Adolph Hitler

Submitted by sfr on Wed, 2019-07-31 11:05
Character Key Number: 
309
Display Name: 
Adolph Hitler
Sort Name: 
Hitler, Adolph
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
No
Biography: 

Adolph Hitler was the infamous leader of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his death in 1945 at the end of World War II. He is first mentioned in "Delta Autumn," where Ike McCaslin calls him an "Austrian paper-hanger" (322) - repeating a term of contempt that was popular in America at the time; Hitler was born in Austria-Hungary, but there's no evidence that he was ever a "paper-hanger." In The Mansion Gavin Stevens calls him "the Nibelung maniac" (258).

Linked Characters