Jfk brief biography of adolf hitler

A high-profile auction is putting a new spotlight on John F. Kennedy and his view of Adolf Hitler.

For the first time, JFK’s only diary will go on the auction block. The then-28-year-old wrote about visiting Germany shortly after World War II and also shared his startling take on Hitler.

When JFK was writing about Hitler, the dictator’s suicide had happened just four months earlier, reports CBS News correspondent Tony Dokoupil.

It shows a side of Kennedy we’ve never seen before.

Some two decades before addressing crowds in West Berlin as president, Kennedy wrote 61 diary pages – 12 in long-hand, 49 typed – in the summer of 1945. Germany had just surrendered, and Kennedy was touring Europe as a newspaper correspondent, traveling shoulder to shoulder with leaders from around the world.

The young JFK’s final destination was Germany, just months after the Allied victory.

Already a scholar on global politics, Kennedy seems fascinated with Hitler