Hitler 1889-1936: Hubris

claimed the marks for his school-work dropped when he started to read Karl May (
Monologe,
281 (17 February 1942)).
    89 . Jetzinger, 107, 109–11; Rabitsch, 72.
    90 . Kubizek, 61;
Monologe,
185–8 (8–9 January 1942); Henry Picker,
Tischespräche im Hauptquartier,
Stuttgart, 1963, 273 (12 April 1942); Smith, 79; Eitner, 30–31; Maser,
Hitler,
68–70; Zoller, 47–9.
    91 . MK, 12–13; Jetzinger,110, 113 for German nationalism in Linz; see also Bukey, 7ff. Hamann, 23–7, describes the German nationalist political leanings in the school, as does Jetzinger, 99, 110, 113.
    92 .
MK,
5–8.
    93 . Picker, 324 (10 May 1942).
    94 .
MK,
6 (trans.,
MK
Watt, 8).
    95 .
MK,
7.
    96 . See Smith, 70–73, also for dismissal of the objections of Jetzinger, 98–9 to any substance in Hitler’s depiction of a conflict with his father over a civil service career.
    97 .
MK,
10. See Hamann, 23.
    98 .
MK,
8–14; Smith, 81–5; Olden, 21; Hamann, 22–3.
    99 .
MK,
15.
    100 . Jetzinger, 72–3. See also Olden, 21. The cause of the death was a haemorrhage of the lungs. He had suffered a prior haemorrhage the previous August (Jetzinger, 72)
    101 . Jetzinger, 122–9; Smith, 91, 97.
    102 . Kubizek’s comment about Adolf’s sobbing at the funeral (54) was only based on casual hearsay evidence and is not reliable.
    103 . Kubizek, 46, 61–2.
    104 . Jetzinger, 102; Smith, 92.
    105 .
TBJG,
I.3, 447 (3 June 38). In his recollections of his time in Steyr, he claimed to have disliked it as too Catholic-clerical and not nationalist enough compared with Linz (
Monologe,
188 (8–9 January 1942)).
    106 . Smith, 95–6.
    107 .
MK,
8.
    108 . This follows Heiden,
Der Führer,
46, who lists the grades for both semesters of the school-year 1904–5, as given in the report issued on 16 September 1905(including the re-sit in geometry), and Smith, who summarizes these results, 96. Maser,
Hitler,
70, gives the results only in the report from 11 February, for the first semester, and has Hitler as ‘unsatisfactory’ in French (though this is not mentioned on Heiden’s list). The results listed in Orr,
Revue,
Nr 42, 3, and repeated in Jetzinger, 103, as those of the report of 16 September 1905, correspond with those given by Heiden for the first semester and those provided by Maser (apart from the entry for French) for the report dated 11 February. See also Waite, 156.
    109 . According to stories he later told, Adolf mistakenly used one of his reports from Steyr as toilet paper after an evening with friends celebrating the end of term.
(Monologe,
189–90 (8–9 January 1942); see Zoller, 49, for a different version in which he was sick over the report). Maser,
Hitler,
70, presumes the report is that of February 1905, while Smith, 99, dates it to summer 1905. In the anecdote, Hitler claims that he slept out and was wakened by a milkwoman. This seems to rule out February. And in summer, Hitler only received his certificate following the re-sit examination in September, when there would have been no social gathering. Zoller’s account is in at least one respect inaccurate, since Adolf allegedly had to show the report to his father, who by then was already dead. Whether Hitler’s story had any substance to it at all must be regarded as doubtful.
    110 . Smith, 95–9; Jetzinger, 99–103.
    111 . Smith, 98.
    112 . Jetzinger, 148–51, denies an illness altogether, though his evidence is not strong. Smith, 97–8, provides some evidence for illness in summer 1905, though not for the autumn, accepts Adolf’s pale and sickly appearance at this time, but rightly doubts that it was sufficient reason for ending his schooling.
    113 .
MK,
16; Smith, 97–8. See also the picture of Hitler from this period, showing him as thin, weak and consumptive in appearance, in Smith, pl. 13.
    114 .
MK,
16–17; see Jetzinger, 130.
    115 . Paula Hitler testimony, NA, NND-881077, 3; IfZ, MA-731 (=HA, Reel 1), ‘Notizen für Kartei’, 8 December 1938.
    116 . Kubizek, 63; IfZ, MA-731 (=H A, Reel 1), ‘Adolf Hitler in Urfahr’ (recollections in 1938–9 of the postmaster’s widow who had lived in the same house as the Hitler family).
    117 .
MK,
16.
    118 . Hamann, 80. Kubizek had already been approached by a representative of the NSDAP-Hauptarchiv at the end of 1938 with a view to writing up his memoirs of the youthful Hitler, foreseen as ‘one of the most significant pieces of the central archive’ in bringing out the ‘inconceivable greatness of the Führer in his youth’