During his 2003 campaign for California governor, Schwarzenegger — whose father was a member of the Nazi party during World War II — denied speaking out in favor of Hitler, a fellow Austrian. But a book proposal by Butler quoted from a "verbatim transcript."Butler asked Schwarzenegger who his heroes were, and the bodybuilder replied, "I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power."