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re: April 30, 1945 - The Death of Adolf Hitler

Posted on 4/30/24 at 4:14 pm to
Posted by soccerfüt
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Posted on 4/30/24 at 4:14 pm to
20 April 1889
30 April 1945

Fiddy Six years and 10 days

And he died in Berlin, someone would have betrayed him had he escaped.

The world did not see this coming so soon after The War to End All Wars.
Posted by AUstar
Member since Dec 2012
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Posted on 4/30/24 at 4:36 pm to
Speaking of South America, what most people don't know is there was already a movement of Germans to South America even before World War I.

Nietzsche, the German philosopher, died in 1900. His sister, Elisabeth, had been living in South America with other Germans before his death. Her husband was a proto Nazi and anti-Semite, but later died, so she moved back to Germany.

She was a virulent anti-Semite and Nietzsche always argued with her over it. He refused to attend her wedding when she married her anti-Semite husband. She was still alive during the Nazi rise to power and was a supporter, so the Nazis tried to co-opt Nietzsche's philosophy into their propaganda. But anyone who has read his works will know he explicitly stated he did not care for anti-Semites.

Elisabeth Nietzsche died in 1935 and Hitler himself attended the funeral.
Posted by BuckyCheese
Member since Jan 2015
50064 posts
Posted on 4/30/24 at 4:38 pm to
The Russians wanted him just as bad as the Jews.

They were certain the remains found outside the bunker were his and Braun's.

Good enough for me.

I've read his secretary's book, along with plenty of other WWII history, and the likelihood of anything other than Hitler putting a bullet in his head is laughable.

His health alone would have made any escape difficult to impossible. He was a feeble shell of himself at that point.
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