Office of Strategic Services Denny, Ludwell: Franco and the German Counter Revolution
(Munich, February 3,1923. )
Hitler going from meeting to meeting, is received
with enthusiasm. He is an extraordinary person. An
artist turned popular prophet and savior, is the way
members of the audience described him to us as we
waited for him to appear. A young man stepped on
the platform and acknowledged the long applause.
His speech was intense and brief; he constantly
clenched and unclenched his hands. When I was alone
with him for a few moments, he seemed hardly
normal; queer eyes, nervous hands, and a strange
movement of the head. He would not give an interview -
said he had no use for Americans. Later I learned
something of this story. He is not an artist but a
locksmith, not a Bavarian, but an Austrian. During
the war he was wounded, or through fright and shock
became blind. In the hospital he was subject to
ecstatic visions of Victorious Germany, and in
one of these seizures his eyesight was restored.
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Hitler Source Book
Franco & the German Counter Revolution
by Denny Ludwell
The Nation, March 1923
The Nation 116, March 14,1923. p. 295.