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April 13, 1945
Hitler bluffs from bunker as Russians advance and atrocities continue
On this day in 1945, Adolf Hitler proclaims from his underground
bunker that deliverance was at hand from encroaching Russian
troops--Berlin would remain German. A "mighty artillery is
waiting to greet the enemy," proclaims Der Fuhrer. This as
Germans loyal to the Nazi creed continue the mass slaughter of
Jews.
As Hitler attempted to inflate his troops' morale, German
soldiers, Hitler Youth, and local police chased 5,000 to 6,000
Jewish prisoners into a large barn, setting it on fire, in hopes
of concealing the evidence of their monstrous war crimes as the
end of the Reich quickly became a reality. As the Jewish victims
attempted to burrow their way out of the blazing barn, Germans
surrounding the conflagration shot them. "Several thousand people
were burned alive," reported one survivor. The tragic irony is
that President Roosevelt, had he lived, intended to give an
address at the annual Jefferson Day dinner in Washington, D.C.,
on that very day, proclaiming his desire for "an end to the
beginnings of all wars--yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman, and
thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between
governments."
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