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...Himmler: "A great hand at hoarding and scrounging...
Taped to Ribbentrop's groin was a phial of poison like the one Heinrich Himmler had carried and used. Ribbentrop gave his up, unused...
Bishop Eivind Berggrav, Primate of the Norwegian State Lutheran Church, who talked back to Himmler and refused to become a clerical quisling, recalled his 1941 anti-Nazi stand and the five years' imprisonment it cost him: "Don't say it was just myself. I was merely the exponent for what God called me to do. ... I didn't know until these past five years that God could be such a daily reality in my life...
...They took him to a brick villa outside Lüneburg, stripped him, found a tiny blue glass vial of poison in his clothes. Then a British sergeant major and a doctor searched him-under his arms, in his ears, his hair. Finally the doctor decided to look into Himmler's mouth. The prisoner quickly ground his jaws, and fell to the floor. He had concealed a second poison vial in his mouth, and had broken it with his teeth. The potassium cyanide worked quickly:* in 15 minutes he was dead...
Cheated of a formal inquisition and execution, Himmler's captors let his body lie for two days on the floor where he had fallen. Medical authorities removed the brain, took plaster casts of the skull. Finally, a British Army detail, sworn to secrecy, buried the unembalmed body in a grave on the heath near Lüneburg. There was no coffin, no marking on the grave. The shifting sand would soon obliterate the last sign; there would be no site for a martyr's monument...