“By April 20, Adolf Hitler’s birthday, there was still no sign of the Soviets in the city. . . . This day, the usual propaganda pronouncements promised a swift defeat of the approaching Allied armies, then called on German teenagers to join the home guard defending the Reich. Many Berliners still believed some last-minute German miracle would scatter their enemies, a last-gasp aura of the “master race” invincibility that the German people had made an article of faith since Hitler’s rise to power. There were even rumors going around of a mysterious and frightful new super weapon that would turn back the enemy at the gates.”
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–From “Berlin Stories” in THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF AMERICA AT WAR: Untold Tales from Yorktown to Fallujah
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in the small Austrian town of Braunau am Inn, in Upper Austria on the Austrian-German border. The BBC offers this timeline of his life and death.
