11 DECEMBER 1993, Page 61

No. 1811: Dear Fiihrer

We now know that Hitler had a special secretarial staff whose job it was to answer the questions put to him in his personal mail — a worried youth leader wants to know how to reply to subversives who claim that Christ was a Jew, a Silesian farmer seeks permission to call his daugh- ter Hitlerine. You are invited to provide an amusing example of a 'Dear Flihrer . . letter and the official reply. Maximum 120 words. Entries to 'Competition No. 1811' by 29 December.