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04-25-2005, 12:12 PM
Mussolini shot, Himmler suggested surrender
By MURRAY CAMPBELL
Monday, April 25, 2005 Updated at 7:38 AM EST
Globe and Mail Update
The end was coming so quickly it must have been hard to separate one significant historical moment from another. Every day in the last part of April, 1945, the newspapers carried headlines that chronicled the certain demise of the Nazi empire and there was no time to pause to reflect on what was happening.
One day brought news that Soviet troops had surrounded Berlin and the next that they had linked up with U.S. soldiers to bisect Germany.
At the same time, the Italian dictator, Mussolini, was captured and executed and Heinrich Himmler, declaring Germany to be a madhouse, was negotiating a surrender.
But the Second World War was not over yet despite the pell-mell sequence of events. Commanders of British, U.S. and Canadian forces may have been reluctant to commit their troops when the outcome was so inevitable and German soldiers were surrendering in the tens of thousands
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By MURRAY CAMPBELL
Monday, April 25, 2005 Updated at 7:38 AM EST
Globe and Mail Update
The end was coming so quickly it must have been hard to separate one significant historical moment from another. Every day in the last part of April, 1945, the newspapers carried headlines that chronicled the certain demise of the Nazi empire and there was no time to pause to reflect on what was happening.
One day brought news that Soviet troops had surrounded Berlin and the next that they had linked up with U.S. soldiers to bisect Germany.
At the same time, the Italian dictator, Mussolini, was captured and executed and Heinrich Himmler, declaring Germany to be a madhouse, was negotiating a surrender.
But the Second World War was not over yet despite the pell-mell sequence of events. Commanders of British, U.S. and Canadian forces may have been reluctant to commit their troops when the outcome was so inevitable and German soldiers were surrendering in the tens of thousands
...more... (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050425.wxwar25/BNStory/National/)