Hitler Is Alive!

  When he came to power, Hitler quietly started a drive to diminish the influence of the Catholic Church in Germany. During the war, Hitler prepared a directive ordering the 3rd Panzergrenadier Division stationed near Rome to seize the Vatican. It took terrific pressure from his Foreign Minister, von Ribbentrop and Propaganda Minister Goebbels, for Hitler to withdraw his plan.

  Why Hitler Was Anti-Semitic

  Hitler grew up with a strong resentment against his father and grandfather. It was during the period when his political foes were calling him “Schicklgruber” that Hitler’s anti-Semitism became most violent. A psychiatric explanation would be that Hitler attributed the passionate temperament and sex scandals in his ancestral lineage to the Jewish blood that flowed through his family tree. It became an obsession—one that was to have a nightmare effect on the entire world. To divorce himself from any identity with the Jewish blood in his veins he, turned to the practice of attempting to exterminate every Jew on earth.

  One of Hitler’s most infamous concentration camps was Mauthausen—where more than 2 million persons were exterminated between 1941 and 1945.

  At the Auschwitz Camp in Poland, Rudolf Hoess, the Commandant, confessed: “I estimate that at least two and a half million victims were executed and exterminated at Auschwitz by gassing and burning and that at least another half million succumbed to starvation and disease, making a total of about three million dead.”

  Once the Fuehrer came into power, he issued orders to his family, including his sister Paula, that only he would bear the family name of Hitler—all others must change their names. To his sister he gave the surname, Wolf, a name he had used while fighting for political power with the Nazi party.

  When the Nazis overran Austria, Hitler had a special S.S. squad hunt down and eliminate all families with the names of Heidler, Hittler and Hitler!

  But Hitler’s personal Gestapo squad never heard of the tombstone of “Adolf Hittler” in the obscure Jewish Cemetery in Rumania. It stands there to remind the world that Der Fuehrer was a descendant of Jewish ancestors.

  THE EVIL GHOST THAT HAUNTS HITLER’S GODCHILDREN TODAY

  by HARVEY WILSON

  A handful of children of Hitler’s top aides, who had the distinction of having Der Fuehrer as their godfather, are desperately struggling to live down the curse of the Nazi crimes.

  An on-the-spot investigation in Germany by Police Gazette correspondents, reveals the strange twist of fate under which Hitler’s famous godchildren live today.

  On a bright summer day recently a crowd of 3000 men and women gathered in front of a church in Austria’s Maria Kirchental. Most of them, however, had not come to that famous place of pilgrimage for religious reasons, but out of curiosity. They wanted to see Hitler’s most prominent godson celebrate the sacrifice of the Holy mass.

  Wearing the richly adorned vestment of a Catholic priest and skillfully handling the ornaments and utensils used in celebrating mass was young Brother Martin, son of a man who is remembered as one of the greatest anti-religionists in Nazi-Germany. SS-­General Martin Bormann, the man whom Hitler appointed as his successor, had been responsible for the persecution of all churches. He was responsible for the enslavement of territories occupied by the Nazis, and for the grief of countless Jewish families.

  Brother Martin, now a missionary-member of the “Heart-of-Jesus” order, says: “I want to make good what my father has done!” To fulfill this promise—a gigantic task—Martin certainly has picked a career most contrary to his father’s past.

  Hides Out After War

  It all started during the last days of WW II, when Martin, then a 15-year-old “Pimpf” (Wolfcub) in “The Fuehrer’s Hitler-Youth” found himself in the little market-town of Hintertal near Weissbach in the county of Salzburg (Austria). He did not know where his father was, nor did he know the whereabouts of his other relatives. All he realized was that anyone with the Bormann name would not be welcome anymore. He called himself Martin Bergmann and got a job as a farmhand in Maria Kirchental.

  A Catholic priest, Father Franz Wimmer, started to look after the boy, and soon found out his true identity. In 1947, one year after his father (who has never been found) was sentenced in absentia to death by hanging at the Nuremburg trial, Martin Bormann was baptized.

  His foster-father persuaded him to enter a monastery. Young Martin became a novice in the “Heart-of-Jesus” order.

  “It was then that I started to think over and over of what my father had done. It has cost me grave inner struggles to find the way back to him whom the world still condemns. This has been possible for my only through the church.”

  SS-General Bormann’s son is now a missionary in the Belgian Congo. He lives in the apostolic curacy of Coquilhatville. The 15 missionaries there, taking care of 15,000 souls in a province as big as Austria, live in desperate poverty.

  “This poor and lonely life I have chosen as best for me—and, I hope, for others!” Martin said, shortly before his departure. But he probably will not have to work unassisted for long. One of his brothers wishes to follow and help him as a lay-brother. He, too, like the rest of the nine Bormann children alive, is now a member of the Catholic Church and is “trying to make good.”

  It is understandable, that most children of Hitler’s former top aides do not think evil of their fathers.

  Certainly the most prominent girl of former Nazi-brass is Edda, daughter of the Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering. Her teacher in Munich remembers Edda, now a young university student, as “a girl of highest intelligence. Sometimes that kid asked us (teachers) questions for which even we did not know the answer!”

  Goering, once the richest man In Europe, evidently had amassed his fortune by “requisitions and confiscations” of countless masterpieces of art in foreign countries. Also sentenced to death at Nuremburg he committed suicide only hours before the execution.

  His daughter Edda, celebrated during the war as “the cutest German baby,” for the first time again aroused public interest in 1953. Reporters focused their cameras on the slender girl in the modest black dress, wearing a crucifix-necklace and holding a Holy Bible in her hands. She was accompanied by her mother Emmy, Goering’s widow whose features show a striking similarity to those of the former “Reichsmarschall.” Mother and daughter were leaving a Protestant church in Schwabing, Munich’s “Greenwich Village,” where Edda had been confirmed that day.

  Today Edda is a determined and—many agree—beautiful young woman, knowing exactly what she wants. “I am going to study law so I can vindicate my father!” she declared recently.

  Wins First Court Fight

  The beginning of this career does not look discouraging. Her first battle with the courts ended with a success. After a legal fight of eight-and-a-half years the safes of the Bavarian State Bank opened and Edda received back all of the jewelry that her father had given her when she was still a little girl.

  “It belongs to me, and I will see that I get back other gifts my father gave me!” friends quoted her as saying.

  Though Martin Bormann and Edda Goering are the only two of Hitler’s godchildren most often photographed while wearing the signs of piety (crucifixes and Bible) there are children in today’s Germany of former Nazis who were not less prominent than Goering and Bormann. These kids, too, try to do what only can be regarded as the right of every good child: vindicate, if possible, or at least help their fathers.

  One of these kids even went so far as to confuse the leaders of the new West-German Army. He is Wolf Rudiger, son of notorious Rudolf Hess. The 21-year-old boy has reached the age at which thousands of other German boys have to join the “Bundeswehr” for two years of active duty. But Wolf Rudiger simply rejects the order to join his unit.

  “I am not an objector to combatant service!” he says. “I would have enjoyed being a mountain-rifle,” he wrote to his local draft board. “But unfortunately this is not possible because of family reasons. I am—as you should know—the son of the former d
eputy of the Fuehrer. My father has been sentenced in Nuremburg to a lifelong prison term. One of the reasons for the verdict was the fact, that in 1935 he signed the law for conscription.”

  Case of von Ribbentrop’s Son

  While most of Hitler’s godchildren today have to fight hard to get along in this cruel world of ours, the only one who does not need to worry about his future is young, 18-year-old Barthold von Ribbentrop. This son of Hitler’s former Foreign Minister (who was hanged in Nuremburg) declared during a recent stay in London:

  “I do not want to enter the champagne business, like my brother. I rather drink champagne. I want to become a lawyer instead and see, if I can put the remembrance of my father into a better light. I am proud of him and I am proud of the name ‘von Ribbentrop.’ I do not intend to change this name!” Neither, it seems, does Barthold’s brother Rudolf, now 30.

  Not long ago Rudolf won a legal battle against the best-known German champagne-company in which his father had a large interest. Henkel-Sekt men had said, they would not like to include the name “von Ribbentrop” into the company name, “because it may harm business in foreign countries.” A court, however, decided otherwise. Rudolf von Ribbentrop is now executive participant and as such doing pretty well.

  While most of the children of former top-Nazis make or try to make the headlines once in a while in Germany, one young girl definitely does not want to arouse public interest. But if she carries out the plan she has since long in mind, she will certainly make the headlines of the world’s press. She is a 25-year-old portraitist and the daughter of former Nazi youth-leader Baldur von Schirach.

  Schirach, one of the three men in Spandau, has been sentenced at Nuremburg to 20 years imprisonment because of his knowledge about the deportations of Jews from Vienna. Now his daughter is determined to visit Russia’s Nikita Khrushchev to ask for mercy for her father. Already she has applied at the Soviet Embassy in Bonn for a visitor’s visa to Moscow.

  Since Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda poisoned their children and then committed suicide, Hitler’s godchildren mentioned in our report are the most prominent alive today.

  HITLER’S DAUGHTER MARRIES A JEW

  by LEO HEIMAN

  The self-professed illegitimate daughter of the Fuehrer says “Nazi fanatics don’t scare me!”

  Hitler’s daughter and her husband, Philippe Marvin, son of a rabbi. Gisela is taking instruction for conversion and plans to settle down in Israel.

  The only daughter of Adolf Hitler, the late Fuehrer of the Nazi Reich, has married the son of a rabbi and is preparing for conversion to Judaism in the Holy Land.

  Twenty-five years after her father signed the “Final Solution” decree, condemning millions of European Jews to a painful death in execution pits and concentration camps, 29-year-old Gisela Fleischer Hoser Marvin is studying Hebrew and seriously thinking of applying for Israeli citizenship and settling with her Jewish husband in a village near Jerusalem.

  A beauteous, blue-eyed, statuesque blonde, Gisela granted me an exclusive interview at the Ledra Palace Hotel in Nicosia, Cyprus, where the young couple stayed overnight on their way back to France from a Mediterranean honeymoon.

  She does not look older than 19–20 years, because of her baby-doll face and innocent eyes. Gisela whipped out her West German passport to prove her age and identity.

  With a 128-lb. hourglass figure on a 5’7” frame, silk-like hair and a peaches-and-cream complexion, Hitler’s daughter could have served as the advertising symbol of the perfect Aryan girl, a typical representative of the Nordic master race her father dreamed of and raved about.

  But she prefers to study Hebrew and learn the laws and injunctions of Orthodox Judaism preparing for her conversion to Judaism.

  My first question was whether she regards it as an irony of fate to be married to a Jew, and if she does not fear the vengeance of diehard Nazis?

  She smiled sadly and fingered the gold medallion her husband bought for her in Jerusalem. The medallion, suspended from her wrist at the end of a thin gold bracelet, featured the six-cornered Star of David on one side, and the Menorah (ritual Jewish candelabra) on the obverse.

  “I do not see anything ironical or funny in my marriage. It is true that I would have liked to regard it as historical justice. But let us be perfectly frank and honest about it. When my husband and I met each other, we had no idea of our identities. We fell in love as man and woman, and our strong emotional ties helped us to surmount the obstacles heaped in the path of our love.

  “As to Nazis,” she continued, “I fear their reaction less than what Jewish extremists or fanatics might do to me if they identified me on the street. Not that I would blame them for their spontaneous reaction. But I do not seek an easy way out. I could have denied everything, taking refuge in anonymity and forgetfulness. Since I do not attempt to deny my blood relationship to Adolf Hitler, I guess I am motivated by some awareness of history and fate. But I am not conscious of it …”

  She snuggled closer to her husband, and stretched out a long, shapely leg to smooth out a seamless silk stocking.

  Mother Lives in Frankfurt

  “Yes, I am the illegitimate daughter of Tillie Fleischer, noted German Olympic Games champion, and the late Fuehrer of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler. My mother lives in Frankfurt, West Germany, and strongly objects both to my marriage and conversion plans. I guess she remained a Nazi at heart, still in love with the father of her child. But I am old enough to be ashamed of my parents, and to know what I want,” Gisela declared.

  Her husband identified himself as Philippe Marvin, 31 years old, a noted French writer and the son of Rabbi Abraham Marvin, spiritual leader of the Amoth Olam Synagogue in Lyons, who perished in a Nazi concentration camp in 1943.

  Mr. Marvin is the author of “Everyone Has His Jew,” a runaway bestseller in France one year ago. He met Hitler’s daughter while researching background material for his book in Germany. It was love at first sight between the blonde Aryan beauty and the curly-haired rabbi’s son.

  “I researched some material in the archives of Frankfurt Jewish Community, when I suffered from an excruciating toothache and entered the first dental clinic I could find. There was a long line in the waiting room, but a young woman dentist treated my abscessed tooth without an appointment, and this was the unromantic way I met my Gisela,” Mr. Marvin disclosed.

  The toothache quickly became a heartache after he had learned who she was. But by then it was too late to prevent a stormy romance from developing into profound love.

  Tillie Fleischer, Gisela’s mother, was the winner of two gold medals in the 1936 Olympic Games, held in Berlin under the patronage of Adolf Hitler. Nazi Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels produced several motion pictures starring Miss Fleischer as a “typical representative of the Aryan Master Race”.

  He introduced the sportswoman to the Fuehrer who promptly fell in love with her, installed her in a lakeside villa near Berlin and bought her a white Mercedes convertible. Miss Fleischer’s romantic interlude with Hitler lasted exactly eight months.

  When Der Fuehrer saw she was going to present him with a bundle of joy, he forced one of his aides, Dr. Fritz Hoser, to marry Miss Fleischer in the fifth month of pregnancy, and take her away to Frankfurt.

  Shortly afterwards, Hitler went back to Eva Braun, his steady mistress, who was banished to Munich during Der Fuehrer’s 8-month affair with Fraulein Fleischer.

  Dr. Hoser, a dental surgeon attached to Hitler’s medical staff, was amply rewarded for his patriotic devotion above and beyond the call of duty. He was raised to the rank of Chief Supervisor of Medical Administration in the Frankfurt area.

  Learns Hitler Is Her Father

  “When did you learn first that you are Adolf Hitler’s daughter?” I asked Gisela.

  “I was born on November 4, 1937, in the Frankfurt Maternity Hospital on Mainzer Landstrasse. My mother took me to see ‘Uncle Adolf’ on six consecutive birthdays. I
remember the last two, in 1942 and 1943. My father, that is the man whom I regarded as my father till then, never went along.

  “I remember my sixth birthday in 1943,” Gisela recalled. “Because we had to travel all the way across wartime Germany to reach Hitler’s headquarters near Rastenburg in East Prussia.

  “As long as my father was in his command bunker beneath the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, or in his mountain retreat Berchtesgaden on the Austrian border, reaching him was no problem even during the war.

  “But the Russian offensive in 1943 made it imperative for him to direct military operations from the Eastern Front headquarters at Rastenburg. We had to fly and civilians were not allowed to enter airfields, let alone board passenger planes requisitioned by the Luftwaffe.

  “My mother took me to see General Heinz Jost, the deputy Gauleiter of the Frankfurt area. She showed him a letter in Hitler’s handwriting. The General made a few calls and things started moving right away. Two storm troopers escorted us to a black limousine and drove us to the Rhein-Main air base.

  “The S.S. men went to the captain of a Lufthansa airliner, showed him their credentials, tossed out a couple of military passengers and put us aboard, wishing us a pleasant journey.

  “I was only six years old then, but I was impressed by my mother’s influence and power. We landed at Koenigsberg at dusk, and were picked up by a staff car. An army colonel kissed my mother’s hand and called her “Gnaedige Fray”—esteemed lady.

  “I was just a kid and happy to ride in the colonel’s lap. We arrived late and were shown to our quarters in one of the camouflaged bungalows in the dense forest known as Wolfschanze—the wolf’s lair.

  The Fuehrer’s Quarters

  “The next morning my mother dressed me with greater care than usual. We crossed the road to a guard house between two mighty oak trees. An officer came out and escorted us to the Fuehrer’s quarters. The breakfast table was set for five. Josef Goebbels and his wife Magda already waited for us. My mother and Magda Goebbels embraced and kissed. They were good friends from way back.