Death of Adolf Hitler – Part 5: Hitler’s Marriage and Last Testaments
. . By T.V. Antony Raj . Adolf Hitler In the evening of April 28, 1945, General Wenck reported to Keitel that his Twelfth Army had been forced back along the entire front and it was no longer possible...
View ArticleDeath of Adolf Hitler – Part 6: Preamble to Suicide
. . By T.V. Antony Raj . Adolf Hitler Sunday, April 29, 1945 On the forenoon of Sunday, April 29, 1945, Hitler received news of the execution of Italy’s Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini and his...
View ArticleDeath of Adolf Hitler – Part 7: Suicide of Hitler and Eva Braun
. . By T.V. Antony Raj . Around 2:30 am on April 30, 1945, the personal staff of Hitler assembled in the dining area. Hitler emerged from his private quarters. With glazed eyes, he went around the...
View ArticleDeath of Adolf Hitler – Part 8: Burning the Bodies of Hitler and Eva Braun
. . By T.V. Antony Raj . SS-Obersturmbannführer Erich Kempka – Hitler’s personal chauffeur In 1936, when Hitler’s top driver suddenly died, SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant-colonel) Erich Kempka was...
View ArticleDeath of Adolf Hitler – Part 9: Suicide of Joseph Goebbels and His Wife
. . By T.V. Antony Raj . “For us, we have burnt our bridges. We cannot go back, but neither do we want to go back. We are forced to extremes and therefore resolved to proceed to extremes.” – Dr....
View ArticleDeath of Adolf Hitler – Part 11: The Breakout from the...
. . By T.V. Antony Raj . General Helmuth Weidling, defense commandant of Berlin. Although Hitler had appointed General Helmuth Weidling as the defense commandant of Berlin, SS-Brigadeführer Wilhelm...
View ArticleDeath of Adolf Hitler – Part 14: The Fate of the Three Messengers
. . By T.V. Antony Raj . In the early morning of April 29, 1945, while the Red Army closed in on the Reichstag building, Hitler after his wedding ceremony, retired to a room with Traudl Junge, his...
View ArticleDeath of Adolf Hitler – Part 12: The Breakout by Martin Bormann
. . By T.V. Antony Raj . On May 1, 1945, around 11:00 pm, Martin Bormann left the Führerbunker in one of the ten breakout groups that included Adolf Hitler’s personal surgeon Ludwig Stumpfegger,...
View ArticleDeath of Adolf Hitler – Part 10: Announcement of Hitler’s death to the...
. . By T.V. Antony Raj . Großadmiral Karl Dönitz, Reichspräsident (President of the Reich) and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces. Großadmiral Karl Dönitz had left the Führerbunker on April 21,...
View ArticleDeath of Adolf Hitler – Part 13: What Happened to Hitler’s Body?
. . By T.V. Antony Raj . The surrender of Berlin Hans Krebs (Wehrmacht General) General Wilhelm Burgdorf, Chief Adjutant to Hitle SS-Obersturmbannführer Franz Schädle Some of the SS personnel, who did...
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