No.77
Jewish soldier’s WWII letter, written on Hitler’s stationery, goes to museum
> Danny Jacobson was a 26-year-old Army sergeant, thousands of miles away from his hometown of Muskogee, Oklahoma, when he penned a four-page letter to his wife back in the states. World War II was winding down, Hitler had committed suicide six days earlier, and half a dozen administrative clerks from the 179th Infantry had set up shop in a Munich apartment.
> But this wasn’t just any apartment. It was one of Adolf Hitler’s many German residences, where he had lived with his longtime companion Eva Braun. And the off-white stationery Jacobson used for his letter? Hilter’s very own. It included the Führer’s name and the Nazi swastika printed on the top left corner.
> “Dearest Julia,” wrote Jacobson in a tidy script on May 6, 1945. “And so, Hitler’s treasured stationery has come to this. Imagine how many times he would turn in his grave if he knew a Jew was writing on his precious personal stationery.”
> The almost seven-decades-old letter is now a part of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. How it got there, after being kept in obscurity until last year, is the tale of a committed son and a doting family who persuaded a 95- year-old man that this missive was worth attention.http://www.miamiherald.com/living/article6376980.html