HITLER’S LAST DAYS

This book Hitler’s Last Days reads fast, for it is loaded with photographs. Even two non-contiguous pages are entirely black. I promised to write here only what seemed to be new material for most of us readers. For that, the book begins with a startling quote from Hitler, “I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.” He was, and more so.

He ordered deaths not only for Jews, but also for homosexuals, gypsies, cripples, and others. I recall reading (in another book) about a deformed man who came through the line, who was immediately put to death so that they could boil his body in a big kettle outside, and get rid of his flesh so that their doctors could study this imperfect carcass which was then put on display to demonstrate how Jews didn’t deserve to live. This is the worst true story I’ve ever heard of in the genocide of any class of people.

The day before Hitler committed suicide, he married his long-time mistress Eva Braun. I wonder what good he thought that would do. Help him get through the Pearly Gates? He left a will, part of which is in the book, but we find nothing in it referring to an afterlife. He was only 56 when he died. For the occasion, he tried one of the cyanide capsules on his dog Blondi. She died instantly. Then Eva Braun, who chose to die with Hitler, sat on the end of a sofa, and took the pill. She died instantly. Then he sat on the other end of the sofa and when he died (instantly) he slumped toward Eva. He had just committed his last murder.