Poison Kitchen
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The Poison Kitchen was the name Adolf Hitler
gave to a group of journalists of the Bavarian newspaper The Munich Post
who were highly critical of Hitler and ran a series of extremely negative investigative exposés about Hitler in the 1920s and early 1930s, before Hitler came to power in Germany
in 1933.
The newspaper had been founded by the Bavarian Social Democratic party, and its initial opposition to Hitler was based on ideological grounds, but quickly acquired a personal dimension both for the journalists involved and for Hitler himself. Ron Rosenbaum writes in his 1998 book about The Poison Kitchen:
The Poison Kitchen group became one of the few early warning voices regarding the dangers posed by the rise of the Nazi
party, although their warnings went largely unheeded at the time.
When Hitler finally came to power in 1933, The Munich Post offices were subject to a final ransacking by the S.A.
on March 9, 1933 and all the members of the paper "disappeared" without a trace. http://www.history.ucsb.edu/projects/holocaust/Research/Proseminar/saratwogood.htm The very street address was stricken from the map and remains so to this day.
The Poison Kitchen group included Martin Gruber, Erhard Auer, Edmund Goldschagg, and Julius Zerfass, and others.
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...
gave to a group of journalists of the Bavarian newspaper The Munich Post
Munich Post
The Münchener Post was a newspaper published in Munich, Germany notable for its decade-long campaign against Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party before their accession to power...
who were highly critical of Hitler and ran a series of extremely negative investigative exposés about Hitler in the 1920s and early 1930s, before Hitler came to power in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
in 1933.
The newspaper had been founded by the Bavarian Social Democratic party, and its initial opposition to Hitler was based on ideological grounds, but quickly acquired a personal dimension both for the journalists involved and for Hitler himself. Ron Rosenbaum writes in his 1998 book about The Poison Kitchen:
"Their duel with Hitler lasted a dozen years and produced some of the sharpest, most penetrating insights into his character, his mind and method, then or since. Much of their work has been forgotten, but not much has been surpassed. And, as the name Poison Kitchen suggests, they succeeded in getting under Hitler's skin ...."
The Poison Kitchen group became one of the few early warning voices regarding the dangers posed by the rise of the Nazi
Nazism
Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...
party, although their warnings went largely unheeded at the time.
When Hitler finally came to power in 1933, The Munich Post offices were subject to a final ransacking by the S.A.
Sturmabteilung
The Sturmabteilung functioned as a paramilitary organization of the National Socialist German Workers' Party . It played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s...
on March 9, 1933 and all the members of the paper "disappeared" without a trace. http://www.history.ucsb.edu/projects/holocaust/Research/Proseminar/saratwogood.htm The very street address was stricken from the map and remains so to this day.
The Poison Kitchen group included Martin Gruber, Erhard Auer, Edmund Goldschagg, and Julius Zerfass, and others.
Additional resources
- Explaining Hitler : The Search for the Origins of His Evil (ISBN 0-06-095339-X)