Description

Biltmore Publishing Co. Inc., Published 1943. Hardcover, 322 pp.; 22 cm. In Good condition, no dust jacket. Green cloth boards, black lettering on spine. Nicking and fraying to the cloth at head and foot of spine and at corner tips, bumping to corners. Mild shelf and edge wear with some soiling and scuffing. Binding tight. Pages mildly toned, with brown staining to the gutter and fore-edge of the final leaves. Otherwise unmarked. Purports to be the memoir of a Berlin physician and psychoanalyst who treated Hitler for fifteen years from 1919. The text first appeared as Inside Hitler (Avalon Press, 1941) at 445 pp, reset here to 322. Its standing was in question from the start. Upton Sinclair opens his foreword by admitting "I do not know the author of the book. I assume that he exists, because I have a letter from him," and grants that "there is a sense in which this book is of necessity fiction," Krueger having got no notes out of Germany. Otto Strasser, who contributes the introduction, led the exiled Black Front and was the brother of Gregor Strasser, killed in the 1934 purge. Contents: The man and the disease; Laughter in a void; A strange search; Hitler and his women; My patient asserts himself; First sights and sounds; My own conversion; Oedipus due north; The wandering Jew; The little girl with blue eyes and golden hair; From the other world; The frustrated artist; Vienna days and nights; The ultimate in confession; The first darkness; Prison tension; A dream comes to life; Bloody laughter: farce and violence; The Fuehrer hunts a wife; The tragedy of Renate Mueller; Hitler and the Jews; Caress or annihilate; Dream blitz and nightmare; The attempt at assassination; An odyssey of torture; Insanity fair; Conclusion.