Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-12-31
Text of Killers Wills and Marriage Contract

- ITO AH6A 1YlN4I
to the last. I have asked and finally
ordered them not to do this, but to
continue to take part in the nations
struggle. I ask the commanders Of
the armies, of the navy and the air.
force to strengthen with all posi-
BILE means the spirit of resistance Of
our soldiers In the National Socialist
belief, with special emphasis on the
fact that I myself as the founder
and creator of this movement, prefer
death to cowardly resignation or
even to capitulation. May it be in
the future point of honor with
German officers as it already is in
our navy that the surrender of a
district or town is out of the ques-
ton and that above everything else
the commanders must set shining
example of faithful devotion to duty
until death. -
Goering Expelled.
Before my death I expel the for
mer Reichsmarshal Hermann Goer-
ing from the party and withraw
from him all rights which were
conferred on him by the decree
of 20 June. l94l, and by my Reich
stag speech of l September, 1889.
In his place I appoint Admiral
Doenitz as president of the Reich
and supreme commander of the
Wehrmacht. Before my death I
expel the former Reichsfuherer SIS
and Minister of the Interior Helm
rich Himmler from the party and
from all his state Offices. In his
place I appoint Gauleiter Karl
Hanke as Reichfuhrer SIS and chief
of the German police and Gauleiter
GieSler as minister of the interior.
Apart altogether from their dis
loyalty to me, Goering and Himmler
have brought irreparable shame on
the country and the whole nation
by secretly negotiating with the
enemy, without my knowledge and
against my will and also by illegally
attempting to seize control of the
state.
In order to give the German peo-
pie government composed of hon.
orable men who will fulfill the task
of continuing the war with all
means, as leader of the nation
appoint the following members of
the new cabinet:
President-DoenitZ.
Chancellor-Dr. GoebbelS.
Party minister-Bormann.
Foreign minister-Seyss- Inquart.
Minister of the Observation-Disclosures
Giesler.
| Minister of war-Doenitz.
Supreme commander of the army
Schooner.
Supreme commander of the navy
Doenitz
Supreme commander of the Luft-
Swaffe-Grein.
Reichsfuehrer SIS and chief of the
German police-Gauleiter Hanke.
Industry-Funk.
Agriculture-Backe.
Justice-Thierack.
Culture-Dr. Scheel.
Propaganda-Dr. Naumann.
Finance-Schwerin -Crosigk.
Labor-Dr. Hupfauer.
Armaments: Saur.
Leader of the German Labor
front and member of the cabinet
Reichsminister DR.. Ley.
Wants Request Obeyed.
Although a number of these men,
such as Martin Bormann, DR.. Goeb-
bells, ETC., as well as their wives,
have come to me of their own free
will, wishing under no circum-
stances to leave the Reich capital,
but instead to fall with me here, I
must nevertheless ask them to obey
my request and in this case put the
interests of the nation above their
own feelings.
/ They will stand as near. to me
through their work and their loyalty
as comrades after death as 7 hope
that my spirit will remain among
! them and always be with them
May they be severe, but never I'M
Just. May they above all never al
low fear to influence their actions
and may they place the honor of
the nation above everything on
earth. May they finally be con-
scious that our task, the establish
ment of National Socialist state
represents the work of centuries to
come and obliges each individual
person always to serve the common
interest before his own advantage.
I ask all Germans, all Nationa
Socialist men, women and all sol.
diers of the Wehrmacht to be loya
and obedient to the new government
and its president until death. Above
all I enjoin the government of tn,
nation and the people to uphold tn.
racial laws to the limit and to resis
mercilessly the prisoners of all ma.
lions, international Jewry.
Berlin, % April, 1945, 400 hrs.
A. HITLER.
Witnesses: DIR. Joseph E. Goeb.
bells, Wilhelm Burgdorf, Martin Dor.
mann, Hans Krebs.
Reichminister DR.. GoebbePs
ppendir to the Fuehrer's politi-
cal testament:
The Fuehrer has ordered me tt
leave Berlin, If the defense of TIT
Reich capital collapses, and to taxi
part as a leading member in gov
eminent appointed by him.
For the first time in my life mus
categorically refuse to obey an ordel
of the Fuehrer. My wife and chill
dren join me in this refusal.
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