In 1945, 28-year-old John F. Kennedy toured postwar Europe as a Hearst correspondent. After visiting Hitler's Berchtesgaden retreat and the Eagle's Nest, he wrote one of the strangest and least-discussed passages of his early life.
Kennedy wrote that Hitler had "boundless ambition for his country which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world," but also that Hitler had "a mystery about him in the way he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him." He added that Hitler "had in him the stuff of which legends are made," and that Hitler would emerge from the hatred surrounding him as "one of the most significant figures who ever lived."
That is not a fake internet quote. It is not a meme. It is not three random lines stitched together from different places. It comes from JFK's own 1945 European diary.
The diary was 61 pages total — 12 handwritten pages and 49 typed pages — and covered more than Hitler. Kennedy also wrote about Stalin's Russia, Churchill, Roosevelt, Potsdam, postwar Europe, and the shape of the world after World War II.
Kennedy later gave the diary to Deirdre Henderson, one of his Senate research assistants. She eventually edited and published it as Prelude to Leadership: The European Diary of John F. Kennedy, Summer 1945, through Regnery Publishing.
The original manuscript resurfaced publicly when it went to auction in 2017. Early press coverage reported an expected price around $200,000, but RR Auction later listed the diary as sold in 2017 for $718,750.
The honest reading is simple: Kennedy was not endorsing Nazism. But he absolutely did write about Hitler in fascinated, historically admiring language — ambition, mystery, legend, significance. Anyone pretending the passage does not exist is hiding the ball.
Sources:
RR Auction listing — original diary and excerpt: https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/348094606780104-john-f-kennedys-diary-from-1945-with-comments-on-hitler-fdr-politics-and-world-war-ii/
CBS News — JFK diary auction and Hitler passage: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jfk-john-f-kennedy-diary-auction-thoughts-on-adolf-hitler/
TIME — JFK diary and Hitler comments: https://time.com/4711687/john-f-kennedy-diary-hitler/
Regnery — Prelude to Leadership publisher page: https://www.regnery.com/9780895264312/prelude-to-leadership/
Amazon — Prelude to Leadership: https://www.amazon.com/Prelude-Leadership-European-Kennedy-Summer/dp/0895264595
AbeBooks — used copies: https://www.abebooks.com/9780895264596/Prelude-Leadership-European-Diary-John-0895264595/plp
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Died in a car accident a few weeks later
Thank you Tellstruth, I knew this would be the top comment.
He still killed people and his Nazi Thugs did medical expeirments on people. They also escaped and worked for our government which is the deep state.
Hiter was a NWO created puppet.
He was no one's "created puppet." And up until 1933, he was almost literally a No One. It is very curious to me that people, both condemning Hitler or lauding Hitler, have the idea that he was something other than himself. He is a cautionary figure, but not because he was false in any way.
He wasn’t some random dude. Anyone who pushed race is always a pawn of the NWO:
Race is a cabal playbook! Young kids aren’t born to care about race.
Someone has to indoctrinate them to care: Hitler played a typical divide and conquer playbook:
If he was just for the German people!
He wouldn’t have invaded other countries from Europes That’s a pure globalist agenda!
All you have is imagination and insistence. There is no hint of anyone pushing Hitler. Race is far from a "cabal playbook." Racism has been the bane of civilization. Young kids aren't born to care about anything except their own gratification. It is the easiest thing in the world to indoctrinate racial bigotry.
Hitler wasn't "dividing and conquering"---which means setting up opposing camps for manipulation. He was blaming the Jews for everything and unifying public feeling against them. The Jews were in no position to be an opposing camp.
He was always "for the German people."
His initial territorial expansions were putatively for the unification of German populations who had been separated by national divisions. And on their behalf he needed Lebensraum. Just read his writings. Had he stopped in 1941 and consolidated, there is some reason to think he could have done well at that point, but he was obsessed with replacing the Russians by Germans, from Poland to the Volga, and that was his undoing.
So you are saying you want a Hitler and the Nazis back in power?
Where do you get that insulting idea? I'm just describing historical facts.
If he was so good for the people. Then you would want to replicate that correct?
Who said he was "good for the people"? I certainly didn't. He led the Germans down a path of disaster.
Read like a Snopes article, many historical Retorts are forced to reveal the thing they wish to bury, albeit in deceitful misrepresentations in order to press their case. Nowhere in the article is the actual truth which is buried deeper every day. Black hats are led by black psychologists who jangle the keys.
In faux 'fairness' I present the negative side of the argument that serves as discussion.
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I have no idea what you are trying to communicate. I have read perhaps several dozen biographical accounts and personal testimonies about Hitler. Mental treatment after World War I never appeared in what I was able to read (and the link you provide seems to contend it was a nothingburger anyway). So?
Q disagrees. When a no-one quickly becomes a powerful totalitarian leader, he's being handled (like Obama). Hitler was also a socialist, which is to say, false in nearly every way.
The Nazi ideology really wasn't that different from the Bolsheviks they were fighting. Bolsheviks had international classist socialism while Nazis had national racist socialism. The National Socialist German Workers' Party centralized and controlled everything, private property rights were abolished from the constitution in 1933. People were reduced to "Folk," a herd of animals who joyfully worked for the betterment of the state or else. The reason the Nazis started the war is that like all socialists, they quickly ran out of other people's money.
Well, all I have read are the history books, plenty of them, Q to the contrary. Hitler had a talent for organization and exposition. He deliberately picked the NASDP because it was immature and unformed, to give him complete freedom in applying his ideas about political advocacy. The hapless members were quite happy to give him rein for what he thought could be done, and it was a remarkable rise in prominence.
You aren't telling me anything new about the politics of the time, except that, for Hitler, socialism was more of a cover name for his version of Mussolini's fascism. He started territorial expansion for the purpose of uniting the German-speaking peoples, and this was somewhat popular in lands where Germans were regarded indifferently (such as Austria-Hungary, where he grew up). When the new lands began to resist, war commenced. There was no way to get money out of war. You are letting your dogma get the better of your understanding of events.
The USA is also known for medical experiments on people.
Yes.
We had Nazis escape and work with our government.
I thought JFK was in the US Navy and serving in the South Pacific?
On March 1, 1945, Kennedy retired from the Navy from a physical disability (injuries from the PT 109 episode). In April 1945, his father arranged a position for him with the Hearst Newspapers.
Long as it doesn't get all Hitlery up in this bitch
u/#kek
And, thar highly acclaimed German war drama focusing on the final days of Adolf Hitler in his Berlin bunker. It is based on historical accounts like Traudl Junge's memoirs, featuring a renowned performance by Bruno Ganz as Hitler.
Even in his flaming demise he became famous.
except that he possibly/likely fled to Argentina.
It's fairly certain that he lived in Argentina. They found a derelict house in the jungle there, which contained bottles of the exact medicine that Hitler took for many years.
Plenty of eyewitnesses to his death in the bunker in Berlin. All recounted in memoirs independently written. There is no reason to think that Hitler's "medicine" was in any way unique to him. Hitler was in constant communication with his subordinates from the bunker up to April 38, when he was visited by Field Marshal von Greim and Hanna Reitsch in an Arado Ar 96. Hitler thereafter married Eva Braun, dictated his last will and testament, and they both committed suicide on April 30. No opportunity to sneak off at the last minute to Argentina through the Russian siege, with so many witnesses.
Very curious to me that so many people vehemently desire that Hitler and Eva Braun lived happily ever after in another land.
Depends on your definition of "plenty". And they were witnesses to A death. As I recall, forensic evidence suggested a female. And living in hiding with illness in a tiny forest house in Argentina was probably not idyllic.
About 3 or 4 witnesses as I recall. They saw both bodies as they were taken from the bunker to be cremated. Do you have some complaint about the number of witnesses? I should think one would be sufficient.
The female relic was Eva Braun. Here is a more complete account: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Braun#Marriage_and_suicide
No other airplanes visited. No opportunity to leave. No Argentine afterlife. And no answer to the question of why so many people want him to have escaped.
Indeed, the treasures found down there should fetch a pretty penny ...
Used to have a 50s hardbound yellow book that was a hitler bio that claimed he had both male and female junk. Anybody else ever run across that in their diggs?
No. But it was known that he was a "monorchid", a man who had only one testicle.
Interesting thanks! learned a new word.
No but it can happen. Eva Braun would have known.
Kek!
Those were the last two people who tied to stop the synagogue of Satan
How do you "stop" a metaphor?
They’re not a metaphor.
Q refers to them as Y heads.
The cult of satanic pedovores running everything.
Not a metaphor...but "Y heads"? It gets better and better.
Y is a reference to this guy
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