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waiting and longing for years: Hitler was dead.
Grand Admiral Dönitz announced in his radio
speech: “German men and women, soldiers of the
German army, our Führer, Adolf Hitler, has
fallen. The German people are bowed in sorrow
and reverence. . . . The Führer has appointed
me to be his successor.” And in an order of the
day to the German army Dönitz declared: “The
greatest hero in the history of Germany has
departed from the scene.”
To me this heroic death meant, so far as I could
see, that the point of departure of my negotiations
had been shifted. Earlier that day, immediately
after my return to Stockholm, I had had a
conference with Günther and Boheman, and I still
believed then that a solution could be found for the
problem of capitulation. Now all these hopes
were shattered. It was no longer Himmler who
occupied the dominant position, but Grand
Admiral Dönitz, who had been chosen instead as
Hitler’s successor. And Dönitz urged the
continuation of the struggle: “I take over the supreme
command of all branches of the armed forces with
the intention of carrying on the war. . . .”
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