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JFK Diary up for Auction -- Reveals Fascination with Hitler and Churchill

posted by martyb on Saturday March 25 2017, @05:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the dear-diary... dept.

takyon writes:

The only diary known to be written by President John F. Kennedy is up for auction on April 26th:

A diary kept by President John F Kennedy as a young man travelling in Europe, revealing his fascination with Adolf Hitler, is up for auction. Kennedy, then 28, predicted "Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived". "He had in him the stuff of which legends are made," he continued.

Kennedy wrote the entry in the summer of 1945 after touring the German dictator's Bavarian mountain retreat. It is thought by historians to be the only diary [ever] kept by the 35th US president.

[...] He wrote that Hitler "had boundless ambition for his country which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him". The 61-page diary was kept by Kennedy around four months after Hitler committed suicide. [...] In a description of the auction, [Deirdre Henderson] wrote: "When JFK said that Hitler 'had in him the stuff of which legends are made', he was speaking to the mystery surrounding him, not the evil he demonstrated to the world."

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 25 2017, @06:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 25 2017, @06:27PM (#484152)

    Bullshit: "When JFK said that Hitler 'had in him the stuff of which legends are made', he was speaking to the mystery surrounding him, not the evil he demonstrated to the world."

    No you lying sack of shit, JFK probably wasn't blinded by "OMG Hitler evil!!!" like most people are. We'll never know of course, but the words are evidence that JFK found at least some aspect of Hitler to be admirable.

    Remember also that some parts of the USA were sterilizing people for eugenics reasons long after the end of World War II. Yes, the Democrats sometimes supported supported this.