![]() ![]() “It would have been improper to address Stefanie,” recalled Kubizek, “as neither of us had been introduced to the young lady.” The two teenagers would stand in a nearby street every evening at five o’clock, waiting for her to go by. ![]() She was exceptionally well-dressed and her bearing indicated that she came from a good, well-to-do family.” “Her eyes were very beautiful - bright and expressive. Kubizek recalled that Stefanie Isak - he didn’t reveal her surname during the Third Reich years when the book was published under strict censorship - “was a distinguished-looking girl, tall and slim. ‘You must know, I’m in love with her,’ he added resolutely.” Kubizek dates Hitler’s infatuation - ‘which lasted four years, from the beginning of his 16th year’ - to an evening in the spring of 1905 when they went out for a stroll in the Landstrasse in Linz: “Adolf gripped my arm and asked me excitedly what I thought of that slim, blonde girl walking along arm-in-arm with her mother. And although Hitler’s biographer Sir Ian Kershaw dismissed Hitler’s feelings for Stefanie as ‘a juvenile infatuation’, the passion with which Hitler stalked her and fantasised about kidnapping and committing suicide with her lets us glimpse into his mind.įurthermore, August Kubizek’s account reveals that Hitler was utterly unconcerned as to whether Stefanie was Jewish or not. ![]()
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