Dec. 2, 2022
Episode Five
In the waning days of World War II the simmering conflict between Dromyrk and Hitler comes to a violent end.
The Hitler File is a production of Voyage Media. The series is produced by Nat Mundel, Robert Mitas, and Dan Benamor. Directed and produced...
In the waning days of World War II the simmering conflict between Dromyrk and Hitler comes to a violent end.
The Hitler File is a production of Voyage Media. The series is produced by Nat Mundel, Robert Mitas, and Dan Benamor. Directed and produced by Dan Benamor. Written by Desmond Fosbery, based on the novel The Dromyrk File by Brandon Rolfe. You can find the novel on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Dromyrk-File-Brandon-Rolfe/dp/1909204943
Starring Peter Stormare, as Dr. Dromyrk, Denis O’Hare, as Adolf Hitler, Kieren Van Den Blink as Tilda Mannleifen, Jerome St. Jerome as Krunz, and Gianluca Malacrino as Falzoni. Edited, sound designed and mixed by Nick Messitte. Original music by Derlis Gonzalez.
If you’re enjoying the show, please leave us a 5 star review in Apple Podcasts or anywhere you’re listening, and subscribe now for future episodes.
The Hitler File is a production of Voyage Media. The series is produced by Nat Mundel, Robert Mitas, and Dan Benamor. Directed and produced by Dan Benamor. Written by Desmond Fosbery, based on the novel The Dromyrk File by Brandon Rolfe. You can find the novel on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Dromyrk-File-Brandon-Rolfe/dp/1909204943
Starring Peter Stormare, as Dr. Dromyrk, Denis O’Hare, as Adolf Hitler, Kieren Van Den Blink as Tilda Mannleifen, Jerome St. Jerome as Krunz, and Gianluca Malacrino as Falzoni. Edited, sound designed and mixed by Nick Messitte. Original music by Derlis Gonzalez.
If you’re enjoying the show, please leave us a 5 star review in Apple Podcasts or anywhere you’re listening, and subscribe now for future episodes.
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The two Gestapo officials were here to
arrest me. The nurse had already left
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and returned with a clean sheet as
they pulled me to my feet, and
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the three of them proceeded to wrap
it around my blooded clothes. Then they
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led me from the room with a
soulful tableau. The nurse relocked the door
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and went the other way. None
of them uttered a word, one last
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unforgivable sin against my tilty. She
was erased from this world without fanfare,
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like a death had not occurred.
I realized that I was under arrest as
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they loaded me, still sigh little, into the back of their vehicle and
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set themselves on either side of me, then motioned to the driver to set
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off towards Berlin. Who but my
damned former colleague Bernheim, would have set
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me up like this. The first
word either of them spoke was when one
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of them asked me where I lived, and I told him. He instructed
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the driver to go there, and
reaching my apartment, they instructed me to
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clean up, change and bring a
suitcase of my necessities. It looked as
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if I was to be away from
my home for a while, and at
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least I was not going to be
shot right away in some allie when my
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case, stone and trunk, I
was ushered into the back of the car
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and we set off once again.
As we drove back into Berlin, was
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formulating my plan to destroy Hitler.
I needed to undermine his egomania, his
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overbearing sense of superiority, and to
plant the seed or doubt into his subconscious
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and get them to germinate and grow. I would use my old professor Freud's
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technique simple coersion, by a continuous, subtle delivery of keywords into our conversation
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that would impinge upon his subconscious without
his awareness. In that way, I
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would soft him enough, slowly converting
his sense of strength into one of weakness,
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and finally get him onto that slippery
downward slope to self destruction. Eventually
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we arrived at a rye Chauserie and
I was taken through the gardens at the
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back up to a narrow entrance leading
down to an underground complex that I was
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told was the fuer Bunker. It
had been Hitler's Berlin headquarters since the beginning
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of the year. Sounds of Wagner's
music drifted up from below as we descended
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the narrow stone stairs. When we
were deep underground. I suspected I was
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to meet once more with a man
I had avowed to kill in spite of
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the loyalty I held to my hypocritic
oath as a physician. Suddenly we were
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face to face. My escorts left
without a further word. Welcome to the
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fure bunker home. This is my
new home, yours too, so we
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may at last continue our devapy sessions. The bunker complex was well furnished,
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with fine carpets and oil paintings hanging
on the walls. Passages led up to
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other accommodations and facilities, but being
below the water table, it was prone
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to dampness, and the pumping system
ran constantly to remove ground order that collected
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in some tank. As for my
host, I saw at once that he
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was ailing. He was infirm,
and his gait was shuffling. He held
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his left arm that shook uncontrollably behind
his back. His weakness triggered an idea,
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A twisted use of lessons I've learned
from Freud against their therapeutic intent,
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a subliminal technique. I found you
again thanks to our friend Bernheim. You
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were a great disappointment to me.
Doctor continuing to avoid me like that,
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without warning and leaving no messages when
you changed your address, I'm sorry,
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I can't tell seeing your unknees.
It's best that we're together now. My
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practice diminished and I moved to a
smaller apartment further from the city center.
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I needed time to myself and to
keep in touch with my aging family.
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It's a difficult times, and certain
people must remain at their posts because of
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my strength. I haven't needed you
always, but when I need you,
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you must be prepared to sort of. We all have moments of weakness,
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and my mother was sick and failing. Then I found out I could not
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liberally in to visitor that I can
understand. And now my mother died and
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I've arranged care back in Sweden for
my aging father. Perhaps you started again
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to look for your former love,
the famous and beautiful miss Manlife. I
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could have strangled him for a moment, I genuinely thought it through. How
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long can I squeeze before his personal
guards burst in? If I was to
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die, I wanted to be certain
that he went with me. Instead,
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I forced myself to utter the awful
truth less than two hours old. She's
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dead. I no longer wish to
hear her name. Ah, yeah,
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I see you are looking at his
left arm of mine. It shakes.
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Yeah. You are human, fragile
as the rest of us. There is
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no shame in the weakness of a
human body. They tried to assassinate me
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again. This time they might have
succeeded, but once more I had my
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divine protection, but those around me
perished. They have been trying to kill
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me since nineteen thirty two and have
never succeeded. I shall never succeed.
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I shall kill myself before any of
them shall do so. To understand me,
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doctor, I knew then that my
task to destroy Hitler would be easier
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once he had voiced the possibility of
his own suicide. Of course, mine
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fere I had seven thousand arrested after
last July Treason's bombing attempt on my life.
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Seven thousand, almost five thousand of
them have now been executed. That's
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how I deal with treachery and betrayal. Doctor. Surely not all of those
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can have been guilty. Of course
they be guilty. If I say they
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be guilty, they be guilty.
You're right, I'm pure. The more
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they betray you, the more adamant
you must read to destroy them even to
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the last man. You see him. Now you agree with my methods.
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Do you know that I am protected
by even the youth of charming young angel
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also to die for the fear that
is loyalty, Doctor, Even from kindergarten,
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they rise up in my defense.
The Red Army may be approaching bellion,
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but they meet with the blazing file
of young Germanic intensity that would destroy
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them before they can impinge upon our
resolve for greater Germany. The younger they
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are, the more love, respect
and loyalty. They will have what they
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lack in physical strength. They will
provide in spiritual fortitude, much as you
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do in your weakened state. His
lack of ribottal was striking. A few
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years prior, such a comment would
have sent him into a rage. The
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sounds of the Russian army advancing from
the east and the north became ever more
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evident. During the brief periods I
was permitted to walk with him and his
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beloved German shepherd Bitch Blondie, and
the garden above my subterranean cellite quarters.
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Our therapy sessions hardly classified as such, academically, being having more to my
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listening to his ravings about Valhalla and
reincarnation, and his positive plans for the
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future, in spite of the overwhelming
odds against this ever happening, getting worse
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day by day. So what do
you suppose the Russian will do when they
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get there? I fear for the
cities, women and children. The Russian
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soldiers are not as moral and disciplined
as yours. My impure to say the
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least. They're savages. They come
to get you, they never get you.
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I am impregnable. It was just
the two of us. There was
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no audience. This conversation was not
being broadcast. Yet Is still maintained his
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fanatical bluster, playing to the back
row of the theater, even with an
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audience of one. But just supposing
they do reach this bunker, we are
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in an increasingly weakened position, are
we not. Where do you suppose will
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be the fate of the women and
the children? Have you considered what they
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will do to you? You never
listened to me, doctor, Did I
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not say, yeah, impregnable?
Heaven itself my collapse upon us if you
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shall remain safe within his forts.
I had a thousand year like so triumph
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over all opposition. In fact,
he'd only say he was impregnable. He
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turned and shuffled off, speaking to
one of the domestic attendants passing by,
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have someone show doctor Drum to his
quarters. After a couple of weeks closed
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certainly held against my will. When
the fewer barriers of his close associates,
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including the Gobble's family Joseph, his
wife, six children, five small daughters,
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and a young son, I began
to experienced symptoms that at first I
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put down to the food we were
being served. It was not particularly good
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and was being prepared in the cramped
and damp and environment in which we existed.
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Hitler, whose diet was vegetarian,
seemed not to be affected. His
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vegetarian choice was a contradiction that perhaps
troubled me all the more for his insistence
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it was out of concern for animals
suffering unwinding that alone would be enough to
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drive me mad. Regardless, I
continued to experience diarrhea, luring on my
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vision, and constant skin irritation.
I came to realize that it was me
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alone and I was being poisoned slowly, and the symptoms were those of slow
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poisoning with arsenic Such poisoning could only
be administered in food of beverages. So
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I stopped taking coffee and tea and
if it served to me individually, and
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I avoided food that could only been
purposely tainted for my consumption, and I
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immediately realized hitless intent. He,
of course, had been obsessing over what
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his enemies would do to him when
they reached his bunker. It was when
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now, not if he would not
be taken alive. If he was gone
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to be driven finally to commit suicide, those now around him, his loyal
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followers, would have to fall a
suit or be murdered the mutual suicide pacts.
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As he could not rely on my
compliance, he was killing me slowly
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and probably getting considerable my line satisfaction
while doing so. On April sixteenth,
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we heard that the Red Army had
surrounded the outskirts of Berlin, and emotional
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tension among the inhabitants of the bunker, except for Hitler increased. Conversations became
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stilted, and brief temper were on
the edge. Only the quiet background music
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of Wagner or Beethoven so often filled
the prolonged silence that were pervasive. By
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this time, I had become cautious
of anything I ate unless it was being
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generally consumed. Even then, I
ate and drank parsingly. On April the
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twentieth, the Red Army began shelling
Berlin. They could only be days away
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from our refuge. It happened to
be Hitler's fifty sixth birthday, and I
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allowed myself to enjoy some of his
special birthday cake and the other treats being
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served at our communal, though restrained
celebration. Subsequent days passed in rapid succession,
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while my symptoms continued unbaited, and
I was in fear of my survival.
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Somehow I had to stop ingesting the
poison I was being fed. And
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during this time Martin Bormann, Hitler's
private secretary, found a willing drinking partner
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in Hermann Fieedline, a lieutenant general
in the Baffin Essays attached to the bunker
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staff, a close associate of Himmler. He had been married for less than
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a year to Gretel Brown, Eva's
sister, so he was now her brother
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in law. As moral in our
tightly closed community continued to deteriorate, those
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two offers has made good use of
their time, invading the wine storage area
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and starting early in the mornings.
They were in a state of half ineberration
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most of the day, and Gretel
was on the verge of giving birth to
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the first child, and as a
consequence, Hermann had little time for her.
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Meanwhile, she and Eva remained title
bonded as loving sisters. By April
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twenty seven, Berlin was cut off
from the rest of Germany as Hitler's reserved
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forces failed to push back the Red
Army. It was that day that Hitler
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realized Fugeline was not at his post
in the fure of Bunker. It was
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a fact that among his colleagues,
Figeline was nicknamed Flageline, pertaining to the
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German word flakel an impertinent louts Fageline, find your putnent lout bringing me up
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me. Later that day, a
disheveled, half drunk Figion was brought back
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to the Bunker to face Hittler,
who was put into a locked cell while
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his captors reported to their few.
He had been found as his Berlin apartment,
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half drunk, civilian clothes with a
quantity of cash and jewelry, some
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of which belonged to Eva, in
preparation of fleeing to Sweden or Switzerland.
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Having been unwilling to engage in any
suicide packed that he was at least wise
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enough to know was coming. From
papers found in his briefcase, it appeared
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that his close associate Ss Richenfil Himmler
was currently in secret peace negotiations with Western
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Allies. The following day, the
twenty eight, Hitler heard of a BBC
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radio report confirming that Himmler had indeed
being negotiating with the Allies for peace terms.
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And this was perhaps the cruelest insult
of all to him. Then Rat
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Timbler, heavimnisted immediately and bringing to
me, I delivered him right here.
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That's a Fige line that deserted cooperating
with the Rat. I have him port
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marshaled. Set it up now today, right now, Chia and now I
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Jia, by stupid of all ranks
and honors, get on visits. At
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the rapid convene court martial head about
General Monk Herman Figlan was found guilty of
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desertion and sentenced to death. Despite
the pleading of his sister in Loeva,
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Hitler remained adamant that the sentence should
be carried out immediately. Figlin was taken
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up to the garden and shot in
the back of the head. A few
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minutes later, without any sign or
shred of emotion, Hitler told me he
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needed to speak to me privately,
to you and I've always been close,
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You've been inside my head. For
Heaven's sake, what can I do for
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Eva? She knows Fagline had to
be dead with but she's upset for her
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sisters sake. Will marry her,
Adolf, She will make you whole.
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He'd started letting me call him Adolf
and prout of other people. No one
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commented on it, but it was
the surest sign of his descent. Perhaps
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it made him feel good, like
we were actually friends here. Yes,
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as your enemies approached, of course, you will eventually defeat them. But
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it's quite romantic, don't you think
you know the mind of women as well?
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Doctor? The Greeks believed that when
two people are married, should they
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die, they travel to the underworld
together. I had no idea if that
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was true. I just made it
up on the spot, an appeal to
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hitless love of ancient mythology, one
last little punch off the edge of his
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psychological roof. Very well, Eva
and I are to be married tonight.
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A quiet ceremony, but just the
witness's present. Yeah, I'm very pleased
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for you both. They had been
married for some thirty hours before the following
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night. In the early hours of
April the thirtieth, I heard a gunshot.
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I was told later in the day
by Joseph Cobbles that if you were
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a NEIGHVA had medituside. I had
to admit I took a grim but significant
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satisfaction in death, and a cruel
smile tugged at my lips. True to
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his earlier pronouncement, Hitler has shot
himself after seeing Eva take a fatal dose
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of cyanide, and having swallowed the
same himself. He had foreseen his and
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her likely treatment had they fallen into
the hands of the Russians. Simple assassinations
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would not have been sufficient to satisfy
the invaders vengeful ambitions. Things were getting
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worse when I found out later in
the day that I had been locked inside
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my quarters. On the second day
of May, a god brought me food
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on a tray and informed me that
the Goubble's family were God. When I
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asked where, he pointed his forefinger
heavenwards and crossed himself all dead. He
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said the parents had apparently poisoned their
six small children and then committed suicide.
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I asked him what above those who
still remained. He said they were all
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planning to break out towards the West, hoping to surrender to the Americans rather
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than face the vengeful Russians. What
about me, I asked. He replied
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that he had been given orders to
keep me in prison, and he left
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me with a parting remark, It's
better for you. If the Russians find
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you as a prisoner, then maybe
they will let you out. I asked
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him, why should I not break
out with the wrist, to which he
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replied and be shot as the rest
of us probably will. He made a
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good case for my remaining as a
prisoner. Even if I was slowly dying
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from being poisoned. At least I
would not be served any more deadly food
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starvation seemed a better option here.
Now, reflecting on my old, too
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short, but at times painfully long
life, I've flushed this final serving of
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food and drink down the toilet,
as I've been doing ever since I've been
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locked in here. I'm getting weaker, but I must avoid dehydration to prolong
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my ability to survive. I dipped
a glass of water from the toilet tank
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as its refilled, and drank it
thirstily, and dipped another. Can I
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survive until the Russians come down?
Here? Will have just bombed the place
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from above to make sure there are
no survivors. Now, surely they will
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come down to find prisoners and search
for documents and booty. Do I know
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sufficient Russian to engage them enough to
have them release me and not to shoot
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me out of hand? As and
inconvenient obstacle? For all my study of
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languages when I was young, I
found French, German, English easy enough?
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Why didn't I try harder at Russia? I'm so tired. When I
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sleep, I can see Tilde and
how she was, so I just need
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The two Gestapo officials were here to
arrest me. The nurse had already left
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and returned with a clean sheet as
they pulled me to my feet, and
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the three of them proceeded to wrap
it around my blooded clothes. Then they
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led me from the room with a
soulful tableau. The nurse relocked the door
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and went the other way. None
of them uttered a word, one last
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unforgivable sin against my tilty. She
was erased from this world without fanfare,
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like a death had not occurred.
I realized that I was under arrest as
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they loaded me, still sigh little, into the back of their vehicle and
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set themselves on either side of me, then motioned to the driver to set
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off towards Berlin. Who but my
damned former colleague Bernheim, would have set
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me up like this. The first
word either of them spoke was when one
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of them asked me where I lived, and I told him. He instructed
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the driver to go there, and
reaching my apartment, they instructed me to
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clean up, change and bring a
suitcase of my necessities. It looked as
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if I was to be away from
my home for a while, and at
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least I was not going to be
shot right away in some allie when my
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case, stone and trunk, I
was ushered into the back of the car
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and we set off once again.
As we drove back into Berlin, was
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formulating my plan to destroy Hitler.
I needed to undermine his egomania, his
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overbearing sense of superiority, and to
plant the seed or doubt into his subconscious
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and get them to germinate and grow. I would use my old professor Freud's
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technique simple coersion, by a continuous, subtle delivery of keywords into our conversation
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that would impinge upon his subconscious without
his awareness. In that way, I
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would soft him enough, slowly converting
his sense of strength into one of weakness,
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and finally get him onto that slippery
downward slope to self destruction. Eventually
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we arrived at a rye Chauserie and
I was taken through the gardens at the
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back up to a narrow entrance leading
down to an underground complex that I was
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told was the fuer Bunker. It
had been Hitler's Berlin headquarters since the beginning
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of the year. Sounds of Wagner's
music drifted up from below as we descended
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the narrow stone stairs. When we
were deep underground. I suspected I was
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to meet once more with a man
I had avowed to kill in spite of
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the loyalty I held to my hypocritic
oath as a physician. Suddenly we were
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face to face. My escorts left
without a further word. Welcome to the
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fure bunker home. This is my
new home, yours too, so we
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may at last continue our devapy sessions. The bunker complex was well furnished,
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with fine carpets and oil paintings hanging
on the walls. Passages led up to
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other accommodations and facilities, but being
below the water table, it was prone
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to dampness, and the pumping system
ran constantly to remove ground order that collected
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in some tank. As for my
host, I saw at once that he
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was ailing. He was infirm,
and his gait was shuffling. He held
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his left arm that shook uncontrollably behind
his back. His weakness triggered an idea,
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A twisted use of lessons I've learned
from Freud against their therapeutic intent,
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a subliminal technique. I found you
again thanks to our friend Bernheim. You
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were a great disappointment to me.
Doctor continuing to avoid me like that,
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without warning and leaving no messages when
you changed your address, I'm sorry,
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I can't tell seeing your unknees.
It's best that we're together now. My
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practice diminished and I moved to a
smaller apartment further from the city center.
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I needed time to myself and to
keep in touch with my aging family.
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It's a difficult times, and certain
people must remain at their posts because of
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my strength. I haven't needed you
always, but when I need you,
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you must be prepared to sort of. We all have moments of weakness,
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and my mother was sick and failing. Then I found out I could not
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liberally in to visitor that I can
understand. And now my mother died and
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I've arranged care back in Sweden for
my aging father. Perhaps you started again
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to look for your former love,
the famous and beautiful miss Manlife. I
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could have strangled him for a moment, I genuinely thought it through. How
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long can I squeeze before his personal
guards burst in? If I was to
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die, I wanted to be certain
that he went with me. Instead,
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I forced myself to utter the awful
truth less than two hours old. She's
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dead. I no longer wish to
hear her name. Ah, yeah,
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I see you are looking at his
left arm of mine. It shakes.
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Yeah. You are human, fragile
as the rest of us. There is
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no shame in the weakness of a
human body. They tried to assassinate me
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again. This time they might have
succeeded, but once more I had my
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divine protection, but those around me
perished. They have been trying to kill
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me since nineteen thirty two and have
never succeeded. I shall never succeed.
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I shall kill myself before any of
them shall do so. To understand me,
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doctor, I knew then that my
task to destroy Hitler would be easier
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once he had voiced the possibility of
his own suicide. Of course, mine
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fere I had seven thousand arrested after
last July Treason's bombing attempt on my life.
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Seven thousand, almost five thousand of
them have now been executed. That's
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how I deal with treachery and betrayal. Doctor. Surely not all of those
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can have been guilty. Of course
they be guilty. If I say they
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be guilty, they be guilty.
You're right, I'm pure. The more
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they betray you, the more adamant
you must read to destroy them even to
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the last man. You see him. Now you agree with my methods.
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Do you know that I am protected
by even the youth of charming young angel
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also to die for the fear that
is loyalty, Doctor, Even from kindergarten,
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they rise up in my defense.
The Red Army may be approaching bellion,
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but they meet with the blazing file
of young Germanic intensity that would destroy
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them before they can impinge upon our
resolve for greater Germany. The younger they
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are, the more love, respect
and loyalty. They will have what they
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lack in physical strength. They will
provide in spiritual fortitude, much as you
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do in your weakened state. His
lack of ribottal was striking. A few
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years prior, such a comment would
have sent him into a rage. The
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sounds of the Russian army advancing from
the east and the north became ever more
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evident. During the brief periods I
was permitted to walk with him and his
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beloved German shepherd Bitch Blondie, and
the garden above my subterranean cellite quarters.
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Our therapy sessions hardly classified as such, academically, being having more to my
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listening to his ravings about Valhalla and
reincarnation, and his positive plans for the
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future, in spite of the overwhelming
odds against this ever happening, getting worse
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day by day. So what do
you suppose the Russian will do when they
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get there? I fear for the
cities, women and children. The Russian
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soldiers are not as moral and disciplined
as yours. My impure to say the
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least. They're savages. They come
to get you, they never get you.
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I am impregnable. It was just
the two of us. There was
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no audience. This conversation was not
being broadcast. Yet Is still maintained his
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fanatical bluster, playing to the back
row of the theater, even with an
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audience of one. But just supposing
they do reach this bunker, we are
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in an increasingly weakened position, are
we not. Where do you suppose will
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be the fate of the women and
the children? Have you considered what they
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will do to you? You never
listened to me, doctor, Did I
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not say, yeah, impregnable?
Heaven itself my collapse upon us if you
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shall remain safe within his forts.
I had a thousand year like so triumph
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over all opposition. In fact,
he'd only say he was impregnable. He
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turned and shuffled off, speaking to
one of the domestic attendants passing by,
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have someone show doctor Drum to his
quarters. After a couple of weeks closed
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certainly held against my will. When
the fewer barriers of his close associates,
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including the Gobble's family Joseph, his
wife, six children, five small daughters,
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and a young son, I began
to experienced symptoms that at first I
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put down to the food we were
being served. It was not particularly good
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and was being prepared in the cramped
and damp and environment in which we existed.
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Hitler, whose diet was vegetarian,
seemed not to be affected. His
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vegetarian choice was a contradiction that perhaps
troubled me all the more for his insistence
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it was out of concern for animals
suffering unwinding that alone would be enough to
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drive me mad. Regardless, I
continued to experience diarrhea, luring on my
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vision, and constant skin irritation.
I came to realize that it was me
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alone and I was being poisoned slowly, and the symptoms were those of slow
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poisoning with arsenic Such poisoning could only
be administered in food of beverages. So
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I stopped taking coffee and tea and
if it served to me individually, and
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I avoided food that could only been
purposely tainted for my consumption, and I
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immediately realized hitless intent. He,
of course, had been obsessing over what
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his enemies would do to him when
they reached his bunker. It was when
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now, not if he would not
be taken alive. If he was gone
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to be driven finally to commit suicide, those now around him, his loyal
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followers, would have to fall a
suit or be murdered the mutual suicide pacts.
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As he could not rely on my
compliance, he was killing me slowly
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and probably getting considerable my line satisfaction
while doing so. On April sixteenth,
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we heard that the Red Army had
surrounded the outskirts of Berlin, and emotional
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tension among the inhabitants of the bunker, except for Hitler increased. Conversations became
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stilted, and brief temper were on
the edge. Only the quiet background music
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of Wagner or Beethoven so often filled
the prolonged silence that were pervasive. By
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this time, I had become cautious
of anything I ate unless it was being
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generally consumed. Even then, I
ate and drank parsingly. On April the
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twentieth, the Red Army began shelling
Berlin. They could only be days away
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from our refuge. It happened to
be Hitler's fifty sixth birthday, and I
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allowed myself to enjoy some of his
special birthday cake and the other treats being
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served at our communal, though restrained
celebration. Subsequent days passed in rapid succession,
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while my symptoms continued unbaited, and
I was in fear of my survival.
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Somehow I had to stop ingesting the
poison I was being fed. And
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during this time Martin Bormann, Hitler's
private secretary, found a willing drinking partner
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in Hermann Fieedline, a lieutenant general
in the Baffin Essays attached to the bunker
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staff, a close associate of Himmler. He had been married for less than
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a year to Gretel Brown, Eva's
sister, so he was now her brother
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in law. As moral in our
tightly closed community continued to deteriorate, those
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two offers has made good use of
their time, invading the wine storage area
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and starting early in the mornings.
They were in a state of half ineberration
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most of the day, and Gretel
was on the verge of giving birth to
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the first child, and as a
consequence, Hermann had little time for her.
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Meanwhile, she and Eva remained title
bonded as loving sisters. By April
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twenty seven, Berlin was cut off
from the rest of Germany as Hitler's reserved
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forces failed to push back the Red
Army. It was that day that Hitler
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realized Fugeline was not at his post
in the fure of Bunker. It was
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a fact that among his colleagues,
Figeline was nicknamed Flageline, pertaining to the
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German word flakel an impertinent louts Fageline, find your putnent lout bringing me up
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me. Later that day, a
disheveled, half drunk Figion was brought back
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to the Bunker to face Hittler,
who was put into a locked cell while
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his captors reported to their few.
He had been found as his Berlin apartment,
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half drunk, civilian clothes with a
quantity of cash and jewelry, some
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of which belonged to Eva, in
preparation of fleeing to Sweden or Switzerland.
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Having been unwilling to engage in any
suicide packed that he was at least wise
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enough to know was coming. From
papers found in his briefcase, it appeared
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that his close associate Ss Richenfil Himmler
was currently in secret peace negotiations with Western
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Allies. The following day, the
twenty eight, Hitler heard of a BBC
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radio report confirming that Himmler had indeed
being negotiating with the Allies for peace terms.
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And this was perhaps the cruelest insult
of all to him. Then Rat
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Timbler, heavimnisted immediately and bringing to
me, I delivered him right here.
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That's a Fige line that deserted cooperating
with the Rat. I have him port
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marshaled. Set it up now today, right now, Chia and now I
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Jia, by stupid of all ranks
and honors, get on visits. At
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the rapid convene court martial head about
General Monk Herman Figlan was found guilty of
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desertion and sentenced to death. Despite
the pleading of his sister in Loeva,
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Hitler remained adamant that the sentence should
be carried out immediately. Figlin was taken
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up to the garden and shot in
the back of the head. A few
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minutes later, without any sign or
shred of emotion, Hitler told me he
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needed to speak to me privately,
to you and I've always been close,
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You've been inside my head. For
Heaven's sake, what can I do for
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Eva? She knows Fagline had to
be dead with but she's upset for her
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sisters sake. Will marry her,
Adolf, She will make you whole.
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He'd started letting me call him Adolf
and prout of other people. No one
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commented on it, but it was
the surest sign of his descent. Perhaps
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it made him feel good, like
we were actually friends here. Yes,
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as your enemies approached, of course, you will eventually defeat them. But
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it's quite romantic, don't you think
you know the mind of women as well?
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Doctor? The Greeks believed that when
two people are married, should they
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die, they travel to the underworld
together. I had no idea if that
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was true. I just made it
up on the spot, an appeal to
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hitless love of ancient mythology, one
last little punch off the edge of his
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psychological roof. Very well, Eva
and I are to be married tonight.
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A quiet ceremony, but just the
witness's present. Yeah, I'm very pleased
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for you both. They had been
married for some thirty hours before the following
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night. In the early hours of
April the thirtieth, I heard a gunshot.
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I was told later in the day
by Joseph Cobbles that if you were
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a NEIGHVA had medituside. I had
to admit I took a grim but significant
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satisfaction in death, and a cruel
smile tugged at my lips. True to
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his earlier pronouncement, Hitler has shot
himself after seeing Eva take a fatal dose
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of cyanide, and having swallowed the
same himself. He had foreseen his and
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her likely treatment had they fallen into
the hands of the Russians. Simple assassinations
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would not have been sufficient to satisfy
the invaders vengeful ambitions. Things were getting
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worse when I found out later in
the day that I had been locked inside
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my quarters. On the second day
of May, a god brought me food
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on a tray and informed me that
the Goubble's family were God. When I
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asked where, he pointed his forefinger
heavenwards and crossed himself all dead. He
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said the parents had apparently poisoned their
six small children and then committed suicide.
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I asked him what above those who
still remained. He said they were all
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planning to break out towards the West, hoping to surrender to the Americans rather
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than face the vengeful Russians. What
about me, I asked. He replied
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that he had been given orders to
keep me in prison, and he left
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me with a parting remark, It's
better for you. If the Russians find
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you as a prisoner, then maybe
they will let you out. I asked
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him, why should I not break
out with the wrist, to which he
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replied and be shot as the rest
of us probably will. He made a
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good case for my remaining as a
prisoner. Even if I was slowly dying
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from being poisoned. At least I
would not be served any more deadly food
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starvation seemed a better option here.
Now, reflecting on my old, too
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short, but at times painfully long
life, I've flushed this final serving of
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food and drink down the toilet,
as I've been doing ever since I've been
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locked in here. I'm getting weaker, but I must avoid dehydration to prolong
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my ability to survive. I dipped
a glass of water from the toilet tank
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as its refilled, and drank it
thirstily, and dipped another. Can I
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survive until the Russians come down?
Here? Will have just bombed the place
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from above to make sure there are
no survivors. Now, surely they will
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come down to find prisoners and search
for documents and booty. Do I know
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sufficient Russian to engage them enough to
have them release me and not to shoot
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me out of hand? As and
inconvenient obstacle? For all my study of
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languages when I was young, I
found French, German, English easy enough?
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Why didn't I try harder at Russia? I'm so tired. When I
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sleep, I can see Tilde and
how she was, so I just need
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to sleep to sleep. The Hitler
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