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...hrer's chauffeur, slim, blue-eyed Erich Kempka, told U.S. interrogators that he had helped burn the bodies of Hitler and his newlywed mistress, Eva Braun. Kempka's story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Where There's Smoke . . . | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

...last saw Hitler alive on April 29 in the Führer's shelter at the Berlin Reichs-Chancellery. He was "quiet and normal." The next afternoon Elite Guard Leader Otto Guensche telephoned Kempka to get a quantity of gasoline and report to the Führer's shelter. Party Chancellor Martin Bormann, Joseph Goebbels, Elite Guardsman Heinz Linge were there. "I ... found Bormann carrying the body of Frau Hitler-I learned later about the wedding two days before. I took the body from Bormann. It was warm and limp. Blood trickled from her left breast. I carried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Where There's Smoke . . . | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Where There's Smoke . . . | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

...tells his long, slim chauffeur Kempka to put away his long, slim, black Mercédès-Benz touring car, in which he loves to ride by the day across the Fatherland. In its place appears the grim six-wheeled, field-grey car of war, also a Mercédès-Benz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, STRATEGY: A Dictator's Hour | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

Last week sorrowing Adolf Hitler promoted Erich Kempka to Julius Schreck's place as No. 1 chauffeur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Chauffeur to Valhalla | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

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