L’Aube (June 20, 1945)
Un vote unanime clôt les débats sur le Levant
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Les buts des États-Unis –
« Extermination du nazisme mais paix sans haine » déclare Eisenhower à Washington
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Norway out of this world
At least some parts of it where cream food is the tops
By William H. Stoneman
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Lawrence: Truman plans for successor
Meets delicate situation with simple and frank message to Congress
By David Lawrence
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The Pittsburgh Press (June 20, 1945)
Japs surrender in droves
82-day Okinawa battle ending in complete American victory
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Perkins: New act aimed at labor peace given Senate
Authors proclaim ‘public interest first’
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
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Mystery of the century –
Hitler, Eva killed selves, Fuehrer’s chauffeur says
Witness tells of carrying her body from bunker, seeing both gasoline-soaked corpses burning
By Jack Fleischer, United Press staff writer
BERCHTESGADEN, Germany – Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun shot and killed themselves in an underground bunker behind the Berlin Reich Chancellery on April 30, a man who said he saw their gasoline-soaked, burning bodies reported today.
Marshall Sir Bernard L. Montgomery’s 21st Army Group headquarters reported that the bodies of Hitler and Eva Braun were seen burning outside a Reich Chancellery bunker on May 2, according to German police eyewitnesses.
Hitler and Eva, who long had been his mistress, were married two days before they committed suicide as Nazidom was crashing about them in the midst of the Russian siege of Berlin, the witness said.
Hitler’s personal chauffeur, Eric Kempke, gave the first eyewitness account bearing out Nazi reports that Hitler died in Berlin shortly before it fell to the Red Army.
Kempke said he carried Eva Braun’s body from the bunker a little before 3 p.m. April 30 after she and Hitler shot themselves with pistols.
Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and his wife killed themselves in an unknown manner in a bunker on the night of May 1, the day before Berlin fell, Kempke said.
The bunker was saturated with gasoline and set on fire after the suicide of Goebbels and his wife, the chauffeur reported.
Kempke said that between 3 and 4 a.m. on May 2, he saw three other topflight Nazis wounded, probably fatally while trying to flee Berlin.
They were Martin Bormann, Nazi Party leader; Werner Naumann, state secretary in the Propaganda Ministry who married Hitler and Eva; and Dr. Stumpfecker, Hitler’s personal physician in the last days of Nazi resistance.
Kempke, 34, had been Hitler’s No. 1 chauffeur since 1913. He left Berlin on the morning of May 3. After a series of dramatic escapes from the Russians who had already captured the capital, he reached British territory west of the Elbe late in May.
He arrived last Monday at Hintersee near Berchtesgaden, where his wife had been evacuated earlier.
Troops of the U.S. 101st Airborne Division captured Kempke.
He said that a little before Hitler and Eva killed themselves, Hitler announced their intentions to Otto Guensche, one of his personal adjutants. He ordered Guensche to have both bodies burned so no remains would fall into Russian hands, the chauffeur reported.
He said that, besides himself, witnesses at the burning of the bodies included Bormann, Goebbels, Guensche and Heinz Linge, another of Hitler’s personal adjutants.
3 Americans among 139 killed in Chilean fire
SANTIAGO. Chile (UP) – Three American mining engineers were among at least 139 men killed in a fire in the Braden Copper Company’s mine at Sewell, the company’s management announced today.
The American victims were Burney G. Egemo from Rapid City, South Dakota, who is survived by his widow and a child; W. L. Ferry of Kansas City, and George W. Quinn, also from Rapid City. Ferry and Quinn were single.
The fire started in the underground car repair shop early yesterday. Smoke suffocated the men.
Mary brings Yanks
NEW YORK – The Queen Mary, 81,000-ton British liner which has shuttled American troops to Europe during the war, arrived here today with 12,256 American soldiers and 2,200 sailors aboard.