The day before he killed himself, Adolf Hitler got married. I read the testimony of the secretary who typed his final words, and she described waiting for some kind of explanation, some admission…
The Soviets were five hundred meters from the bunker when the man who had ruled Germany for twelve years decided to get married. He was fifty feet underground, hands trembling, face pale, listening to artillery shake the concrete ceiling above him. In less than forty-eight hours, Hitler would be gone. By late April 1945, his … Read more