Subscriber Bob Gillespie, of Lake Bluff, Illinois, has been a frequent visitor to Germany since the late '40s. He is also somewhat of an amateur historian, with an expertise on World War II and Germany. We thank him for submitting these notes on the 20th century's leading villain and his connection with the city of Munich.

When Adolf Hitler came to Munich in 1913, he took lodgings with a tailor named Popp who lived in Schwabing, at Schleissheimerstr. 34. The building was destroyed in the war and a shabby apartment house now stands there.

After military service in 1919, he rented a modest apartment in what was then a lower middle class neighborhood, near the Max Monument. The building, at Thierschstr. 41, remains much as it was when he lived there. It is about 300 feet south of the monument at the intersection of Maximillian and Thierschstr. For obvious reasons there is no marker or other indication he ever lived there. He remained there, in genteel poverty, until after he became prosperous off royalties from his best-seller, Mein Kampf, written while he was in prison at Landsberg in 1924.

With these funds, he moved to the fashionable Prinz Regentenplatz neighborhood where he settled in a large apartment on the second floor of Number 16. This remodeled building still stands and is currently occupied, somewhat ironically, by the neighborhood police station. It was here that his niece Geli Raubal was shot to death in 1930, an incident that was covered up at the time. Many historians suspect Hitler was sexually obsessed with the young woman and shot her in a jealous rage. She had been dating a young Jewish man. Hitler held title to this building until his death in 1945.

The Party headquarters, the Brown House, was demolished by the Bavarian government after the war, much as the Burgher and other buildings in Berchtesgaden were demolished in 1952 so they could never become shrines to Hitler or the NSAPD.

Other Munich buildings closely associated with Hitler include the Haus der Kunst, near the Odeonsplatz, where he often entertained; the Feldherrnhalle by the Palace where he was almost killed in 1923 as he, with General Ludendorff, led the famous putsch march; and the Circus Krone where he often spoke at party rallies.