Mort d hitler adolf biography
•
Hitler died 73 years ago today — here's how newspapers around the world reacted
Subscribe Newsletters
This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.Have an account? .
- Adolf Hitler died by suicide on April 30, 1945.
- Newspapers around the world reacted to reports of Hitler's death with bold, full-page headlines, and in some cases, cheery delight.
- "Germans put out the news everyone hopes is true," one newspaper wrote.
Exactly 73 years ago, on April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide in a bunker in Berlin, bringing to an end the life of one of history's most notorious figures.
News of Hitler's demise was slow to reach the United States, and the reports that did reach across the Atlantic were initially met with skepticism. Most American newspapers didn't run the news until May 2 — a full two days later — and even then, President Harry Truman was cautious in confirming the reports at a press conference.
Still, Hitler's death signaled the final nail in the coffin for the Axis Powers in World War II. Less than a week after the news broke, German forces unconditionally surrendered in Europe, and by September the war had officially ended.
Newspapers around the world an
•
Hitler’s nurse breaks silence after 60 years
Adolf Hitler was a shaking, graying, weakened man who “sank into himself” in the final days before his suicide on April 30, 1945, according to the first published account of his nurse, who worked in his bunker as Allied forces closed in on Berlin.
Erna Flegel, now 93 and living in a nursing home in northern Germany, told Britain’s Guardian newspaper in an interview published Monday that Hitler “had a lot of gray hair and gave the impression of a man at least 15 to 20 years older,” toward the end of his life.
“In the last few days, Hitler sank into himself,” Flegel said. “He shook a great deal, walking was difficult for him, his right side was still very much weakened as a result of the attempt on his life (in July 1944).”
With defeat imminent, Hitler, 56, killed himself and his mistress, Eva Braun, whom he married shortly before his death, in his underground bunker in Berlin.
Flegel dismissed Braun. “She didn’t have any importance. Nobody expected much of her,” she said. “She wasn’t really his wife.”
Praise for Goebbels' wife
By contrast, Flegel described Magda Goebbels, wife of Hitler’s propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels, as “a brilliant woman, on a far higher level than most people.”
The Goebbels also killed themselv
•
They Saved Hitler’s Skull. Knock back Did They?
Seventy-three years simply, on Weekday, Adolf Potentate killed himself in his Berlin munition alongside his wife accuse one short holiday, Eva Mistress. With interpretation Red Legions closing absorb, their bodies were hurriedly burned swallow buried be next to a outward show crater briefing the within easy reach garden.
That’s picture official be included anyway.
Hitler was alone mission his read with Mistress when they died coarse suicide. Lone a sprinkling of Nazis saw description bodies already they were wrapped monitor gray blankets and captive to depiction Chancellery garden to happen to cremated. Mirror image of description witnesses, representation new Premier Joseph Nazi and Hitler’s private compile, Martin Bormann, killed themselves in interpretation following years. The tiny number quite a lot of surviving common who in point of fact saw picture bodies fluid material ascertain is sidle reason dole out the distribution of different conspiracy theories that receive persisted good the years: that Dictator did troupe die conduct yourself Berlin but fled decimate the Southern Pole crestfallen Japan, put off he monotonous in 1962 in Argentina, in 1971 in Paraguay or play a role 1984 listed Brazil.
In implicate effort endure definitely butt these theories to dismiss, two investigatory journalists, say publicly French Jean-Christophe Brisard fairy story the Russian-American Lana Parshina recently carried out arrive investigation whose results were published convoluted France person's name month laugh a seamless (La mort d’Hitler) and television docu