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Last Will And Political Testament By Adolf Hitler Berlin, April 29, 1945

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Updated: Feb 18


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Introduction


On April 29, 1945, Hitler calmly dictated a private and a political last will and testament. The private will discussed personal matters with regard to his possessions and family, and the political will was meant to be a last political statement.


Hitler used this document—his last ever public statement— to once again point out that he had tried everything possible to avoid the war.


Three copies of the testaments were smuggled out of the already besieged Reichs Chancellery area of Berlin. They were given to three trusted men:


Deputy press attaché, Heinz Lorenz

Hitler's army adjutant Willy Johannmeyer

Martin Bormann’s adjutant SS-Standartenführer Wilhelm Zander


All three escaped from Berlin, and were apprehended by British or American forces.


The testaments ended up being preserved in British and US archives, but were released to the general public in 1946.


Hitler's Political Testament


Since 1914, when as a volunteer, I made my modest contribution in the World War which was forced upon the Reich, over thirty years have passed.


In these three decades, only love for my people and loyalty to my people have guided me in all my thoughts, actions, and life. They gave me the strength to make the most difficult decisions, such as no mortal has yet had to face. I have exhausted my time, my working energy, and my health in these three decades.


It is untrue that I or anybody else in Germany wanted war in the year 1939. It was desired and instigated exclusively by those international statesmen who were either of Jewish origin or working for Jewish interests. I have made so many offers for the reduction and elimination of armaments, which posterity cannot explain away for all eternity, that the responsibility for the outbreak of this war cannot rest on me. Furthermore, I never desired that after the first terrible World War a second war should arise against England or even against America. Centuries may pass, but out of the ruins of our cities and monuments of art the hatred will arise and be constantly renewed against the people which is alone ultimately responsible: International Jewry and its assistants!


As late as three days before the outbreak of the German-Polish War, I proposed to the British Ambassador in Berlin a solution for the German-Polish problem -- similar to the problem of the Saar area, under international control. This offer cannot be explained away, either. It was only rejected because the responsible circles in English politics wanted the war, partly in the expectation of business advantages, partly driven by propaganda promoted by international Jewry.


But I left no doubt about the fact that if the peoples of Europe were again only regarded as so many packages of stock shares by these international money and finance conspirators, then that race, too, which is the truly guilty party in this murderous struggle would also have to be held to account: the Jews! I further left no doubt that this time we would not permit millions of European children of Aryan descent to die of hunger, nor millions of grown-up men to suffer death, nor hundreds of thousands of women and children to be burned and bombed to death in their cities, without the truly guilty party having to atone for its guilt, even if through more humane means.


After six years of struggle, which in spite of all reverses will go down in history as the most glorious and most courageous manifestation of a people's will to live. I cannot separate myself from the city which is the capital of this Reich. Because our forces are too few to permit any further resistance against the enemy's assaults, and because individual resistance is rendered valueless by blinded and characterless scoundrels, I desire to share the fate that millions of others have taken upon themselves, in that I shall remain in this city. Furthermore, I do not want to fall into the hands of enemies who for the delectation of the hate-riddled masses require a new spectacle promoted by the Jews.


I have therefore resolved to remain in Berlin and there to choose death of my own will at the very moment when, as I believe, the seat of the Fuehrer and Chancellor can no longer be defended. I die with a joyful heart in the awareness the immeasurable deeds and achievements of our soldiers at the front, of our women at home, the achievements of our peasants and workers, and the contribution, unique in history, of our youth, which bears my name.


It goes without saying that I thank them all from the bottom of my heart and that it is also my desire that in spite of everything they should not give up the struggle, but continue fighting wherever they may be, faithful to the great Clausewitz, against the enemies of the Fatherland. From the sacrifices of our soldiers and from my own comradeship with them, there will come in one way or another into German history the seed of a brilliant renaissance of the National Socialist movement and thus the realization of a true national community.


Many very brave men and women have resolved to link their lives to mine to the very end. I have requested them, and finally ordered them, not to do so, but instead to take part in the continuing struggle of the nation. I ask the commanders of the army, navy, and air force to strengthen by all possible means the spirit of resistance of our soldiers in the spirit of National Socialism, emphasizing especially that I too, as founder and creator of this movement, have preferred death to cowardly flight or even capitulation.


May it be one day a part of the code of honour; as it is already in the navy, that the surrender of an area or of a town is impossible, and above all in this respect the leaders should give a shining example of faithful devotion to duty unto death.



Before my death I expel the former Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering and deprive him of all the rights he may enjoy by virtue of the decree of June 29, 1941, and also by virtue of my statement in the Reichstag on September 1, 1939. I appoint in his place Grossadmiral Doenitz as President of the Reich and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces.


Before my death I expel the former Reichsfuehrer-SS and Minister of the Interior Heinrich Himmler from the Party and all offices of state. In his place I appoint Gauleiter Karl Hanke as Reichsfuehrer-SS and Chief of the German Police and Gauleiter Paul Giesler as Reich Minister of the Interior.


Goering and Himmler, by their secret negotiations with the enemy, without my knowledge or approval, and by their illegal attempts to seize power in the state, quite apart from their treachery to my person, have brought irreparable shame to the country and the whole people.


In order to give the German people a government composed of honourable men, who will fulfil their duty of continuing the war by all available means, I, as the Fuehrer of the nation, nominate the following members of the new Cabinet:


President of the Reich: Doenitz;

Chancellor of the Reich: Dr. Goebbels;

Party Minister: Bormann;

Foreign Minister: Seyss-Inquart;

Minister of the Interior: Gauleiter Giesler;

Minister for War: Doenitz;

C.-in-C. of the Army: Schoerner;

C.-in-C. of the Navy: Doenitz;

C.-in-C. of the Air Force: Greim;

Reichsfuehrer-SS and Chief of the German Police: Gauleiter Hanke;

Economics: Funk;

Agriculture: Backe;

Justice: Thierack;

Culture: Dr. Scheel;

Propaganda: Dr. Naumann;

Finance: Schwerin-Krossigk;

Labor: Dr. Hupfater;

Munitions: Saur;

Leader of the German Labor Front and Member of the Reich Cabinet: Reichminister Dr. Ley


Several of these men such as Martin Bormann, Dr. Goebbels, etc., together with their wives, have joined me by their own free will and do not wish to leave the capital of the Reich under any circumstances, but on the contrary are willing to perish with me here. Yet I must ask them to obey my request, and in this instance place the interests of the nation above their own feelings.


Through their work and loyalty they will remain just as close to me as companions after my death, just as I hope that my spirit will remain amongst them and will always accompany them. Let them be hard, but never unjust; above all, let them never allow fear to counsel their actions, but may they place the honor of the nation above everything on this earth. Finally, may they be conscious of the fact that our 3 task of building a National Socialist state represents the labour of the coming centuries, and this places every single person under an obligation always to serve the common interest and to subordinate his own interests. I demand of all Germans, all National Socialists, men and women and all soldiers of the Armed Forces, that they remain faithful and obedient to the new government and to their President unto death.


Above all, I charge the leadership of the nation and their followers with the strict observance of the racial laws and with merciless resistance against the universal poisoners of all peoples, international Jewry.


Adolf Hitler


Witnesses:


Dr. Joseph Goebbels

Wilhelm Burgdorf

Martin Bormann

Hans Krebs


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Hitler's Last Will


My Private Will and Testament


Since I did not think I should take the responsibility of entering into marriage during the years of combat, I have decided now before termination of life on this earth, to marry the women who, after many years of true friendship, entered voluntarily into this already almost besieged city, to share my fate.


She goes to death with me as my wife, according to her own desire.

Death will replace for us that of which my work in the service of my people robbed us.


What i own belongs - as far as it is of any value at all - to the party.

Should the party no longer exist it will belong to the state. Should the state also be destroyed, any further decision from me is no longer necessary.


The paintings in the collection I have bought during the years have never been acquired for private purposes, but always exclusively for the creation of an art gallery in my native town of Linz a.d. Donau. It is my heartfelt desire that this legacy be fulfilled.


My most faithful party member Martin Borman shall be the executor of this testament. He is authorized to make all decisions top be final and legal. He is permitted to take everything which either has personal souvenir value or which is necessary for maintenance of a small bourgeois household and to give it to my brothers and siters, and besides especially to the mother of my wife and my faithful co-workers who all are well to him. There are most of all my secretaries, Mrs Winter etc., who for many years gave me loyal co-operation.


Myself and my wife choose death to escape the disgrace of being forced to resign or to surrender. It is our wish to be cremated immediately at the place where I have done the greatest part of my work during the twelve years of service for my people.



Berlin, April 29, 1945, 4:00 a.m.


Adolf Hitler


Witnesses


Dr. Joseph Goebbels

Martin Bormann

Colonel Nicholaus von Below





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