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...mistress was a pudgy, middle-class blonde who gloomed more than she glittered. Yet her name will go down in history alongside such famous and glamorous kept women as Lola Montez, Madame de Pompadour, Nell Gwyn and the Du Barry. How did she manage to catch der Führer's eye and remain with him until their joint suicide in the Berlin Reich chancellery? Photographs from Eva Braun's personal album, published in the London Sunday Times magazine last week, give few new clues to her mysterious charms. The collection shows Eva riding a motorcycle, mugging...
...president of West Germany's Bundesbank; of a heart attack; in Rasteau, France. An advocate of tight-money policies, Blessing first rose to national prominence as the youngest member of the directorate of Hitler's Reichsbank, a post he lost in 1939 for opposing the Führer's rearmament policies as inflationary. As Bundesbank president from 1958 to 1969, he fought tenaciously for the stability of the mark during his country's 1966-67 recession and carried out a 9% upward revaluation of the mark...
...Midlands farmhouse in 1963 recently went for $120. Even so, the mania for Hitleriana is an especially puzzling phenomenon. In the past year, sales of Third Reich mementos have begun to rise sharply. A few of the collectors are old diehard Nazis like a former SS Gruppenführer who has a private museum in his Munich home. But young Germans are turned off by the craze for souvenirs of Adolf. The French put a quick end to the collection of Hitleriana by outlawing the trade in Third Reich relics...
...Austria. A broker bought it for a Texas oilman. The price: $665. An autographed Hitler portrait went for $670. Hitler's 1927 membership card in an automobile club fetched $270. An elderly German paid $130 for a short shopping list (vegetable soup and cognac) that der Führer had written out for Munich's famed Dallmayr delicatessen...
...Klenova, who conducted last week's sale, claims to know of at least 200 American collectors. In his Hollywood home, Bob Hope has books with Hitler's name plate, several sheets of Hitler's personal stationery and a porcelain dinner plate inscribed "Kanzlei des Führers" (Führer's Chancellery), which Hope acquired while entertaining troops in Germany in 1945. The West Point archives, says the count, are also searching for relics. "Though I personally know only a very small portion of our regular customers," adds Klenau, "I'm convinced that they...