitler the incorrect name Jacob may have
been due to a popular rumour at the time that said he had Jewish roots, the
paper said.
The file also had the future German dictator's date of birth and birthplace
wrong, saying he was born nine years too early in 1880 in Passau, Germany
instead of the Austrian town of Braunau am Inn.
Hitler was the head of the NSDAP when the A4-size record was made, and it
refers to him as the "German Mussolini," going on to say he "is not an idiot
but (...) a very skillful demagogue."
He was also said to have "failed miserably" at his attempted putsch on
November 8, 1923 - an effort for which he served a jail sentence that
provided time to write his book "Mein Kampf."
Jason James
"Heinrich" <Hein...@Ruhrgasnet.de> wrote in message
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Pity they didnt hit him on the head with a hammer then,...and be done with
it.
Jason