32. In her diaries and poetry, Plath hinted that her German father may have harbored pro-Nazi sympathies
While the FBI found no evidence to suggest Otto Plath supported Germany against the United States during the First World War, Sylvia would later claim that he was sympathetic to the land of his birth during the Second World War. In an early diary entry, she recalled that her father “heiled Hitler in the privacy of his own home”. Plath would make these claims again in her 1962 poem ‘Daddy’. Here, she wrote of her father: “I have always been scared of you, With your Luftwaffe, your gobbledygoo, And your neat mustache. And your Aryan eye, bright blue.”