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KF5JRV > TODAY 16.01.19 15:07l 36 Lines 1779 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Today in History - Jan 16
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On this day, Adolf Hitler takes to his underground bunker, where he
remains for 105 days until he commits suicide.
Hitler retired to his bunker after deciding to remain in Berlin for the
last great siege of the war. Fifty-five feet under the chancellery
(Hitler’s headquarters as chancellor), the shelter contained 18 small
rooms and was fully self-sufficient, with its own water and electrical
supply. He left only rarely (once to decorate a squadron of Hitler
Youth) and spent most of his time micromanaging what was left of German
defenses and entertaining Nazi colleagues like Hermann Goering, Heinrich
Himmler, and Joachim von Ribbentrop. Constantly at his side during this
time were his companion, Eva Braun, and his Alsatian, Blondi.
On April 29, Hitler married Eva in their bunker hideaway. Eva Braun met
Hitler while working as an assistant to Hitler’s official photographer.
Braun spent her time with Hitler out of public view, entertaining
herself by skiing and swimming. She had no discernible influence on
Hitler’s political career but provided a certain domesticity to the life
of the dictator. Loyal to the end, she refused to leave the bunker even
as the Russians closed in.
Only hours after they were united in marriage, both Hitler and Eva
committed suicide. Warned by officers that the Russians were only about
a day from overtaking the chancellery and urged to escape to
Berchtesgarden, a small town in the Bavarian Alps where Hitler owned a
home, the dictator instead chose to take his life. Both he and his wife
swallowed cyanide capsules (which had been tested for their efficacy on
his “belovedö dog and her pups). For good measure, he shot himself with
his pistol.
73 de Scott KF5JRV
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