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Trembling with emotion, a discernible note of disappointment and frustration in his voice, the Führer began: "German compatriots: He who wants to have the deepest impression of the decay and resurrection of Germany most vividly must go and see the development of a city like Wilhelmshaven, which today reverberates with life and activity and which till a short time ago was a dead spot nearly without means of existence and without prospects of a future...
...that point, the radio audience heard no more from Adolf Hitler. In Germany, where the people are always commanded to drop whatever they are doing and cluster around when the Führer makes an important speech, a German springtime song, All the Birds Are Here Again, suddenly came over the air. Many Germans thought that an April Fools' Day prank was being played. In the U. S. announcers quickly explained that the Führer's speech had been unavoidably cut off. A rumor that the Führer had been shot even circulated in Manhattan...
Ecstasy. Two-and-a-half hours later a censored recording of the speech was rebroadcast. A polished, edited official version of the text was released from Berlin, while the Führer left the mainland to spend the week-end at Helgoland, fortified German island in the North Sea. Nazi officials did not bother to clear up the mystery of the reason for the shutdown. Theory given in London's Sunday Express was: "Hitler had prepared no speech. He had spent Friday night in a state of high emotion and intense anger against Britain for her moves to curb...
...received him coldly and told him that an adjutant would find him a job. The adjutant found him a poor one, which he declined. During the 1934 blood purge, he was arrested but soon released. This year he received hints that he had better leave Germany. The Führer, says Willie Hitler, "is singularly vulnerable on the question of his family relations...
...runs a prosperous Berlin café (discreetly under his first name), Adolf Hitler has a full sister and a half-sister. For a time his half-sister, Angela, served as his housekeeper at Berchtesgaden. His father, also named Alois, was a source of great shame to the Führer: he had three wives* and died a drunkard. Furthermore, Father Alois was the illegitimate son of an Austrian peasant girl, Maria Schicklgruber, and a miller named Johann Hiedler, who refused to recognize the child. The boy therefore grew up under his mother's name, and not until...