Egon hanfstaengl biography of abraham lincoln
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The Woman Who Prevented Hitler’s Suicide
In his early days as a local agitator in Munich, Adolf Hitler was often in the company of Ernst “Putzi” Hanfstaengl, a piano-playing 1909 Harvard grad, and his wife Helen. Putzi was a self-described “half American,” with a Bavarian father and Bostonian mother. His grandfather was a Civil War general and a coffin-bearer at Abraham Lincoln’s funeral.
He met Helen Niemeyer, a native New Yorker and offspring of German immigrants, when he was working in New York. After they married and had a son, the couple moved to Munich in 1921.
Enthralled by Hitler’s fiery rhetoric, Putzi became the future dictator’s propagandist. But Helen ended up playing an even more significant role. From the moment they first met in 1922, Putzi noted, Hitler “was delighted with my wife, who was blonde and beautiful and American.” Hitler soon became a frequent guest in their apartment in Gentzstrasse, which they jokingly referred to as the Café Gentz.
“He was a constant visitor, enjoying the quiet, cozy home atmosphere, playing with my son at intervals, and talking over for hours his plans and hopes for the renaissance of the German Reich,” Helen recalled. “It seems he enjoyed ou
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II. Atlantic Monthly special subject files, 1915-1966
Arranged by subject.
This series contains four subseries related to significant incidents during Sedgwick's editorship at the Atlantic Monthly. Wilma Frances Minor and Opal Whiteley submitted unusual material for publication in the magazine, the former regarding love letters of Abraham Lincoln and the latter a childhood diary. Sedgwick supported their stories, despite the controversies they caused. Another controversy raised in the magazine was the Spanish Civil War. Sedgwick's politics and stories he submitted made the Atlantic a forum for debate on the merits of the war. This series also contains papers related to Alfred E. Smith's candidacy for nomination to the U.S. presidency.
Correspondents in this series are listed in the Select Correspondent Index and Select Institutional Affiliation Index below.
A. Wilma Frances Minor, 1928-1960
Arranged chronologically.
In 1928, Wilma Frances Minor, a television interviewer and writer from California, presented Sedgwick with the opportunity to publish the story of a love affair between Abraham Lincoln and Ann Rutledge, based on "original" love letters. Minor entrusted Sedgwick with the letters, from which she planned to write a book serialized in t