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DIED. Heinz Linge, 67, Adolf Hitler's valet, an SS officer who claimed to be the last person to have seen the Führer and his new wife Eva Braun before their suicide in a Berlin bunker on April 30, 1945; of a heart attack; in Hamburg, West Germany. Linge denied Moscow's story that Hitler had dispatched himself with cyanide, maintaining that he used a pistol. Was Adolf mad in his final days? Never, the faithful servant Insisted; he killed himself only for the quite rational reason that "everything was hopeless...
Ironically, a warning comes from a dead German paratrooper. Emptying the enemy's pockets, Mowat finds an unmailed letter: "I don't expect to see Hanna and the children this year. The Führer has ordered us to hold Rome at all costs. This shouldn't be too hard if you have any idea of the kind of country here. It is made for defense and the Tommies will have to chew their way through us inch by inch, and we will surely make hard chewing for them...
...this in proper historical perspective, some of the earliest Nazi party stalwarts were distinctly "bent." On the "Night of the Long Knives," June 30, 1934, Hitler ordered Ernst Röhm, left-wing head of the SA and a notorious homosexual fanatically loyal to the Führer, murdered...
...Face of the Third Reich by Joachim Fest (Pantheon; $3.95). A series of portraits condemned as too soft on the Führer...
DIED. Reinhard Gehlen, 77, legendary German spymaster; of cancer; in Berg, West Germany. The austere, shadowy Gehlen was Adolf Hitler's intelligence chief for the eastern front until his predictions of Soviet triumph prompted the irritated Führer to threaten to send him to an insane asylum. Gehlen fled and surrendered to American forces in May 1945, bringing with him 50 cases of Red Army documents. He later built a network of some 4,000 agents that became the CIA's chief chink in the Iron Curtain throughout the cold war, forecasting the 1956 Hungarian revolt...