Adolf Hitler's first anti-Semitic epithet?

Do you think this is real? Opinions?

The Jew of Linz
Kimberley Cornish

http://www.richmondreview.co.uk/books/jewoflin.html

In 1904-5 Hitler and Wittgenstein, both 14 years old, attended the same school, the Realschule at Linz. Most biographers are inclined to suppose that these two schoolboys had little to do with one another. Kimberly Cornish however begins his book by presenting quite tempting circumstantial evidence that they made close contact.

Something happened between Wittgenstein and Hitler at the Realschule. We face, I think, the astounding possibility that the course of the twentieth century was radically influenced by a quarrel between two schoolboys.' (???)

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Kimberley Cornish, author of best-seller The Jew of Linz, writes from Australia, on Sunday, December 26, 1999

Ludwig Wittgenstein was indeed the object of Adolf Hitler's very first recorded anti-Semitic epithet. Minus the names I shall list in a moment, the argument is essentially identical to that presented in "The Jew of Linz", but the journal critics appear to have overlooked it in the mass of background material I provided.

Now here is the very earliest record of Hitler making an anti-Semitic remark: It was reported by Franz Keplinger. Keplinger, interestingly was not in Hitler's class, but in Wittgenstein's. (This data also provided by the Bundesrealgymnasium.) He knew and visited Hitler later in Munich. Keplinger recounted to Dr Franz Jetzinger: "Once Adolf shouted at another boy, 'Du Saujud!'. The boy concerned was staggered; he knew nothing of his Jewish ancestry at the time and only discovered it years later ... " (Jetzinger, Franz. Hitlers Jugend, Vienna 1956, translated as Hitler's Youth, by Lawrence Wilson, Greenwood Press, Connecticut, p.71.)

The rider adding that the boy knew nothing of his Jewish ancestry gives the quote the ring of truth and enables us to deduce who the boy was. The only POSSIBLE candidate on the list as the target of Hitler's abuse is Ludwig Wittgenstein. The others knew they were Jews, if not from their parents enrolling them as Jews and consequent different treatment in religious education classes, then via their circumcised state amidst the uncircumcised Austrian schoolboys in the changing room.

http://www.fpp.co.uk/Letters/History/Cornish1.html

This argument, I think, establishes that whatever critics might say, the case I presented will not go away. Even without the "Mein Kampf" quote about there being a Jewish boy at the school whom Hitler and the other boys distrusted....

 

I think that this is an authors attempt to enter more myth into what is already known about Hitler. I think its an attempt by this author to make his Opinions known and thrust into history as fact. I think it is as unaccurate as this version of GFM Friedrich Paulus's name, which is: GFM Friedrich von Paulus. There is no von in his name. Ill NOT be buying this book.

Just my humble opinion and 2 cents worth.

[ 26. February 2003, 02:02 PM: Message edited by: C.Evans ]