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...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...
...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...
Esoteric Impulses. All told, the Munich auction last week sold some five dozen Hitler souvenirs, all of them from the estate of the late Anny Winter, who was Hitler's housekeeper from 1929 to 1945. Anny's ardor for collecting just about anything Hitler touched netted her grandnephews a windfall...
Peculiar Types. The largest group of collectors is American. Munich Auctioneer Count Arnhard Klenau von 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...
Died. Gertrude Kappel, 86, opera star of the 1920s and '30s; in Munich. A specialist in supersoprano parts by Wagner and Strauss, Kappel was admired both for her beautiful voice and her ability to dig deeply into the psychology of opera's more peculiar characters. She sang Elektra in the Metropolitan's first production of the Strauss opera in 1932, upsetting some critics by her classical vocalism in this frenzied role, sending others into raves even for her vivid dancing. Among her admirers was Richard Strauss himself, who at the time preferred her Elektra to all others...