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
RE: Mustard gas in the eye. - But it was found that was NOT the cause, hence the term 'hysterical' blindness. You inverted the facts.
The Raubal death was putatively suicide - like Virginia Guiffre. Putatively.
Putative is an adjective that means commonly assumed, reputed, or generally accepted to be true, even if there is no definitive proof. It comes from the Latin word putare, meaning "to think" or "to consider". ex: 'A lone gunman killed jfk'. Putatively How does it connect? Truths labeled 'conspiracy theory' as lame attempt to put down discussion of troublesome details.
Rothschild blood through Shicklegruber - a 'half-blood' if you will and even if you won't. It's been looooong established and understood by OGs who care about accurate histories. People lost their lives (executed) for revealing state secrets from official reports......which you deny out of hand.
Now suddenly you get to move the goalpost of 'self-made' man to 'every politician needs an organization. I'll bet you know all about all the organizations who supported Hitler's rise to power, huh? Did you hear about how Platner was fed with platitudes by his party and told he'd become a heroic figure if he ran? He believed it. But he still would have been 'self-made' had he won.......right? You notice the sudden recent mention of the CIAs MK Ultra program that they were in DENIAL about for decades? I wonder why.
Your 'union tyrant' wasn't a tyrant. He was placed there by TPTB if it has any real power. Unions are mobbed up, but that would be a conspiracy theory. Jimmie Hoffa tried to remake himself. That worked out. You remember Jimmie Hoffa? Oh well. The truth of any story is squashed in denial and ignorant charges of 'conspiracy theory'.
btw: Wiki and Snopes and newspapers and magazines and now influencers are most all intel controlled operations not to be trusted.
Hitler left prison in a limousine for reasons. He was RAN as first a leftist, then he eliminated radical leftists. He was called 'Bubie' for reasons that probably escape you also. No....you are NOT an OG researcher. I find that term to be humorously 'relative'. It takes one to know one. How did you respond to Mark Lanes' 'Rush to Judgement' in 1966? What constitutes a 'rush to judgement'?
Things to know.
Well, what I've read is that it was temporary blindness following exposure, I have no idea what diagnosis the hospital performed. And his second bout was coincident with learning of Germany's defeat. Never heard of psychosomatic distress? He had a very adequate experience to justify being subject to PTSD.
Perhaps I should have said "speculatively suicide", as being closer to my meaning. Pettifogging is not a useful argumentative approach.
No Rothschild blood. No deaths. You've gone along with a fantasy. (It is a very strange epistemology where the outcome of a fantasy conspiracy is objectively identical to there being no conspiracy whatsoever.)
Hitler's only organization was the NSDAP, and he had to build it from nothing out of his own talent and exertions. The emergence of manufactured "leaders" is not a refutation of those who made their own way (of which you said there could be none).
You don't know shit about Charles Bofferding and SPEEA. Bad idea to come at me from an experience I was intimately involved with. My point was that I had to build a strategy and organization to take him down. Voila. Ici, moi. No puppeteers for me.
As for WIki and Snopes, prove them wrong. It can be done. Do you have a point? (The Wiki Hitler article had 459 footnoted reference citations. Do as well.)
So what---about how Hitler left imprisonment? That was not a point of contention. Simiarly with "Rush to Judgement." Now that the JFK files are released, are we any closer to a newer truth? I was watching a lot of people here fairly drooling with anticipation at the release of those files as FINALLY proving the culpability of Israel. An empty barn. All the expectant ardor just blew away like a cloud. I scarcely see that subject mentioned any more.
How about Hitler's death was faked and he lived to die of old age?
I'll bet wiki and snopes would whittle that down to a fifth grade level non-discussion for you as well.
Prove wiki and snopes wrong he said. Have you noticed that 'snopes' is the word 'nope' sandwiched between S's and that the 'lamp' in the logo resembles a coiled snake? Have you discovered the origin of the name 'wiki'? Do you wonder why I ask? Information is power. Controllers attempt to control. Central Information Agency. It's like asking a cannibal for directions to the barbeque.
'Now that the jfk files are released'.........nothing new'..... Well wouldn't that be odd if classified information suddenly declassified is now 'nothing new' as you assert. First, of course it wouldn't be 'new', but old information newly discovered by those who didn't know. In that way, to those people like yourself....it would be new. It would be said to be 'false' by Snopes and Wiki before now because it hadn't been released 'officially' yet. Isn't that right? So Snopes and Wiki are selective cherry-picking intel ops to preserve the status quo and control the narrative. Any truth they stumble upon depends on whether it serves their agendas. You're a naive one for someone who'd pretend to be a 'researcher'. The contingencies involved in the jfk coup are the same today with mutations. But you'd know that, if.
This word 'Israel'. I don't think it means what most think it does.
Why do you bother with these musty fantasies? The "fake-escape" scenario was impossible. Hitler passed on his last opportunity to escape by air. He was issuing orders up to that point.
Wow. Getting excited over someone's logo. I take both with a grain of salt, but when they provide profuse references---and it coheres with my own reading---I'm inclined to think the references would back up what they say. When I know more and better (e.g., TWA 800), I compensate. Their entries on physical science are reliable (I use them a lot).
Same result: JFK files contain no evidence of Israeli involvement. And I don't know what Snopes or Wikipedia has to do with the files released. I was just watchiing how it went down on the board: a nothingburger.
Contemporary Israel means the nation-state, or you are using a private language.
Yes you're correct. There are a LOT of things you don't know and misrepresent. I'm tired of punching down with information, but that's my job apparently so I'll provide information and you provide mere denial so our position can be established.
Who brought up any idea of "Israeli" involvement in jfk ? You, not me. So go ahead and argue with yourself. Then do 9/11.
Is-ra-el is a composite word. It's origin had little to do with a 'place' or race. It then devolved from Ideation to a 'nation with variations'. Contemporary "Israel" is run by the Cabal and isn't run from Israel in any case. But you didn't know that and here comes the attempt to spin that idea from the position of ignorance in three.......two......one.....
Two opposites revolve around an axis. Is and Ra as extremities of EL.
What the EL could that mean?
Saving IS-RA-EL for last.........raising the conversation to the PRINCIPLES behind the literalist understanding. "Pearls to swine" when the point is missed.
You're the one using 'private language'. You know things about language?
https://kupdf.net/download/jesus-christ-sun-of-god-ancient-cosmology-and-early-christian-symbolism-by-david-r-fideler-ocr_58a100e36454a7335db1eb87_pdf
Raise up to the Great Awakening.