Hitler: Born at Versailles

(Leon Degrelle)


Published by the "Institute for Historical Review", this hardcover is highly recommended. The content and flavor of this book can best be illustrated by quoting the text on the dust cover:

The First World War has long been overshadowed by the even more destructive conflict that followed within twenty years of its end, yet the "Great War of 1914-1918" cost more than eight million dead and more than twenty million wounded. It shattered empires, spawned blood-drenched revolutions, and set the Third World ablaze with anti-colonial fervor. In a few short years the cataclysm that was the First World War laid low the crowned heads of half of Europe. And from the bloody trenches and bomb-cratered no-man's-lands of its most furious battles would spring forth a lonely and unsung German infantryman, Adolf Hitler, to put his stamp on the Twentieth Century as has no man before or since.

Arthur Leon Degrelle, a highly decorated combat veteran and a former confidante of the German F¸hrer at the height of his power, has exploited long-neglected documents in this comprehensive history of the war that ignited what he calls "The Hitler Century," the modern iron age of total war and fragile peace. His findings smash once and for all the myth of German war guilt. Degrelle argues with passion and eloquence that the corrupt leaders of France's Third Republic, the power-hungry intrigues of Pan-Slavism, the buccaneers of British imperialism, and the shadowy eminences of international finance and world Zionism unleashed and prolonged the carnage. He also exposes the sordid post-war maneuvers of the West's intellectually and morally bankrupt leaders, as they carved up a prostrate central Europe wracked by the alien contagion of Bolshevism.

Readers will learn the sinister secret of Sarajevo and the real culprits who sent the Lusitania to its doom; they'll penetrate the gloom that shrouds the real origins of today's Mideast conflict; they'll discover the hidden forces that brought Communism to Russia. They'll slog with British Tommies, French Poilus and German Landsers through the muck of Paschendaele and Verdun, ride with Lawrence through Arabia's sun-dazzled sands; plot with Lenin and a handful of conspirators in Zurich and St. Petersburg; battle Bolsheviks in furious street fights in Munich and Berlin. And those who read this book will grasp the key to the secret origins of Adolf Hitler; that the Third Reich's leader was born, not in Austria in 1889, but in 1919, at Versailles.

About the Author:

Leon Degrelle was born in 1906 in Bouillon, a small town in the Belgian Ardennes, to a family of French origin. He studied at the University of Louvain where he acquired a doctorate in law. He was also interested in other academic disciplines such as political science, art, archeology and Thomistic philosophy. As a student his natural gift of leadership became apparent.

By the time he reached twenty years of age he had already published five books and was operating his own newspaper. Out of his deep Christian conviction he joined Belgium's Catholic Action Movement and soon became one of its leaders. By the time he was 25 he had addressed more than 2, 000 meetings. His passion was people. He wanted to win the crowds, particularly the Marxist ones. He wanted them to share his ideals of social and spiritual renewal; to lift people up; to forge with them a stable, efficient and responsible State backed by the good sense of people and for their sole benefit. In a few short years he had won over a large part of the Belgian population, and on the 24th of May 1936 his Rexist party won a smashing electoral victory against the established parties: 34 house and senate seats. Mussolini invited him to Rome, Churchill saw him in London and Hitler received him in Berlin.

After joining the pan-European crusade against Soviet Communism, Leon Degrelle escaped unconditional surrender by flying some 1,500 miles across Europe to Spain, crash-landing on the beach of San Sebastian, critically wounded. But against all odds he survived, building a new life in exile for himself and his family.

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