"I saw Hitler!"Dorothy Thompson
"I saw Hitler!"
by Dorothy Thompson · first published 1932
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In 1931, American journalist Dorothy Thompson secured a rare interview with Adolf Hitler at Berlin’s Kaiserhof Hotel, during the rise of Germany’s Nazi Party. During the meeting she asked a pointed question: “When you come to power, will you abolish the constitution of the German Republic?” His answer was stark: “I will get into power legally. I will abolish this parliament and the Weimar constitution afterward. I will found an authority-state… everywhere there will be responsibility above, discipline and obedience below.” Thompson, who had been tracking the Nazi movement since th
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…magazine in 1939 as equal in influence to Eleanor Roosevelt." "While working in Munich, Thompson met and interviewed Adolf Hitler for the first time in 1931. This would be the basis for her subsequent book, I Saw Hitler, in which she wrote about the dangers of him winning power in Germany. Thompson described Hitler in the following terms: "He is formless, almost faceless, a man whose countenance is a caricature, a man…
on “Who Goes Nazi? (1941)” ↗…2023, based on their "cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage."” … “Thompson's anti-Nazi journalism and, in particular, her depiction of Hitler in her book, I Saw Hitler, led to her becoming the first American journalist to be expelled from Germany. On August 25, 1934 she received the expulsion order, delivered by a Gestapo agent to her hotel room in the Hotel Adlon,…
on “Who Goes Nazi? (Harper's, August 1941)” ↗