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Hitler Ate Marmalade at Breakfast This article is funny and kind of sad in a way. Funny because it presents the findings from some recently relased archival material as if they are revelations about Hitler and the fear of a Nazi National Redoubt. Sad for the same reason. Neither supposed revelation is news, in fact both things have been known and mentioned in WWII historiography for years if not decades. I did not realize that Hitler eating jam and bread for breakfast was supposed to be news. What do people think he ate, little children, and Jewish ones at that?The possible existence of a National Redoubt was talked about in the western press towards the end of the war, I dont see how that is a revelation. Is this an example of a lazy reporter or is she just that dumb and expects that her readers are too?
I think it simply reflects the modern obsession with the man. After all the major information about his life has been poured over exhaustively, this is what we're left with to understand him – looking at what he ate for breakfast. He has become much larger than life.
