HITLER'S WILL

Evening Star, Issue 25701, 26 January 1946, Page 7

HITLER'S WILL

LAST SURVIVING WITNESS ARRESTED BY BRITISH (Rec. 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 25. General Nikolaus von Below, believed to be the last surviving witness of the personal will of Hitler, was arrested at Godesberg on January 9 ; _ reports Router's correspondent at British headquarters in Germany. Von Below, who was Hitler's air A.D.C.; and one of the earliest pilots of the secret German air force, was among those Nazi stalwarts who rallied to Hitler's side for the last stand in the Chancellery bunker. Von Below told British intelligence officers he w ( as not present at the Hitler marriage ceremony, hut saw the newly-weds with the registrar come from the room immediately after the ceremony. Later that night he was called into the room, where he found Hitler, Goebbels, and Bormann. Hitler toldl him that, as an old friend, he would like him to sign as one witness of his personal will. He added his signature after those of Bormann and Goebbels. He knew nothing of Hitler's political will. With Hit-, ler's permission, he escaped from Berlin a few hours before the Fuhrer's reported suicide in an endeavour _to make contact with Keitel, but being unable to do so, he took the identity of a law student attending Bonn University, and! hid for. several months near Godesberg, where he was arrested by British security (police.