Hitler's Last Day Minute by Minute (N)

Author:Emma Craigie & Jonathan Mayo [Craigie, Emma & Mayo, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781780722344
Publisher: Short Books
Published: 2015-04-09T06:00:00+00:00

In his diary the politician Harold Nicolson notes the response of Mrs Grove, his London housekeeper, to the news of the deaths of Mussolini and Clara Petacci. Mrs Groves thinks the Italian dictator thoroughly deserved what he got, ‘a married man like that driving about in a car with his mistress...’

8.15pm

The Royal Marines attached to Dalzel-Job’s 30 Assault Unit are finding it hard to fight the German troops in the woods surrounding the naval arsenal. They’ve sent out patrols, but the Germans are either small in number or unwilling to take them on. They keep disappearing into the trees. Fortunately, the aim of the German mortars is erratic, so there are no British casualties so far – but a German self-propelled gun is being more precise.

30 Assault Unit will be forced to defend the arsenal for another two days. On 1st May the Irish Guards send a platoon to help them deal with the remaining German resistance. Remarkably Dalzel-Job never has a man killed or wounded under his command. ‘From the first I held a firm and quite irrational faith that unlike my father [who died on the Somme when Dalzel-Job was three years old] I should survive and that no man of mine should be killed.’

The [Allied] soldiers were mentally packing their bags for home while they were still shooting their last shots.

Photographer Robert Capa

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