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Hitler's secret autobiography
The first biography of Adolf Hitler, which presented him as 'Germany's saviour', compared him to Jesus and helped propel him up the political ranks, was actually a self-penned 'act of shameless publicity', it has been revealed.
Published in 1923, the book (Adolf Hitler: Sein Leben und seine Reden (Adolf Hitler: His Life and his Speeches) was the first major profile of the would-be dictator and appeared under the name of north German aristocrat and war hero Victor von Koerber*.
But historian Thomas Weber, from the University of Aberdeen, has unearthed compelling evidence – including signed testimony - hidden in a South African archive which he says demonstrates it was ‘almost certainly’ written by Hitler himself.
He said: “The book, which also includes a collection of Hitler’s speeches, makes some outlandish claims arguing that it should become ‘the new bible of today’ and uses terms such as ‘holy&rs
