alleged silencing of Heinrich Himmler

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alleged silencing of Heinrich Himmler

ON June 2, 1945 the popular British weekly magazine The Illustrated London News
published a whole page graphic depiction of the end of
Heinrich Himmler. It accorded with the official version — that he had killed himself. The page below is an image map: click each image to open a full scale enlargement in a new window. On a separate page the magazine also reproduced a picture of Himmler’s wife and daughter.

The accompanying text was closely based on the British army official press release:

Himmler,
Gestapo chief and the most sinister figure in
Germany, is dead. He committed suicide by taking
poison, just after 11 p.m.

on May 23
[1945] at the British Second Army HQ at
Lüneburg. Heinrich Himmler, disguised with
a black patch over one eye and with his
moustache shaved off, was arrested at
Bremervörde, north-east of Bremen detained,
searched and questioned at a nearby internment
camp[, and finally transferred to General
Dempsey’s HQ. There he was stripped for the
fourth time in order to make quite certain he
was not concealing poison.

The medical officer
asked him to open his mouth, but not being able
to see sufficiently well, took the prisoner over
to the window and told him to open his mouth
again. It
was as the doctor was putting a finger in
Himmler’s mouth that he saw the German bite on a
black dot, which proved to be the top of a phial
containing cyanide of potassium. Every effort
was made to save Himmler’s life, but without
success.

A message was then sent to Flensburg
asking the Supreme H.Q. control party there to
send representatives of the U.S an Russian
Armies to view the body.

Right:
Not from this article: The eyepatch worn by Himmler at the time of his arrest is now in a
Copenhagen special forces museum. His eyeglasses and other personal effects are in private hands in England. According to the museum description, the eye cover was handed over to a Danish intelligence officer while he was assisting the
British in questioning Himmler.