David Irving responds:

HIS adjutants told me he refused. When Hermann Fegelein brought in photos of the hangings to show him, Hitler absent- mindedly picked one up, realised what it was a picture of, and angrily swept the rest of the heap of photos onto the floor, exclaiming that he wanted to move on — he did not want to be constantly reminded of the 20th of July.

From memory, I believe it was
Otto Günsche who described that to me as an eye-witness, or (more probably) Erik von Amsberg
or Johannes Göhler, Fegeleins’s adjutant, who died just a few weeks ago. It is in Hitler’s
War anyway.

Even more interesting is the story of the “filmed” brutal hangings of the conspirators on “piano wire”. In fact there is evidence that the whole scene was enacted by a film crew supplied by British
Intelligence, and the film was released at the end of
1944 by MI6 in Switzerland for foreign attachés to watch, who believed it was the real thing. There is an interesting correspondence in the Goebbels propaganda ministry papers about this fiendish trick of the perfidious British.

I mentioned it in my Goebbels biography.

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