Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
The battle for Berlin was raging, but Hitler, hiding in the Reich chancellery, was still safe from the Soviet forces. On April 29, he married his lover, Eva Braun, and wrote his personal and political will. He named Martin Bormann as his deputy, and banished Goering and Himmler from the Party for their disloyalty to him in his final hours. He appointed Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz as president of the Reich and commander-in-chief of the armed forces. He delivered his
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
The great finale of the war, the battle for Berlin, began on April 21. Stalin suspected that the Western armies would attempt to jump the gun and claim the city before him. He also believed that the Germans preferred to surrender to the Western forces. Therefore, he instructed his two best generals, Georgi Zhukov and Ivan Stepanovich Konev, to occupy the city before the Western powers could. As they subjected Berlin to heavy bombardment, Konev and Zhukov´s troops occupied the
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Written by zachor_foundation on May 7, 2014
On May 3, the task of guarding the camp was handed to a police unit from Vienna. On May 4, the prisoners were not taken out to work and SS men were observed leaving the camp. That day, the commander of the bunker (prison) murdered all prisoners who had worked at the crematorium and the bunker (except for one). The camp was liberated at 11:30 a.m. the next day, May 5, as two American armored vehicles approached the camp gate
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