Book like a bullet or pathetic career of Hitler's helper

Hitler is braising in hell. That's right, but it would be good to know exactly how it came about. I would add that Kurt Ludecke's memoirs should be used as evidence for the indictment in the Nuremberg trial. He should testify himself, but American lawyers realized that Puritan America would tremble with outrage if certain circumstances came to light, but not in the right direction. (flickr.com)

December of the year 1937. An at least seemingly highly interesting story of Kurt Ludecke, a German globetrotter, adventurer, fundraiser and also a former Nazi party supporter, was published in New York. The book, bearing an intriguing title: I Knew Hitler. The Story of a Nazi Who Escaped the Blood-Purge, was intensively advertised by the Charles Scribner's Sons publishing company.

The author was depicted as an inscribed member of the Hitler's party and for many crucial years a close friend of Hitler himself. It was said in 1933 he incurred new Chancellor's displeasure. As a result was imprisoned, but was able to escape from the concentration camp Oranienburg eight months later. Since then is living in United States, hopes for the political asylum there, the publishing house added.

A villainous personage

Hitler's future helper was raised in a wealthy Berlin family. He was the youngest of three sons of a factory director. Born in 1890, he did not want to lend a hand as a school-age boy to his education. At his age he felt the strong influence of the new age on himself, which was characterized in Western Europe, and especially in the German Reich, by the return to paganism, the gnosis and the breakdown of the Christian order of values in everyday life.

Obviously, as a teenager, he was more interested in his own early maturity in the sexual and intellectual field and the immediate benefits that would come from it than in learning at school. It was difficult for him to finish primary school and achieved that goal only when he was 17 years old. The troubled father immediately sent the gay son to the ranks of the Prussian Corps of Imperial German Army.

In the period after completing his military service, 1909-1914, he traveled to Western Europe and generally stayed in France. In his memoirs, he claims that in 1910 he made so much money from gambling there that from then on he was able to run his necessities uphold without any job, so he could enjoy his pleasures. However, his dossier with the public prosecutor's office archive in Berlin is a proof that his early gained prosperity had other sources.

The factory owner‘s son thus became a homosexual prostitute, who sought out wealthy amateurs of some then strictly forbidden pleasures in order to blackmail them. This was what hard prison and hard, forced work stood for at the time. This meant in the practice death sentences for the cultured men from the so-called noble circles who never had to work hard. Therefore, it was not difficult to force his customers to make generous payments if they were threatened (from abroad, especially from indeed tolerant for the LGBT people France, so as not to be punished himself) with a report of somebody’s homosexual deeds to the police or press.

Nevertheless, several influential men failed in love with his Ganymedes' beauty, and this enabled him to rise steeply in the world of big politics and high finance

The fact that he could live as a gigolo without material worries did not mean that he had little left for his German fatherland, degraded and driven to ruin after the First World War. You have to be extremely stupid or lying day after day and hour after hour to not notice that there are patriots and even nationalists among the so-called sexual minorities. There was also something else: a degree of anti-Semitism was once characteristic for almost all industrial families. After all, the Jews were successful and unpleasant competitors in the industrial and commercial affairs.

So Ludecke had no hesitation in becoming an employee of industrialist Henry Ford's private intelligence agency based in New York City. The secret service was given the task by its boss, the brilliant industrialist and social reformer, to spy on the influential American Jews, along with their numerous families, so that, if they annoyed Ford too much, they would then be finished or weaken. Henry Ford was neither a homosexual nor a gays’ friend, but knew that the Ludecke had many good acquaintances suitable as helpers for that kind of activities in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy and France.

Kurt L. was able to achieve a lot in the capacity of a secret agent, no wonder since so-called Jewish studies boomed at the time in Western Europe

There are many examples of this that are very little known today. The swastika “crusaders” took advantage of this after the takeover and published a whole series of books, which should prove the harmful role of Jewish people in Europe and America. If you read any of it, you will be amazed by the huge amount of various details that also had to be conquered and gathered secretly. Hundreds of people worked on it.

In this capacity, he also became useful for Hitler and his movement

After hearing Hitler speak at a mass demonstration in Munich's Königsplatz (1922), he had recognized the future Chancellor and German Leader as his personal hero. As wrote many years later: "His appeal to German manhood was like a call to arms, the gospel he preached a sacred truth." The next day, he (really or allegedly?) spoke to Hitler for four hours and offered himself to Hitler and the Nazi cause "without any reservation...I had given him my soul.“

(According to the English Wikipedia, the keyword: Kurt Lüdecke)

For several years the clever man was a follower of the black-white-red swastika and Hitler's personal negotiator

He certainly exaggerated the importance of his services for the Nazi cause in his book published in exile. It is crystal clear that the crucial part of the material support of the Nazi movement came from other mediators too. The only verifiable historical fact seems to be his successful mission in Rome, at Mussolini. As a result, the fascist dictator of Italy allowed the journalists to make Hitler more understandable to the Italian and international audience in an interview with the then little known internationally fanatic from Germany. Unlike nowadays, Italian was a widely known international language during the 1920s and 1930s.

Until 1933 Hitler had a friendly attitude towards the adventurer and fundraiser, really useful to him, or the two were simply good acquaintances. In the end, this ended in disgrace on the part of the newly minted dictator as the former Gigolo, whose previous sources of income were gradually drying up, turned to Hitler with extensive financial demands. It must be remembered that during the first two years of his government, the “beautiful Adi” had to fight huge unemployment and simply could not afford such gratitude. But the Fuhrer also had to pay his price for this.

These allegedly credible memoirs of the former Nazi negotiator were only the first in a whole series of books and films, which had one aim behind

Namely to present the brown German government worse than ridiculous to the US public. The 833-page book contained claims about the private life of the NSDAP leaders, which can be compared to the writing style of the historians from the senatorial-republican upper class in relation to the first Roman emperors. To put it briefly, he attributed various disgraceful peculiarities and an insatiable bloodthirstiness to his former friends in the Nazi leadership. This played the main role in the fact that the so-called New Order in Europe fell into stereotypical dark thought patterns across the Atlantic.

I hope to show how far such patterns of thought, at least before November 1938, had to arise due to further falsification of the situation in the world at that time, in my next article.

That's pathetic!

Ludeсke ridiculed the Jews, but the American Caesar, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, idolised them. As a result, the сreator of the first propaganda rocket launched from the United States against Germany was not able to obtain not only American citizenship, but also asylum or the right to permanent residence. Instead, he was thrown behind bars and then into an isolation camp for potentially dangerous aliens. After the war, he was deported to West Germany, where he ended his mortal life in 1960.