‘This telegram sent Hitler into a rage’
One week before Adolf Hitler committed suicide in a bunker as Soviet troops approached Berlin, his right-hand man radioed the nazi leader. German military politician Hermann Goering said in a transcribed telegram that he planned to take over the country, sending the fascist dictator into a furious frenzy, one expert told The Boston Globe.
“It’s the part of the Third Reich which I really enjoy, which is seeing it come apart,’’ Natick’s Museum of World War II founder Kenneth Rendell told The Globe.
“This telegram sent Hitler into a rage. His trusted adviser, his second-in-command had turned on him… I just couldn’t let it go.’’
Hitler denounced Goering upon receiving the message, deeming him a traitor and calling for his arrest.
The telegram, which experts told The Globe is likely the original and only copy, will debut this week at the Museum of World War II. Rendell told The Globe it cost $55,000 — almost four times as much as auctioneers thought it would garner.
Read the whole Globe story here.
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