THE TELEGRAPH: Fan letters written to Adolf Hitler during the Second World War were the subject of a new documentary in Germany last night.
'Dear Uncle Adolf' was the first documentary detailing the tens of thousands of surviving fan letters Hitler received while in power which were seized by the Soviets when they conquered Berlin in 1945.
For years these love notes, advice letters, gifts and health-tips lay undiscovered in Russian archives. Discovered in 2007, they formed the basis of a German book called 'Letters to Hitler'. Last night the Svengali-like grip that the Austrian-born Hitler exerted over Germany was unveiled as actors read out the letters that would fill a truck.
They were letters that often accompanied gifts, in the case of Margarethe Wagner, a pair of socks sent in 1938 after Hitler occupied the Czech Sudetenland border region.
"I knitted these for you as you freed us," she wrote. >>> Allan Hall in Berlin | Monday, April 26, 2010
WELT ONLINE: 22.40 Uhr Arte In einem Moskauer Spezialarchiv wurde vor Kurzem eine sagenhafte Entdeckung gemacht, die erschütternde Einblicke in die Beziehung der Deutschen zu Adolf Hitler gewährt. In diesem Archiv lagerten über 100 000 Botschaften aus der deutschen Bevölkerung an den Diktator. Mithilfe dieser "Fanpost" und anderer Dokumente vermittelt die Dokumentation von Michael Kloft einen Eindruck von der unfassbaren Ausstrahlung Hitlers und der unheimlichen Faszination, die leider der größte Teil der Deutschen für ihn empfand. [Quelle: WeltOnline] Von Harald Peters | Sonntag, 25. April 2010
