Another Top Secret cable from Berlin to Moscow to keep Stalin apprised of the rather dynamic environment post-war Germany is undergoing. In this short (and partially-redacted) declassified account from a Soviet agent in Berlin, some details are provided of the large-scale British operation to apprehend the Dönitz government, carried out on 23 May. The authorContinueContinue reading “28 May 1945: Dönitz Government Apprehended, Himmler Commits Suicide”
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16 May 1945: Positive ID of of Hitler and Goebbels Corpses Amidst Early Days of Berlin Post-War Recovery
Yet another in the series of Top Secret reports submitted from Berlin by an unidentified deep-cover “illegal,” one of many keeping Moscow informed of how things are working out in Germany in the early days after the war. In this excerpt, the author indicates that Berlin appears to be somewhat on the rebound, following theContinueContinue reading “16 May 1945: Positive ID of of Hitler and Goebbels Corpses Amidst Early Days of Berlin Post-War Recovery”
6 May 1945: Moscow Learns Sparse Details of the Suicides of Hitler and Goebbels
Within hours of his suicide on 30 April 1945, Soviet authorities were already learning of his death through members of a new German government, hoping to negotiate a surrender to Marshal Zhukov. Two days later, the head of that new German government, Joseph Goebbels, had also taken his life, along with that of his wifeContinueContinue reading “6 May 1945: Moscow Learns Sparse Details of the Suicides of Hitler and Goebbels”
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