# JFK's Postwar Europe Diary and His Thoughts on Hitler

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2117962222999638344
- Source account: [@mcdutchess16](https://x.com/mcdutchess16)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:14
- Published: 2026-11-05
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2tUEg3pazEcP/en/jfk-s-postwar-europe-diary-and-his-thoughts-on-hitler

## Transcript

[0:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2tUEg3pazEcP/en/jfk-s-postwar-europe-diary-and-his-thoughts-on-hitler?t=1) A diary kept by a young John F. Kennedy during his brief spell as a journalist traveling in post-war Europe is up for auction.

[0:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2tUEg3pazEcP/en/jfk-s-postwar-europe-diary-and-his-thoughts-on-hitler?t=8) The 61 pages provide insights into Kennedy's thoughts on world leaders of the era, including a fascination with Adolf Hitler.

[0:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2tUEg3pazEcP/en/jfk-s-postwar-europe-diary-and-his-thoughts-on-hitler?t=16) It's thought to be the only diary ever kept by the 35th US president and was given by him to a research assistant in the late 1950s.

[0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2tUEg3pazEcP/en/jfk-s-postwar-europe-diary-and-his-thoughts-on-hitler?t=25) Some of the most interesting things are what Kennedy writes about Hitler.

[0:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2tUEg3pazEcP/en/jfk-s-postwar-europe-diary-and-his-thoughts-on-hitler?t=29) You have to remember, he's 28. He's witnessing the destruction of the Hitler's bunker, Berlin.

[0:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2tUEg3pazEcP/en/jfk-s-postwar-europe-diary-and-his-thoughts-on-hitler?t=34) All of Germany lay in ruins, and he, he puts down onto paper, he says, um, "After visiting these two places, you can easily understand how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now to one of the most significant figure, figures who ever lived.

[0:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/2tUEg3pazEcP/en/jfk-s-postwar-europe-diary-and-his-thoughts-on-hitler?t=51) He had in him the stuff of which legends are made."