HITLER POISONED

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 22, 26 July 1945, Page 7

HITLER POISONED

OPINION OF HiMMLER SATELLITE

LONDON, July 25.*

,Hitler was deliberately poisoned by Himmler or an accomplice, according to statements by highly-placed persons, says the "Daily Express." One of them is Count Bernadotte, vice-president of the Swedish Red Cross, who was . Himmler's first peace agent. The other is Walter Schellenberg, Himmler's right-hand man, who has been brought to London for questioning. Count Bernadotte's story, says the "Express," is that early in April Himmler was thinking of poisoning Hitler with medicine prepared by, Professor Max Decrines, of Cologne University. He recalls that Himmler had. , predicted the probable date of the Vdeath of Hitler, who was said at that time to be seriously ill. Himmler's ambition was to seize power in Germany, and Schellenberg was anxious to help his master, Himmler. According to Schellenberg, Professor Decriiies had pronounced Hitler to be a victim : of Parkinson's disease, an obscure malady which affects the brain, makes the face mask, and causes loss of limb, control. ' V Schellenberg says Hitler died on April 27, and he is satisfied that "medicine" caused his death, though he does not know who gave it. » The attempt on Hitler's life in July, 1944, failed because an officer detailed to plant the bomb lost his nerve, says Fraulein Erika Mayer. She is aged 24 and was sentneced to five years' imprisonment for her part in the plot. Fraulein Mayer said that one officer among the conspirators knew he would probably lose his life when the suitcase containing the bomb was placed alongside Hitler's desk at hisheadquarters. At the last moment he called Hitler out of the room so that Hitler was not in the room when the bomb exploded, but. he was slightly injured" by blast and -flying debris. The officer was (promoted to the rank of major, but his connection with the plot was discov- ' ered later and he was shot by SS , troops. - * t"