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you think you know Adolf

Hitler you've never seen him like this

before Hitler's contemporaries from his

birth in browna to his death in the

bunker authentically flesh out the

picture who was

Hitler Hitler neither finished school

nor had any vocational training he

occasionally lived in homeless shelters

or on the street he refused to pursue a

regular job to this day it seems

inexplicable that he could come to

power out of nowhere Hitler became the

fura leader of the German Reich one of

the most powerful men of the 20th

century starting an inferno that

engulfed the world and brought death to

millions of

people the nation woried him and

followed him blindly into the

abyss but during his lifetime he kept

his Origins and his life

Secret no one should know how or who he

was fascinating and oppressive accounts

from companions friends and enemies as

well as the most extensive collection of

archived material ever

shown much of it hither to unpublished

reveal who Hitler was and how he could

become what he

was a notorious liar and an unscrupulous

murderer under the protection of the

Hitler Stalin pact Hitler invades Poland

Great Britain and France immediately

declare war on

Germany despite all the warnings this

comes as a surprise for Hitler he is

unsure of himself but the rapid

occupation of Poland restores his

self-confidence the continuing paity of

the western allies encourages him to go

further after the occupations of Denmark

and Norway he invades the Netherlands

Belgium and

France Great Britain is stunned the

British army is defeated and has to flee

Head Over Heels via dkirk Hitler's

confidence Rises to immeasurable Heights

but his next steps will have fatal

consequences

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fura spoke at length and in detail about

the ongoing incorporation of the former

provinces of Posen and West Prussia the

social strata thought to be racially

valuable could be germanized in

principle they would have to look

racially pure and have the right

hereditary disposition a special

cultural heritage group would be created

here language would be the most

important factor he said he wasn't

interested in the Polish intelligencia

as they were the supporters of Polish

nationalism Gad angle Army agitant to

Hitler Memoirs in Diary

form Henrich him's pocket

diary Berlin office post

briefing 13

minutes 11:00 a.m. leaf for PL 1 p.m.

land in PL drive to

Mawa dinner and overnight stay

there Rudolf Brandt SS

Colonel the polls are not a people to

form a state I traveled back and forth

across the country with the re fur SS a

country with so little idea of the

essence of settlement has no claim to

Independent power in the European sphere

it is a Colonial

Country Hans y Ryder president of the

Reich literature

chamber if a German passed by a pole had

to step off the sidewalk a pole could

not travel by automobile or trolley and

was even forbidden to own a bicycle he

had been placed completely outside

protection of the law and all his

property

movable or immovable was at the disposal

of the German

authorities yanari Courier of the Polish

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underground diary Tuesday April the 9th

1940 nasty weather housework and errands

in the

morning learn that the Germans have

marched into Denmark and Norway

God knows what comes

next aut blumental Jewish German

mathematician in Exile UT Zulan near

utr after the war we'll have to ask the

English how they could claim on a daily

basis to rule the waves when Germany was

able to land troops in six different

places in Norway

friederich Kelner Court employee

laach diary Wednesday April the 10th

1940 contradictory news from Norway

naval battle at

narvi Auto

blumental after the surrender of Norway

on June the 10th 1940 the German Army

Navy and Air Force stationed up up to

400,000 servicemen in this country with

less than 3.5 million inhabitants the

Norwegians are forced to supply whatever

the occupiers need in a race against the

British Norway has been occupied for

economic reasons and because the German

Navy wants to control the Norwegian

Coastline to prevent a British blockade

from 1942 onwards the German Army

divisions are not particularly strong

above all they are used to secure the

supply of Swedish iron ore via the port

of navik against an Allied

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invasion from all this wreckage and

confusion there emerged one fact of

major importance potentially affecting

the whole future of the

war in their desperate grapple with the

British Navy the Germans ruined their

own such as it was for the impending

climax Winston Churchill the Second

World War

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diary April the 11th

1940 visited sa Bren the

heights the bullet ridden Villages of No

Man's

Land abandoned old French trenches with

mattresses and

blankets endless bunker

construction houses in the village piles

of rubble hanging walls full of

holes if one day the whole West looked

like this it would be

horrible Alfred Rosenberg director of

the foreign policy Office of the

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nsdap I tried to read in the faces of

the thousands what was in their minds

this Easter

day but their face looked

blank obviously they do not like the war

but they will do what they're told die

for

instance William shyra reporter for

Columbia broadcasting

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system at lunchtime on May the 9th we

left Berlin in great secrecy and

traveled at first light towards Hamburg

turned the train around and arrived in

Aran at 3:00 a.m.

under a beautiful Starry Sky we went by

car to the command post of the furus

headquarters the Felon Nest or rocky

Eerie vilhelm kitle Supreme High

commander of the Armed Forces

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Memoirs Hitler gathered his small

executive staff and announced in a firm

clear voice that the offensive against

France had begun that morning

the first birds were chirping in The

Dewy bushes and in the distance we could

hear the thunder of

artillery Christ Shuda Hitler's private

secretary on May the 10th 1940 the

opponent mounted a big offensive 10 tank

and six motorized divisions rolled

towards the West in two

groups on the downward slope to which we

had been mistakenly LED our our army the

government and the whole of France now

plunged with dizzying speed to its

ruin and yet there were 3,000 modern

French tanks and 800 machine guns

mounted on trucks the Germans didn't

have more than that

either charl de tank division Commander

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Memoirs diary made the 10th

1940 the final battle is beginning and

will decide the fate of Germany probably

forever definitely for

centuries the Dutch have now been

agitating against us for seven years and

have let in all immigrants they were

just interested in doing business and

were bosom friends to all the Jews in

the

world Alfred

Rosenberg in the first Armed Forces

report Ed noon on May the 10th I had

recorded the sentence the fura has

personally taken over Supreme command of

the German Army operating in the

west I wrestled with him for half an

hour over the approval of this

publication he declared he wanted to

remain anonymous and not diminish the

glory for the generals I did not let up

and in the end he gave

in vham kitle

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transcript of talks between Admiral

Daran and the fura at aalburg

the fura emphasized that he didn't have

the ambition to become a great

Commander but more importantly to

protect the cultural and social rise of

the German Nation as the fura of its

people others had insisted he become

commander

he was the Revolutionary Spirit and the

pulsating element of the German Army and

its great organizational

Machinery he knew its tendency to

exaggerated thoroughness against which

he tirelessly

fought uto Dietrich head of press of the

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nsdap Hitler took the credit for the

success of the western campaign

Albert

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Spear the Western campaign of 1940

revealed another of Hitler's character

traits he was very bold in the creation

of his plans Norway was a courageous

plan the tank break through equally

so but when the first difficulties arose

in contrast to his unshakable

persistence in the face of political

difficulties he would vacillate in

military questions because he

instinctively sensed his lack of ability

in this

field hin garan leftenant general armad

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core diary Friday May the 10th

1940 now the war has really begun

Chamberlain has Steed down and Churchill

replaced

him one bad person has left and a much

worse one has

come Henrietta Schneider housekeeper

East

Prussia thus then on the night of the

10th of May at the outset of this Mighty

battle I acquired the chief power in the

state I cannot conceal that I was

conscious of a profound sense of relief

I felt as if I were walking with Destiny

and that all my past life had been but a

preparation for this hour and for this

trial Winston

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Churchill diary Saturday May the 11th

1940

if I had to spend my whole life with a

man I would choose Mr Chamberlain but I

think if there was a storm and I was

Shipwrecked I would sooner have Mr

Churchill he has a funny face like a

bulldog in our

street Nella last Barrow in furnace

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Lancashire Winston is a dictator he can

not be overruled and his colleagues fear

Him the people have set him up as

something little less than God and his

power is there for

terrific Robert menes Prime Minister of

Australia from 1939 to

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1941 diary Tuesday May the 21st

1940 our armies are 130 km from p Paris

we've reached the

channel Henrietta

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Schneider the English are an amazing

nation and I think it is true that

nothing becomes them like catastrophe

when they are really up against it their

negative qualities turn positive in a

glorious

somersault slowness understatement

complacency change into endurance and

pride the begetter of self dis

discipline Martha ghorn War

correspondent of the US

Army the well-trained English army

appears to be finished for the most part

one would do well to have a small flask

of morphine handy

one might need

it Stefan Spike Austrian writer in Exile

bath

England May the 23rd

1940 we've done it the Air Force is

destroying the English on the beach I

was able to persuade Hitler to stop the

Army the fura wants this to be a lesson

for them

Hans yunik chief of the general staff of

the Air Force to airut M state Secretary

of the aviation

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Ministry diary Friday May the 24th

1940 the ring is tightening around the

enemy armies in northern

France Henrietta Schneider

May the 26th 1940 Dunkirk by order of

the very highest level the tank and

motorized units are standing on the

Heights and are not allowed to attack

there is an understandable nervousness

on the part of the commander-in-chief of

the army because waiting for orders from

on high when the back of the enemy is

open to attack is

incomprehensible fala chief of the

general staff of the army

Memoirs in Diary form May the 27th

1940 the field Marshall landed

discussion with the

furer guring announced success in

Dunkirk Harbor saying only twers are

coming across I hope the tommies are

good

swimmers Gad Angel Army agitant to

Hitler

the mass of the British army got to the

other side unharmed they left their

weapons behind and

escaped aard mil general of aviators to

Herman

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guring diary June the 8th

1940 I anticipate that Italy will come

in now it is a hard time for all who

care for freedom

Neville Chamberlain Lord president of

the

council fascist Italy does not

participate in the war against Poland or

Western and Northern Europe but musolini

wants to benefit from Hitler's victories

and get a share of Fame and booty on

June the 10th 1940 Benito musolini

declares war on France and

Britain Italians at that memorable

meeting in Berlin I said that if someone

has a friend he marches with him to the

end according to the laws of fascist

morality and that is what we have done

with Germany with its people with its

Victorious Armed

Forces diary Friday June the 11th 1940

and what is the secret of this

Victory surely the immense dynamism of

the

furer Edward Vagner are artillery

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General diary Friday June the 14th

1940 news at 1:00 at night Paris

occupied by our troops without a fight

flag raised for three

days Henrietta

Schneider letter to William slam Courier

Portugal end of June

1940 it was confirmed everywhere that

the surrender of Paris had been a

demoralizing factor from that day on

according to one officer the Germans

couldn't Advance as fast as the French

fled friedi tber born 1908 as friederick

eim canor Berg austr writer

Adam shakov head of the Jewish Council

of the Warsaw

Ghetto diary June the 17th

1940 Jews will be evicted from public

housing rumors yesterday that all of

France has

collapsed France offered a ceasefire on

June the 17th I've never seen Hitler as

happy as on that

day Hines linger valet to Adolf

Hitler Francis peace offer was submitted

to him while he stood surrounded by his

officers he slapped his thigh in a

lively gesture we were to one side and

observed the scene that Walter France

also

filmed Christa shudder he was my

boss Hinrich

Hoffman kitle who was carried away by an

outburst of emotion coined the Fatal

phrase myura you are the greatest

military commander of all

time part of Hitler's growing self

deification after the first military

successes involved believing it his

himself France

harda Charles deal radio broadcast on

the BBC to France June the 18th

1940 is defeat

final no for France is not alone she is

not alone she has a vast Empire behind

her she can align with a British Empire

that holds the sea and continue the

fight she can like England use without

limit the immense industry of the United

States I say this is not a Franco German

war to be decided by a single battle I

General deal currently in London invite

officers and French soldiers who are

located in British territory to put

themselves in contact with

me whatever happens the flame of the

French Resistance must not be

extinguished and will not be

extinguished in the western campaign

50,000 soldiers of the German Army

die more than 1.2 million soldiers from

France Great Britain the Netherlands

Luxembourg and Belgium are

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captured Memoirs in Diary reform June

the 20th

1940 fura insisted that Brea and other

artists and town planners come to the

fura headquarters even if those

concerned don't understand questions of

warfare and politics they are still

essential for the development of German

art Gard

angle June the 23rd 1940

Hitler sheds light on my reason for

being here I intend to drive to Paris

with you Shar and gizel a motorcade is

waiting for us Hitler sits next to the

chauffer in the first open car I'm

behind him next to me Shar and

Giza Paris is

deserted dead not a soul in

sight this morbid impression seems to

depress Hitler as

well speechless cramped he cowers in his

seat until we stop at the steps of the

Opera aror Brea sculptor and

architect it was my life's dream to see

Paris I can't tell you how happy I am

that it has been fulfilled

today for a moment I felt sorry for

him 3 hours in Paris the last and only

time made him happy as if he was at the

height of his success

Albert

Spear letter to Elizabeth Vagner June

the 29th

1940 yesterday I was in Paris the city

is coming alive again if only a little

but it's something it really is a

magical place the furer was in Paris

Incognito the day before yesterday at 5

a.m. with

Spar I think he'll tear down Berlin

after his impressions of this city

Edward

Vagner IA Brown who never appears in

public films the arrival of Adolf Hitler

and his Entourage in Berlin from a

window of the r

chancell a large crowd of hundreds of

thousands have waited for the furer for

6 hours to give him an overwhelming

reception

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Hitler was at the height of his power he

was the master of

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Europe Gustaf monheim Field Marshal of

Finland resistance to Hitler lost

considerable ground in May and June

1940 Hitler's Prestige had risen

further and F by sucker state Secretary

of the foreign

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Ministry the mood at home also

changed the initial anxiety was replaced

by radiant

self-confidence when the victory fanf

fell rang out even old opponents of

Hitler could not hide their Joy I also

began to believe in the good outcome of

the

war grain fek Finance

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Minister the Hitler Mystique was beyond

analizing there was magic about the

man The Gods zlock Must Have Been

totalitarian but they or it loved this

man he never

lost he was pre destined to win or so it

seem Howard K Smith correspondent of CBS

in Berlin 1940 to

1941 Valley M school girl hord on

mine one evening a week we were allowed

to listen to the German Army request

program

we always looked forward to this and our

favorite songs were Lily marene and the

lullabi from

anal but we also listen to bombam of

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angeland the Atlantic coast from the

North Cape to the Spanish border was in

the hands of the ger Germans the British

army Was Defeated and had fled the

mainland with no

weapons the airspace on the continent

was under German control and invasion of

Great Britain seemed under

preparation eron fun

vacker there were frequent visits by

Leading dignitaries the Japanese always

brought the most wonderful gifts I can

remember once there was a really old sea

chart on which one could see how to walk

from the mainland to Great Britain

without getting one's feet

wet Rush Mish SS bodyguard

regiment a stay of a few days in the

English Capital was all that was needed

to recognize the difference between

London and

Paris here no one was considering

capitulation Julius Dodge Austrian

socialist of Jewish descent in Exile

Memoirs it was only after France had

been flattened out that Britain thanks

to her Island Advantage developed out of

the pangs of defeat and the Menace of

annihilation a national resolve equal to

that of

Germany Winston Churchill

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diary Saturday July the 20th

1940 Hitler spoke in the r made an offer

of peace to

England Henrietta

Schneider diary August the 20th

1940 Winston gave a great speech in the

House of Commons he speaks excellently

he does not brag too

much Harold Nicholson Member of

Parliament National labor

party the Gratitude of every home in our

Island in our Empire and indeed

throughout the world except in the

abodes of the guilty goes out to the

British Airmen who undaunted by odds

unwearied in their constant Challenge

and Mortal danger are turning the tide

of the World War by their prowess and by

their

devotion never in the field of human

conflict was so much owed by so

many to so

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few Winston

Churchill on August the 24th 1940 the

first bombs fall on

London despite the fact that German

bomber forces are 10 times larger and

Allied planes have to fly six times

further when Churchill orders the

immediate bombing of

Berlin on the night of August the 25th

81 English bombers start out 29 of which

reach their target more night raids

follow the attacks do not fail to have

an effect on Hitler on September the 4th

he announces his intention to wipe out

London as ging's Air Force concentrates

its bombing raids on the capital the

English aerial defenses have a chance to

catch their

breath we had our first big air raid of

the war last night their biners were

stunned they did not think it could

happen when this War Began Gering

assured them that it couldn't the biners

are a naive and simple

people William Shyer us journalist

basic training for men born in 1923 at

The Fighter Squadron of air regiment 2

in Claren fort in Corinthia Corinthia is

a row in Austria which is now called

ostar in the Greater German

Reich more than 1.3 million of the

Austrian male population of

approximately 7 million are drafted into

the vmar and the vaff SS between 1939

and

1945

242,000 a rans are killed in action that

is about 8% of the male population while

in the old Reich it is more than

30% the governments of Canada Australia

New Zealand and South Africa formerly

request that the royal family or at

least the two young princesses be

brought to Safety in order to protect

the crown regardless of the fate of the

motherland

the children won't go without me I won't

leave without the king and the King will

never

leave Queen Elizabeth Queen consort of

King George V

6th there is a time to live and a time

to

die Winston Churchill

Memoirs in Diary form November the 4th

1940 R

chancell an unpleasant meeting at

headquarters attended by guring fich

kitel due to English and other press

reports fura for the first time doubts

the successes of the lva and the strike

figures furer visibly

depressed have the impression that he

doesn't know how to proceed

Gad

angle the Gent has taken off his clothes

and put on his bathing suit but the

water is getting colder and there is an

Autumn nip in the

air Winston

Churchill the day after Italy's

declaration of war the seventh British

tank division was transferred to the Li

Frontier we were not exactly the most

modern force on Earth some of our

armored cars were old Rolls-Royce Silver

ghosts used by Lawrence of Arabia in the

first world war but we quickly took one

border post after

another Dennis ay private second rifle

Battalion November the 17th 1940

we gathered close to the Libyan Frontier

40 Mi south of the sea in a forbidding

but now familiar landscape of sand and

gravel at 0600 hours the next morning

November the 18th we cut through the

wire and set off all around we could see

tanks another vehicle streaming across

the desert towards T

Brook Dennis

a on December the 10th the Italians

suffered a severe defeat in Africa at

CID

barani Marshall gani begged for German

air support musolini considered asking

the Germans to send two tank divisions

to

Libya German troops under RL got the

situation under

control h

scaran but now a new figure sprang upon

the world stage romal took charge of the

growing German

contingent he strove immediately to

enforce an offensive campaign his ardor

and daring inflicted Grievous disasters

upon us but he deserves the salute which

I made him in the House of Commons in

January

1942 when I said of him we have a very

daring and skillful opponent against us

and may I say across the Havoc of War a

great

General Winston

Churchill the next day November the 20th

We buried my friend Bill Manley dear old

bill it was towards first light when we

buried him I got on my knees pulled as

much sift sand the way as I could trying

to prevent a trickling back into the

shallow grave we removed one half of the

dock tag from around his neck and

dropped him into a shallow dent in the

desert I tried not to look at his face

as I pushed the sand back over him I

left him somewhere in the shifting Sands

south of zidi

re Denis

ay diary Berlin December 1st

1940 for most Germans this is an end in

itself for to be strong in their scheme

of life is to be all it is the emergence

of the Primitive tribal Instinct of the

early German pagans of the vast Forest

of the north to whom brute strength was

not only the means but the end of life

it is this primitive racial Instinct of

blood and soil which the nais have

reawakened in the German

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Soul William

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shyra Paris in November 1940 the defeat

of of France leads to a partition of the

country under the Armistice of Ken the

German Garrison headquarters on plast

Opera under the German occupation the

Parisian cityscape changes the German

soldiers have their own Cinemas cafes

and about 60 brothal the guard regiment

marches along the shazi to the Garrison

headquarters northern France Paris and

the entire Atlantic Coast are subject to

a German occupying regime from July 194

40 the south over 40% of France and the

colonies are managed by a new French

government based in vishi which pursues

a course of limited collaboration with

the

Germans the fura and the supreme

commander of the German Army the fura

headquarters absolutely top secret for

officers only nine copies second copy

order number 21 operation

Barbarosa even before the end of the war

against England the German Army has to

be prepared to over throw Soviet Russia

in a quick campaign operation barbar Roo

the bulk of the Russian army in Western

Russia should be destroyed in bold

operations via tank pins movements in

order to prevent the withdrawal of

strong combat units into the expanses of

the Russian

interior adol

Hitler Memoirs in Diary form December

the 18th 1940

the order for barbar Rosa has been

issued the Army Supreme Commander has

ordered us to find out whether the fura

wants armed engagement or is just

bluffing in my opinion Fury himself

still doesn't know how to proceed he

hopes the English will capitulate and

doesn't believe the USA will enter the

war

gadel in September 1939 the vimar and

the Red Army determined the line of the

Border in occupied Eastern Poland on the

basis of the Hitler Stalin pact Stalin's

Soviet Union strictly adheres to the

agreement and supplies raw materials to

the German Reich in the next 1 and a

half years there will be no conflict

along the now 2,000 km long border

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diary Wednesday January the 1st

1941 we heard the fur's message to the

German people on the radio wonderful and

full of confidence in

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Victory vill Zig also came and we ended

up playing a cozy game of

Scot Henrietta

Schneider on February the 18th

1941 we drove from beus garden to

Hitler's house on OB salsburg Hitler

greeted Us in the entrance hall with its

VI of un's beg

here Hitler spoke for one and a quar

hours he gave a summary of the

development of the armored

tank he concluded his talk about tank

characteristics by saying was most

important armorment second most

important and armor a distant

third his opinion in a nutshell was the

tank is not an insurance

policy V Roland industrialist

commissioner for tank production and

Ministry of armament and war

production at the beginning of April

1941 the motorized Flack regiments 19

from kitzingen and six from Hamburg were

relocated from France and Belgium to

Bulgaria in the foothills of the rela

and pirin mountains watched by Bulgarian

troops a football match between the

regiment's first batteries takes

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Place Zar Boris III visits the troops 6

weeks earlier the kingdom of Bulgaria

joined the axis packed of Germany Italy

and Japan and the vimar was allowed to

station its forces in the Balan State

Bulgaria will take part in the war

against Yugoslavia and Greece but never

declares war on the Soviet Union in the

second world

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war Hitler regards the serbs as the most

effective at nation building and thus

the most dangerous people in the

Balkans Milo van gilas Yugoslavian

communist from Montenegro

Memoirs diary April the 5th

1941 there early on Saturday morning the

attack on Yugoslavia and Greece is to

begin in Greece we will try to reach

Thessaloniki as quickly as

possible Yugoslavia will also be

attacked by Bulgaria and

Hungary the state will be broken up

Italy will be given the coast Bulgaria

Macedonia and our Bavarian Eastern March

areas are to receive the former Austrian

provinces Yosef geras

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Germany declares war on Yugoslavia

similarities to statements made before

the invasions of Poland Norway Belgium

and

Holland the German troops have been

ordered to restore order in the Balkans

said

Hitler the serbs will offer resistance

but for how long at the moment the

Vermont is attacking Yugoslavia and

Greece details are not known but we

should have further news by

tonight Michelle Sebastian Romanian

Jewish

journalist weather as yesterday a little

cloudier at lunchtime and so called

Thessaloniki occupied by the

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Germans Auto

blumental diary Easter Monday April the

14th

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1941 the position in Libya becomes worse

and Egypt is

threatened in the Balkans the yugoslavs

are going to collapse and as the Greeks

have not withdrawn their Albanian

division

our Greek position rendered

untenable Robert men Prime Minister of

Australia diary Monday April the 21st

1941 yesterday the fura celebrated his

birthday on the Balkan front

henrya

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Schneider Hitler's Invasion allowed

suppressed Century old Darkness to rise

again in a new guise and with new

motivation no nation is free of similar

phenomena neighbors had lived peacefully

next to

neighbors and both would have continued

their whole lives long like their

grandfathers but now they're looting and

wiping each other

out milangas

New Year's Eve

1942 a man in desau lights the last

cigar of Peace unlike in the first world

war thanks to the plundering of occupied

territories people in the Greater German

Reich do not starve during the second

world war diary April the 24th

1941 some shortages in Berlin above all

tobacco and

beer I'll fix this

the people have to be kept

happy yoseph gabbles gaigher of

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Bin radio address on the BBC April the

27th

1941 the peoples of the British Empire

and of the United States are determined

that the cause of Freedom shall not be

trampled down last time I spoke to you I

quoted the lines of Longfellow I have

some other lines which are less well

known but which are appropriate to our

fortunes tonight and I believe they will

be so judged wherever the English

language spoken or the flag of Freedom

flies for while the tired waves vainly

breaking seem here no painful inch to

gain far back through creeks and inlets

making comes silent flooding in the main

and not by Eastern Windows only only

when daylight comes comes in the light

in front the sun climbs slow how slowly

but westw look the land is

bright Winston

Churchill diary May the 27th 1941

report I have never believed and cannot

see how the British Empire can defeat

Germany without the help of God or Uncle

Sam perhaps it will take

both General Raymond E Lee chief of US

military intelligence in Great

Britain my nextdoor neighbor says she

prays to God to strike Hitler dead

cannot help thinking if God wanted to do

that he would not have waited till Mrs

Helm asked him to do

so Nella last Barrow in furnace Lanier

diary

[Music]

Hitler breaks The Pact with Stalin and

invades

Russia his aim is to eradicate the

entire Russian people and use the

territory as a settlement region for the

Aryan

race the German Army quickly conquers

large parts of Russia and besieges

Moscow

Hitler has reached the Pinnacle of

German military power almost the entire

European continent is under his

control his generals are concerned but

unconditionally

obedient after these rapid successes the

German Army is faced with the unlimited

Manpower of the Red Army and above all

with the incredible distances and harsh

winter in

Russia after the Japanese attack on

Pearl Harbor and the sub subsequent US

declaration of war on Japan Hitler

declares war on the

USA will Hitler recognize that there is

a growing imbalance of military power

and act accordingly

[Music]

up until

1942 he needed particular decorum and

big rooms to think about important

diplomatic activities or to plan

offensives Christa shudder Hitler's

private

secretary in the living Hall of the beof

there was a large

Globe an army agitant pointed

meaningfully to a pencil Line running

from north to south in the

urals Hitler had drawn the line to

identify the future boundary of the

spheres of influence that were agreed

with the

Japanese Albert Spar

Memoirs letter to US President Franklin

D

Roosevelt describing Hitler in Germany

Mr stallin spoke that the Germans were a

people who without a second's thought

would sign a treaty today break it

tomorrow and sign a second one the

following

[Music]

day Harry Hopkins

Moscow France Haler Major General War

diary devastating verdict on

bolshevism is equal to antisocial

criminality

communism tremendous danger for the

future we must distance ourselves from

the attitude of soldierly camaraderie

the Communist is no comrade beforehand

and no comrade

afterwards it is a battle of

extermination eradication of communist

intelligence I had a belief in the

foresight and wisdom of the German

general staff that was hard to

shake and I could not credit that these

strategically and tactically trained

mines would embark on a two-front war if

they thought they were not sure that the

blitz Creek technique would lead to

Victory I thought it likely that it

would lead to the end of Russia as it

had come to the end of

France I was

wrong Carl tuuk German Austrian

dramatist in British exile

diary Monday June the 9th

1941 there's a big operation here the

streets are full of military of every

kind on their way to the

Border Henry ATA Schneider elk East

Prussia when he decided on the easn

campaign in the summer of

1941 he told Eva Brown he had to travel

to Berlin for a few

days Christ

shudder when Adolf heard the music of

Vagner he was transformed then he lost

his fierceness he became quiet flexible

manageable the unease disappeared from

his face what had moved him during the

day vanished

August kubit childhood

friend Varner's music became second

nature to

him and Hamer until 1937 head of the

nsdap Foreign Press

[Music]

Bureau he loved the Vagner Opera the

most other than that Symphonies by

Beethoven and Brookner are songs by

Richard

Strauss of the light entertainment

pieces he appreciated the

bat and The Merry Widow Borman proved

his musical knowledge just by changing

the

records Hinrich Hoffman

[Music]

photographer it was almost always the

same repertoire that Hitler had them

play the only popular song Hitler

allowed was the donkey serenade which

often concluded the

[Music]

concert Hitler's private secretary

you'll be hearing that a lot in the near

future it'll be the victory Fanfare for

our Russian campaign how do you like

it Adolf Hitler to Albert Shar after

listening to the first bars of Lee prud

by France list the Russian Fanfare June

the 21st

1941 diary Saturday June the 21st 1941

wild rumors are coming from the

border Henri ATA

Schneider on the evening of June the

21st the chief of staff of the Kiev

military District called and said that a

German sergeant had defected to the

Border

guards he claimed the German troops were

moving into their staging areas for an

attack that would begin early on June

the

22nd I notified Stalin immediately

Georgie zukov Chief of Staff of the Red

Army it's always a strange feeling

before

battle the mood is like at a

party horse Roo Castle regimental doctor

in the 24th tank Regiment of the 24th

tank division

diary of the army Group North June the

22nd

1941 beginning of the invasion 305 a.m.

the entire front of the army group

crossed the

border Robert frer on griesenbeck

major it was June the 22nd

1941 the night was wonderfully warm and

full of the scent of flowers the 19 G

sang like never

before then it struck 1 2

3:00 and it remained deadly

quiet in the next few seconds artillery

fire erupted and the Earth threatened to

explode Anita Fon gmer mishki Mill

District around 4 4:10 a.m. the west and

Baltic military districts announced the

beginning of the German offensive in

their

territory around 4:30 a.m. all members

of the poot Bureau had assembled Stalin

looked pale at the table pipe in

hand I suggested that all military

districts On the Border immediately

employ all means against the enemy

troops that had broken through and stop

their continued Advance not stop them

destroy them timoshenko stated more

precisely give the order Stalin

said Georgie

zukov is he mad this

Hitler he could have Allied himself with

England's Chamberlain against communist

Russia or with communist Russia against

the Anglo-Saxon capitalist

world but he invaded

both yes he is mad thank God

K Claus man son of Kya and Thomas man a

life's

report Hitler sends us to Russia to

conquer

subhumans but now I see Russia the way

it is the endless expanses gently Rising

Hills occasionally a village with always

the same one-story

farmhouses then the only building Made

of Stone a church with the classical

Tower to one side

the land of farmers the land of

monks OT AA

soldier with endless grain and wheat

fields and giant sunflower forests as a

backdrop I now experience the war in the

Precision of its metallic

order in the steel lights of its

Machinery in the unceasing uniform Roar

of a thousand

engines CIO mapar author and War

correspondent of the Italian newspaper

corera deera the vulgar rises in

Europe with the exception of falsest in

the Eiffel region Hitler's headquarters

all had names that appeared with the

word vulf vulf shansa ver vulf vulf

schl Hinrich

Hoffman Christ

shudder it All Began so

promisingly in the first two days in the

Vol shansa we experienced the boss

standing in front of a large map of

Europe and pointing to Moscow saying in

a few weeks we'll be in Moscow there's

no doubt about that

and then I'll raise Moscow to the ground

I'll build a reservoir there the name

Moscow has to be erased

completely ad fitler quoted by secretary

Christa

Scher type of warfare completely

different than the German plan right

from the beginning with the absence of

solid fronts and secured

flanks at first unpleasant for the Army

today it has solid flanks War but

without structure

thura says you have to read Carm to get

inside

him no more information about our own

and Russian strengths everything

uncertain security of the Fur by no

means

absolute admits he's been terrified at

times but always strong when the going

gets

tough valta shf Captain F's commissioner

for military historiography

[Music]

the request concert broadcast every

Sunday afternoon on the radio was

popular with young and old when vilem

with his wonderful voice sang Homeland

your stars you could have heard a pin

drop elanora V born 1924 restaurant

[Music]

owner vilhelm kitle Chief of the Armed

Force is high command to field Marshal

fed off on Bach on July the 25th

1941 the Speedy collapse of Russia is

vital for German interests since Russia

cannot be

subjugated the fura was concerned about

this situation and asked worriedly how

much time do I have left to finish off

Russia and how much time do I still need

August the 28th

1941 meeting of musolini and Hitler at

the front near uman south of

Kiev Russia Army group South letter

1941 it is our war not as the enemy

propaganda likes to call it Hitler's War

they don't know that Hitler's one of us

a soldier like us we know that he would

do everything in his power for us that

gives us unlimited

trust the fura leaves no comrade in the

Lurch and when he doesn't help it's

because there was something more

important or Roo regimental doctor from

Kasa when musolini visited the Russian

front he was really impressed by the

contact between the German officers and

their soldiers Hitler and he ate

together with simple soldiers and they

had the same

food Raa musolini

Memoirs recording of the leaking from

Hitler of the Italian Ambassador

Bernardo atolo and his

wife the furer replied that he had

always advocated German Italian

friendship besides there was also a

personal element to this

in musolini he treasured a great

contemporary to whom he was bound

through a deep personal affection should

anything happened to musolini then the

fura would feel really

isolated penko September

1941 ever onwards deep into the Russian

continent to the B the dppa the donque

the dawn the vulga to the Caspian

Sea and then winter will come the lovely

winter and then Dust and rain again dust

and mud until the winter comes again the

lovely winter of holy

Russia CIO malaparte the vulgar rises in

[Music]

Europe diary September the 9th 1941

in the evening fur's table fura we

Germans like only Finland possibly

Sweden and of course

England a German English Alliance would

be an alliance from People to

People the English just have to keep

their hands off the continent their

empire and the world they can

[Music]

keep valta havil Ambassador and SS obur

representative of the foreign office

with the fur

I say this here today because I can say

it today this enemy is already crushed

and will never rise again Adolf Hitler

speech on the occasion of the opening of

the war winter relief drive on October

the 3rd

1941 at the front which was Z Molin I

made the acquaintance of what the

Russians call General

mud we traveled to the front through

deep tenacious mud which reminded me of

maple syrup turned to glue we drove

through battlefields that looked like

the end of the

world Margaret Burke white documentary

photographer of Life

magazine diary October the 10th 1941

11:30 p.m.

it's snowing in Russia now something we

can't deal with

well Edward Vagner artillery

General there is a winter you know in

Russia for a good many months the

temperature is apt to fall very low

there is snow there is Frost and all

that Hitler forgot about this Russian

winter he must have been very Loosely

educated we all heard about it at school

but he forgot

it Winston

Churchill near the undamaged village a

dozen white crosses of our cascia w

stand at the

roadside I stopped to decipher the names

of the Fallen

Soldiers all young men between 20 and

25 gy malaparte Shabani in

bessarabia Diary Sunday November the

23rd

1941 partly cloudy still mild morning

church commemoration of the

Dead text I am the resurrection and the

life more heavy fighting in

Libya Auto blumental Jewish German

mathematician utra

diary November the 29th

1941 a dark day

today fridi brought the sad news that

Helmut vman was killed in action on

November thei near

Petersburg Dr Müller wrote me that his

eldest son had fallen in the east on

October the

28th Henrietta

Schneider lunch with deal at conort

hotel deol says he doesn't think the

Germans will take

Moscow Harold Nicholson

diary Journal December the 7th

1941 I lunched with the president today

in the Oval

Office we were talking about things far

removed from War when secretary Knox

called to say they had picked up a radio

message from Honolulu from the

commander-in-chief of our forces there

advising all our stations that an aid

attack was in progress and that it was

no

drill I said I thought that surely Japan

would not attack in

Honolulu at 228 Admiral Stark called the

president and confirmed the attack

Churchill rang from England the

president told him that we were now all

in the same

boat Harry Hopkins advisor to President

Roosevelt Roosevelt has ordered the

mobilization of American

forces the news makes me feel

numb Harold Nicholson

diary we cannot lose the war we now have

an ally that has not been defeated in

3,000

years adol fitler to VTA h on December

the 8th

1941 diary Thursday December the 11th

1941 around 3:00 we listen to the fura

from the rice the war with America is

also official now the fura will make

sure everything turns out

well Henrietta Schneider

diary urish Fon Hassel Diplomat and

member of the German

resistance it's no time for jokes

anymore but stories from the comic

character graph Bobby describe the

situation graph Bobby looks at the globe

and is told the Big Green region is

Russia the red parts are the British

Empire the light purple is the USA and

the yellow is China all huge areas and

the little blue one that's Germany does

the fura know how small it

[Music]

is when Pearl Harbor converted the issue

into a struggle for survival the United

States produced the fighting machine

that played an indispensable role in

beating Germany to its

knees Dwight D Eisenhower assistant

chief of staff US Army

I experienced how a democracy created a

war machine in a few

months overnight Factory directors and

bank managers civilian technicians

engineers and Tradesmen turned into

captains and Majors Colonels and

Generals Julio doch Austrian Social

Democrat in US Exile memoirs

December the 12th I want to join the

American

Army K Claus

man when the German Army surprised by

the terrible winter of 1941 42 got stuck

in the Russian ice and snow Hitler was

frequently depressed but as before he

hoped for a quick Victory there is only

a very thin veil that we have to

penetrate

we have to be patient the Russian

resistance will not

hold

Christa on December the 17th I visited

the generals commanding the 14th and

47th tank Corp as well as the seventh

Army Corp to again learn about the

condition of the

troops the three generals reported that

the troops were beginning to have doubts

about the high command

black ice making all movement difficult

the Russians are prepared and equipped

for winter and we have

nothing H garan Colonel

General France haa War diary December

the 17th

1941 midnight summoned to the

fura disengage is out of the question

the enemy has only made deep incursions

in a few places setting up a rear

Echelon is illusory the front is

suffering in only one respect the enemy

has more soldiers he has no more

artillery he is much worse off than we

are adol fitler oral order to Army group

Center December the 16th

1941 commanders unit leaders and

officers are to take personal steps to

force troops to engage in fanatical

resistance to hold their position

without regard to enemy breakthroughs on

the flank or in the rear only with this

kind of warfare can we gain the time

necessary to get reinforcements from the

Homeland and the West that I have

ordered the categorical order not to

retreat combined with Hitler's enormous

Prestige but also the terror of his

ruling apparatus have a decisive impact

on Military performance with few troops

and weapons in stabilizing the German

front line and holding the combat

effectiveness of the vmat

intact Napoleon said in 1812 the cold

has been my ruin Hitler's determination

mastered the situation his steadfastness

warded off

[Applause]

boom Auto dietr head of press of the

nsdap

[Applause]

diary Monday December the 22nd

1941 the fura announces that he has

taken over command of the entire Army

what are the grounds for

this dear Müller thanked me for my

sympathy about the loss of his son in

action Henryetta Schneider

the Russians have smashed Hitler's

greatest army in the world Hitler

dismisses his generals and takes command

himself Berto bre German writer in

Exile diary December the 31st

1941 bad news from the front in the

evening saw the fura subdued

atmosphere fura said I'm glad to be able

to solve large

problems May 1942 bring me as much luck

as 1941 has the worriors can

stay difficult times have always served

as preparation for significant

events listen to brookner's 7th

Symphony bter

Haven diary January the 11th

1942 how Meek our military communicat

have

become Friedrich Kelner

labach Adolf Hitler order for retreat to

the east Army January the 15th 19

1942 this is the first time in this war

that I will give the order to retreat

along a large front position I expect

this Retreat to take place in a form

worthy of the German Army the troops

feeling of superiority over the enemy

and the fanatical will to inflict the

maximum damage must also dominate The

Retreat January the 18th and 19th 1942

near urino on the river

Tim our permanently cold feet hurt every

step is torture but we have to walk and

move our limbs every incidence of frost

spite could be interpreted as

self-mutilation V Peta

[Music]

private Kyle Tutt stenographer in the

fura headquarters diary review of

military

situation while we were alone with the

fura he addressed dressed

us it was very cold in the room and in

his concern for us he said we must be

freezing and he would therefore have a

heater put under our

seats he said he couldn't tolerate the

warmth himself and got a headache when

he Lent over the maps on the

[Applause]

table on the 11th of February 19 1942

marshallan antonescu visits the vul

chansa

headquarters the Romanian leader takes

part in the daily status

report insiders refer to these meetings

as a

show during the journey to Hitler's

headquarters I have written the

protocols of my discussion in guret

forest and recorded my general

Impressions the atmosphere is depressing

perhaps the atmosphere of The Damp

forest and the discomfort of communal

living in the barracks are contributing

to the bad

news the anti rooms are full of people

smoking eating and talking away the

smell of the kitchen uniforms heavy

boots everything is for the most part

Superfluous at least for a great number

of people who don't need to be

here gatu chano foreign minister of the

Kingdom of Italy diary

but the burden of work and increasing

concerns from setbacks in the course of

the war eroded Hitler's Health from the

winter of 1941 1942 onwards Morel

monitored him day and night in the end

Hitler began having mysterious

injections almost every

day Christa Shuda Hitler's private

secretary

diary Berlin March the 3rd

1942 the Hallmarks of the situation

further erosion of the German forces in

Russia slow further deterioration of the

economic and food situations in

Germany urish Fon

Hassel Dwight D Eisenhower chief of the

war plans division of the US general

staff in the late winter of

1941-42 the ubot campaign in the

Atlantic was at almost the height of its

Effectiveness we were monthly losing

ships including valuable tankers by the

score a typical month was March 1942

when we lost in the Atlantic and arctic

areas 88 Allied and neutral

ships simultaneously we needed every

type of fighting vessel cargo and

Personnel

ship particularly when it comes to the

ordinary German woman the housewife with

whom one speaks on the street and in the

shops one gets the feeling that despite

all prohibitions she continues to keep

her own life pretty well

intact Karen blixen reporting for the

politican newspaper Copenhagen

in 1941 more than 600,000 soldiers from

Italy Croatia Slovakia Romania and

Hungary march eastwards with the vimar

Romania plans to recapture Bess Arabia

from the Soviet Union and Hungary wants

Hitler's support in the territorial

conflicts with its neighbors Slovakia

and Croatia are vassel states of the

German Reich May the 20th 1942 we met

many of our allies some of whom made a

very good impression

Spaniards slovaks

hungarians hor rool letter to his

wife as the vimar can no longer offset

its losses by recruiting in the Greater

German Reich Hitler urges his allies to

provide larger troop contingents in 1942

troop levels from the Allied States

double in the

East the 4th of June

1942 Hitler flies to Finland to

congratulate a man he thinks highly of

on his

birthday the fura speaks out in great

Praise of manaheim he is a terrific

Soldier a shame that this Brave nation

is so

small Gad angle Army adjutant to

Hitler Field Marshal Kurt manaheim who

turns 75 years old today is known as the

strong man of Finland which as a brother

in arms has also been fighting the

Soviet Union for 11 months and is

supported by German divisions in the

country a recording exists of the talks

between Hitler and manaheim taped

inadvertently by a Finnish radio

technician Witnesses remember Hitler's

voice in a private setting as pleasantly

warm his deep baritone in gutal l

Bavarian the environment of his

childhood is totally different to the

screaming shout of the oror Hitler

formed at a time without sound

amplification

[Music]

manaheim Finland will sign a separate

ceasefire with the Soviet Union in

September

[Music]

1944 diary Friday July 4th

1942 few clouds temperature normal

slightly overcast at night

the Russian front breached along a 300

km

Line Auto Blum tal

[Music]

Ed after the victory over the Red Army

at kov on June the 28th 1942 Hitler

orders a major summer offensive due to

the weakening of the vmar in the winter

of 1941 42 the attack is limited to an

800 km section in the area of the army

group Sou

Hitler wants to conquer the Caucasian

oil fields reach the Caspian Sea and

push across the Caucasus to Persia an

encirclement of large formations of the

Red Army as during the attacks of 1941

fails the Soviet troops withdraw

strategically behind the da vulgar line

due to this rapid Advance Hitler gets

the impression that the Red Army has

lost decisive power the conquest of the

Crimea and Advan to the Caucasus Mark

the greatest extent of Hitler's

territorial

[Music]

Dominion from rostov on da don several

waves of Retreats rolled through our

area in the summer of

1942 the oil tanks were

opened wheat Fields torched all so that

they wouldn't fall into the hands of the

enemy

on August 3rd 1942 German Scouts

surfaced on motorbikes within 3 days

German troops moved into prol

NOA Soviet troops were

scattered but beyond n barrier units

work to carry out order n227 from

Stalin not one step

back mik gorbachov school boy

July the 12th

1942 it is becoming increasingly clear

that military action will soon take

place on the approach to

Stalingrad alexe chanov first Secretary

of the party's Stalingrad Regional

committee War diary July the 30th 19

1942 day

404 in the bow of the river Dawn west of

Stalingrad the sixth Army of army Group

B is engaged in a fierce battle and the

situation is at present

unclear France halder chief of the

general

staff I wanted to come to the vulgar to

a specific place and a specific City

Adolf Hitler November the 8th

[Applause]

1942 damn Hitler who began this war damn

all the generals Colonels and Military

industrialists everyone who's to blame

for this War and who wants it a curse on

this

era vly PESA corporal

[Music]

from vores in the East to the vulga the

Soviet Retreat had assumed the character

of a disorderly

flight but an army of workers was

waiting by the

vulgar CIO

malaparte the vulgar rises in

Europe 1948

mother says father fell on August the

22nd he volunteered to go to the front

he was sent to vne Gite Northwest of

Stalingrad he was regimental Commander

when a shell fragment struck him in the

head he's dead Ena next to me seems to

shrink as if becoming even smaller and

thinner Peter

sobs mother doesn't cry she says this

seriously and

soberly B from Maya born

1932 on September the 11th I was ordered

to report to the Frontline staff under

kof they told me to take over the 62nd

Army my orders were defend

Stalingrad after I accepted the order

Nikita kof asked me how do you see this

I said I understand the order very well

I try to carry it

out I either I defend Stalingrad or I

die doing

so I got in the car and drove to

Stalingrad vasel chuikov leftenant

General the Stalingrad

protocols the high point of the war had

been reached something unimaginable

overpowered the wildest

dreams the North Cape Pyrenees Sahara

and vulga formed the boundaries of a

sphere of influence created

overnight for sure there were bigger

Empires but this one included Europe and

its

Nations there was no reason for

Joy you knew what lay ahead for us

because the disproportion of forces was

[Applause]

obvious buo from Alvin's leban Army

Captain

[Applause]

diary memories in Diary form October the

18th 19

1942 fura is in High Spirits as the Red

October tractor plant in vrad has been

seized believes in early capture of all

Stalingrad Gad angle Army agitant to

Hitler

[Music]

[Music]

we knew that Hitler wouldn't stop and

would keep throwing military forces at

the front but he sensed that it was not

a battle for life being fought here but

rather a battle to the

death V Le chew off the Stalingrad

protocol I feel entitled to demand that

every German Soldier should sacrifice

his life

arol Hitler to Hein Garian on December

the 20th

1940 I have lost more than 4,000 men

here there were people dying but my men

didn't

budge Alexander RMV Commander 13th

guards rifle division of the 62nd Army

group

on October the 26th

1942 Max is killed he is a 20-year-old

Battalion

adjutant it looks as if this is too much

for mother to deal with she is getting

bitter that's noticeable even if she

doesn't want to show it we young ones

say now father is not alone

anymore bear bog Fon

vire diary Sunday November the 8th

1942 the furer spoke from the Munich

hboy

Keller he laid into the war criminals

again the Americans landed in alers

during the

night Monday November the 9th

1942 Landing of the Americans in

Morocco Henry Retta

Schneider Dr Teo Morel ADF Hitler's

personal physician diary December the

15th

1942 patient day sleeping badly because

of the military situation

profundal through countless channels the

news trickles through about the

catastrophic winter in the East visitors

from every corner of Germany new

arrivals from the prisons convicted

soldiers government officials on leave

all know and tell of the terror of the

Russian winter

War ruri goel communist prisoner in

Hamlin

jail up until the very end the soldiers

believed Hitler's promise that he would

get them out of the

encirclement I knew that this was a

terrible lie

ban FR loing hofen

major diary Saturday January the 23rd

1943 no good news from the France

Tripoli

abandoned Henrietta

Schneider from the West the Americans

marched to the outskirts of tuna and dug

in across from the German positions it

was clear that North Africa could not be

held for much

longer Nicolas fono Air Force agitant to

Adolf

Hitler interrogation protocol of

prisoner Herman strotman leftenant

agitant of the first Battalion of the

79th Panza Grenadier regiment born 1918

in Minster

Catholic men reached the limit of their

endurance and this limit was reached on

February the

2nd we surrendered spontaneously around

6:00 in the morning I was told that

Russian tanks had arrived I began to cry

walked out of the shelter and laid down

my weapon

[Music]

[Music]

diary February the 4

1943 we are now forced to communicate

the loss of Stalingrad to the German

people we released the news with

correspondingly heroic

pomp I coordinate all the details with

the fura personally who agrees with my

suggestions yoseph

Gobles this news triggered excitement in

me that exceeded everything that I'd

gone through until then for me it was

quite clear the war is decided the

Allies will

win World History will retain its

sense Marie yovich zimon a German Jew

hiding in Berlin

Eric Bon manstein general of the army

discussion on February the 6th

1943 Hitler opened our meeting with the

implicant recognition of his sole

responsibility for the tragedy of the

sixth

Army I had the impression at the time

that this tragedy caused more pain

because it not only represented a

blatant failure in his leadership but

that the fate of these soldiers really

depressed him in a purely human

way later of course doubts prevailed in

me as to whether Hitler had ever had a

heart for the

soldiers at what point is one allowed to

view the war as

lost as I see it very

late Albert the cranberg

protocols Hines linger valet to Adolf

Hitler

[Music]

among Hitler's habits which despite our

efforts couldn't be remedy was that he

kept asking what time it was above all

during the war well I principally only

ever stop at 5

12 Adolf Hitler in November

1942 the defeats increase Hitler's

military decisions often taken against

all the advice of his generals are

increasingly

catastrophic the fronts fall

apart after Stalingrad most of the

military leadership is aware that the

war is lost but dare not say so

openly the Western allies defeat the

Italian and German troops under roml in

North Africa and land in Italy in the

East the Russians drive back the German

Army finally the Allies land in Normandy

but Hitler will not accept defeat and

refuses any idea of

surrender after a failed assassination

attempt he feels invulnerable and orders

one absolute measure after another

dragging Germany if not the world into

the abyss

[Music]

the muffled drum beats of Beethoven's

Fifth

Symphony the interval signal of the BBC

listened to by half Berlin England

accompanied the gradual looming defeat

here is England

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order schaer writer

Memoirs for all capable Minds The

Stalingrad catastrophe marked the

beginning of the

end B frag V Ling Hoven captain

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the heavy defeats of Stalingrad and

Tunis that stand as Everlasting

Milestones to the beginning of this era

are in so far as their reasons their

sequence and end are concerned to be

blamed above all on the man at the top

of Germany's leadership Hitler

himself Walter valon deputy chief

Supreme command of the

vak duka February the 5th 1943

interrogation of prisoner of War Anon RS

book captain of the ninth company 24th

tank regiment 24th tank

division a second front in Europe is

impossible the best German troops stand

ready in northern France besides the

coastline is heavily fortified Germany

has enough reserves of men and materials

it will be able to fight for as long as

necessary up until 199 40 Hitler looked

younger than he was in

reality after that however he aged

rather quickly up to 1943 he looked his

age

outwardly later his rapid physical

deterioration was

obvious Professor Dr Hans Carl Von

hasselbach Deputy attendant doctor to

Adolf

Hitler I know that many people perceived

Hitler as changed after

Stalingrad I wasn't one of

them Rush Mish SS bodyguard

regiment I was also overcome by concern

and doubt after Stalingrad but every

time I spoke to adol fitler the worry

and doubt fell away thanks to the

extraordinary Fascination and Radiance

of his

personality Herman gesler Hitler's

architect

diary February the 19th

1943 to justify total warfare Reich

Minister Dr gobbles was let loose on the

public at the Berlin sport palas on

February the 18th

1943 friedi Kel Court employee

La at 5:00 in the afternoon the long

awaited rally at the sport palast takes

place the number of visitors is

overwhelming at 4:30 access to the sport

palast has to be blocked due to

overcrowding yoseph Gobles

diary it was one of those party

organized rallies with patriotic

intellectuals and actors among the tame

audience whose positive reactions Were

Meant to impress the common folk via the

film cameras of the Weekly News

reels Alber be Reich minister of

armaments and war

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production

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gek for

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diary February the 2st

1943 to my pleasure I learned that

circles close to the fur listen to my

speech in the sport palast and expressed

enthusiasm

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the fura himself was so overloaded with

work that he didn't manage

it Yosef

geras Stu Sunday in kak in Northern

hessia since 1933 the nsdap has

propagated a regular simple meal in

families every other Sunday from October

to March the housekeeping money saved is

collected by the party as a donate to

the winter relief organization

the collective sacrifice is also

designed to save food reserves above all

for nearly 80 million people in the

Greater German Reich stew Sunday is a

forced commitment to the National

Community after the proclamation of

Total War in 1943 the nsdap registers

the highest level of membership 7.7

million Total War transformed me too

into to a

soldier I now wore the ice blue

officer's

uniform there were 40 Pilots among them

five

women Bata usza

pilot letter to parents in Cologne Gat

Lin District of labo East Prussia March

the 25th

1943 I was recently with the MA's family

one evening he has a building company

and is a calm quiet

person 2 months ago his only son fell in

battle 19 years old a hardworking

friendly

boy he was drafted in April

1942 I knew

him now there are only two daughters

left 17 and 6 years

old the Fatherland is entitled to every

victim the mother said

quietly but she and her husband were

weeping

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Mariana G student

teacher addressed to the US Congress

Washington May the 19th

1943 I am free to admit that in North

Africa we built better than we knew the

unexpected came to the aid of the design

for this we have to thank the military

intuition of Corporal

Hitler the same insensate obstinacy

which condemned his army to destruction

at Stalingrad has brought this new

catastrophe upon our enemies in

Tunisia Winston

Churchill the death of a human being

didn't bother him at all he saw people

as the links in a long chain and he

considered the first link to be

himself children were in his eyes only

the potential by which the greater or

smaller living space of a people was

measured

Christa Shuda Hitler's private

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secretary the soldiers that I met were

not followers of Hitler and only served

the furer

unwillingly but all approved of War as

an indispensable phenomenon of Life the

war is the ultimate exertion that you

cannot Dodge this picture was deeply

ingrained in them

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Vilma storm journalist and

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writer the war as a dangerous child's

game these young men trying to overcome

their boredom with alcohol are just 17

years old their military title is Loft

buffen Haler or Air Force helpers from

19 1943 onwards they replace regular

soldiers sent to the front on the

anti-aircraft guns in the homelands at

the end of 1943 there are 880,000 young

Flack helpers as a rule they are

deployed near their Hometown high school

students have 18 hours of school lessons

a week at their

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posts diary Monday July the 26th 1943

musolini has resigned he said to be ill

last night Hamburg Essen and kill were

bombed

again Henrietta Schneider housekeeper

East

Prussia while I endeavored to establish

worthwhile targets to Hitler and the

general staff of the Air Force our

enemies launched five big attacks on

only one major city

Hamburg although this action

contradicted all tactical considerations

it had catastrophic

consequences Albert

Spar the issue that divided the American

and the British bombing commands

centered on the prickly question of

daylight bombing as opposed to nighttime

raids the Army Air Forces were convinced

not only that higher level skillfully

executed daylight raids could work but

that night bombing with its notorious

imprecision would prevent a catastrophic

waste of material and

energy Robert Morgan Colonel 8th US Air

Force pilot of the bomber Memphis

Bell we had known the main answer to the

German defenses for a long time strips

of Metalized paper were dropped for the

first time on the night of July 24th

25th and the target was

Hamburg like other Coastal targets

Hamburg was particularly easy to

identify by H2S radar as the outline of

water gave us a clear response on the

H2S

screen some 700 aircraft attacked and

the weather was in every way

favorable Arthur Harris Marshal of the

royal air force bomber command

Diary of fighter pilot Hance arens born

1921 killed in action February the 21st

1944 that first night of Terror on July

the 25th will remain Unforgettable for

us and the majority of all Hamburg

residents personally I'm glad that I

experienced it all as a soldier it led

to an ultimate Resolute hatred of our

enemy

letter to gor simmerman soldier in

Norway from his mother Hamburg July the

28th

1943 dear gor we are still alive but

Hamburg de facto no longer exists no

house left standing just mountains of

rubble entire streets blocked dead

bodies not salvaged impenetrable smoke

and fumes and fires still burning

everywhere disintegration is in progress

no police anymore or

nothing Hamburg is lost

forever magdalina

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siman when I traveled to the bin from

bburg I met an acquaintance on the train

he'd experienced it all in Hamburg as an

anti-aircraft Soldier it smelled so

strongly of corpses that you couldn't

get the stench out of your nose leaflets

were dropped over Hamburg with quotes

from the war speeches of Hitler and

guring without any

comment Eric Kesner writer War

diary Hamburg July the 30th

1943 my hanel words can't express what

we are going through here a government

that cannot protect its women and

children is simply

criminal my hannaha if I could only hear

one word from you and gor your mother

Magdalena

simmerman when he traveled to Bavaria to

the baroff or the furer headquarters

then he went by train and at night with

blacked out windows so that he wasn't

faced with the devastation from the

bombing

raids ban frog from loing hofen

captain during the entire War Adam

Hitler never once visited a bombed

City Albert

Spar the toll on those who flew was

horrific two out of every three boys who

flew missions were killed and by boy I'm

talking about an average age of 20 the

eth Air Force had more casualties in

World War II than the Marine Corps and

the Navy combined

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Robert

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Morgan Bor Fon Shirak came on June the

24th Corpus

Christie he had a long and detailed

conversation with Hitler the contents of

which I learned from Hitler the next

evening Shirak said unequivocally to

Hitler that the war must be stopped

somehow Hitler said to him what is he

thinking he knows as well as I that

there's no way out now unless I put a

bullet through my head that was their

last

meeting ncas fono Colonel lufer adjutant

to had of

Hitler on September the 8th

1943 Adolf Hitler attends the briefing

at army group South headquarters in

zapor Ro in the Ukraine to discuss the

alarming situation in the donbass region

with its Commander field Marshal erish

Von manstein in July with German armored

divisions suffering major losses the

offensive against the protruding Soviet

front at kque fails in March under M

Stein's command the viamar has been able

to stabilize the Eastern front after

Stalingrad with a hard-fought victory in

the so-called third battle of

kov but subsequently had to vacate the

city in August 194 3 The Retreat begins

almost everywhere on the Eastern

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Front September the 8th

1943 it is a race of Hope with the war a

race of death with death what will come

first the death of fascism or my death

is that only my question oh no tens of

thousands of prisoners are asking the

same thing and millions of soldiers and

dozens of millions of people in all of

Europe and the entire world are asking

the same

Julius fuik Czech journalist and writer

imprisoned by the Gustavo executed

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1943 Mass execution at Berlin pluton sea

prison September the 7th to 12th

1943 186 died on the first

night the men went to The Gallows

without

shirts their jackets thrown Loosely over

their shoulders hands tied behind their

backs cluttering wooden clogs on their

feet Victor Fon gamsky German prisoner

in plon C prison

Memoirs diary Friday September the 10th

1943 special announcement we have

occupied Italy encountered only little

opposition the Army is being disarmed

henrieta

Schneider Dr Teo Morel ADF Hitler's

personal physician diary September the

23rd

1943 8:15 p.m. examination after dinner

strong flatulence spasms from agitation

stomach shows increased fat formation

prescribed a

diet he admired Morel and his art and

was in a sense dependent on him and his

medication

albertt New Year's Proclamation

1944 the year 1944 will make hard and

heavy demands on all

Germans the Monstrous events of the war

will come closer to crisis this year we

are fully confident that we will

[Applause]

endure adol Hitler

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the foa the punch bowl premiered in two

Berlin Cinemas

simultaneously the previous night 1,77

English planes had dropped

3,715 tons of bombs on

Berlin hin ruman actor and

director diary Monday February the 7th

1944 in the East the terrible War rages

on Henry ATA

Schnider Edgar kopa kovitz prisoner in

concentration camp daau April the 20th

1944 today is Hitler's birthday it

struck me that of 10 houses only maybe

eight of them had flags flying so people

are growing weary but it was still more

amazing to see that even in the SS

housing estate only a few flags were

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flying diary May the 9th

1944 patient a tension headache left

side legs trembling due to

agitation Invasion imminent but

where Dr Teo

Morel diary May the 27th 19

44 an impression of an increasingly

destroyed Berlin

devastating at the same time berliners

are sitting in the sunshine on chairs

amid the rubble and debris on the

Esplanade as if it were peace

timeon Hassel Diplomat and member of the

resistance The Helpful Mr T firmly

believes that Germany will be on its

knees by September and until then

there's nothing to fear here because

there are no wagons to deport the Jews

in besides he dares to predict that in

one or two weeks the ver Mark will turn

its arms on the

SS Erp Budapest Hungarian Jewish

writer on June the 3rd 1944 Ava Brown's

sister grle married SS section Commander

Herman

feline they celebrated on the Ober

saltzburg Faline had been a liazon

officer in the vafan SS since the

beginning of the year he had fought as

one heard extremely well at the front

above all however Faline was a smoothie

whom women fell for in droves AA set him

up with her younger sister

grle Rush Mish member of Hitler's

military

escort several hours after the marriage

of Hitler EAB Bron on April the 29th 194

4 a ceremony that makes hman figal

Hitler's brother-in-law Hitler hasim

Court marshal for desertion and

shot the plutocratic world of the West

can undertake its threatened Landing

attempt whenever it wants it will

fail adal fitler order of the day to the

vermar they told us their astonishing

declaration which was that by the

following morning a period of relatively

good weather here to for completely

unexpected would ensue lasting probably

36

hours I quickly announced the decision

to go ahead with the attack on June the

6th Dwight D Eisenhower US general

Supreme Allied Commander

Europe Hitler was told of the landing on

the morning of June the

6th he expressed relief when he received

the first report and said now it would

be possible to beat the

enemy Nicholas

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fillo the conviction of the Germans that

we would not attack in the weather then

prevailing was a definite factor in the

degree of surprise we achieved in the

Omaha sector an alert enemy division the

352nd which prisoners stated had been in

the area on maneuvers and defense

exercises accounted for some of the

Intensive fighting in that

locality Dwight D

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Eisenhower when I heard the radio report

of the Allied invasion in Normandy on

June the 6th 1944 it brought tears to my

eyes I have not cried often

vly Brandt German Norwegian Refugee in

Exile in

Sweden actually things are happening now

the invasion of Normandy began in the

night of the 5th to the 6th of June Rome

surrendered long ago and in Russia the

Russians are almost at the border it's

just terrible but everyone believes so

firmly in Victory it doesn't be thinking

about if we were to

lose gun himla daughter of hinry

himla until the end he had a firm grip

on everything despite his poor health

what waves of faintheartedness would

have spread if he had lost his composure

just

once Albert

bear it wasn't so pointless fighting on

like some defeatists claimed at the time

when at the end of June 1944 the Soviet

offensive began from the central section

of the front in 14 days a powerful storm

tide swept over the German front lines

bearing everything in its path and

surging 800 km

forwards Leon de Belgium commander of

the wunan vafan

SS by mid July Army group Center had

lost 28 divisions and 350,000 men that

was an even worse defeat than Stalingrad

even if it wasn't reported much in

public because it occurred in summer and

wasn't accompanied by the same tragic

conditions as Stalingrad cold and

hunger B fry from Ling hofen

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the furer then referred to assassination

attempts against him and recounted by

what good fortune he had escaped certain

death that he had not Fallen victim to

the bomb attack in the burger Bry Keller

on November the 9th 1939 was only due to

the fact that at the last minute his

aircraft could not take off due to bad

weather and he thus had to leave earlier

on his special

train Vena kpin agitant to minister

Alfred Rosenberg minutes of recollected

table talk at the Vol shansa fura

headquarters on July the 20th 1944 i'

had received the order to prepare for

the move of the operations unit from

maal to saon south of Berlin it was a

hot East Prussian summers's day maal was

located just 20 km away from the wol

shansi where stenberg's bomb EXP loaded

around 12:45

p.m. B fry Tu from loing

hofen I remember Thunder combined with a

brightly flashing flame at the same time

Thick

Smoke after a few seconds of complete

silence I heard someone call it was

probably field Marshall kitle where is

the

fura Hines bols stenography in the Vol

shanza

headquarters there were agitated calls

for a doctor a bomb exploded nothing

happened to the bars but the Hut was

blown Sky

High Christ

Shuda Hines linger valet to Adolf Hitler

when I arrived I saw Hitler who looked

at me inquiringly with big eyes and

stared at my troubled

face with a calm smile he said linger

someone tried to kill

me I heard about the attack from

Professor Morel on the platform in guret

his pulse was completely calm and as

normal as any day the doctor was about

to tell me further details when Hitler

appeared on the outside you couldn't see

anything when the train with molini

arrived I saw Hitler extend his left

hand to his guest

power Lotto Schmidt interpreter for

Adolf

Hitler doctor I hear that you're taking

care of my friends I didn't really want

to bother you but over the past two days

since the explosion I have had a sharp

pain in my right ear and difficulty

hearing my valet says it's because I

shout too

much adol Hitler to Dr Irvin geesing

Hitler's private ear nose and throat

doctor diary Friday July the 21st

1944 the radio broadcast details of the

attack the bomb was planted by a count

fenb around 1:00 the fura spoke to prove

that he had

survived what would have happened if the

fura had

died the war would be over and there

would be revolution in Germany

Henry at

Schneider his confidence his faith in

Victory and his Assurance but also his

power Consciousness and delusions of

grandeur now exceeded all boundaries of

Reason

Tong when ha Hitler escaped his bomb on

July the 20th he described his survival

as providential I think that from from a

purely military point of view we can all

agree with him for certainly it would be

most unfortunate if the Allies were to

be deprived in the closing phases of the

struggle of that form of warlike genius

by which Corporal Hitler has so notably

contributed to our

Victory Winston Churchill addressed to

the House of

Commons diary July the 23rd 194

for the criminal court that now has to

be convened must be of historic

proportions those with an ambiguous

attitude have also earned the death

penalty yoseph

garbles diary July the 25th 194

44 the enemy is already in

Paris Henrietta Schneider Refugee

lodging in lesnika East

Prussia in the month of August 1944 the

defeat of Germany was Within Reach

nothing would be able to prevent it any

longer but it would not be our Victory

like in the year 1918 the victory of

France at the height of its power that

marched at the front of the Allied

Nations

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Paul stah major of the free French

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forces we heard about German defeats at

the front and that Germans were giving

up their homes and heading off back to

the re with their worldly

possessions this filled us with

satisfaction and was a joy for our

oppressed

Spirits P VAP LaVine Jew from vus stof

concentration Camp West

Prussia in September

1944 the generals at the front and the

district party leaders in the western

region expected the armies of the

Americans and British to take advantage

of their power and overrun our nearly

unarmed and battle whey troops in an

unceasing

offensive in this last phase of the war

within 6 months a total of 12,00 , 720

fighter planes were delivered to the

Troops who had begun the war in

1939 with only 771 fighter

aircraft Albert Spar Reich minister of

armaments and war

production September

1944 German Luxembourg

border I peered at the Town through

powerful binoculars to the naked eye the

secret line was just a

landscape there was a Village on the

horizon That was supposed to be

Sheltering two divisions of

Huns Lee Miller us War

photographer Ernest Hemingway writer and

War

correspondent letter to Mary Welch Hemes

Germany September the 13th

1944 yesterday we came into the new

Indian Country after a fine wild day of

hunting and shooting and settled down in

a deserted Farmhouse for the night it

was a fine day following tank tracks

through the woods have had the place all

cleaned up I wish the people would come

back and take care for the dog they only

had two books one on wild beasts of

Germany a nice book and one on the

Olympic Games in Berlin in

1936 have read them

both personal War diary October the 7th

19 44 morning briefing beginning of the

attack on East Prussia and

Budapest long discussion with guring

station 12 heavy anti-aircraft batteries

immediately to protect the fur's

headquarters verer kper general of the

aviators Chief of Staff

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lufa Kingsburg October the 18th

1944 speech on

radio every block of flats in every town

every village every Farm every Forest is

being defended by men boys and old men

and when necessary by women and

girls it is better to have the younger

generation die and save the people than

to protect the young ones and let an

entire nation of 80 to 90 million people

die

out H him

personal War diary October the 22nd

1944 fog situation in East Prussia

unchanged kitle for relocating to Berlin

Hitler against

it Vera

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kper October the 24th

1944 penultimate radio message from the

246th fox Grenadier division

the last Defenders of akan remember

their beloved German Homeland we are

firmly confident of our final Victory

and donate to the winter relief fund

10,458 rice marks we will fight

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on October the 24th 1944 last radio

message after a bitter struggle from

house to house man to man The Battle

group Aran has fired its last ammunition

and used up its water and Food

Supplies the remainder of the Defenders

of the German Kaiser are in close combat

around the command post beforehand a

final farewell in unshakable belief in

the victory of our beloved German

Homeland long live the

fura Gad Vil Colonel Combat Commander of

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Aran diary Friday October the 20 20th

1944 the Russians are an ID cow around

5:00 there was a report on the radio

about heavy fighting between Roma Heath

and aan rer one still has

hope Henry ATA

Schneider we were still stuck in East

Prussia it couldn't be much longer

before the Russians drove us

out on clear Autumn days we could hear

the thunder of

guns on October the 12th 1944 when the

military situation in the west had

Consolidated again and there was new

talk about a front Hitler took me aside

and explained that he would pull all

available forces together and launch a

major offensive in the

west that will be the big strike which

must

succeed Albert Spar

Memoirs diary Sunday October the 28th

1944 we listened to Gerber's last night

he spoke openly about the situation

which is not hopeless our room is warm

Henrietta

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Schneider in the first days of November

1944 we moved out of the Vol shansa

because the Russians were close

by in the Autumn of 1944 fuden in the

Black Forest is to all intents and

purposes still an idial in this amateur

film the absence of men under 45 reveals

that here too they have all been drafted

less than 100 km away Beyond The Ridges

of the black forest and the rine

American and free French troops

Advance Soviet forces have reached

Northeast and East Prussia and the

Americans have been at aan on the Zar

and the zawa on the territory of the old

German Reich since September during the

conquest of fuden by the first French

army on April the 15th and 16th 1945 95%

of the little town will be

destroyed Germany was under intense

pressure at the end of 1944 weapons

production fell

sharply trapped in the east Southeast

South and West Germany was strategically

encircled and could not break free

nevertheless Hitler took one ultimate

measure after the other the Nazis

suppressed without Mercy the slightest

opposition to their regime it was clear

to us that Germany was mobilizing its

last

forces but at the end of 1944 Germany

was still able to defend itself and put

up serious

resistance its military still consisted

of around 17.5 million

men of whom 5.3 million were fighting

troops

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gorgi zukov commander-in-chief first

White Russian

front at just 19 years old Walter was

also killed in

action I was sitting on the roof of our

house that had been damaged in another

bombing when I saw the postman bring the

death

notice my aunt called through the house

Walter has

fallen the death of my brother was a a

deep shock for

me helmet Cole school

boy Hitler stayed at his bhor for the

last time before the assassination

attempt he will not see his residence in

the mountains again on November the 20th

1944 he left the Vol shansa forever and

traveled to Berlin on December the 11th

he travels to the Adler host fura

headquarters in hessia

speech to division commanders December

the 12th 1944 in OST near seberg hessia

if we suffer a few more really hard

strikes then this artificially

maintained common front can suddenly

collapse at any moment in a huge clap of

Thunder Adolf

Hitler Hitler revealed the following to

a very limited circle of listeners

due to a noticeable weakness of enemy

forces in the Eiffel region he had

decided to start the attack from there

the target had to be

anwp zigf Vestal Major General Chief of

Staff to the commander-in chief

West in a desperate situation perhaps

only a desperate decision can

help Alfred yodel chief of of the

operations staff of the Armed Forces I

command on December the 16th 1944

General Bradley came to my headquarters

to discuss Ways and Means of overcoming

our acute shortages in infantry

Replacements just as he entered my

office a staff officer came in to report

slight penetrations of our line it was

through this same region that the

Germans launched their great attack of

1940

Dwight D

Eisenhower German tanks have been

spotted north of the city of Luxembourg

runet has ordered the tanks to advance

through the Arden in nearly the same

place as the Germans penetrated in May

1940 they're heading in the same

direction again to the channel Coastline

towards antp in order to stop the Allies

using the port through which their main

supplies

come stepan

Corporal of the US Army

writer it was my opinion that it was

necessary to play Hitler's last card to

maximum effect as a Gawker I tried to

get as close as possible to the front

the troops pushing forward were in a

good mood because lwh hanging clouds

prevented any aerial

activity I was worried that the weather

would brighten up

Albert Spar

Memoirs as long as the weather kept our

planes on the ground it would be an ally

of the enemy worth many additional

days Dwight D

isenhower report of the Supreme command

of the vak December the 18th

1944 at 5:30 a.m. on December the 16th

German forces started to attack in

strength along a broad front from the

zek freed line and overran in the first

Advance the front line positions between

hen Fen and the northern part of

Luxenberg the German attack quickly

gained the popular name Battle of the

Bulge because of the rapid initial

progress made by the heavy assault

against our weekly held line with the

resulting penetration into our front

that reached a maximum depth of some 50

Mi Dwight D

Eisenhower December 19th

1944 the weather was so bad that I

directed all army chaplain to pray for

dry

weather I also published a prayer and

sent it to all members of the

command George ESP Paton Jr commander of

the third US

Army Almighty and most merciful father

we humbly beseech thee of thy great

goodness to restrain these immoderate

reigns with which we have had to contend

grant us fair weather for battle

graciously hearken to us as soldiers who

call upon thee that armed with thy power

we may advance from Victory to Victory

and crush the oppression and wickedness

of our enemies and establish thy justice

among men and

Nations amen

the offensive undertaken between aak and

malmi consisting of 24 divisions

including 10 tank divisions almost

reached the mass River around December

the 25th there's a danger that the

Germans will overrun the front in

Holland from the back via namur and

Li Char de

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Memoirs our last major offensive in the

west with 300,000 men that were so

gloriously successful at the start

failed in the end thanks to 10 days of

radiant

Sunshine the anglo-americans were thus

able to deploy their overwhelming air

superiority Leon de commander of the

wonan vafin

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SS the Allies had expected to reach the

river R by Christmas at the

latest they are Den offensive prevented

that but how many men lost their lives

due to the senseless

delay VTA Roland industrialist

commissioner for tank production and

Ministry of armaments and war

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production Rudolph yordon provincial

nsdap leader defense commissioner

December the 21

1944 when we were sitting together one

Sunny morning tears appeared in my

wife's

eyes where will we be at Christmas next

year this was the question asked by the

mother of our children the question of

the family's fate this question would be

asked in the house of the provincial

leader and everywhere else in Germany I

was frightened because I felt that the

answer was no longer convincing but I

had to remain the same person Hitler's

deputy the spokesman of German hope

until the

end I know today that it was the belief

in a

miracle in the days after Christmas it

was clear that the expected success

would not be achieved at the end of the

year the offensive had to be seen as a

failure Nicholas

fono hello Hitler at the end of December

1944 to his adjutant Nicolas

fono I know the war is lost their

superiority is too great I will prefer

to put a bullet in my head

now we will never capitulate never we

can perish but we'll take the world with

us even after the Allied Landing in

Normandy and one final failed attempt to

fight back in the Battle of the Bulge

Hitler will not accept that there is no

way

out even large parts of the German

population still believe in the fura and

are waiting for the miraculous promised

Turning

Point Hitler finally retreats to the

bunker under the Reich chancell in

Berlin a city day and night under Allied

bombardment when the Russians have more

or less rounded Berlin in a briefing on

April the 22nd Adolf Hitler declares the

war

lost one week later he marries his

longtime secret partner Eva

Brown not until April the 30th when the

Russians of 500 MERS from the bunker can

Hitler accept the finality of his defeat

now he has to take a decision and act on

it

[Music]

December the 31st 1944

Luxembourg you sat there with a half

empty glass in your hand and listened to

the horse voice with the unmistakable

accent two or three times the speaker

almost lost his voice he also got his

words mixed up but that was always the

case when he got excited it was

significant that his throaty Bellow no

longer wanted to work that New Year's

Eve Stefan Heim Corporal of the US Army

writer for Hitler extending hostilities

meant multiplying the losses the

destruction the suffering of the German

people just to enable his hopeless Pride

to live on a few weeks

longer undoubtedly having failed Hitler

wanted his work to perish in an

apocalypse Char de gore

[Music]

Memoirs diary Sunday January the 13th

1945

FR gasna said today that the Russians

were

coming but here Lenhart says that they

will never make it to

Berlin the fur will see to

that troud b housewife nsdap member

Berlin diary Wednesday January the 24th

1945 the news from East Prussia

continues to be really bad the enemy is

at elbing and pushing towards Moran

inberg occupied after heavy fighting

torn poen brag salisia in Flight opern

occupied fighting in

Breslau henria Schneider vit District c

lower

Saxony the remainder of the German Army

indeed entire armies

disappeared they were engulfed by the

masses of Tanks storming

forward B frog loing hofen Army agitant

to Adolf

Hitler I asked the fura do you believe

then my fura that we can still win the

war at all Hitler answered we

must Christ Shuda Hitler's private

secretary diary January the 26th 1945

5 now we're advancing we have to March

50 km today we'll reach

Germany Vladimir gelfan second

Lieutenant 150th rifle Regiment of the

Red

Army Adolf Hitler last radio addressed

to the German people January the 30th

1945 thus I now appeal to the entire

German people to G themselves with a yet

greater stronger Spirit of resistance

until we can again as before put on the

Graze of the dead of this Titanic

struggle a wreath inscribed with the

words and yet you were

victorious I therefore expect every

German to fulfill his duty to the utmost

to make every sacrifice that will and

must be

[Music]

required diary Tuesday January the 30th

1945 big day our fura has spoken the

Russians are coming but we will be

victorious again and beat back the

[Applause]

Bolsheviks be

Berlin in mid-February 1945 we finally

returned to Berlin from the Western

Front the close circle around Hitler had

taken up its position

again Rus Mish sergeant of livestand

data SS telephone operator in the furus

bunker February the 13th

1945 the model of Lin is finally

finished the extensive model of the

development of the danub Riverbanks was

Now set up in one of the large brightly

toned basements of the new chancell when

I led Adolf Hitler into this room he

stood for a long time just looking as

though overwhelmed by the general

impression I moved the spotlight to the

position of the sun rays in the

afternoon now he was presented with the

perspective of how his City on the danu

would look in his

retirement Herman Giza General building

inspector for the Redevelopment of the

city of

[Music]

Lind during the last 4 and a half months

of the war 471 th000 tons of bombs are

dropped on Germany twice as much as in

the whole of

1943 in March 1945 Al

three times as many bombs fall as in all

of

[Music]

1942 today the terrible news came that

Dresden has been almost completely

destroyed by the

anglo-americans here hman says that we

have a new rocket that flies even as far

as to the Ango

Americans I certainly hope so

trout will be

[Music]

Berlin not a day went by when the

government quarters were not

attacked when a bomb exploded nearby the

bunker lying in the groundw swayed

noticeably the light began to flicker so

Hitler raised his voice as if in a dream

that was close those bombs could have

hit us

[Music]

he was noticeably fearful and didn't

feel

[Applause]

safe

Christa diary March the 13th

1945 although the bridge head is not

large 2.5 to 3 km it is difficult to

drive the enemy out of there since

they're dug in on massive steep

fortified Hills

Marines are positioned across from us

the Battalion with a strength of 400 men

serious

opposition Vladimir gelfant 1050th rifle

regiment it is not necessary to consider

the basic things that people need for a

primitive further existence what

remained after the battle would in any

event be inferior since all the good

ones would have

fallen and Adolf Hitler's answer to a

note from Albert Shar quoted by hin

Garian March

1945 jokes were still being made someone

said that Berlin was really practical as

a headquarters you could get the local

train from the Eastern front to the

Western Front Hitler could still laugh

about

it

gonger Hitler's private secretary

in mid-march 1945 Hitler transfers

nearly all of his activities to the

bunker under the

chancell since then he rarely sees

daylight sometime in bid March Ava Brown

arrived at the rice chancell Hitler

tried his best to get her to go back to

Munich but she made it clear that her

place was at Hitler's side and no one

would be able to change her mind

Rus

Mish Hitler had always emphasized with

resignation that there was only one

person who would remain faithful to him

in his final hour and that was AA

Brown here his Instinct did not let him

down Albert

[Music]

Spar April the 20th 1945 was always

referred to as the date of the last

photos and film segments of Hitler and

the delegation of the Hitler Youth this

is not

true they are in fact from a different

reception of a delegation by

Hitler this took place on March the 20th

1945 U axan leader of the Hitler Youth

that was no longer our Hitler as we knew

him but a man marked by Fate an almost

Broken Man decaying to

death Rudolph yordan District nsdap

leader diary March the 23rd

1945

midnight the fur said that he could see

very little with his right eye his left

left hand is slightly swollen due to

Tremors also his left ankle and left

lower leg show swelling in places the

furer does not want to wear an eye

patch Dr Teo Morel Hitler's personal

physician beyond the SE freed line our

forces consolidate and the drive becomes

like a great River pushing against a

series of decomposing dams one Dam

breaks and the torrent lap flashes

onward until it hits another

obstruction even the most fanatical

Nazis must now see that the game is

up Audie Murphy leftenant most highly

decorated US soldier of World War

II diary March the 17th

1945 the German Army is on the run the

best army in the world is pouring back

where to the river Vasa oh God you fools

you could not defend the Atlantic or the

zigf freed line or the Rind what do you

think you can do inside

Germany redich Kelner Court employee

laach

[Music]

hesia diary March the 28th

1945 it really is admirable how the fura

with this Dilemma on the front still

persistently believes in his

luck you sometimes have the impression

that he lives in the

clouds Yosef

[Applause]

Gerbers one man climbs out badly

[Applause]

wounded the cameraman is nearly knocked

off his feet by the blast but he keeps

his camera focused as best he can as The

Hectic Fury of the street fighting

sweeps around

[Applause]

it the villages here along the rine are

in pretty good shape in the middle of

course is cologne and cologne is one of

the great ruins of the

world the Germans are nice and fat too

and quite clean and orderly and

industrious they carry on their normal

[Music]

lives Martha ghorn US army war

[Music]

correspondent diary Good Friday March

the 30th 1945 the report from the Army

was terrifying tank spearheads by Castle

fola occupied Dan gingan and half

surrendering what is

happening Henry at

[Music]

Schneider diary April the 3rd 1945 navik

Holy Week and Easter bring the

encirclement of the ruer valley turkey

Egypt Syria Argentina Chile Venezuela

Peru and Ecuador declare war on us which

means the mobilization ation of all

neutral remaining Powers outside of

Europe on the side of the western

allies West FIA hessia Turing Franconia

Bon Vonberg are battlefields Hungary is

lost Udo from Alvin's Lim Captain

diary the Greater German ra finds itself

in a state of war with 52 States among

them the former Axis power was Italy

Romania Bulgaria and

[Applause]

Finland during the few weeks of Franklin

delanor Roosevelt's fourth

Administration I saw what the long years

had done to him it was no wonder that

the years had left their

Mark Harry S Truman Vice President of

the United States of

America Winston in Fairly good form said

that if he were Hitler he would would

have himself flown over to this country

hand himself to the government stating

that he alone was responsible for all

the evils of Germany and was prepared to

stand the

racket according to Winston this would

face us with a difficult

problem Alan Brooke chief of the

Imperial general staff British

forces shortly before 5:00 in the

afternoon of Thursday April the 12th

1945 after after the Senate adjourned I

went to the office of Sam rabburn at the

house of

speakers as I entered the speaker told

me that the president's press secretary

had just telephoned requesting me to

call the White House I returned the call

please come right away he told me in a

strained voice I reached the White House

about 5:25 p.m. and was immediately

taken in the elevator to the second

floor and ushered into Mrs Roosevelt's

study Mrs Roosevelt seemed calm in her

characteristic graceful dignity she

placed her arm gently about my shoulder

Harry she said quietly the president is

dead I had been afraid for many weeks

that something might happen to this

great

leader and now that the worst happened I

was unprepared for

[Music]

it Harry EST

Truman Bridge head behind the older

River West of kostun

Roosevelt is

dead I bow my head in deep sorrow for

this

loss Vladimir

[Music]

galon April the 12th

1945 there are cities in Germany that

make centry and Plymouth appear to be

the Damage Done by a petulant

child Edward marrow radio correspondent

for CBS News

diary Thursday April the 12th

1945 ha Hammond says it would be better

if the Americans

came now I'm really

frightened CLE B

Berlin it was between 3 and 4 a.m. on

April 11th 1945 suddenly cries were

heard they grew louder and louder we

stumbled outside to discover the cause

look the gate somebody shouted the

Crooked swaser had disappeared something

white fluted on the flag pole the

delightfully Victorious minute for which

our German comrades had waited a

4,453 days and nights was finally

there in the evening an American

infantry unit

arrived Thomas Geer German Jew prisoner

in binval

[Applause]

[Music]

it will not be pleasant listening I

propose to tell you of buen

vald we reached the main gate the

prisoners crowded up behind the

wire there surged around me an evil

smelling stink men and boys reached out

to touch me they were in rags and the

remnants of

uniforms death had already already

marked many of them but they were

smiling with their

eyes Edward

marrow diary Kung gatan

Stockholm a hot scent of blood is

blowing from Germany and a terrible

feeling of Gloom spreading it feels like

the decline of the Western World Germans

have the opportunity to see the Horrors

astred lingren writer and member of the

Swedish Secret Service

diary for a long time I have been

telling myself what's happening in the

world now cannot be true and that I am

just imagining it that I am

hallucinating and at some point I will

surely wake up

Eros shap Hungarian Jewish writer from

Budapest we proceeded to the small

courtyard the wall adjoined what had

been a stable or

garage we

entered it was floored with concrete

there were two rows of bodies stacked up

like cordwood

Edward

marrow we are not entirely Guiltless we

the Allies because it took us 12 years

to open the gates of D we were blind and

unbelieving and slow and that we can

never be

again we you must know now that there

can never be peace if there is cruelty

like this in the

world Martha

[Applause]

ghorn if Hitler falls into our hands we

shall certainly put him to

[Music]

death this man is the mainspring of evil

Winston Churchill Diary of cabinet

secretary s Norman Brook July the 6th

[Music]

1942 diary Sunday April the 15th

1945 my God the war seems to be

lost why doesn't the fur give

up CR be Berlin

letter to Marga and gon himla April the

17th

1945 my dear beloved mommy my dear

little daughter times are extremely

difficult for all of us and yet it will

all still turn out well that is my firm

belief but it is difficult the ancient

spirit will protect us and the good

German Nation especially and not allow

us to perish H Hitler love

Daddy hinr himler last letter to his

family on April the 21st I went directly

to the map room for my daily briefing on

the war situation German resistance was

collapsing on all fronts there could be

no doubt that the end of the war in

Europe was in

sight Harry S Truman US president

Memoirs on April the 21st our troops

reached the Berlin aaban ring this

success created favorable conditions to

totally enclose the fascist

Capital vasel chuikov General commanding

Soviet eighth guards

Army that day I saw Hitler only briefly

the boss could still not believe that

the Russians were at the

gates Rus

Mish sesen

meinberg around 11:50 p.m. Hitler calls

he gives a short lecture on the

situation and concludes with the words

you will see the Russians will suffer

the biggest defeat the bloodiest defeat

in their history before the gates of

[Music]

Berlin Carl CER chief of the the general

staff of the Luft

faffer cdor near Berlin April the 22nd

1945 someone said it's over the Russians

are here we should come

out everyone climbed out of the trench

with their hands

up I put my hands up only a little

because I thought I did not have to

surrender formerly I was on the side of

the losers but my emotions were on the

side of the

winners Marie yovich zimon a German Jew

hiding in

[Applause]

Berlin April the 22nd

1945 this date marks the end of the

Third Reich for

me the German Vermont capitulated on May

the 8

1945 but on April the 22nd a Sunday

Hitler

capitulated Rus

Mish on April the 22nd we attended the

status report at the usual time in the

afternoon I recognized immediately That

clouds as heavy as lead were hanging

over the

room vhan kitle Chief of the Armed

Forces high command

Memoirs I have already reached my

decision I won't leave Berlin again I

will defend the city till the end either

I lead the fighting around the capital

of the Reich or I perish with my

soldiers in Berlin and die in the battle

for the symbol of the

re adol

Hitler during the status conference

which had been loud and turbulent Hitler

had finally uttered the magical sent

sentence and since then repeated it to

everybody who crept around the bunker

disbelievingly the war is lost Rus

misher in the small anti room Hitler

stands Motionless in a distant and

commanding manner he calls out get

changed at once in one hour an aircraft

will come and take you to the South

everything is lost hopelessly lost if a

brown walks up to Hitler takes both of

his hands and says smilingly and

consolingly but you know that I'm

staying here with you I will not be sent

away as if talking to a sad child

Hitler's eyes begin to light up and he

does something that no one has ever

witnessed not even his most trusted

friends and

AIDS he kisses if a brown on the lips

on the night of April the 22nd 23rd my

first night in the Furious bunker I was

witnessed to a strange spectacle the

rats abandoned the sinking ship he let

anybody go who

asked B FR

Lo on the evening of April the 22nd a

Sunday while the besieging ring closes

around Berlin EA Brown writes the first

of her farewell letters to her childhood

friend ha

USTA letter Berlin April the 22nd

1945 my dearest

haa these will be the very last lines

and thus the last sign of life from me

we are fighting to the end but the end

is drawing dangerously ever

nearer I can't describe how much I am

suffering personally on the fur's behalf

what else is there to say I can't can't

understand how it could all turn out

this way but you can't even believe in

God anymore regards to all my friends I

shall die as I have lived it's no burden

you know that warm greetings to all and

kisses yours

EA diary April the 23rd 1945

Monday early bombing raids over the town

of oeld to the east in the afternoon

buried a chest full of food radio

reports fighting in um Regensburg Berlin

is encircled the field her in

Berlin Vera Heisenberg German Nobel

laurat in

physics on April the 24th our troops

attacked along the entire front and

pushed the enemy further back in the

direction of the city

center the Soviet eighth guard's Army

joined the first Ukrainian front near

Johannes tal airport the same

day one more step remained Berlin had to

be taken and the war

ended vasel chuikov

General diary 24th of April 1945 Tuesday

radio crossing of the danu river at

dingan The Americans at

alburg Verna

[Music]

Heisenberg almost coincidentally with

our arrival on the elow the Red Army

launched a powerful Westward drive from

the positions on the odor the red Drive

made Speedy progress

everywhere on April the 25th patrols of

the 69th division of the vore met

elements of the red Army's 58th guards

division on the

elbow the meeting took place at toow

some 75 mil south of

Berlin Dwight D Eisenhower supreme

commander of Allied Forces in

Europe the fragmentation of Germany into

two parts was completed

the German Army dissolve before our

eyes Winston

Churchill gloom and doom began to spread

throughout the

bunker our

axan April the 27th 1945 letter to

Louisa

yodel we still have rager contact with

Berlin where the enemy has fought its

way into the city Center one's heart

bleeds during these conversations it's

like the battle of the viig Goths at

vvus Alfred yodel chief of Armed Forces

high command flensborg

[Applause]

the section of the aaban between Munich

and albor had been converted to an air

strip

in layb along the road were curious

looking aircraft sleek and without

propellers one wondered if they had been

delivered without

them they were in fact the first jet

fighters and a full technological

generation more fearsome than anything

we or the British

possessed only a Monumental error

Hitler's demand that they be redesigned

as a light attack bomber had kept them

from being used with disastrous effect

John Kenneth galra Economist officer in

the Strategic bombing command of the US

Air

Force when the sun came out I worked in

the garden with my

mother be Tes Garden the mountain

Retreat where Hitler met with

Chamberlain had been

[Music]

bombed in London people prepared to

celebrate large quantity of liquor were

imported but held in reserve for the

special day flags were everywhere on

sale the Nazis had nowhere left to

run meline Albright

[Applause]

London I had close contact with monka

the commander of the Citadel monka was

often with the troops on the front line

on April the 29th he reported to Hitler

that to the north the Russians were a

short distance away from vien dmer

bridge to the east in L Garden to the

South near potd Platz and the air

Ministry and to the West in TI Garden

that was only a few hundred met from the

chancell when Hitler asked him how long

can you hold out he answered 20 to 24

hours at the

most arur axan

[Applause]

April the 29th

1945 sometime around 11:00 p.m. a radio

dispatch arrived saying that Italian

partisans had shot musolini and his

mistress claraa Pachi and publicly

hanged them by the feet had Hitler

needed a final push in order to make his

own suicide a reality that was probably

it

Rus

[Applause]

Mish the fueler comes up to me shakes my

hand and asks have you rested a little

my child I'd like to dictate something

get the shorthand

pad my private will and testament as I

did not consider that I could take the

responsibility of Contracting a marriage

during the years of fighting I have

never decided before the closing of my

Earthly career to take the girl who

after many years of faithful friendship

entered the practically besieged city of

her own free will in order to share her

Destiny with me as my wife at her own

desire she goes as my wife with me into

death what I possess belongs in as much

as it has any value to the party should

this no longer exist to the state should

the state also be destroyed no further

decision of mine is

necessary signed Berlin April the 29th

1945 4 a.m. ADF

Hitler April the 29th

1945 Hitler only wanted to make AA fra

Hitler to preserve convention at the end

above all for aa's parents the Browns

wouldn't have to live with the shame of

their daughter having died as a

concubine

Ros

Mish the 30th of April begins like the

previous days the hours crawl by no one

knows how IFA Brown should now be

addressed the AIDS and orderlies stutter

with embarrassment when they have to

speak to the young

lady just call me Mrs Hitler she says

with a smile

when I left my observation post on April

the 30th to go to the Army staff

Marshall Gori zukov called and asked is

there hope that we will have fully

cleaned up Berlin by May

Day I answered that I did not expect an

immediate capitulation even though the

resistance of the enemy had

declined vasel chikov

on the morning of April the 30th 1945

the signs his final fura

order to the commander of the Berlin

defensive area general of the artillery

vling in the event of ammunition and

food shortages Among The Defenders of

the r capital I give my permission to

break out this should be done in small

groups who should then establish a

connection with the troops still

fighting signed Adolf Hitler

April the 30th 1945 will remain in the

memory of the Soviet

people on this day at 225 p.m. the

troops of the first shock Army took over

most of the Reich

building gorgi zukov supreme commander

of the first White Russian

front around noon on April the 30th

1945 all occupants of the bunker with

military training

anticipate an immediate assault on the

chancellory and the

[Applause]

bunker lunch on April the 30th also

passed without any special

occurrences Hitler showed no signs of

agitation with this in mind there was no

mention of the end now being

imminent G Christian Hitler's private

secretary on April 30th 1945 around noon

bman told me that Hitler's decision was

now firm then Hitler said to me that he

would now shoot himself and that fine

Brown would also take her life the

bodies were to be buried he assigned me

to make the necessary

arrangements Otto guner SS agitant to

Hitler

I caught a last glimpse of Hitler as he

disappeared into his study AA now his

wife followed him she looked pretty for

me she is the only one who went truly

nobly to her death in any case AA was

alive up until death she had married a

dead man in a

Mory Rus

[Applause]

Mish I went back into the bunker in the

afternoon I visited Dr

GBL he told me that the furer had

already bidden farewell to his closest

Circle I went to Hitler's private

rooms SS agitant Otto Guna stood in

front of the door blocking it with his

massive

figure he had orders from the fura not

to let any more visitors

in arur axan

my political

Testament I die with a happy heart in

the face of the immeasurable deeds and

achievements of our soldiers at the

front our women at home the achievements

of our farmers and workers and the

efforts unique in history of our youth

who bear my name in order to give the

German people a government composed of

Honorable Men I appoint the following

members of the new cabinet as leaders of

the nation president of the r dunitz

Chancellor of the r Dr

Geral above all I oblige the leaders of

the nation and those under them to

scrupulously observe the race laws and

to offer merciless opposition to the

poisoner of all people's International

jeury is stood in Berlin this 29th day

of April 1945 4:00 a.m. Adolf

Hitler valet Hein linger reports the

hour of his death as 3:50 p.m. he says

he noted this time from a grandfather

clock in the anti room to Hitler's

office adjutant Otto Guna cites his

final hour as 3:30 p.m. he said he'd

looked at his

watch there cannot be the slightest

doubt that Adolf Hitler took his life in

the fura bunker of the r chancer in

Berlin on April the 30th 1945 with his

own hand namely by a shot in the right

Temple cause of death District Court 2

beus Garden December the 8th

[Music]

1956 the Red Army found a dental bridge

of Hitlers after a painstaking search

for his remains a around the bunker

[Music]

exit on April the 30th and may the 1st

1945 I posted the last radio messages

from the Reich chanary to Grand Admiral

donits via our Naval signals

Brigade Eric fos Vice

[Music]

admirable Telegram in secret Navy

encryption in the place of the current

Reich Marshall guring the furer appoints

you Grand Admiral as his

replacement you should undertake at once

all measures that arise from the present

situation

Borman I only learned that Hitler was no

longer alive after the first radio

dispatch with my appointment was

communicated from Berlin on April 30th

at 6:15

p.m. car dunitz Grand admiral

commanderin-chief of the

Navy announcement Hamburg radio May the

1st 1945 10:26

p.m. it is reported from the furus

headquarters that our fura Adolf Hitler

has fallen at his Command Post in the r

chancell fighting to his last breath

against bolshevism and for

[Music]

Germany May the 1st

1945 a little later in the evening my

husband came to my bed and said ad off

Hiller is dead is

dead there was suddenly an eerie

calm Emmy guring actress and wife of

Herman

in on the evening when Hitler's death

was announced I was sleeping in a small

room in git's quarters when I unpacked

my bag I found the red leather case

containing Hitler's

portrait when I stood the photograph up

I was overcome with a fit of

weeping Albert Spar minister in

durance's cabinet memoirs

[Music]

interrogation of Mrs paa Miss paa

Hitler my brother's fate affects me very

much no matter what happened he was

still my brother his end brought

Indescribable sorrow to me his

sister at this point Miss Hitler burst

into tears and the interrogation was

ended signed George Allen US Army

Counter Intelligence Corp July the 12th

[Music]

1945 I was living in Hitler's private

apartment in Munich when his death was

announced no Germans unless they are

underground resistance workers or

concentration camp inmates find that

Hitler did anything wrong except to

lose I'm just like the soldiers here who

look at the beautiful countryside use

the super modern Comforts of their

buildings and wonder why the Germans

wanted anything

more Lee Miller us War

[Music]

photographer before I could the event

closed on that evening of May the 1st an

agency report was handed to me that

prompted me to tell the

audience dear friends Hitler has evaded

responsibility by committing

suicide we departed deeply

[Applause]

moved vly Brandt

Stockholm diary May the 1st 1945

history will record forever more that

the German people were not able to shake

off this National Socialist yoke by

their own

initiative Friedrich Kelner

laach diary Wednesday May the 2nd

1945 Adolf Hitler is no more radio

reported his heroic death last night

fallen in in battle dut has been

appointed as his

successor musolini murdered a few days

ago now the two friends are united in

death Henrietta

Schneider H's cell examined Rudolph HSE

46 commandant of the alich concentration

camp

I asked him whether he didn't think he

would hang for murder no

never when did it first occur to you

then that you would probably be brought

to trial and

hanged at the time of the collapse when

the furer

died Gustav Mark Gilbert us prison

psychologist nurenberg diary

the White House Washington May the 8th

1945 Dear Mama and Mary I am 61 this

morning and I slept in the president's

Room in the White House last

night this will be an historic day at

9:00 this morning I must make a

broadcast to the country announcing the

German surrender isn't that some

birthday present lots and lots and love

to you both

Harry EST struman president of the

United States of America letter to his

mother and

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sister it was not disloyalty but rather

his suicide that put an end to Hitler's

organization he and his organization

were one and the same and thus it ended

with him this man who rose out of

nothing had offered himself to Germany

at a time when it was longing for a new

magnet he formulated a Doctrine based on

a mixture of fascism and race Theory the

totalitarian system allowed him to act

without

restraint the mechanization of the

military gave him the Trump cards of

lightning attacks and surprise

all of this led to repression and that

in turn led to these

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crimes Char de G memoirs

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