Talk:Walter Wagner (notary)

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The Guardian’s article clearly states that the postcard was sent “just days before the notary presided over the marriage” : it’s therefore IMPOSSIBLE that the postcard could relate about Hitler’s wedding! And the fact that Wagner's son “only recently discovered what happened to his father after he left the bunker” what does it really mean? Wagner never returned home to tell his family what happened to him? His family was somehow informed but the son wasn’t ? Guardian’s article wants to be sensational but in reality is very poor. We must remember that all the persons present at Hitler’s wedding died soon after: Hitler and Eva Braun suicide April 30; Goebbels and family the day after; Bormann disappeared May 2; and notary Wagner dies on an indeterminate date to be placed between April 30 and final german surrender on May 9. Consequently, at the very end of the War, ALL the eye-witnesses of Hitler’s marriage were dead or presumed dead: for that reason we are obliged to consider that the accounts about the ceremony are merely unconfirmed reports. The so piquant detail of Hitler asked to “prove” his Aryan descent is pure invention based on lecture of the wedding document, which contains a passage about the racial purity, but no one except the participants saw the scene: it was deducted. And it is more probable and believable that this part of the formulary was silently and automatically filled by the notary. Axal 10:22, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

I find it more probable that the correct and proper wording was used in order to make it a truly legal marriage. After all, he went off to find the correct paperwork. It's usual for marriages to follow proper procedure and ritual. That's the point of them. Paul B (talk) 14:11, 14 January 2014 (UTC)