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Madame Lea
Fictional Character
"Uncle Alf"
POD: c. 1913
Type of Appearance: Contemporary reference
Nationality: France
Religion: Judaism(?)
Occupation: Fortune-teller

Madame Lea was a Jewish fortune teller in Lille, France. Her residence was often used as a meeting place for anti-German agitators.[1] One such meeting was broken-up by Feldwebel Adolf Hitler of the German Feldgendarmerie in May 1929.[2] Hitler (who visualized the fortune teller as fat, mustachioed, and greasy[3]) was disappointed that Madame Lea was not at the meeting herself, but was hopeful that she would do something else to get herself arrested in short order.[4]

References[]

  1. See e.g.: Atlantis and Other Places, pgs. 353-354, HC.
  2. Ibid., pgs. 366-368.
  3. Ibid., pg. 354.
  4. Ibid., pg. 363.
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