I first heard about this book in 1999 through Mark Piper who informed me that Wittgenstein went to the same school as Hitler for a period of time. Wittgenstein was always my favourite philosopher though not so much for his work but for his life which I came to learn about through the book Wittgenstein - The Duty of Genius that my drug dealer and friend of mine who studied Philosophy under Ray Monk (the author of the book) at Southampton University loaned me.
The Jew of Linz digs deep into the astonishing coincidence that Wittgenstein attended the same school as Hitler. The first question it answered for me was how could the son of one of Europe's most fabulously wealthy families attend a school of the middle-class Hitler? The answer is Ludwig's father sent him there and it's obvious to me that it was to toughen him up as he stammered and was homosexual, as were two other of his four brothers, three of whom committed suicide.
Kimberley Cornish's main assertion is that Wittgenstein and Hitler had an interaction that triggered Hitler's quote unquote antisemitism (most Palestinians are Semites, most Jews aren't) despite Hitler also having Jewish blood. Hitler made many references to this unidentified Jewish interaction throughout his life, and I think Cornish proves it. Furthermore, Cornish goes on to make an astonishingly robust claim that Wittgenstein was a Soviet spy recruiter involved with the Cambridge Five.
The book starts off great but then wanders off into a long investigation into the crossover between Hitlerian/Nazi metaphysics and Wittgenstein's Theory of Mind. This is the kind of meaningless philosophy that the controllers have misdirected great minds into and which can be most informed with the simple act of inhaling DMT and which holocaust huffers like Kimberley will never do, demonstrating they're pseudo philosophers who can't explain the dental clinics, maternity wards, theatre and orchestra groups at Auschwitz as well as ignorant of the unity consciousness experience provided by entheogens.
I'm fairly sure there's quite a bit more to the Hitler/Wittgenstein story we're unaware of, but Kimberley has made great strides into the topic. I'm reselling the book on ebay if you want it for a few pounds.
