Hitler's nurse' breaks silence
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4505415.stm

A survivor of Adolf Hitler's wartime bunker in Berlin has been tracked down, a German newspaper claims.

The Berliner Zeitung relates 93-year-old Erna Flegel's account of the last days of World War II, under the headline "I was Hitler's nurse".

Mrs Flegel said she stayed in the bunker after Hitler killed himself and was there when Soviet troops arrived.

She said Hitler was so paranoid that he even suspected spies had filled his cyanide capsule with false poison.

From January 1943 until the end of the war, Mrs Flegel's job was to give medical treatment to Hitler and his inner circle, she told the paper.

She was interviewed by US secret service agents in 1945, but otherwise has kept silent about her experiences for the past 60 years, the Berliner Zeitung says.

Now, however, she said she had decided to speak out, telling the paper: "I don't want to take my secret with me to the grave."

'Merciless' mother

Mrs Flegel's story does not challenge what is already known, but does add new details.

She said of Hitler: "By the end, he didn't trust anyone any more - not even the cyanide capsule he swallowed."

She also recalled trying to save the lives of the six children of Josef Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda chief, but said his wife Magda, who poisoned them, was "merciless".

Mrs Flegel said that after Hitler's suicide, Goebbels took over as leader, but no-one paid any attention to him.

"His last subordinates shot themselves in succession," she said. "And those who didn't shoot themselves tried to flee."

She said she remained, however. "I had to look after the wounded."

In the newspaper interview, Mrs Flegel described the atmosphere in the bunker as the noise of approaching Soviet forces grew.

"You could feel that the Third Reich was coming to an end," she said. "The radios stopped working and it was impossible to get information."

Mrs Flegel added that when the Soviet troops arrived, they were well-behaved and advised her to lock her door.

She said she stayed for several days, and was one of the last people to leave the bunker

what happened to his body ?

The maggots had a celebratory meal.

interesting read

There were so many rumors, years ago, that Hitler was alive and well, living in Argentina or one of the other South American countries. If her story can be authenticated, then history can finally agree that he did die in his bunker.

It would be interesting to know where his body ended up.

transported to Soviet Union

A long standing rumor from the war was that the Russians found Hitlers body and buried it in secret in a cratar. Later, they dug him up again and then cremated his remains. The reasons for the cremation and secret burial given by the Russians was that they were worried about Hitler's burial location becoming some sort of Nazi shrine that Neo Nazi pilgrims would visit if the location was known.

Is he with Elvis , Tupac, And Biggy?

she didn't say anything interesting according to this article

Hilter broke down at the end. I believe he was mentally ill. He honestly believe that Germans were the "master race" and when they failed.... he refused to believe it. The day before the Russians over too his bunker he was still issuing commands as if the they could still win the war.

Thanks for the diagnosis doctor, I don't think anyone's ever thought of that. You should contact some historians or something.

in-ter-est-ting...

It's been a while since I read an article in full

Yeah this is what I have heard, they scattered his ashes over some marshlands too. I think they still have his teeth and a piece of his skull with the bullet hole.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

there's also a very good chance he had parkinson's, which, at the time, was a death sentence. he was also extremely toxic from the side effects of the amphetamines that his doc was pumping him full of, which furthered his irrationality and bad decision-making.

same here lol

I thought he shot himself in the head and not cynide

He didn't do either, he's living with Kurt Cobain and Vince Foster near Mount St. Helens.