Red Reich

Theories about Hitler’s post-war survival remind me of a unique theory I encountered on a hot 1966 night on a Continental Trailways bus speeding through northern Texas. On my little portable radio I tuned in to successive local radio stations in the small towns we passed. On one station a local preacher announced he had made an important discovery: Hitler was a Communist. Our intrepid investigator had studied Adolf’s life and found there was a gap of a year in the record of Hitler’s whereabouts in the early 1920s.

“This was when he was in Moscow receiving training from his Communist masters,” we were told. “On his return to Germany he used the well-known Communist techniques of agitation and debate to gain power. Eventually he was able to declare war on the West. Of course, he had to declare war on Russia as well to make it look good. At the end of the war he disappeared, and I believe he returned to Moscow, shaved off his moustache, and is still there working for the overthrow of democracy.”

Can this brave discovery be disproved? Didn’t all the evidence for Hitler’s bunker death came from Communist sources – or else from no doubt sympathetic ‘scientists’?

Ewan McVicar

Cromarty, Scottish Highlands