Hitler was Murdered: The Mysterious Death of Adolf Hitler. By Ari Sharim [Aharon Shamir]. Tel Aviv: Tofel / Sifriyat HaBalash, [1940]. Hebrew.
A short, fictional story about the murder of Hitler by an underground movement led by the actor and director Leni Riefenstahl (in the story she is Hitler's lover). The front cover illustration shows Hermann Göring standing above Hitler's corpse, and Hitler as a skeleton.
Aharon Shamir (1917-2006) was a writer, journalist and founder and editor of the weeklies La'Isha and 7 Yamim. Shamir fought in the Jewish Brigade during WW2 and served as a military reporter for HaBoker. In the 1930s and 1940s, he published pulp thrillers and detective stories under various pseudonyms.
According to Israeli popular literature researcher Eli Eshed, this is the first "alternate universe" story written in Hebrew. (For additional information see, Aharon Shamir: The Man who 'Murdered' Adolf Hitler, in Eli Eshed’s Multi-Universe blog [Hebrew]). Three copies on OCLC.
31 pp, 16.5 cm. Good condition. Light tears (open) to top left corner of all the leaves.