Hitler or not Hitler

[mgc1961]

Poll question: Hitler or not Hitler

(AP) Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler liked to have bread and marmalade for breakfast and was described as mild-mannered during personal exchanges, according to newly released documents.

Britain's National Archives on Friday made public a previously classified account of Hitler provided by a 19-year-old Austrian deserter, who described the dictator as paranoid about being watched by others and short-tempered during meetings.

"He is mild on personal contact but apt to bang tables and shout during conferences," according to the account given by a prisoner of war identified as SS Schuetze Obernigg. He was said to have been at Hitler's retreat in Obersalzberg in the Bavarian Alps between 1943 and 1944.

Obernigg provided British intelligence officers with a detailed description of Hitler's daily routine at the retreat. Hitler was said to favor waking up at about 10 a.m., breakfasted on coffee, bread and marmalade shortly afterward, and received visitors including his doctor in the afternoon. The accounts show he apparently worked until late in the night and went to sleep as late as 4 a.m.

There is, of course, more at http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/10/29/world/main7005079.shtml

OMG! I like bread, marmalade, coffee, and I sometimes stay up really late. Am I Hitler? You make the call.

[Ian David]

1. ...

[FormerDittoHead]

2. Hitler was short-tempered during meetings? What a revelation! n/t

[GodlessBiker]

3. I know people whose grandparents were killed in the Holocaust. This is really funny.

[rfranklin]

5. How is the Holocaust funny?

That's a very tasteless comment.

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. This is laughing at the devil, not at the Holocaust.

Laugh at the devil and you take away his power.

[rfranklin]

4. You may be one of the Boys from Brazil...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boys_from_Brazil_(novel)

[mgc1961]

6. This vote confirms my suspicions.

[Matariki]

8. I like bread, marmalade, coffee, and usually stay up really late.

But I'm pretty sure I'm not Hitler.

;-)