Posted on 04/28/2014 10:17:43 AM PDT by Scoutmaster
As far as his closest aides were aware, he kept to a strict healthy diet and drank only lukewarm water.
But Adolf Hitler would regularly stave off attacks of midnight munchies by tucking into specially made ‘Fuhrer Cake’ and other gooey treats.
He would raid the kitchen after staying up late talking to guests and rarely get up before 2pm, according to a maid who worked at his mountain retreat in Bavaria.
Austrian Mrs Kalhammer – then Elisabeth Marchtrenkerin – went to work at the Fuhrer’s retreat near Berchtesgaden in 1943 after answering an advert in her local paper: ‘Maid wanted. Location: The Berghof on the Obersalzberg.’
She did not know that her employer would be Hitler.
Her mother had asked her not to take the job but the teenage Elisabeth felt she could not turn it down and the Reich’s employment office told her she should be grateful for the work.
He loved sweet things. And Eva Braun was our best friend ‘I felt queasy when I arrived,’ Mrs Kalhammer told the Salzburger Nachrichten newspaper.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Who'da thunk?
Elizabeth's about six years behind Rosa Mitterer.
Those brits simply cannot get over WW2. I suppose it was their last great moment.
71 years from now folks will hear how Reggie Love was brought into the President’s residence when Michelle wasnt around.
Yawn....
"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour."
18 June 1940
A great statesman and watchman. Wish we had a Churchill now.
is there a recipe?
The first photo at the link depicts Hitler and a friend sharing a laugh and cake.
But there is a glass of what appears to be some type of alcohol in front of Hitler.
I thought the man did not drink at all. I could be wrong.
Does anyone know if there is an Obama Cake?
She should have put something into his cake...
Yeah...Devils Foood.
Too bad we’ve forgotten the lessons of that time. We are disarming and see Putin as a nationalist only interested is security from his neighbors.
Yeah...7 alternating layers of bullshlt and whipped crap.
Maybe he was the first “Straight Edge” star. No wonder all the leftist vegans are from Germany. I had no idea about that hidden connection, but it makes sense now.
This is when the term WTF becomes woefully inadequate.
I saw the headline and 2 pm lie-ins I thought they were talking about NYC mayor Kaiser Wilhelm.
Much like liberals can't get over the civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s.
It was the last time they were in the right and on the side of freedom, so every issue since has to somehow become a "civil rights issue."
I thought the man did not drink at all. I could be wrong.”
Hitler didn't drink a lot like Churchill and Roosevelt, but he was not a teetotaler.
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