Few believed the claim by Adolf Hitler and his loyal followers that Germany could still achieve an "Endsieg," or final victory. [...] anyone found listening to enemy radio risked a death sentence as the dictatorship tried desperately to hide what was happening from its own people, even as many German cities lay in ruins. The Nazis' propaganda machine went into overdrive, stoking fear of what their enemies — particularly the Soviets — would do to German civilians they captured. Effective methods of suicide became an everyday topic of conversation and German authorities handed out cyanide capsules to thousands in Berlin alone in spring 1945. By that time a once-proud country had been reduced to rubble, in part by German troops themselves acting on Hitler's orders to leave nothing but scorched earth behind them. Retreating German troops also sought to destroy evidence of their own atrocities, especially the concentration camps where 6 million Jews died along with political prisoners, gypsies, homosexuals and others.
Comment on Berlin exhibition evokes final months of WWII
By FRANK JORDANS, Associated Press, Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Living
Wed, 12/17/2014 - 11:50am
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