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[1] [2] The news of Hitler's death was announced on German radio the next day, 1 May. [3] Eyewitnesses who saw Hitler's body immediately after his suicide testified that he died from a self-inflicted gunshot, presumably to the temple.
The former Reich minister of propaganda and Hitler's successor as chancellor of Germany, Joseph Goebbels, informed the Reichssender Hamburg radio station of Hitler's death. The news was first broadcast on the night of 1 May, with Germany claiming that Hitler died that afternoon as a hero fighting against Bolshevism. [11]
In 1945 at the age of 86, the Nobel laureate novelist Knut Hamsun wrote an obituary of Adolf Hitler in the newspaper Aftenposten. Hamsun's eulogy to Hitler served as the collaborationist newspaper's feature article on Hitler's death. [1] The obituary came to be his most infamous written piece.
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.
Adolf Hitler, Admiral Erich Raeder and General Wilhelm Keitel boarded the pocket battleship Deutschland at Swinemünde that evening and sailed with a fleet toward Germany's newest territorial acquisition. [32] The jury in the first Philadelphia poison ring trial returned a verdict of guilty and recommended the death penalty for Herman Petrillo ...
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On May 2, 1945, Stars and Stripes announced Hitler's death. During World War II, the newspaper was printed in dozens of editions in several operating theaters. Again, both newspapermen in uniform and young soldiers, some of whom would later become important journalists, filled the staffs.