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...afternoon of the 29th was devoted to the final preparations for death. Hitler ordered that his favorite Alsatian wolf dog Blondi be poisoned; the other two dogs were shot. He gave capsules of poison to his two secretaries, presuming that they would want, as part of their jobs, to join in the imminent suicides (they did not). At 3:30 p.m. on April 30, Hitler and his new wife retired to the anteroom of his private suite and shut the door. Hitler put a cyanide pill between his teeth, then raised a Walther pistol to his temple and fired...
Although he is to sputter with psycho-delusional rage against foreigners, Jews, bankers, and his top-ranking officers as the hopelessness of his situation becomes increasingly clear, the Führer first appears on screen kindly introducing himself to prospective secretaries, coddling Blondi, his German shepherd, and consoling a nervous Traudl over her typing errors...
...stayed up later and later as insomnia overcame him. Meals, which had once been merely lengthy, now became distasteful. Hitler, a vegetarian, insisted on describing the meat soup served to his tablemates as "corpse tea." Along with Eva Braun, Hitler said, his only true friend was his German shepherd Blondi. When the dog acted friendly toward other people, the Führer would angrily order it to heel...
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