KNEW HITLER WELL
an remarks "JUST A TENTH-HATER" Did 1 ever know Adolf Hitler? Oddly enough I think that I did better than I know some of my real friends, writes Sir Hugh Walpole. the New Zealand-born writer in John o' London's weekly. It was in the early 'twenties during two successive summers at Bayructh. T there for more than two months, summer after summea, with Lauritz Mel choir, who was at that time singing the leading tenor roles in the Wagner operas. I was also a friend of Winnie Wagner, Avife c.f Siegfried Wagner's only son. Many strange stories there are about that odd adventurer, but the only thing that matters here is that Adolf Hitler, fresh from his Munich prison, passeel some time at Bayreuth. He was, and is, a grand friend of Frau Wagner, and he had, and ho has, a passion for Wagner's music. I sat in a box with him on the occasion when Melchoir made his debut in "Parsifal." I have never heard him sing as he did that day. The tears poured down Hitler's cheeks.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 263, 27 January 1941, Page 2
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182KNEW HITLER WELL Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 263, 27 January 1941, Page 2
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