BASED ON TELEGRAMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 122, 25 May 1945, Page 5

BASED ON TELEGRAMS

DOENITZ'S CLAIM TO BE FUHRER LONDON, May 23. The Allied authorities have discovered that Doenitz received three telegrams from Berlin during the last days which were the only documents on which he based his claim that he had been appointed to succeed Hitler. The first, which was from Bormann, deputy leader of the Nazi Party, said merely that Doenitz had been appointed to succeed Hitler. This was dated April 28. The second, also from Bormann and dated April 30, said that Hitler had made a last will, in which he appointed Doenitz as the Fuhrer, Goebbels as Prime Minister, and SeyssInquart as Foreign Minister. The third and last telegram came from Goebbels on May 1, and said: "The Fuhrer died at 3.30 p.m. today. Take whatever measures you think necessary." Doenitz told the Allied authorities that Bormann was to send him a written copy of Hitler's will, but this apparently never arrived. HITLER AS AESTHETE LONDON, May 24. The British United Press correspondent at Berchtesgaden says that ■ Fraulein Schroeder, who was Hitler's secretary since he first achieved power, declared that Hitler, when not working, talked about music, architecture, and the theatre while Berlin burned in iiiiiiiiitiuiiiiiiiiiliiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiitiiitiiiiiiMliimiiiiiiiiiliiii

the battle for the capital. He talked at midnight parties of plans for rebuilding the German cities. Hitler preferred night to day. He and his staff' began work in the evening and continued through the night. Towards the end he became most depressed, had premonitions, and felt that his assassination was being plotted. " Hitler declared that there was no one to succeed him. Goering had lost the people's sympathy, and the party rejected Himmler, whom Hitler described as completely unaesthetic.