In the summer of 1945 a 28-year-old John F. Kennedy was traveling through Europe as a Hearst war correspondent. His last stop was Germany, where he visited Adolf Hitler's bomb-ravaged residence in the Bavarian Alps. (Just four months prior, the Führer had committed suicide in Berlin.)
Clearly impacted by his visit, Kennedy recorded his thoughts in his diary about the Nazi dictator.
“You can easily understand how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived,” Kennedy wrote.
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