Vincent Price and his admiration for National Socialism

House of Usher 1960

More certain was the open admiration expressed for the National Socialist Revolution by Vincent Price ("Vincent Price, A Daughter’s Biography", by Victoria Price, NY: St. Martin’s Press, 1999), even before the Third Reich was born. In 1932, during a visit to Vienna, he observed that the Austrians "are ruled by the Jews, who tax them to excess ... Three hundred small boys called the ‘Hitlerknabe’ are marching outside and singing. From the spirit here and the faith in the man (Hitler) and the lack of faith in Austria, which is completely under the control of the Pope and Judea, I feel he must be right, and at least it (National Socialism) is a direct appeal to the right emotion in man, love for his brother." His daughter recalled, "Vincent liked to tell friends that his visit to Nuremberg had coincided with the famous National Party Day rally immortalized by Leni Riefenstahl in ‘Triumph of the Will’, that he had heard Hitler speak ...". The Fuehrer, she writes, was her father’s "hero", until it became clear to Vincent that continued admiration for "the greatest man in two thousand years" would sabotage his career in kosher Hollywood.