Tuesday, August 07, 2007

This Week in Hitler

There hasn’t been much decent Hitler news around lately. But today the Times of London has a story on Adolf’s record collection. We really are scraping the bottom of the barrel for Nazi tidbits, aren’t we?

Big surprise, Hitler listened to records by Russian and Jewish musicians. Wow, I’m really shocked that he turned out to be a hypocrite.

But this is the high point of the story for me: Although Hitler took piano lessons as a child, he displayed no personal musical talent. His surgeon, Hanskarl von Hasselbach, noted that “Hitler always whistled out of tune”.


An out-of-tune whistler. I’m glad he didn’t work in the next cubicle.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Apparently the last night in the bunker, he and Eva danced around to Hava Naghila (sp?)...his failure to whistle along in tune angrily prompted Eva to shout out "you* stupid whistler, why don't you just kill yourself!"...the rest, as they say, is history.

JAW fan

*according to some scholars, she had the German equivalent of a ju-jube in her mouth at the time and the "you" sounded more like "jew".

**am not quite sure why they were speaking in English, but hey, I don't write history, I just read it.