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Dreary Epilogue? Were Nazi babblings of "peace terms" and "withdrawal" a smokescreen?-another desperate stall for time? One thing was certain. Hitler & Co. were still on top, arid so long as they stayed on top there could be no peace. Heinrich Himmler was preparing a fanatical home army to fight the final battle between the Oder and the Rhine, and to fight on as guerrillas after the last battle was lost. The Allies, east and west, needed to get into Germany as soon as possible, to upset these preparations before they became effective. Otherwise the war might drag...
Last week among the eight officers hanged by Heinrich Himmler for conspiracy against the Nazis, was Count Yorck von Wartenburg, the patriotic traitor's great-grandson. Yorck von Wartenburg was hanged, among other things, because he was suspected of conspiracy with the head of Moscow's League of German Officers, General Walther von Seydlitz...
...following this tradition, the Junker generals had let the Kaiser go packing when the jig was up, and graciously permitted a new civilian government to bear the onus of defeat. But the Kaiser had not had a Heinrich Himmler, with his SS and Waffen SS, armies within armies, spies and informers, ruthless execution squads...
...bomb killed three of the men around Hitler. They were: Hitler's alleged double Heinrich Bergner, General Günther Korten, Chief of Air Force General Staff, Major General Heinz Brandt...
Hitler had been forewarned at Berchtesgaden by the Gestapo, had sent his double, Heinrich Bergner, into the big map room, where a dozen generals and their adjutants were waiting for afternoon conference. Von Stauffenberg mistook Bergner for Hitler. In the same motion with which he gave the Nazi salute, he tossed a hand grenade. There were flames and an explosion. Bergner fell dead...