Eva Braun took a lot of trouble to amuse the Führer. Once she tried to draw the photographer Walter Frentz and her friend Herta into a conversation about new films. Hitler began quietly whistling a tune. Eva Braun said, āYouāre not whistling that properly, it goes like this.ā And she whistled the real tune. āNo, no, Iām right,ā said the Führer. āI bet you Iām right,ā she replied. āYou know I never bet against you because Iāll have to pay in any case,ā said Hitler. āIf I win I must be magnanimous and refuse to take my winnings, and if she wins I have to pay her,ā he explained to the rest of us. āThen letās play the record and youāll see,ā suggested Eva Braun. Albert Bormann was the adjutant on duty. He rose and put the record in question - I forget what it was - on the gramophone. We all listened hard and intently, and Eva Braun turned out to be right. She was triumphant. āYes,ā said Hitler. āSo you were right, but the composer composed it wrong. If heād been as musical as me then heād have composed my tune.ā We all laughed, but I do believe Hitler meant it seriously.
Traudl Junge, Until the Final Hour: Hitlerās Last Secretary (via leiaandtheorganas)
i might read this book. itās got 4/5 stars on goodreads and i thought this review was interesting:
āBefore you pick this up, ask yourself this: Do you really want to read a book that presents a human side to Hitler? If your answer is, "Yes", then by all means read this. If your answer is, "No", then continue in your delusion that Hitler was actually the human embodiment of evil and that nothing terrible will ever happen again because Hitler took care of that and we're good now. Psssst. Your answer should be, "Yes". Banality of evil and all that. ā













