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Letter: Sensitive Hitler

Published 1 April 1995

From E. Paull

Claire Weeks’s assertion that Hitler was not a vegetarian (Letters, 11 February) is at variance with the account of Hitler’s eating habits given by his secretary, who dined with him frequently over a number of years during the war. She records that on one occasion he rebuked his guests for eating meat, saying that had they seen animals being slaughtered, as he had, they would not eat meat.

Issue no. 1971 published 1 April 1995

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