EDINBURGH: The first biography of Adolf Hitler which presented him as “Germany’s savior” and compared him to Jesus may have been written by the future dictator himself, a Scottish historian has claimed. “Adolf Hitler: Sein Leben und seine Reden (Adolf Hitler: His Life and his Speeches)” was the first major profile of Hitler and appeared in 1923, authored by Victor von Koerber. Historian Thomas Weber, from Aberdeen University, has unearthed documents in a South African archive which indicates the book was “almost certainly” written by Hitler himself as a “shameless but clever act of self-promotion”. The historian believes von Koerber was selected to front the biography due to his aristocratic lineage and reputation as a war hero. “I also found a statement by Koerber as well as a letter he wrote to a man with whom he had been incarcerated in a concentration camp that gave details about Hitler’s authorship of the book.

Source: Manila Times October 08, 2016 11:15 UTC