BERLIN, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- A selection from thousands of letters Adolf Hitler received from admirers and from victims of Nazi ideology has just been published in Germany.
“Letters to Hitler,” edited by German historian Henrik Eberle, is being released at this week’s Frankfurt Book Fair, The Guardian reported.
The archive was discovered in Moscow, presumably having been seized after Berlin fell to the Soviet army.
Hitler’s followers sent gifts such as honey or a violin decorated with ivory swastikas. So many people offered new lyrics to the Nazi anthem, “The Horst Wessel Song,” that the party officially ordered them to stop.
Many writers commended Hitler’s anti-Jewish policies, the British newspaper reported. But one, Heinrich Herz, a Jewish tradesman, sought help in April 1934.
"Honourable Reichs Chancellor, like lightening from a sunny sky, the storm has broken over me. My customers have disappeared. Honourable Reichs Chancellor, give the order that lives will become possible again. I would thank you many thousands of times," he wrote.
The letters begin in 1925 when Hitler was still several years away from ruling Germany and end just before his suicide in 1945. On his last birthday, he received fewer than 100 cards.
