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...Russians to the last, the U.S. and British armies so long as they refused to accept a separate surrender. Perhaps significantly, the voice on the Hamburg radio did not mention Gestapoman Heinrich Himmler, the Nazi whom all had supposed to be Adolf Hitler's deputy ruler of the Reich...
Fate knocked at the door last week for Europe's two fascist dictators. Mussolini, shot in the back and through the head by his partisan executioners, lay dead in Milan (see below). Adolf Hitler had been buried, dead or alive, in the rubble of his collapsing Third Reich. Whether or not he had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage (as reported from Stockholm), or had "fallen in his command post at the Reich chancellery" (as reported by the Hamburg radio, which said that he had been succeeded as Führer by Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz), or was a prisoner...
...bins and arsenals of Czechoslovakia and the 35 divisions in Italy and Yugoslavia. Even before Moscow's 324-gun salute boomed the Vienna victory, the Russians were off toward more decisive prizes. This week Red columns stood only 30 miles from Brünn, one of the shrinking Reich's last armaments centers. Other columns had turned westward along the Danube and toward Linz. There the Russians would be in position to seal off the eastern side of the Nazis' Alpine redoubt...
Later the man who has been called the slipperiest eel in Germany was slipped out of the dying Reich. From Paris he was reportedly headed for internment...
...Allied invaders rooted deeper into the private life of Hitler's Reich, they bared some nauseous Nazi secrets...