An Interviewee Recalls Meeting Hitler and Unity's Friendship With Him
I was
extremely interested and
Why why were you interested? I think everyone was interested to meet. Oh, they were I mean
Winston Churchill says in his book great contemporaries
Which was presumably written in 1934 anyway it was published in 1935
Everyone wants to know what Hitler's like
He dominated politics on the continent
Now tell me when you met him. What was he like?
He was a very interesting and fascinating man as a matter of fact you see when I went there
I thought that I should meet him in the way that you do and to say how'd you do really?
But it was entirely unity who then became so interested in
National socialism in Germany and in him and stayed there and met him in the way that I've described
That a
Friendship was struck up which of course is a very different thing from just meeting somebody and talking to them for half an hour
But what did what how did he strike you? What does he like? I mean, why did you like him?
He was a fascinating man you see people don't get from being an out-of-work painter
to being dictator of a very big
Powerful evolved country like Germany
Unless they've got some very special thing within them and obviously he had it
But you found that when you met oh you did once what he was charming or what was well
He was charming, but it wasn't only that he was charming you see there was a
He was completely different from anyone
We'd ever met before
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