Sjoerd J. de Boer - The Hitler Myths: Exposing the Truth Behind the Stories About the Fhrer

The Hitler Myths

Exposing the Truth Behind the Stories about the Fhrer

Sjoerd J. de Boer

First published in Great Britain in 2022 by

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Originally published by Just Publishers, the Netherlands.

Translated by Arnold Palthe.

Copyright S.J. de Boer 2021

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Apparently, rumours are far more interesting than plain reality (Sven Felix Kellerhoff, 2003)

A ridiculous biography

S eventy-five years after the death of Adolf Hitler, the wildest stories about him are still circulating. Arranged in sequence, a ridiculous biography has been created full of bizarre incredible facts about the former Fhrer of Germany that would read something like this:

Adolf Hitler was the homosexual, impotent, demonic and paranoid grandchild of a Jew. As a little boy, a goat bit his penis, leaving him sexually frustrated for the rest of his life. Despite his frigidity, he contracted a venereal disease while living in Vienna and during the First World War, he fathered a child with a French village girl. After the war, he entered into a state of permanent hypnosis because a physician in the military hospital of Pasewalk didnt complete his alternative treatment and in the early 1930s, he murdered his niece Geli, with whom he had maintained an extremely bad relationship.

This weird Austrian managed to grasp power in Germany in order to achieve a number of horrible things, including the almost assembly line murder of six million Jews, although it was said later on he had never issued the order for this. He was, however, responsible for the construction of a fantastic network of highways in Germany.

Discrepancies in his policy are explained away by the fact that, despite his aversion to the Christian faith he has always remained a devout Catholic and this fire-eating, fuming and fretting demon suffered from so many personality disorders and mental diseases that he can be called completely devout and completely opportunistic in the same breath.

The dictator with the one testicle had sex with many well-known women, including Magda Goebbels, on whom he fathered a child, probably forgetting to keep a last shot in the locker as he rarely ever shared his bed with his mistress, Eva Braun. This may have had to do with his addiction to hard drugs, described by his personal physician Theodor Morell, which caused him to make such weird military decisions that the war could only end in failure.

The allegedly infallible Hitler subsequently committed double suicide with both cyanide and a pistol, after which he called upon a UFO to take him to safer pastures. Providence obeyed and had him transferred to Argentina, not with a UFO but by U-boat, and there he lived for years without both jaws, which were kept in Moscow. After having made Eva Braun pregnant at the last opportunity, Hitler died in 1986 at the age of 97, many years after the end of the Second World War.

An utterly ridiculous story of a life, although every statement made represents a Hitler myth, which is actually presented as a serious possibility in one source or another. Arranged in sequence like this, it becomes instantly clear that not all of them can be true simultaneously but even the lowest conspiracy addict or gossip journalist naturally presents his theories independently of all other possible untrue stories and substantiates them with eyewitness accounts and all sorts of other facts from the past. Preferably sprinkled liberally with a sauce of mystery and conspiracy. Many of the stories mentioned above pop up time and again on the internet, in the form of books or in the written press. Meanwhile, several of these bizarre stories seem to have taken root in our collective memory. Hitler did have Jewish blood, didnt he? And couldnt it be highly likely Hitler used drugs? And why is there still so much uncertainty about what happened with his remains after his alleged suicide?

In response to publications in which Hitlers evil is explained based on a single fact, and being a member of a post-war generation that has very seldom learned anything about Hitler at first-hand, I wanted to find out what the most important myths about the most notorious dictator in Europe are based on. That is necessary because since the emergence of the internet, old discussions about Hitler flare up frequently again, even if they come from obsolete, unreliable sources or dusty books being taken from the shelf once again.

Since the rise of the Nazi party in pre-Second World War Germany, all sorts of weird stories have existed about Hitler who, by the way, did his utmost to suppress his past or even eradicate it altogether. The most extreme example of this took place in 1938 when he razed the Austrian villages of Dllersheim and Strones, where his ancestors came from, to the ground in order to turn that region into a military training area. Although much material has been lost, his plan was not achieved entirely. Gossip about Hitlers life kept circulating until long after his death. For instance, the seemingly very convincing statements of Nazi lawyer Hans Frank about Hitlers alleged Jewish ancestry can be found in various forums on the internet, even though historians have long since proved Franks unreliability as a source. In particular on this sensitive subject, the statements made should be substantiated by facts. The consequence of this myth of Hitler being a Jew is enormous, because if Hitler had been a Jew, the Jewish people would have been perpetrators as well as victims of the Holocaust and so they would have been burdened with a highly undesirable and undeserved load.

In early 2014, the spectacular story of an English soldier who had stood eye to eye with Hitler during the First World War made headlines for the umpteenth time. In an article entitled British soldier spares the life of an injured Hitler on a Belgian website it was written that Hitler had been walking along, injured, on 28 September 1918 near Cambrai in northern France when he met this British soldier. Hitler lowered his weapon and the two looked in each others eyes. Thereupon, the Tommy lowered his weapon as well and offered the German soldier later on he discovered it must have been Adolf Hitler a chance to escape. But what was really said in the book on which the article was based? The journalist who had written the article, had he actually read the book?