Hitler Papers at Huntington

Re “Hitler Papers, Held Since ’45 by Huntington, to Go on Display,” June 26: So George Patton gives four of the most profane, and thus important, pages written and signed in the 20th century to his friend and neighbor, Henry Huntington, and they lie in some vault unknown for more than 50 years. Papers that ultimately prove the intent of Adolf Hitler and his ilk, even to the most benighted of fools, who deny that the Holocaust ever occurred. Why?

We understand that the Huntington’s focus was on British and American history. If so, why the secrecy? Or were they forgotten and recently discovered? There’s a story in this sudden revelation. We have a right to know more.

JOHN C. DETWILER

Van Nuys

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The Huntington Library should be fumigated. Unwittingly, the library joined the group of Swiss banks, Germany industrialists and Holocaust revisionists who think the Jews are more trouble to them than they were to Hitler.

The library, which prides itself on perpetuating the Anglo idealism of the Magna Carta, common law and Parliament and the American idealism of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and Congress, should never have been the secret repository of such a vile document. It should have been given a long time ago to Yad Vashem in Jerusalem or to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. Shame on the trustees, presidents, directors and managers of the library, whose silence condoned the myth of hear, see and speak no evil.

KENNETH Z. LAUTMAN

Los Angeles

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If we amend the Constitution to prosecute desecration of the flag, as the House of Representatives recently voted to do, we sacralize (make sacred) the flag. Those who favor such an amendment should note that the Nuremberg laws, Nazi legislation signed by Adolf Hitler and recently unveiled at the Huntington Library, “mandated loyalty to the Nazi flag.” It is dictatorships that make patriotic symbols sacred and turn patriotism into a requirement, then a false god. Do we really want to follow in Hitler’s footsteps with this amendment?

TIM VIVIAN

Bakersfield