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Hitler’s Nurse Breaks Silence

From the BBC:

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 […]

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” […]

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 […]

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 […]

If this story of Adolf’s final frantic paranoid days doesn’t give you a touch of schadenfreude, well, then you’re probably Cynthia McKinney.

10 Replies to “Hitler’s Nurse Breaks Silence”

  1. Attila Girl says:

    Schadenfreude. Nice.

  2. Eric says:

    Before you know it… he’ll use “Weltschmertz”… and then where will we be?

  3. Well, I do feel bad about the Goebbels’ kids, but that’s about as far as my sympathy lay.

  4. Alpha Baboon says:

    Schadenfreude ? No… I got more of a sense of Fahrvergnuegen…

  5. Carin says:

    I really want to see Downfall ( I think that’s the name of it.) it is supposed to be excellent.  Last 10 days of Hitler, I think?

  6. PatCa says:

    I thought Downfall was pretty blah.  I’d recommend renting Max instead, for Hitler stories.

  7. Chrees says:

    “they were well-behaved and advised her to lock her door”

    Yeah, I mean if you overlook the indiscriminate killing of prisoners and gang-rapes, they were perfect gentlemen.

  8. JWebb says:

    Where Cynthia McKinney is concerned, there will never be enough Lebensraum.

  9. monkeyboy says:

    Chrees;

    Never thought that I would defend the Russians, but most Berliners said that the initial contacts they had with the front-line fighting troops went well. It the ones who came immediately after and stayed that were such animals.

  10. Jeff Goldstein says:

    Vodka and Kahlua.  Add cream, if you like your drinks thicker.

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