MYSTERY OF HITLER

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 133, 7 May 1945, Page 2

MYSTERY OF HITLER

3.15 P.M. EDITION

CAUSE OF DEATH DISPUTED, GERMAN DOCTOR'S STORY. (N.Z. Press Assouiation. Copyright. ) (Roe. 1.40 p.m.) LONDON, May 6. Major Erwin Giesing, the dontor who examined Hitler alter the bomb attempt last July and regularly since to February 15, believes it most unlikely that Hitler died from cerebral haemorrhage as Htmmler suggested, says the

Times correspondent in Bavaria. Dr Giesing said: "He was sound in heart and lungs and above the average health for a 55-year-old. His condition could not have so deteriorated in 10 weeks as to make cerebral haemorrhage possible." When Giesing was summoned to examine Hitler and 21 members of the General Staff injured in the bomb incident, ho noticed ho was unable to hear the higher harmonics of tbe violins in the overture to Wagner's "Lohengrin." His impaired bearing made it difficult for him to control his voice and he spoke loudly. Giesing found Hitler's eardrums perforated by the explction which tore his trousers to shreds and caused superficial injuries to his hands and logs. When Giesing last saw Hitler he noticed the Fuehrer had lost some weight and he was pale. Hitler said the war was going badly and ho added that if tbe worst happened he would fall leading his' troops in

battle. Giesing asked whether he should evacuate his family from Dusseldorf, but Hitler assured him they were safe there because the West Wall was invulnerable Giesing commented: "To Hitler everything was possible. That was his and Germany's undoing." Giesing's account of the bomb incident shows that the course of history might have boon different if July 20, 1944, had not been a hot day at Hitler's headquarters causing the windows to he wide open so that the blast from the bomb dissipated. Giesing is probably the only man who could positively identify Hitler's body, lie has X-ray photographs of Hitler's teeth and oars and knows the exact position of the scars caused by the bomb.