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Günsche stated that Hitler "sat... sunken over, with blood dripping out of his right temple. He had shot himself with his own pistol, a Walther PPK [chambered in] 7.65 mm." [41] [43] [44] [45] The gun lay at his feet. [41] Hitler's dripping blood had made a large stain on the right arm of the sofa and was pooling on the rug. [46]
On April 22 1945, as the Red Army was closing in on the Führerbunker during the Battle of Berlin, Hitler declared that he would stay in Berlin and shoot himself. [7] That same day, he asked Schutzstaffel (SS) physician Werner Haase about the most reliable method of suicide; Haase suggested combining a dose of cyanide with a gunshot to the head. [8]
The writer Edgar Jung, who due to his occupation as the speech writer of Hitler's conservative Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen had the opportunity to get close to Hitler, during the Spring of 1934 planned to shoot him as a first step of a scheme envisioned by himself and some associates to overthrow the Nazi Government.
Adolf Hitler [a] (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, [c] becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.
Soviet journalist Lev Bezymenski cited the book in the 1982 edition of his propaganda book The Death of Adolf Hitler, claiming to have only recently learned of it, despite saying in the 1968 edition of his book that the Soviets thought Günsche delivered a coup de grâce-style shot. Bezymenski claims that the 1947 book argues for the necessary ...
Additionally, Kempka, Hitler Youth leader Artur Axmann and Hitler's secretary Traudl Junge recalled that Günsche initially told them that Hitler shot himself through the mouth. [27] [28] [29] Kempka stated that Günsche had made a hand gesture indicating this. [30] Günsche denied making such statements or a gesture suggesting Hitler's manner ...
A patient shot at a doctor in a university clinic in Berlin on Tuesday before shooting himself dead, German police said.
In 1944 (prior to D-Day), the United States Secret Service imagined several ways Hitler could potentially disguise his appearance to evade capture. [1]Fringe and conspiracy theories about the death of Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945, contradict the accepted fact that he committed suicide in the Führerbunker on 30 April 1945.