Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"Neil Beddoe" <Neil.Beddoe at mbamfunds.com> wrote > Hitler never went to Liverpool. It's a myth perpetrated by Alois Hitler's > wife Bridget. > > Sir Ian Kershaw : "There is actually an eye witness to Adolf Hitler's > presence in the men's home in Vienna in February 1913 at a time when he is > supposed to be in Liverpool. Beyond that, the records kept by the men's > home were very careful records and they recorded when people were > residents and when they left. Adolf Hitler did actually leave the men's > home just for a few days and they recorded his departure and his return in > May 1913 when he left to go to Munich. They again registered his > departure. Since the records are so carefully kept, they would > unquestionably have recorded a departure of his in 1912 had he been going > to Liverpool. What a wonderful surreal image to think of Hitler standing > on the terraces at Anfield, but there isn't a grain of truth in the > story." >>>> Well Neil, who knows who is right. Maybe Bridget was lying. But maybe she wasn't. How was Hitler supporting himself at the time? Perhaps Hitler was claiming state assistance and had his trip to England kept clandestine by someone in the home. Perhaps he had committed a crime, even murdered someone - he was a mass murderer later on - and wanted to cover it up. It may sound preposterous, but the idea of the future mass murder of swathes of the jewish people sounded preposterous to ordinary German jews at the time. And history is distorted easily. Time loses as many answers as it gives us While not questioning Sir Ian Kershaw's credentials, some historians (like many ordinary people) can also have an agenda, or have someone else's agenda foisted upon them..... Douglas _________ Douglas Barry Bray, Co. Wicklow Republic of Ireland