Best hitler biography

Let’s start with the first of the Hitler books you’ve chosen, The Fuehrer. The author, Konrad Heiden, was a journalist?

Yes. For Frankfurter Zeitung.

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He’s the only journalist of the time who got on Hitler’s case from a very early date and recognised that his oratory and so forth were very powerful, and he pursued him relentlessly. So much so that when Hitler came to power Heiden had to go into exile.

I think he worked as a professor of journalism in the United States.

So when you say he got on his case, you mean he got on it in a negative way – he wasn’t a supporter?

He certainly wasn’t a supporter.

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Rather than an academic writing about it, he did what any good journalist would do and started to look into Hitler’s finances and his relationships with women and all that sort of stuff. He delved. He got down to the grubby detail.

And what was the grubby detail?

Well, things like the fact that Hitler was living with his niece and she shot herse