Flowers for Hitler is Canadian poet Leonard Cohen's third collection of poetry, first published by McClelland And Stewart Ltd., Toronto, in 1964.
External links
Listing of poems (http://www.webheights.net/cohenconcordance/ffh.htm)
1964 Review (http://www.webheights.net/speakingcohen/hitlr.htm) excerpted from Morton Wilson, "Letters in Canada: 1964, Poetry", University of Toronto Quarterly, XXXIV No. 4, July 1965, pp. 352-354.
Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 in a small austrian village close to the german border, the son of a border customs clerk and a housemaid.
Hitler quickly realized that their ideas match his, and that they can be his vehicle for political power, that he decided that he wants as a result of the affair of the war's defeat and the humiliating peace treaty.
Hitler received a sentence of 5 years in prison, but thanks to the dominance of the "eastern" politicians, which included himself, his imprisonment was like a VIP hotel stay.
Hitler saw his first opera at age twelve and was immediately captivated by its Germanic music, pagan myths, tales of ancient Kings and Knights and their glorious struggles against hated enemies.
Hitler would only tolerate approval from his friend and could not stand to be corrected, a personality trait he had shown in high school and as a younger boy as well.
Hitler led his friend atop a steep hill where he spoke in a strange voice of a great mission in which he would lead the people to freedom, similar to the plot in the opera he had just seen.
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