The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler (1939) by Anon. (Maximilian Bauer?)

PUBLISHER'S STATEMENT

On the last Friday in January, 1939, we were presented with the most unusual manuscript that has come to us in thirty years of publishing. The unimpeachable sources from which it emanated were a guarantee of its authenticity. The immense world-importance of the facts stated in the document gave us no alternative but to present it to the world without delay. The central and most vital fact is that Adolf Hitler, the Nazi Fuehrer and dictator, was assassinated at 2:13 a.m. on September 29, 1938, the night before the consummation of the Munich Pact; and that an opportunist double is ruling in his stead.

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An article in The New Yorker, December 10, 1938, described the four official doubles, one of whom even had a voice like Hitler's,** {page 118} with the suggestion that there might be more; and with data about the doubles of Mussolini and Stalin as
well.
The theme of this article was, "Why doesn't somebody shoot Hitler?" I found that many of the authorities amplified this data. The facts, then, in THE STRANGE DEATH OF ADOLF HITLER came entirely within the range of possibility.

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History has at times known such mysteries in the past; and in the long run the usual result has been the reluctant discovery that the strange revelation is the truth, or an understatement of it. "Whether Hitler is physically dead and an
opportunist double is rubber-stamping in his name, or whether the death is symbolic but no less real, it still remains that this amazing document is the most important book out of Nazi Germany.
The Publishers.
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[Back cover:]

PUBLISHER'S NOTE:

We predict that the facts disclosed by this astounding book will develop world interest unequalled since Chamberlain's visits to Germany last Fall.

* What is the sensational suppressed truth behind the zig-zag course of German diplomacy since the day of the Munich Pact?
* What was the appalling situation that confronted Chamberlain in the carefully darkened rooms at Munich and Godesberg? And how does this account for his mystifying hesitations during those hours of life or death?
* What are the details of Hitler's threats of suicide?
* How did Julius Schreck, Hitler's "double" and chauffeur, meet his death in 1936?
* What is in back of the strangely persistent rumors in London and elsewhere that the real Adolf Hitler is dead?

THE STRANGE DEATH OF ADOLF HITLER
fires a bombshell whose detonations will be heard around the world. Its appalling revelations, the intimate details which
attest their authenticity, will give you the most astounding reading ever printed.

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THE STRANGE DEATH OF ADOLF HITLER

FROM the heart of dictator-frenzied Germany,--from the inner sanctum of the Nazi ringleaders, comes this behind the scenes spectacle of Germany's ruling circle, answering a thousand questions which you have wanted answered,
questions which all the newspaper, magazine and newsreel material on the subject have left unsatisfied. For here we have
walking--talking---breathing through 381 bristling pages Hitler, Göring, Goebbels, von Roehm, von Ribbentrop and others, so real you can almost touch them--a picture which only a close associate of these men could have drawn.
The full details of how this manuscript came to be brought before the reading public are embodied in the Publisher's Statement at the beginning of THE STRANGE DEATH OF ADOLF HITLER. And whether or not the climax of the book will be borne out by future records--that the real Hitler died September 29, 1938, on the eve of the Munich Pact, and is being impersonated by his double--this much is certain: no more convincing, complete and constructive picture of Nazism
has ever before been published. Careful and extensive research went into checking the manuscript with respect to the events depicted as well as the personalities and the dialogue, and as far as can be ascertained from accepted authorities, they are all plausible.
The story is told by Maximilian Bauer, Der Führer's famous double, reputed to be the highest salaried man in Europe.
The resemblance is startling - even to the voice, and Herr Bauer who was permitted to stay close to Hitler in order to learn the dictator's (continued on back flap)

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every mannerism, proved such an apt under study that he made several speeches in public as Hitler, even before Der Führer's death.
Close observers of the German scene today have not failed to sense that the manner in which the Nazi machine has been functioning since Munich has been strangely altered, and while they have not been able to reach any definite conclusions
about the cause of this change, the consensus of opinion has been that "There's something wrong in Denmark."
Needless to say, with their leader dead, his henchmen could little afford to let such a fact become known, for readers of THE STRANGE DEATH OF ADOLF HITLER will realize more sharply and clearly than before just how important the
strange figure of Hitler is to the success of the Nazi creed and aims.
Many past events in Germany come within the realm of this story and these are told simply and lucidly, leaving no confusion in the mind of the reader. For the first time there is given a single, convincing account of just what went on
backstage when the Reichstag Building burned, when the incredible Blood Purge of June 30, 1934 took place, the rape of Austria, the theft of the Sudeten areas of Czechoslovakia, and the later desperate insane attack on the Jews which
shocked the conscience of the civilized world.
The story further reveals Hitler's background and antecedents, the constant attempts on his life, some of which barely failed; the incredible attitude of the Nazis concerning education, the position of women, science, religion, Germany's
desired position as overlord of all other races, and, most important of all, a blueprint of the Nazi plans for further expansion and conquest, even at the cost of a World War that will hurl Western culture into permanent twilight.

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