International: Unconfirmed

  • Interesting but unconfirmed reports from Europe last week: Hitler was a papa. Last fortnight the Russians found evidence that he and Eva Braun, long his housemate, married just before Berlin fell. Stockholm rumormongers heard that they had two children —a son five years old, a daughter four years old.*

    if The Russians had caught Martin Bormann, a powerful but little-known party leader who, toward the end, was the Nazi closest to Hitler.

    * "I should love nothing more dearly than a family," Adolf Hitler told the Nazi Women's Auxiliary before the war. "When I feel I have accomplished my historic mission, I intend to enjoy the private life which I have thus far denied myself."