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74 ENDGAME IN BERLIN
Plus more key WWII events from April 1945
ARTEFACT OF WAR
Creativity in wartime, a Swedish mission to rescue Holocaust victims and tours of an iconic British warship
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A round 3.30pm on 30 April 1945, Adolf Hitler shot himself in his Berlin bunker. Minutes later, his still warm body was carried outside by loyal staffers and burned in the Reich Chancellery gardens. H
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This moment is surely imbued with the most global symbolism. It was when, according to the Old Norse-Icelandic sagas, adventurers sailed across the north Atlantic from settlements on the west coast of