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...daughter of a professor at Munich University, and it was out of his wife's experience in a sanitarium for tuberculosis patients that he built another great success, The Magic Mountain, this time a parable of civilization in decay. The Magic Mountain outsold Hitler's Mein Kampf, but Hitler's quarrel with Mann was based on Mann's nonliterary championing of the old German tradition. One day in 1933, when Mann and his wife were vacationing in Switzerland, Klaus and Erika, their two eldest children, telephoned. "Stay in Switzerland," they advised. "Bad weather is coming." When...
...Hitler owed the government some $150,000 in 1934, after his first year as Reich Chancellor. In December 1934, without any formal legal action or the knowledge of the German public, Hitler was excused from his back taxes, after that enjoyed royalties on Mein Kampf and his salary as Chancellor tax free...
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 10:--In History 150b Assistant Professor Franklin L. Ford shows the course of German history since 1815. Bismarck and Hitler, Kulturkampf and Mein Kampf, will each fall into proper perspective in Longfellow Terrace...
...Munich court ended a three-year legal squabble over some grubby last effects of the late Adolf Hitler. To drab little Frau Anni Winter, his onetime housekeeper ("Hitler was always good to me"), the court last week awarded one used Hitler suitcase, five copies of Mein Kampf, a silver-framed photograph, three mediocre watercolors painted by Der Fiihrer himself. The state of Bavaria won custody of three party emblems bearing Hitler's name, plus his leather briefcase and a few of his staff-meeting doodles. Frau Anni promptly announced that she would sell her cherished legacy...
...decided to begin writing and working for all literate people instead of merely other writers and scholars. He wrote a successful book called The Predicament of Modern Man. But he was still unsatisfied. "We knew what the Nazis believed," he says. "All we had to do was read Mein Kampf. We knew what the Russians believed; we could read Lenin and Stalin. But where was the Western way stated? Only in snippets, here and there...