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Most of Adolf Hitler 's biographers assert that he was a '''vegetarian''' from 1931 until his death in 1945. However, a few reports indicate that he occasionally ate meat during the 1930s. THE EVIDENCE Biographers believe that Adolf Hitler's Diet was influenced by essays of composer Richard Wagner which promoted Vegetarianism . Writing in 1881, Wagner argued that the original human diet had been vegetarian, but that humanity had become contaminated through racial mixing and the consumption of animal flesh. Hitler idolized Wagner as a young adult, saying: "I don't touch meat largely because of what Wagner says on the subject." Hitler was 22 years old and living in Vienna when he first experimented with a vegetarian diet in an attempt to cure a chronic stomach ailment. In a 1911 letter Hitler wrote: "I am pleased to be able to inform you that I already feel altogether well....It was nothing but a small stomach upset and I am trying to cure myself through a diet of fruits and vegetables." Biographers Robert Proctor and John Toland propose that Hitler may have interpreted his stomach cramps as an early sign of Cancer , a disease that killed his mother Klara Hitler when he was 18. Proctor describes Hitler as "a vegetarian, of sorts" who ate meat on occasion: "Hitler was indeed, for the most part, a vegetarian — though he did occasionally allow himself a dish of meat." , but you might be interested to know that it was a great favorite with Mr. Hitler, who dined at the hotel often. Let us not hold that against a fine recipe though." After the war Rudolf Diels (who headed the early Gestapo for a year before narrowly avoiding execution) wrote that Hitler sometimes ate Bavaria n Leberknödel (liver dumplings) but only when they were prepared by his photographer friend Heinrich Hoffmann . |
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