Norman Ebbutt​ , Berlin correspondent for the Times, interviewed Hitler on 14 October 1930, soon after the Nazis had their first big breakthrough in the Reichstag elections. Ebbutt was contemptuous but wary of Hitler, taking him seriously far sooner than other foreign correspondents and diplomats in Berlin. It’s worth comparing what Ebbutt was writing in the days after Hitler took power with what was appearing in other newspapers at the time. They often gave him high praise as the journalist whose take on Hitler and the Nazis had proved entirely correct. ‘Göring never forgave me,’ Ebbutt wrote after his revelation about the rebirth of German military airpower.

Source: The Times October 01, 2025 11:53 UTC