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ne wee Lael ole : * Sn the night of April ‘ga-n4 F WAS Visited by Albert Speer. | & tw }:: ne disclosed that he Nad, janet il plans for hfs suicide and for the complete destruction of his] body by burning. “ tor On the evening of Aprii 26 Ficid- Marsha! Ritter von+ Greim te 34 POrted to Hitler's bunker to recelye 4 ata] his coniumisston as C-in-O. German i- Air Force in succession to Goering, aul | who had fallen Into complete dis- “A fuvour by his endeavour to take | Over control from Hitler a ‘few days cartier, St Res | MARRIED NIGHT: . woe BEFORE DEATH". Hitler also told Greim ot his plans for suicide and the destruc- 1tian of his body and that of Eva | Braun, He gave poison tablets to Greim and Reitsch -: (Hannah) Reitsch, dare-devll woman pilot, 4 Who Yow Greim tn; she fs atill i alive). te o fo On April 28 the inmates of the bunker heard “with a mixture of incredulity and disgust "of Himm- fer's approach to the Alles through Sweden. sot at ‘ , On April 33 any hope of the = a ets effcctive relief of Bertin had -to ‘be | aa “é x abandoned. . : sy * PREM My On the evening of Avril 29 | Besa Hitler married . Eva Braun, the /iPw %] ceremony being performed in .the ~ {bunker by an officia]” from | the | Propaganda Ministry. an htt Eva Braun may have Suggested 4 En the marricge, for she had appar. Ag ently always wished for the pecu- | oe spiitur glory of dying with Hitler, “. } #1 says the report, and she had used |B i her in®uence to persuade him to 4 4 dic in Berlin. ' ¢ After Uhe ceremony the couple | j 'Sitoce hunds with all present in | Fi pi the bunker and retired to their ; : [Suite with Hitter's secreiary. .- |E i Tt was about this time that ‘Hite: hac his Alsatlan doz. de- ae3 Slroyed ' ; 1 : a SHOOK HANDs,”: WENT TO DIE: t about 2.30 a.m. on April 20 e] Hitter gaid good-bye to about 20 | people . - | On the same day, at abour RES 230 p.m, Oruers Were sent Lo the Bx ; fransport Offier requiring the im- ff : ‘Mediate dispatch to the bunker of. ‘f /290 litres at peiral . im; i At about the same ume Hitler ty a) 4nd Eva Braun made - their last vd ‘ys; Appcarance alive. They went " 4 found the buncer and shook hands a Al with their immediate entourage JF and retired to their own apart 3% ‘ | ments. where they both committed yl suicide, Be The bodics were taken into the L garden Just outside the bunxer by Goebbels. Bormann. .berhaps eri Stunipferge: and one of . two O.1erg . . Because of the shelling che Fim PALS Witudiew to seller and a ry Aare netral-sorked ano Ughted rag was Ri Steyr Aihrown of ihe bodes Which: ae once caurht Gre - i The party stvod Lo attention, wy oave the Nazi salute—and retired.B f+, Ps