Hitler and I

At home with Hitler, the scans I made of the 1938 Homes and Gardens feature on Hitlers lovely new mountain home, has gone ballistic.
Following links from WhatReallyHappened, and MilkandCookies, it is now doing about 10 times as many page impressions as my weblog..and, frankly, I'm going to have to mirror it on some other servers to save myself from busting the Typepad bandwidth allowance.
The magazine actually belongs to my father-in-law. He has kept it for fifty years because it has a photo story of a house that his father designed. He never realised that the Hitler article was in it. In fact, he was rather shocked when I flicked through the magazine and found it.
I'm slightly nervous about putting out there...as you never know what fans Hitler related content might find online. I was particularly nervous to find out that revisionist historian David Irving (yeugh) has put a copy of it up on his site (without asking my permission of course).
When I have time, I'm also going to get in touch with Homes and Gardens...to see whether they have any record of it.
As a historical document though, it is fascinating. We hear a lot about how the British upper and upper middle classes felt that 'that Hitler chap had some very good ideas'...but it's only when you see it in this almost comically fawning form that you realise how someone who can seem utterly abhorrent with hindsight can appeal to people at the time.
Hence, at various times we have supported Saddam and Apartheid and Ceaucescu to name but a few.

Comments

[Louise Ferguson]

And General Franco in Spain - just see Churchill's diaries.

[simon]

I'm sure the list goes on...I'm also convinced that at some time Hello! did a picture story on Ceaucescu...(certainly the Mirror under Maxwell was rather gushing about him at times).

[Ben]

"without asking my permission of course"

kind of ironic eh ;-)

[simon]

Fair point!

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