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...uncontrollably. He had never fully recovered from the bomb attack by rebellious army officers the previous July, which had left him partly deaf. Haggard and exhausted, he received large daily injections of vitamins, hormones and morphine. Recalls Ernst-Günther Schenck, now 81, a physician who was in the bunker to the end: "He looked like a man carrying a mountain on his shoulders. He was hunched, drawn into himself like a turtle. His face was a mask, gray and yellow. His glaring eyes were bloodshot, with large dark pouches from lack of sleep. His left hand, holding his glasses...
...Zhukov encircling it from the north and Marshal Ivan Konev from the south. When the ring was complete on April 25, the Soviets arrayed a fearful multitude of weapons--6,000 tanks, 42,000 guns--and began bombarding the city. In the central area around the Chancellery and the bunker, around the Reichstag and the opera and the university, the shells landed at the rate of one every five seconds. The barrage went on all day and then all the next...
...acerbic. "Has he anything to surrender?" the new President asked Churchill on the transatlantic telephone. The two quickly agreed to tell the Swedish diplomat (and to reassure " the ever suspicious Stalin) that Germany must surrender unconditionally to all the Allies. No more was heard from Himmler. Inside the Berlin bunker, Hitler denounced him as a traitor. He dismissed Himmler from his government positions and expelled him from the Nazi Party...
...other crimes upon his victims, whom he described as "international Jewry and its helpers." Then Hitler left instructions for his body to be burned. By now the Red Army was fighting for the nearby Tiergarten and smashing westward along the Leipzigerstrasse, just one block south of the bunker...
...they sent a general to Soviet headquarters to propose a surrender of Berlin in exchange for their own safety in leaving the city. During the long interval before the general returned with a Soviet rejection, Goebbels decided that he too must die. He ordered one of the bunker's doctors to inject sedatives into his six children, who had taken refuge with him in the bunker, then they were given poison. Goebbels' wife Magda bit on a cyanide pill, and Goebbels shot her in the back of the head. Then, just like Hitler, he raised his pistol...