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What did Hitler’s 'suicide note' say? Nazi leader’s chilling message before he died
Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, who he had married less than 40 hours earlier, committed suicide in a bunker located under his headquarters in Berlin.The Nazi dictator, then aged 65, swallowed a cyanide capsule before shooting himself in the head after being alerted to the fact that Soviet forces were closing in on Berlin.Hitler’s officers had urged him to escape to the small town of Berchtesgarden in the Bavarian Alps, but he decided instead to die.But before this happened, the Fuhrer wrote his final memo, dubbed his “suicide note”, which announced his fate.In the letter, which was sent to one of his favourite commanders Field Marshal Ferdinand Schörner, he explains his reasoning for not fleeing.The Fuhrer’s chilling message read: “I shall
