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By Marcel Conversy
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Hitler’s mistress with him, dead or alive, gossip says
Were very much in love, declares woman who watched Fuehrer’s trysts with blond
By Jack Fleischer, United Press staff writer
MUNICH, Germany – Dead or alive, Adolf Hitler’s sweetheart, Eva Braun, is with him, according to a gray-haired gossip who watched their comings and goings here since their affair began.
“They were obviously very much in love,” said Frau Marie Schiffler. She gave details of the love life of Hitler and the blond, brown-skinned Fraulein who persuaded him to wear striped pajamas and silk underwear.
“Wherever Hitler is – dead or alive – you can be sure Eva is at his side,” Frau Schiffler said. She added that Eva left for Berlin a month ago, apparently at Hitler’s orders. She was taken away at night in a big black auto, guarded heavy by SS troopers.
Works in building
Frau Schiffler had worked 20 years in the Munich building where Hitler had an apartment for 16 years and held his trysts with Eva.
With relish, she told how Eva used to spend the night in Hitler’s apartment in the morning. Hitler would leave first. Half an hour later, Eva would slip out and hurry to her car, parked a couple of blocks away.
When Hitler first moved into Prinzregenten Strasse 16, he shared an apartment with a married couple because he couldn’t afford his own. But after his rise to power, he had a remodeled, luxurious, 10-room apartment. Many a night he spent there with chunky Eva, Frau Schiffler said.
Knew housekeeper
Much of her information came straight from Hitler’s housekeeper, Frau Annie Winter, and her husband George.
Frau Schiffler said:
Hitler used to spend much of the time at his apartment. But during the war, his visits became less and less frequent especially after the air raids began on a large scale in 1942. So far as I know, he only slipped in here once in the last seven months.
Whenever he was here, Eva almost always came over from her villa and stayed with Der Fuehrer until he left. Or often he spent part of his visit at her villa.
Occasionally before the war, Hitler took Eva to the theater, but otherwise they never were seen in public together.
Nevertheless, the details of Hitler’s love life were well known among German gossips. Just before the war began, Hitler was reported ready to marry Eva. He was even said to have bought a wedding ring and ordered her wedding present, a custom-built Mercedes touring car.
Eva sometimes shopped in Munich for Hitler’s birthday and Christmas presents. On one occasion, she bought him blue and white-striped pajamas, the national colors of Bavaria. She was said to be the one who persuaded him to wear silk underwear, and to be more careful in his dress generally.
Virtual prisoner
Lately, according to Frau Schiffler, Eva was a virtual prisoner in her villa on the Wasserburger Strasse. The SS guard from Hitler’s apartment building also guarded her house day and night.
Frau Schiffler said so far as she knew Eva was the only woman in Hitler’s life. However, it was reported from Germany when the details about Eva first leaked out that she twice made unconvincing cuts on her wrist when she was piqued with jealousy. Apparently, she wanted to arouse Hitler’s sympathy with suicide attempts.
The air raid shelter here was stacked with thousands of letters to Hitler, most of them from women.
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Editorial: Men go, evils survive
Mussolini is gone, spat upon, kicked in the mud like a scrap of refuse, his worn-out old body treated to obscenities that would not be inflicted upon a dead dog.
Hitler is reported dead, although the report is still unverified and the matter of his going is a subject of wide speculation and rumor.
So go the modern Caesars, just like the old ones, mangled by the mobs they once led, betrayed by the Brutuses they once embraced, and now none so poor to do them reverence.
It was not always so. In the past, many prominent people from Winston Churchill to Rep. Sol Bloom have praised Il Duce.
As the two dictators reversed their policies to suit opportunity, men changed their opinions.
Il Duce, once so noble to so many, and now so evil to us all, was the creature of events, caused by stresses and strains in the Italian economy. Hitler was made in Germany the same way. Both were interpreters and sympathizers of political trends and economic drives. It is significant that both succumbed to power as left-wingers.
There is no word but loathing for the dark chapter through which the world is moving, but it is not enough to damn these men as villains. For as these men die, the hated things for which they stood will not also conveniently die and be interred with their bones. Their evil will live after them because the evil is not theirs alone.
The evil is not only war and tyranny itself; it is in the seeds of these things; in the pride and greed and blindness to suffering; the stupidity; the complacency; the inhumanity that lets part of mankind turn away its face until itself is threatened. Certainly, that evil, in some measure, belongs to all of us.
Economists explain that Italy and Germany were societies forced to function at top capacity with purchasing power created by government debt. The economy planned and controlled by organization of both employers and workers (corporatives). They tell us that as militarism became the only course which could keep in political and economic balance the forces that had elevated the dictators, an enemy was invented, imperialism blossomed, and once more the world was bathed in blood.
Certainly, all that could happen again, but that is not the only way war could happen. The key lies in aggression and the fact that successful aggression wins popular support. It could happen whenever a people is powerful enough, and greedy enough, to gamble with war.
There is only one hope, and it is slim. That is, that the first stones of a structure of world responsibility be well laid at San Francisco. The great hope is that the peoples of the world, particularly the powerful peoples, will see to it that their governments help build on the structure so that there will finally be a world discipline strong enough to inhibit even the greatest nations.