Word: hitler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guensche, carrying out Hitler's last order, set the bodies afire. ... I doubt if anything remained of the bodies. Maybe ... bits of bone and teeth could be found but I doubt it. Shells probably . . . scattered things all over...
Kempka said that Guensche had found the two bodies in Hitler's shelter. Hitler was shot through the head; a 7.65-mm. Walther pistol was on the floor beside him. Eva was shot through the heart; a 6.35-mm. pistol was beside her on a sofa...
...Russians, who had done all the investigating in Berlin, had not amended their reports that 1) no trace of Hitler had been found; 2) no believable witnesses in their custody had actually seen him die; 3) Hitler had ordered his henchmen to spread the story that he was dead...
...Getting Goring into shape for trial, U.S. captors by last week had sharply cut his daily allowance of morphine (an addict since World War I, he was taking 20 times the normal dose when he surrendered eight weeks ago). Meanwhile, U.S. interrogators learned from one of Hitler's office helpers that the Führer took 5 cc.s of morphine daily, † Numerous body scars, a foot scar and an aluminum kneecap from World War I; a forehead scar from the time a bathroom skylight fell on him. He shaved off his beard last year without injury...
...tidbit level, the diary does better. Ciano says that Ribbentrop bet him a collection of antique arms against an Italian painting that Britain and France would not go to war if Germany invaded Poland. (Ribbentrop never paid up.) Ciano identifies Adolf Hitler's mistress during the summer of 1939 as one Sigrid von Lappus, and describes her as having "beautiful quiet eyes, regular features and a magnificent body...