The Death of Adolf Hitler [antikvár]

/Nearly a quarter of a century has. gone by since the end of World War n, yet not all its enigmas have been solved. Warany warposes a number of questions, of greater or less importance. Here we are concerned with World War H and particularly with the circumstances of its end, with an enigma that pertains to the final days preceding the cessation of fighting. An enigma that might be considered not worth bothering about, since it concerns the death of a single man. Why, one may ask, give so much importance to an individual, when so many millions of unknown soldiers and civilians, most of them innocent, perished?The toll taken by the adventure of Nazism of the German people alone was tremendous. Official West Germap statistics record 4,192,000 German war dead; American estimates go up to 9 million. Soviet historians, basing themselves on German documents that fell into Russian hands, arrive at a similar figure: 9 million dead (not including the victims among the civilian population). Be that as it may, in terms of quantity we are concerned in this text with a single person only, and his death. But this person, Adolf Hitler, was the cause of the annihilation of those millions.Many responsible authors of historical works and many irresponsible authors of sensational articles in illustrated magazines have devoted much attention to7