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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]
The PPK saw widespread use. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler committed suicide with his PPK in the Führerbunker in Berlin. [17] A Walther PPK .32 (gun number 159270) was used by Kim Jae-gyu to kill South Korean leader Park Chung Hee. [18]
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]
In January 2013, Anti-Defamation League (ADL) director Abraham Foxman said in a press release: "The idea that supporters of gun control are doing something akin to what Hitler's Germany did to strip citizens of guns in the run-up to the Second World War is historically inaccurate and offensive, especially to Holocaust survivors and their families."
Hitler himself seemed least affected by the alleged poisoning, possibly due to his vegetarian diet. [3] February 9, 1933: Berlin: Ludwig Aßner Ludwig Aßner, a German politician and member of the Bavarian State Parliament, sent a poisoned letter to Hitler from France. An acquaintance of Aßner warned Hitler and the letter was intercepted. [3] 1934
Hitler and Raubal argued on 18 September 1931 when he refused to allow her to go to Vienna. He departed for a meeting in Nuremberg but was recalled to Munich the next day with the news that Raubal was dead from a gunshot wound to the lung; [2] she had apparently shot herself in Hitler's Munich apartment with Hitler's Walther pistol. [8] She was 23.
In early 1944, Busch and his staff were summoned to brief Hitler. Breitenbuch volunteered to carry a 7.65mm Browning pistol concealed in his trouser pocket into the briefing (which took place on 11 March), and shoot Hitler. But on the day of the briefing, Hitler issued a Führer directive excluding junior officers from Führer briefings.
Operation Foxley was a code name of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) plan to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944. [1] At the height of World War II, one option to swiftly end the war was killing Hitler. The SOE developed two potential assassination modules, one was to poison, and the other, shooting with a special gun.