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With
the D-Day landings on June 6th 1944 and allies ashore the beginning of the
end was in sight. However it was to be another nine long months before
Europe was free from the jaws of Nazi tyranny. On
25th April 1945 the Russian army had surrounded Berlin, Hitler’s
stronghold and where Hitler had hidden in his secret underground bunker
frantically trying to save an already lost war. This was to be
Russia’s prize and Hitler secretly knew this.
Hitler
insisted right until the last days of the war in calling regular briefings
and asking for his armies to move against the Soviets. However,
these armies were already destroyed and many Germans had surrendered
(preferably to the Americans or British and not the Russians).
On
the 30th April 1945 Hitler, now a sad and lonely figure, admitted the war was lost
to his closest aides. He took his pistol and gave a phial of cyanide to his mistress
Eva Braun. As she took the poison, he shot himself in the mouth and
the dream of a 1000-year Reich was history.
Although
Admiral Doenitz was appointed the new Fuhrer and bold statements were made to the
German people that the war would go on with the annihilation of
Bolshevism, it was only a matter of time.
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