Hitler and the Nazi Cult of Celebrity (28 page)

85
‘Winifred Wagner: The Muse’,
Hitler’s Women
, Annette Tewes & Christian Deick, ZDF Enterprises, the History Channel, SBS, 2001.

86
Ibid.

87
Ibid.

88
Ibid.

89
Ibid.

90
Rose, Paul Lawrence,
Wagner: Race and Revolution
, Yale University Press, 1992, p. 48.

91
Wagner, Friedelind,
The Royal Family of Bayreuth
, Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1948. p. 9.

92
‘Winifred Wagner’,
Hitler’s Women
.

93
Ibid.

94
Fest, Joachim C.,
Hitler
, trans. Winston, Richard & Clara, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974.

95
Zalampas, Sherree Owens,
Adolf Hitler: A Psychological interpretation of His Views on Architecture, Art, and Music
, Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1990. p. 48.

96
‘Winifred Wagner’,
Hitler’s Women
.

97
Hitler – A Career
, Joachim Fest, Werner Rieb Produktion, 1977.

98
‘Uneven Romance’,
Time
magazine, 29 June 1959. The world would never have known anything about Maria Reiter were it not for Paula Hitler, who, in March 1959, casually mentioned to a German reporter, Günter Peis, that she had recently visited with ‘perhaps the only woman my brother ever loved’, Günter Peis investigated further and discovered that the woman in question was Maria Reiter, then forty-seven and living quietly in a Munich suburb. Reluctant at first, she finally revealed to Peis her long-kept secret of her romance with Hitler. And she had letters to prove it. The story was first printed in the German publication
Stern
in 1959, and the world learned of the bizarre and almost tragic love story about the girl born in Berchtesgaden on 23 December 1911, the daughter of the co-founder of the Social Democratic Party, a sworn enemy of the National Socialists, a
political
secret which Hitler, as well as Maria, had to keep to themselves.

99
Ibid.

100
Rosenbaum, Ron,
Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil
, Macmillan, 1998, pp. 114–116.

101
Interview with Zeissler; Shofar FTP Archive File online.

102
Langer, Walter, C.,
The Mind of Adolf Hitler: The Secret Wartime Report
, Meridian-New American Library, 1985, p. 96.

103
Kubizek, August,
Adolf Hitler, Mein Jugendfreund
, Stocker, 1953, p, 237.

104
Wiegand, Karl von, ‘Hitler Foresees His End’,
Cosmopolitan
, May 1939, p. 158.

105
Kubizek, A., p. 237.

106
Hitler, Adolf,
Mein Kampf
, trans. Ralph Manheim, Sentry, 1943, p. 63.

107
Langer, W. C., p. 157.

108
‘Eva Braun’,
Hitler’s Women
.

109
Ibid.

110
Ibid.

111
Fröhlich, Elke (ed.),
Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels: Teil I, Aufzeichnungen 1923–1941
, Saur, 1998–2006, 14 volumes, Volume 1/I, pp. 326–327.

112
Ibid., p. 365.

113
Thacker, Toby,
Joseph Goebbels: Life and Death
, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, p. 12. Dr Toby Thacker is a lecturer in modern European history, specialising in music and politics in Germany after 1945, the denazification and the Allied occupation of Germany, and propaganda and culture in Germany 1919–1990. Author of books on Joseph Goebbels, the Third Reich and culture in Germany.

114
Thacker, T., p. 21.

115
Fröhlich, E., p. 29.

116
Thacker, T., p. 37.

117
Ibid., pp. 108–109.

118
Fröhlich, E., p. 106.

119
Ibid., p. 108.

120
Langer, Walter C.,
The Mind of Adolf Hitler: The Secret Wartime Report
, Meridian-New American Library, 1985, p. 44.

121
Hitler, Adolf,
My New Order
, Reynal & Hitchcock, 1941, p. 26.

122
White,
Scribner 9
, April 1932.

123
Langer, p. 45.

124
Huss, Pierre J.,
The Foe We Face
, Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1942, p. 210.

125
Fröhlich, E., pp. 124–125.

126
Ibid., pp. 202–206.

127
Ibid., pp. 208–209.

128
Thacker, p. 46.

129
Fröhlich, E., pp. 374–375.

130
‘Winifred Wagner: The Muse’,
Hitler’s Women
, Annette Tewes & Christian Deick, ZDF Enterprises, the History Channel, SBS, 2001.

131
Fröhlich, E., pp. 82–84.

132
Ibid., p. 95.

133
Die Fahn Hoch! Der Angriff. Aufsätz aus der Kampfzeit
, Zentravlverlag der NSDAP, 1935, pp. 268–271; also Calvin German Propaganda, online.

134
Cecil, Robert,
The Myth of the Master Race: Alfred Rosenberg and Nazi Ideology
, Dodd, Mead, 1972, p. 97.

135
Fest, Joachim C.,
Hitler
, trans. Winston, Richard & Clara, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974.

136
Fröhlich, Elke (ed.),
Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels: Teil I,
Aufzeichnungen 1923–1941
, Saur, 1998–2006, 14 volumes, Volume 2/II, p. 233.

137
‘Winifred Wagner: The Muse’,
Hitler’s Women
, Annette Tewes & Christian Deick, ZDF Enterprises, the History Channel, SBS, 2001

138
Ibid.

139
Ibid.

140
Ibid.

141
Ibid.

142
Fröhlich, E., p. 277.

143
Meissner, Hans Otto,
Magda Goebbels, First Lady of the Third Reich
, Sidgwick and Jackson, 1980, p. 61.

144
Ibid., p. 77.

145
Ibid., p. 82.

146
Fröhlich, E., p. 334.

147
Ibid., p. 346.

148
Ibid., p. 362.

149
Thacker, Toby,
Joseph Goebbels: Life and Death
, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, p. 121.

150
Fröhlich, E., p. 98.

151
Ibid., p. 100.

152
see Sage, Steven F.,
Ibsen and Hitler: The Playwright, the Plagiarist, and the Plot for the Third Reich
, Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2006

153
quoted in Waite, Robert G. L.,
The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler
, Basic Books, 1977.

154
see Waite,
Psychopathic God
.

155
‘Eva Braun: The Mistress’,
Hitler’s Women
, Stefan Brauburger and Oliver Halmburger, ZDF Enterprises, the History Channel, SBS, 2001.

156
Langer, Walter, C.,
The Mind of Adolf Hitler: The Secret Wartime Report
, Meridian-New American Library, 1985, p. 87.

157
Heiden, Konrad,
Adolf Hitler
, Europa Verlag, 1936, pp. 279–280.

158
Price, George Ward,
I Know These Dictators
, Harrap, 1937, pp. 119–120.

159
Ibid., p. 79.

160
see Knopp, Guido,
Hitler’s Women
, Routledge, 2003.

161
Interview with Friedelind Wagner,
The Hitler Source Book
, p. 937.

162
Fröhlich, E., p. 133.

163
Thacker, p. 126.

164
Rauschning, Hermann,
Gespräche mit Hitler
, Europa Verlag, 1940;
Voice of Destruction
, (US) G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1940;
Hitler Speaks
, (UK) Thornton Butterworth, 1939, p. 5.

165
Fest, Joachim C.,
Hitler
, trans. Winston, Richard & Clara, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974, p. 581.

166
Langer, Walter C.,
The Mind of Adolf Hitler: The Secret Wartime Report
, Meridian-New American Library, 1985, p. 58.

167
‘Winifred Wagner: The Muse’,
Hitler’s Women
, Annette Tewes & Christian Deick, ZDF Enterprises, the History Channel, SBS, 2001.

168
Fest, J. C.,
Hitler – A Career
.

169
Macintyre, Ben, ‘I Foresee a Troubled Future for Burmese Generals – a look at leaders who cling desperately to astrology and superstition’,
The Times
, 28 September 2007.

170
‘Hitler’s Private World’,
Revealed
, Channel Five, 2006.

171
Fry, Michael,
Hitler’s Wonderland
, John Murray, 1934, p. 106.

172
‘Cocksure Dictator Takes Timid Soul Precautions’,
Newsweek
, 6 April 1935.

173
Flanner, Janet,
An American in Paris
, Simon & Schuster, 1940, pp. 414–415.

174
High,
Literary Digest
, 21 October 1933, p. 42.

175
Strasser, Otto,
Flight from Terror
, R. M. McBride and Co., 1943, pp. 24–25.

176
Fest, J. C.,
Hitler – A Career
.

177
Curd Jürgens.

178
Gordon, Mel,
Hanussen: Hitler’s Jewish Clairvoyant
, Feral House, 2001, p. 242.

179
Fest, J. C.,, p. 660.

180
Karney, Robyn (ed.),
Cinema Year by Year 1894–2005
, Dorling Kindersley, 2005, p. 236.

181
Friedman, Jonathan C. (ed.),
The Routledge History of the Holocaust
, Routledge, 2011, p. 92.

182
Wulf, Josef (ed.),
Musik im Dritten Reich: Eine Dokumentation
, Mohn Verlag, 1963, pp. 23–25.

183
Ibid., pp. 81–83.

184
see Geissmar, Berta,
The Baton and the Jackboot: Recollections of Musical Life
, Hamish Hamilton, 1944; also Potter, P., ‘The Nazi “Seizure” of the Berlin
Philharmonic or the Decline of a Bourgeois Institution’, in
National Socialist Cultural Policy
, ed. Glenn R. Cuomo, Palgrave Macmillan, 1995, pp. 39–66.

185
‘Winifred Wagner’,
Hitler’s Women
.

186
‘Eva Braun’,
Hitler’s Women
.

187
Harding, Luke, ‘Leni Riefenstahl: Hand-held History’,
The Economist
, 13 September 2003.

188
‘Leni Riefenstahl’,
Hitler’s Women
.

189
Moore, Charles, ‘Leni Riefenstahl’,
Daily Telegraph
, 10 September 2003.

190
Williams, Val, ‘Leni Riefenstahl’,
The Independent
, 9 October 2003.

191
‘Leni Riefenstahl: The Film Director’,
Hitler’s Women
, Sebastian Dehnhardt & Friederike Dreykluft, ZDF Enterprises, the History Channel, SBS, 2001.

192
James, Clive, ‘Reich Star’,
New York Times
, 25 March 2007.

193
The Swastika and the Stage: German Theatre and Society, 1933–1945
(excerpt) online.

194
Ibid.

195
Isaacson, Walter,
Einstein: His Life and Universe
, Simon & Schuster, 2007, pp. 407–410.

196
Riefenstahl, Leni,
The Sieve of Time
, Quartet Books, 1992, pp. 132–133.

197
Fröhlich, Elke (ed.),
Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels: Teil I, Aufzeichnungen 1923–1941
, Saur, 1998–2006, 14 volumes, Volume 2/III, p. 188.

198
Karney, Robyn (ed.),
Cinema Year by Year 1894–2005
, Dorling Kindersley, 2005, p. 236.

199
Thacker, Toby,
Joseph Goebbels: Life and Death
, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, p. 157.

200
Wolfgang Preiss (1910–2002) appeared in many English-language films, most often as a German officer in WWII pictures. In Germany he was famous for playing the arch-villain Dr Mabuse in a series of films. He appeared in more than 100 films.

201
Senses of Cinema
, issue 59.

202
Fröhlich, E., p. 260.

203
Ibid., p. 328.

204
Riefenstahl, pp. 132–133.

205
Riefenstahl, pp. 138–140. Some historians doubt this episode, but a small detail she included might add credibility to it simply because it is almost irrelevant to the story she is telling: when they got into the car, he took a
gun from his raincoat pocket and placed it in the glove compartment. After coming to a halt, he simply took the gun from the compartment and put it in his pocket.

206
Langer, Walter C.,
The Mind of Adolf Hitler: The Secret Wartime Report
, Meridian-New American Library, 1985, p. 47.