'Dear Uncle Adolf': Documentary Details Fan Letters Sent to Hitler
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

Dokumentation: Lieber Onkel Hitler
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

Hitler’s Adoring, Fawning Fans
YNET NEWS: Amount of fan mail sent to Nazi leader between 1925 and 1945 rivalled that of The Beatles, The Independent reports

LONDON - The amount of fan mail sent to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler between the years 1925 and 1945 rivalled that of The Beatles, British newspaper The Independent reported Tuesday.

According to the report, the up to 1,000 letters a month written to Hitler during the course of his political career included not only fawning pledges of allegiance and declarations of love but bizarre requests from ordinary Germans for permission to bake cakes named after the Nazi leader.

The contents of the letters have been published in a new book by German historian Henrik Eberle, who unearthed a rich source of hitherto unseen Nazi fan mail in historical archives in Moscow.

According to The Independent, excerpts from Dr Eberle's book, Letters to Hitler – a People Writes to its Leader, were published Monday in Germany's Bild newspaper.

Some of the letters praise Hitler's leadership, while others were written by people seeking to reveal the fuehrer's personal tastes and habits.

A telegram written by a Walter Zickler, dated June 1925, pledges "unalterable allegiance and unshakeable faith in our leader, Adolf Hitler", on behalf of the "College of German Farmers".

"How does HE stand regarding the question of alcohol?" asks Alfred Barg, in a letter written to Hitler in May 1925. According to the report, Dr Eberle notes in his book that Hitler rarely set eyes on any of the letters himself but relied primarily on Rudolf Hess, his deputy, to read and reply to them.

To Barg's letter, Hess replies nine days later: "Herr Hitler does not drink any alcohol, except for a few drops on very special occasions. He does not smoke at all." Love letters sent to Hitler revealed (more) By Hagit Klaiman

Mark Alexander