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7/21/2025, 8:28:02 PM
>"In conflict with a bourgeois world, which with its deceit and false rectitude had nothing to offer him, he sought instinctively his own world and found it in the origins and early history of his own peoples"
p.83
>"So, for my friend it was books, always books. I could not imagine Adolf without books. He stacked them in piles around him. He had to have with him at his side the book he was currently working through. Even if he did not happen to be reading it just then, it had to be around. Whenever he went out, there would usually be a book under his arm. This was often a problem, for he would rather abandon nature and the open sky than the book."
p.179
>"Books were his whole world. In Linz, in order to procure the books he wanted, he had subscribed to three libraries. In Vienna he used the Hof Library so industriously that I asked him once in all seriousness whether he intended to read the whole library, which of course earned me some rude remarks"
p.180
From The Young Hitler I Knew, by August Kubizek (many more citations here https://warosu.org/lit/thread/21010838)
Also:
From With Hitler to the End
>At dinner...In the case of disputes I would have to fetch the lexicons or historical works at which Hitler, who had a fantastic memory, would usually indicate which volume was to be consulted, and also the page number. Since he never dictated the subjects for discussion, it would not have been possible for him to cram up beforehand in order to impress with his knowledge. These discussions might be interrupted for despatches and important reports in the evening papers, or for conferences with colleagues or military men, which would delay his timetable to such an extent that he would have to sit up through the early hours working in the library.
>Before the war Hitler liked to work into the early hours, or talk amongst his intimate circle, and would be woken ‘unofficially’ at ten o’clock unless urgent political business forced him to rise earlier. I would sort the morning papers, and the first foreign despatches which would have been brought from the Reich Chancellery during the night, and put them on a chair outside his bedroom. At eleven o’clock I would waken him ‘officially’ with the words: ‘Good morning, mein Führer, it is eleven o’clock. The newspapers and despatches are at your door.’ He would rise, fetch the post and read it in bed. Sometimes he would open the door in nightshirt and slippers while I was laying the material on the chair. Initially this kind of encounter was rather embarrassing for me and I would stammer my apologies, but Hitler, always unforced and natural, would merely say: ‘It’s nothing. Just leave them.’
>He then read the newspapers and despatches in bed, near which there would be a tea-trolley with books, newspapers, his spectacles and a box with coloured pencils.
p.83
>"So, for my friend it was books, always books. I could not imagine Adolf without books. He stacked them in piles around him. He had to have with him at his side the book he was currently working through. Even if he did not happen to be reading it just then, it had to be around. Whenever he went out, there would usually be a book under his arm. This was often a problem, for he would rather abandon nature and the open sky than the book."
p.179
>"Books were his whole world. In Linz, in order to procure the books he wanted, he had subscribed to three libraries. In Vienna he used the Hof Library so industriously that I asked him once in all seriousness whether he intended to read the whole library, which of course earned me some rude remarks"
p.180
From The Young Hitler I Knew, by August Kubizek (many more citations here https://warosu.org/lit/thread/21010838)
Also:
From With Hitler to the End
>At dinner...In the case of disputes I would have to fetch the lexicons or historical works at which Hitler, who had a fantastic memory, would usually indicate which volume was to be consulted, and also the page number. Since he never dictated the subjects for discussion, it would not have been possible for him to cram up beforehand in order to impress with his knowledge. These discussions might be interrupted for despatches and important reports in the evening papers, or for conferences with colleagues or military men, which would delay his timetable to such an extent that he would have to sit up through the early hours working in the library.
>Before the war Hitler liked to work into the early hours, or talk amongst his intimate circle, and would be woken ‘unofficially’ at ten o’clock unless urgent political business forced him to rise earlier. I would sort the morning papers, and the first foreign despatches which would have been brought from the Reich Chancellery during the night, and put them on a chair outside his bedroom. At eleven o’clock I would waken him ‘officially’ with the words: ‘Good morning, mein Führer, it is eleven o’clock. The newspapers and despatches are at your door.’ He would rise, fetch the post and read it in bed. Sometimes he would open the door in nightshirt and slippers while I was laying the material on the chair. Initially this kind of encounter was rather embarrassing for me and I would stammer my apologies, but Hitler, always unforced and natural, would merely say: ‘It’s nothing. Just leave them.’
>He then read the newspapers and despatches in bed, near which there would be a tea-trolley with books, newspapers, his spectacles and a box with coloured pencils.
7/21/2025, 7:27:45 PM
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