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But now we're getting a look at the handwritten pages, and it's showing us a side of Kennedy we've never seen before.

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This generation of Germans has earned the right to be free.

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Some two decades before addressing crowds in West Berlin as president, John F. Kennedy wrote these 61 diary pages, 12 in longhand, 49 typed, in the summer of 1945.

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Germany had just surrendered, and the 28-year-old JFK was touring Europe as a newspaper correspondent, traveling shoulder to shoulder with leaders from around the world.

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The young JFK's final destination, Germany, just months after the Allied victory.

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Already a scholar on global politics, Kennedy seemed fascinated with Hitler and his place in history, writing,

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He had in him the stuff of which legends are made, and within a few years, Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived.