Said a SHAEF spokesman last week, summing up the Hitler situation: "We have every reason to believe he is dead, but no evidence that he is not still alive."
The Führer's chauffeur, slim, blue-eyed Erich Kempka, told U.S. interrogators that he had helped burn the bodies of Hitler and his newlywed mistress, Eva Braun. Kempka's story:
He last saw Hitler alive on April 29 in the Führer's shelter at the Berlin Reichs-Chancellery. He was "quiet and normal." The next afternoon Elite Guard Leader Otto Guensche telephoned Kempka to get a quantity of gasoline and...
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