"I Saw Hitler"! (1932) By Dorothy Thompson
 
In the early 1930s – when Hitler was driving for power but it was not clear he could make it – Thompson wrote this very condescending piece based on an interview with him. It belittled him. She went out of her way to prick the tenderest spots of Hitler’s psyche. She said he didn’t really look like a German leader and how could someone like this ever really succeed. It appeared originally in the Ladies Home Journal and then became a book. Of course, she was wrong. He did become the head of state.
 
"If you want to gauge the strength of the Hitler movement, imagine that in America, an orator with the tongue of the late Mr. Bryan and the histrionic powers of Aimee McPherson combined with the publicity gift of Edward Bernays and Ivy Lee should manage to unite all the farmers, with all the white-collar unemployed, all the people with salaries under $3,000 a year who have lost their savings in bank collapses and the stock market and are being pressed for payments on the icebox and the radio, the louder evangelical preachers, the American Legion, the D.A.R., the Ku Klux Klan, the W.C.T.U., Matthew Woll, Senator Borah, and Henry Ford—imagine that, and you will have some idea of what the Hitler movement in Germany means."
 
While working in Munich, American journalist Dorothy Thompson met and interviewed Adolf Hitler for the first time in 1931. This formed the basis for her book, I Saw Hitler, in which she wrote about the dangers of Hitler winning power in Germany.

The Nazis considered the book and her other articles offensive and, in August 1934, Thompson became the first American journalist to be expelled from Germany.
 
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