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Adolf Hitler personally owned an extensive collection of books (not including books he bought for the German state library). Nazi politician Baldur von Schirach claimed that Hitler had about 6,000 volumes and that he had read each one. Frederick Cable Oechsner estimated the collection at 16,300 volumes. [1]
Most of the books, about 80, came from Hitler's Berlin bunker and were given to Brown in 1986 by the late Matthew S. Perlman, who graduated from the university in 1957.
When Hitler's Germany started the Anschluss with Austria in 1938, one of the first casualties was the looting of the public and private libraries of Vienna. [ 1 ] Of the library of the University of Graz , about 100 manuscripts and 4,500 volumes of academic publications, which had been stored for safe keeping in Steiermark , were lost as a ...
At the end of the war the entire depot stored 6,577 paintings, 137 sculptures, and 484 crates of other art, [3] as well as furniture, weapons, coins, and library collections, including some of Adolf Hitler's so-called Führerbibliothek (Führer's library). [4]
KENT, England, March 13 (Reuters) - An album containing never-before-seen candid photos of German Nazi party leader Adolf Hitler and party members will be auctioned on Wednesday, according to the ...
Hitler was released on parole early in December 1924. This volume was then published in a first edition on July 18, 1925. In the summer of the same year, after his release from prison, he was a guest under the name "Hugo Wolf" in the Gebirgskurhaus Obersalzberg , which was then leased by Bruno Büchner and his wife.
The Berghof was Adolf Hitler's holiday home in the Obersalzberg of the Bavarian Alps near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany.Other than the Wolfsschanze ("Wolf's Lair"), his headquarters in East Prussia for the invasion of the Soviet Union, he spent more time here than anywhere else during his time as the Führer of Nazi Germany.
He is backed by well-cast supporting players — even the actors doing fleeting cameos as Churchill (Tim Hudson) and Hitler (Marc Bessant) fully commit to their roles without belaboring the obvious.