Himmler’s mysterious death in 1945 — Jan 2005 (01 Jan 2005 #7390)

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 Himmlers death in May 1945. The Panton papers contain the original typed wire messages he sent to London from Germany reporting Himmler’s death.

The language used is “journalist Telegraphese” – calculated to reduce the number of words charged for. Telegraphese has been expanded for readbility below, but spelling and punctuation errors are not corrected.