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Via Pete Puma’s Lair, hat tip to American Future

Hitler’s Death Seen as Insignificant to German War Effort

BBC “News”
Berlin, Germany. April 31, 1945

Militant leader Adolf Hitler has been killed, Prime Minister Churchill has announced.
“Hitler has been eliminated,” Mr Churchill said at a news conference in Paris, sparking sustained applause by non media personnel.

Hitler was considered the figurehead of the German insurgency. He was allegedly the leader of the Wehrmacht, blamed for killing millions of Jews and Allied forces.

“Russian military police were first on the scene after the apparent suicide,” said Mr. Churchill, followed shortly afterwards by Allied forces.

Hitler was not a global mastermind like Kaiser Wilhelm, says the BBC’s security correspondent, Frank Gardner. Instead he was a bloodthirsty and violent thug, who made enemies and several mistakes that might have contributed to his downfall. These included attacking the Soviet Union in violation of non-aggression pact as well as declaring war on the United States in 1941, our correspondent says.

His death does not mean either the Nazi elements or nationalist fighters will give up, says the BBC News’s world affairs correspondent, Paul Reynolds. Indeed his removal might well bring about an explosion of revenge by his followers, he adds.

Posted on June 11th, 2006 by pwyll
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