HITLER'S MENTOR

Early Associates Such As Rudolf Hess Ernst Hanfstaengl And Hermann Esser All Claimed That Hitler Revered Alcoholic Playwright Dietrich Eckart More Than Any Other Colleague. Eminent German Historians Karl Dietrich Bracher Werner Maser Georg Franz-Willig And Ernst Nolte Have Confirmed This Assessment. Hitler Not Only Dedicated Mein Kampf To Eckart He Hung His Portrait In Munich'S Brown House Placed A Bust Of Him In The Reich Chancellery Next To One Of Bismarck And Named Berlin'S 1936 Olympic Stadium The Dietrich Ekcart Outdoor Theater. Yet British-American Scholarship Has Virtually Ignored Nazism'S Spiritual Father. J. H. Tyson Weaves Eckart'S Biography Into A Colorful Account Of Modern German History.