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...signs indicated that Heinrich Himmler, after Hitler the No. i symbol of Naziism, had handed over the reins only when, and because, his efforts to surrender separately had failed. Donitz was an ardent Nazi, but the Allies knew him chiefly as an all-too-brilliant naval commander. He, too, failed to win a separate peace, but he had the satisfaction of seeing most of his Navy give up to the British. Only after the last German step had been taken according to German plan was an Allied check placed upon the maneuvers of Donitz and his associates in the last...
Said Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte, who had it from Heinrich Himmler on April 24; Hitler had a cerebral hemorrhage, might already be dead...
Spanish hospitality was less than cordial. General Francisco Franco had undertaken to keep war criminals out of Spain, was in no mood to exasperate the Allies. Instead of going to the swanky Ritz Hotel, where a suite once occupied by the Duke of Windsor and Heinrich Himmler had been reserved for him, Laval was hustled into forbidding Montjuich, the stone fortress which looms over Barcelona. Into a massive cell (whose rigors were later softened by a spring bed and furniture from the Ritz) moved the unwelcome Frenchman. At his request a radio was installed. The first news he heard...
Nazi Germany was finished. Nevertheless, despite peace feelers put out by Heinrich Himmler, despite the death throes of Berlin, despite revolution in Munich, cradle city of Naziism, despite the U.S.-Russian linkup, which cut the mortally wounded monster in two, some thousands of German fanatics stared blindly ahead and still had the will to fire another useless shot...
...Hitler's life failed; 2) that Hitler and Goebbels were in Berlin, and probably would die there; 3) that Goring, who had been officially reported relieved of his Luftwaffe command because of "acute heart disease," was out of the picture-"Nobody talks about Goring any more"; 4) that Himmler was at Salzburg, in the national redoubt; 5) that the redoubt was an indefensible shadow fortress, a myth; and 6) that the war would not last more than a few days after Berlin's fall...