Hitler got special treatment in jail, papers show

[RamboLiberal]

BERLIN (AP) — Adolf Hitler enjoyed special treatment while jailed in 1924, being allowed hundreds of visitors — sometimes unsupervised — including some 30 to 40 to celebrate his 35th birthday, according to a treasure trove of documents that have surfaced from the prison near Munich where he was held.

The 500 documents from the Landsberg prison were recently found by a Nuremberg man among the possessions of his late father, who had purchased them at a flea market in the 1970s, according to Werner Behringer, whose auction house in the Bavarian city of Fuerth will offer them for sale next month.

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His right-wing politics and German nationalism won him some high-placed friends among the German establishment, including World War I hero Gen. Erich Ludendorff. Ludendorff came to visit Hitler several times during his imprisonment, and the Prussian general was allowed to see the former Austrian corporal unsupervised for as long as he wanted, the documents show.

The documents include some 300 to 400 original cards listing Hitler's other visitors, including the 30 to 40 who were allowed in to celebrate his birthday with him on April 20, 1924 — only 19 days after he was put behind bars.

"His time in prison was more like a holiday," Behringer said.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-06-23-hitler-prison-documents_N.htm

[Unvanguard]

1. The Weimar Republic's unwillingness to deal more harshly with the far right

was effectively a suicide pact.

[proteus_lives]

2. Hell, the treaty that created the Weimar Republic was slow suicide.

[hlthe2b]

3. his "right-wing politics" ....

I can see Beck breaking into hysteria now and the doughy spawn of Lucianne, the hag, Goldberg going nuts. yes, of course Hitler was a Right Winger... NAZISM is not socialism.

[denverbill]

4. The first time I saw a righty claim Hitler was a left-winger I couldn't believe it.

Everyone alive in Germany at the time knew the Nazis were a far right wing nationalist party, but because they have the word 'socialist' in their name, they are now 'left wing' to the Limbaugh crowd. Now you try to correct them and every right-winger you talk to is sure that Hitler was left-wing. None of them has ever read a book about it, especially a contemporary book. If you try to point them to documentation, they just claim it's left-wing bias or 'historical revisionism'.

[Iterate]

5. I had the same reaction as well.

Almost as if someone had suddenly started speaking in tongues, I remember that WTF moment trying to figure out what language they were speaking and was completely unaware of the hate radio connection.

Sure, left-wing, and that's why the street thugs killed off communists, socialists, and especially social democrats first, beginning even before they were in power.

[necso]

6. The example of Ludendorf's visits

(while an interesting bit of history (ie: if true; as history is sometimes "told", anyway), tying him to Hitler post-putsch) isn't especially good.

Ludendorf was given a great deal of deference (he was acquitted for his part in the putsch) as war leader, hero.

[mdmc]

7. ..