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\"Hitler\u2019s
Adolf Hitler had an undeniable charisma that ultimately drove an entire nation to commit some of history\u2019s most egregious atrocities.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Those who knew him well described Adolf Hitler as inexplicably mesmerizing. There remains but a single eleven-minute recording of Hitler engaged in normal conversation. Scads of his speeches are available, but then he was always in theatrical mode. His conversational voice, even for a guy like me who doesn\u2019t speak German, is frankly unsettling. It\u2019s like listening to the Devil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hitler\u2019s
Hitler was a frustrated artist at heart. Had he been accepted one of the two times he applied to art school in Vienna he might have frittered away his life in harmless anonymity.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hitler was not a terribly imposing man physically. He stood five foot nine and was said to have a clammy handshake. He purportedly had difficulty with small talk and was awkward one-on-one. He was most at home working a crowd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hitler\u2019s
Hitler supposedly suffered from some truly epic flatulence when he got tooled up over something.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hitler suffered from meteorism (uncontrollable farting) resulting from a genetic predilection combined with a vegan diet. The condition purportedly worsened when he got agitated. Perhaps that\u2019s why all those old Nazis standing around him in period photos look so grim all the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Could This Happen?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\"Hitler\u2019s
The outsized impact Hitler\u2019s evil wrought upon the world touched literally everyone on the planet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Way smarter folk than I have exhaustively analyzed most every moment of Hitler\u2019s life from his humble beginning in Austria in 1889 all the way up to his gory demise at age 56 in 1945. We are drawn out of morbid fascination. It\u2019s like watching a train wreck. It\u2019s tough to turn away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hitler\u2019s
Individual psychopaths are an unfortunate part of the human condition. A whole society of them is something else entirely.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It is not surprising that an isolated aberrant personality could commit some egregious crime. Prisons are brimming with folks who are just not wired correctly. The extraordinary thing about Hitler\u2019s Nazis, however, was that they did those horrible things en masse. There were certainly voices that spoke out against the Final Solution and Hitler\u2019s plan for world domination, but most period Germans just went along with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hitler\u2019s
Hitler was the catalyst behind one of history\u2019s darkest cultures. Mind that right hand, you perv.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I once read some fascinating commentary penned by a Jewish author that postulated that the German people under the Nazis were not unique or even unusual. As individuals, they were stratified along the spectrum of good and evil just like any other developed culture. What drove them to do what they did was their unique circumstances catalyzed by Hitler\u2019s diabolical leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hitler\u2019s
These self-righteous reprobates were legendarily repugnant. However, we shouldn\u2019t feel that we are somehow innately better or immune to such as this. Displacing such darkness requires eternal vigilance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This author posited that every society has its death camp guards. There is the college professor who holds your future in his hands and revels in that power. The police officer who pathologically enjoys deciding who goes to jail and who walks is another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hitler\u2019s
Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Nazi SS, supposedly fell ill upon visiting the death camps. Here he is seen at Dachau in 1936.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In a normal culture, these people live fruitful lives and retire with the heartfelt gratitude of the people they served. However, put these same personalities in the sort of dysfunctional world that birthed the Nazis and those darker attributes would be more radically expressed. I perused that decades ago and was moved by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Setting the Stage<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\"Hitler\u2019s
This is an external view of the Fuhrerbunker. It was to become Hitler\u2019s last redoubt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Hitler\u2019s
Toward the end, the pressures of being the world\u2019s most megalomaniacal despot began to take its toll. Drugs, assassination attempts, and paranoia had reduced Hitler to a shell of his former self.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hitler locked himself in his Fuhrerbunker in Berlin with the world around him in flames. Germany faced total collapse, and Soviet troops were swarming westward. Hitler issued commands to nonexistent armies all the while growing more morose, desperate, and agitated. As the end grew near he wed his mistress Eva Braun in a small civil ceremony attended by his closest aides and prepared to die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hitler\u2019s
The desecration of Mussolini\u2019s corpse by Italian partisans had a powerful effect on Hitler.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On 28 April 1945, Hitler got word that Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci had been killed and their corpses mutilated. Here are the details\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Megalomaniac Who Inspired World War 2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hitler\u2019s
In earlier times Hitler practiced his fiery oratory in private. By the end, he was a thoroughly broken man.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This news unsettled Hitler, and he resolved to choreograph his own demise so as to prevent such ignominy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hitler\u2019s
Hitler\u2019s Schutzstaffel or SS was originally formed as his personal bodyguard. At the end its members helped facilitate his death.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hitler had conferred previously with SS doctor Werner Hasse on the most effective means of committing suicide. Dr. Hasse counseled Hitler to use a combination of cyanide and a self-inflicted gunshot to reliably ensure his timely death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Anatomy of a Cyanide Capsule<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\"Hitler\u2019s
Just in case you needed another reason to hate the guy, Hitler whacked his favorite dog just to make sure his cyanide capsules were potent.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hitler tested a cyanide capsule given to him by another SS physician named Ludwig Stumpfegger on his beloved Alsatian Shepherd, Blondi. Despite an intimate relationship with this dog, Der Fuhrer purportedly showed no emotion as he watched his faithful companion die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hitler\u2019s
Here\u2019s the brass container that carried the sorts of cyanide capsules Himmler and Goering used to off themselves at the end. Www.worldwarsupply.com<\/a> can sell you a replica for $19.95. They also have scads of other cool military stuff as well.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Cyanide is a chemical compound containing carbon atoms triple-bonded to nitrogen. Inorganic salts containing these compounds such as sodium cyanide or potassium cyanide are legendarily toxic. Cyanide ions disrupt cellular respiration and prevent cells from utilizing oxygen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hitler\u2019s
Young studs like these from the wartime British Special Operations Executive occasionally carried cyanide capsules to be used in the event of capture.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Cyanide ingestion causes shortness of breath, seizures, low blood pressure, and, ultimately, cardiac arrest. Weaponized cyanide of the sort used by Hitler was expected to kill within about three minutes. The British issued rubberized cyanide capsules to the Norwegian commandos who undertook Operation Gunnerside, the successful covert attack on the German heavy water production facility at the Vemork hydroelectric plant in Norway in 1943.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hitler\u2019s
The Nazis went through tons of Zyklon B cyanide feeding the death camps.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Though I\u2019ve never myself had the pleasure, I am told that hydrogen cyanide gas smells strongly of burnt almonds. It seems fitting that the active ingredient in Zyklon B that the Nazis used in the gas chambers at the death camps was the same compound used to kill Hitler. During the course of the war, they used some 56 tons of the vile stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Condemned Monster Betrayed<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\"Hitler\u2019s
Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, tried to make a separate peace with the Allies.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Hitler\u2019s
Hermann Goering turned on Hitler when he thought it might save his own skin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The apex of power attracts sycophants and opportunists. As a result, as the end grew near many of Hitler\u2019s mignons began quietly planning for a world without Der Fuhrer. These little individualized escape plans added to the pervasive chaos of the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hitler\u2019s
SS Gruppenfuhrer Hermann Fegelein was one of the last people Hitler had executed. His rank was the equivalent to a two-star General.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hitler was ultimately betrayed by both Hermann Goering and Heinrich Himmler. In a rage he had Himmler\u2019s representative at the Fuhrerbunker, Hermann Fegelein, shot for desertion. It didn\u2019t help that Fegelein, who was also Eva Braun\u2019s brother-in-law, was caught intoxicated while wearing civilian clothes and carrying a satchel full of cash from a variety of nationalities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Monster\u2019s Guns<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\"Hitler\u2019s
The Walther PPK was offered in .22LR, .25ACP, .32ACP, and .380ACP. The .25ACP is an adorable little quarter-inch cartridge that will just barely kill you.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hitler perennially carried a Walther PPK chambered in .25ACP in a holster sewed into his trousers. He also packed a bulkier PP in .32ACP as a service sidearm on his belt. There was additionally an ornate engraved PP pistol with reliable ties to the dictator serendipitously discovered in Munich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hitler\u2019s
Hitler\u2019s gold Walther PP was a birthday gift. This is a photograph of the actual pistol. The inscription on the left side of the slide reads, \u201cEhrengabe der Familien Walther\u201d meaning \u201cHonor Gift of the Families Walther.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hitler\u2019s engraved PP was a gift from the Walther Company commemorating his 50th<\/sup> birthday in 1939. Featuring a gold washed finish, ivory grips, and extensive engraved scrollwork, the gun was discovered in a wall safe in Hitler\u2019s Munich apartment by three US GI\u2019s who happened upon the dictator\u2019s dwelling. This unique firearm came to America as war booty after having been pilfered in the latter stages of the war in 1945.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hitler\u2019s
Hitler\u2019s decorative Walther PP was one gaudy piece of kit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hitler\u2019s ornate PP last sold at auction in 1987 for $114,000. At the time this was the greatest price ever realized for any piece of military memorabilia. As the buyer was anonymous the whereabouts of this remarkable pistol are unknown today, though rumor has it the gun left the country after the sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hitler\u2019s
The Walther PP shown here was a slightly longer version of the Polizeipistole Kriminal (Detective Model) or PPK.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Hitler\u2019s
The Walther PP-series of pistols has been one of the most enduring handgun designs ever produced. It remains in production in several guises today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Walther PP was first introduced in 1929. This trim little automatic pioneered the use of the Single Action\/Double Action trigger system in a concealable autoloading handgun. We have covered the development of the PP and PPK in detail previously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hitler Meets his End<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
\"Hitler\u2019s
Hitler\u2019s relationship with Eva Braun was a poorly-kept secret. They died together in his study in the Fuhrerbunker.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What follows is the official version of events in the Fuhrerbunker on 30 April 1945. At 1430 hours Hitler and Eva Braun retreated into his personal study with Soviet troops less than 500 meters away. Braun used a cyanide capsule and died. Hitler bit cyanide and purportedly shot himself in the right temple with the larger of his two Walthers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hitler\u2019s
The .32ACP Walther PP was a suboptimal combat implement. However, at contact range it was just the ticket to put paid to one of the most evil men who ever lived.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hitler\u2019s Adjutant Sturmbannfuhrer Otto G\u00fcnsche stated during a post-war interrogation that Hitler “sat … sunken over, with blood dripping out of his right temple. He had shot himself with his own pistol, a Walther PPK 7.65.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hitler\u2019s
The Walther PP (top) and the PPK were very similar weapons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We presume the description of the gun as a PPK to be a translational error. Hitler\u2019s service pistol was recognized as a PP. The gun and an empty cartridge case lay on the floor by the dead dictator\u2019s feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hitler\u2019s
This is the Fuhrerbunker after the Soviets blew it to hell.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Some reports had Hitler shooting himself in the mouth. There have also been allegations that Hitler\u2019s valet Heinz Linge actually did the shooting. Regardless, the bodies were placed in a shell crater in the Reich Chancellery Garden outside the bunker, soaked in some 200 liters of petrol, and burned for more than two hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hitler\u2019s
Comparisons with his dental records confirmed that Hitler died in April of 1945.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Soviet archives assert that the remains of Hitler and Braun were then sequentially interred in a variety of locations until 1946. They were then purportedly exhumed in 1970, cremated, and the ashes scattered. Hitler\u2019s corpse was positively identified via comparison of his lower jaw to his dental records in 1945.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hitler\u2019s
Conspiracy theories about Hitler\u2019s final hours persist to this day. However, independent reviewers verified that the corpse found by the Soviet secret police unit SMERSH in the Reich Chancellery was indeed that of Adolf Hitler.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Details of the autopsy were released by the Soviets in 1968. A team of American odontologists at UCLA used these records to confirm their findings in 1972.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hitler\u2019s
The Allies planned for a scenario wherein Hitler tried to flee in disguise after the war was lost.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Rumors concerning the death of the fascist dictator have persisted to the present. Stalin claimed Hitler survived the war and fled to South America. In 1944 the US military commissioned artists to create images of Hitler in various disguises to be used in identifying him should he attempt to run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hitler\u2019s
This nutjob caused the world no end of trouble. The gun that finally killed him was lost in the chaos of the end of the war.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The two Walthers Hitler had in his possession at the time of his death have subsequently been lost. They could have been taken by rampaging Soviet troops or hidden away by a member of his inner circle present at the end. Either way, there yet remains the possibility that tucked away in a shoebox in the back of a closet someplace rests a couple of truly remarkable pistols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hitler\u2019s
Appropriately enough, there is a children\u2019s playground on the site where Hitler\u2019s body was burned today. This is purportedly a photograph of it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Special thanks to www.worldwarsupply.com for the cool replica gear used in our photographs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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