Himmler’s mysterious death in 1945 — Jan 2005 (01 Jan 2005 #7386)

The Himmler Hitler Heydrich Jäckel Auschwitz Wannsee conference Selkirk Panton was a Daily Express journalist who covered Berlin, like Louis Lochner and William Shirer, for twelve years. His papers are in the National Library of Australia. Attached to the British Second Army HQ, he witnessed the events after Himmler’s death in May 1945.

Man Sydney, Australia, May 1954 FACT The Man who killed Millions by Selkirk Panton THE Brigadier, with a nonchalant gesture, pulled back the grey British Army blanket and said: “There he is — he’s very dead!” There was no doubt about that. The man lay flat on his back on the bare boards of the suburban parlour. The red plush furniture had been pushed