Hitler bluffs from bunker as Russians advance and atrocities continue
On this day in 1945 Adolf Hitler proclaims from his underground bunker that deliverance was at hand from encroaching Russian troopsBerlin would remain German.A mighty artillery is waiting to greet the enemy proclaims Der Fuhrer.This as Germans loyal to the Nazi creed continue the mass slaughter of Jews.As Hitler attempted to inflate his troops morale German soldiers Hitler Youth and local police chased 5000 to 6000 Jewish prisoners into a large barn setting it on fire in hopes of concealing the evidence of their monstrous war crimes as the end of the Reich quickly became a reality.
As the Jewish victims attempted to burrow their way out of the blazing barn Germans surrounding the conflagration shot them.Several thousand people were burned alive reported one survivor.The tragic irony is that President Roosevelt had he lived intended to give an address at the annual Jefferson Day dinner in Washington D.C.
on that very day proclaiming his desire for an end to the beginnings of all warsyes an end to this brutal inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
