The incredible story of Ernst Hanfstaengl, who funded Mein Kampf and helped create the monster of Nazism before later working to destroy it.
Filled with revelations about Hitler's personal and political life and descriptions of American psychological warfare, 'Hitler's Piano Player' is a shocking story of a man torn apart by opposing loyalties. A Harvard-educated German, Ernst Hanfstaengl first met Hitler in Munich in 1922, beginning one of the strangest relationships in twentieth-century politics.
He introduced Hitler to Munich high society, helped finance Mein Kampf, played the piano for him and served as his foreign press chief. But he fell out with the future Fuhrer and fled to Britain, where he was interned and later transferred to America, becoming the star of President Roosevelt's S-Project disinformation campaign, supplying biographical information on four hundred leading Nazis, including a detailed psychological portrait of Hitler.
Through newly declassified documents, interviews with surviving members of Hanfstaenglís family, and original writing by Hanfstaengl himself, Peter Conradi recounts the remarkable life of history's personal link between Hitler and FDR.
