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In 1945 at the age of 86, the Nobel laureate novelist Knut Hamsun wrote an obituary of Adolf Hitler in the newspaper ''Aftenposten''. Hamsun's eulogy to Hitler served as the collaborationist newspaper's feature article on Hitler's death.〔 〕 The obituary came to be his most infamous written piece. __NOTOC__ ==The obituary== The short obituary reads ''in extenso'': ''Adolf Hitler ''I'm not worthy to speak up for Adolf Hitler, and to any sentimental rousing his life and deeds do not invite. ''Hitler was a warrior, a warrior for humankind and a preacher of the gospel of justice for all nations. He was a reforming character of the highest order, and his historical fate was that he functioned in a time of exampleless () brutality, which in the end felled him. ''Thus may the ordinary Western European look at Adolf Hitler. And we, his close followers, bow our heads at his death. ''Knut Hamsun'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Knut Hamsun's obituary of Adolf Hitler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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