European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 30, 1965, Darmstadt, Hesse Lived to Tell Bunker Story fuehrer ordered Borreil of glaring Dell and Himmler. Goebbels sin if. Gob Buls and bar Mann were witnesses. While the wedding belch Sutlon continued Hitler retired Loun adjoining room with his Secretary Frau Jumnije and dictated his will und his political testament. In neither document was there the Sli Khost Trace of retire or remorse for the millions of lives he Haddo Stroyd. Lla Lher his hatreds remained a Lippi used. Everything waste fault of others above All that of the expelled Goral in ant Himmler from the nazi party and from All offices of slate. He appointed Admiral Doeltz his successor. Hitler now began making system Atic preparations to kill himself. Herod his alsatian dog. Blondi destroyed. In the Early hours of monday april to he said Farewell to his staff. That morn ing Hitler conducted the regulation situation conference being told that the rus plans were Only a few blocks away. He was Calm. After lunch. Hitler brought Eva Braun from her room for a final round of fare Wells to Goebbels Bormann and the others remaining in the Bunker. Hitler then retired to the fuehrer suite w Ineva and closed the door. A few minutes passed and then those outside heard a single shot. A pause and they opened the was lying on the sofa which was soaked with blood a Bullet Hole through his met1. On his re not Side Lay Eva Braun dead from Hitler s precise instruct sons the bodies were taken to the Gar Den and , gun sch Bormann. Burg Dorf and Kempka stood at attention and for the last time gave the Hitler i0the mystery of Hitler s Fate is a pseudo mystery to which the soviets have now put an end. Thus reversing their earlier efforts at encouraging the belief that Hitler had Martin Bormann s Fate is still very much in doubt. This is important 1963 because Hitler in his will appointed Bormann my most faithful party Comrade his executor giving Bor Mann full Legal authority to make All anyone survives to keep alive the embers of uie nazi third Heich it ill Ornum. On the Niche of May 1-2. Bormann und others left the Bunker. Some made it out of Berlin. Youth Leader Amii retold of seeing Durmann Dewid but the evidence is Flimsy and rumours Persis that Wormann is alive possibly in Paraguay which is giving Asylum Toa number of nazis. It was not until last february that the russians admitted officially for the first time that Hitler had killed himself in his chancellors Bunker in Berlin. Previously the soviets had always taken the position that Hitler s end was still a Western allies official inquiry into Hitler s death never determine what happened to the ashes of the two burned bodies left in the Chancellor Garden. The accounts of the soviets and hit Ler aides now strongly indicate that the bodies were Only superficially burned and that the remains were recovered by the soviets and taken to Moscow. Jint november an East German publication carried a photograph of Hitler s Corpse blood streaming from the Mouth. Experts in West Germany say there is no question about its authenticity. So there is no longer any question that Hitler died in his Berlin Bunker 20 years ago by his own hand. Rut the fact is few germans care today one Way or the other. Hitler in the new Germany is neither admired nor Wor shipped despised nor hated. Mainly heis like a disease which has run its course and is not Likely to recur. As a newsstand Man in Bonn . It s hard to sell magazines with Hitler s picture on the cover. Peo ple Are bored. They Don t want to go through All that again even to read about Harry mengershause says Hitler s body was t consumed by the fire. Artur Axmann Hitler youth chief left Berlin Bunker after fuehrer death. Hans Baur. Rhe nazi chief refused to let Bauer Fly him to Berchtesgaden. Valet Heinz Unge says he others burned body with cans of gasoline. Munitions minister Albert Speer was first in Bunker told of suicide decision. The stars and stripes Honno Reitsch brought Eva Braun to embattled Berlin in her Light air plane. Page 13
