Evening star., 1945-12-30

my Fuehrer, Are you willing to take
Miss Eva Braun as your wife? If
you are, answer I do
Now ask you, Miss Eva Braun,
are you willing to- take our Fuehrer,
Adolf Hitler, as your husband? If
you are, answer I do"
After both the newlyweds stated
their intentions, I declared this
marriage legal before the law"
Hitler, Paul Joseph Goebbels, his
propaganda minister, and Bormann
signed the document. Then Eva,
employing her married name for
the first time, started to scrawl the
letter "B" after her first name. She
scratched it out and wrote in a
bold hand. Eva Hitler, Geboren
Born), Braun"
Named New Cabinet.
The political testament, to which
Sd Army headquarters said Hilles
'scrawled a contracted and feeble
signature, named Germans he de-
scribed as honorable men as mem
bers of new cabinet to continue the
war with all means"
To direct the already hopeleSsly
lost war, Hitler designated Grand
Admiral Karl Doenitz as president
and GoebbelS as chancellor. Goeb-
bels' charred body was identified in
the ruins by Red Army men a few
days later.
Besides Doenitz and Goebbels in
the cabinet to carry on the war, the
political testament also designated:
Party minister. Bormann; foreign
minister, Arthur -Inquart;
gauleiter for the Netherlands: in
terror minister, Gauletier Giesler
of Munich war minister, Doenitz;
commander of the army, Col. Gen.
Ferdinand Schooner, commander in
chief on the Russian front at the
time; navy commander, DoenitZ;
air force commander, Col. Gen. Rit-
ter Won Grein, later a suicide;
Reichsleiter, chief of SIS and police
chief, Gauleiter Karl Hanke of ST.
lesia; minister of economics, Wal
ther Funk; minister of agriculture,
Herbert Backe, who was Berlin's
food minister; justice, Georg Otto
Thierack; church and education, SIS
Opergrupperfuehrer, DR.. Gustav
Scheel; finance, Count Lutz Won
Schwerin-Krosigk, who later was
Doenitz's foreign minister; labor,
DIR. Huppfauer, an assistant to for
mer Interior Minister Albert Speer;
armaments, Saur, who was arrested
later by the American 7th Army;
labor front leader, DR.. Robert Ley,
who later killed himself in his cell
while awaiting trial.
Cites Offers to Limit Arms.
The testament, signed "a. Hitler
said in part:
1T is not true that or ANYBODY
else in Germany wanted the war in
1899. 1t was desired and provoked
entirely by those international
statesment who were either of Jew
| ish origin or who worked in Jewish
interests. I have made too many
offers for the reduction and limita-
| ton of ornaments, which posterity
cannot explain away for all eternity
Therefore the responsibility fol
the outbreak of this war cannot
rest upon me. Furthermore I never
desired that after the first terrible
World War a second war should
arise against England or even
| against America.
so Centuries may pass, but
out of the ruins of our icties ano
monuments in the end hatred will
arise and be constantly renewed
against the people (responsible)
International Jewry and its as
sistants.
"As late as three days before the
outbreak of the German-Polish Wal
1 proposed a solution of the Ger
man-Polish problem to the British
Ambassador in Berlin, similar to the
case of the Saar area, under inter.
national control.
Says English Wanted War.
This offer cannot be explained
away either. 1t was only rejected
because responsible circles in English
politics wanted war, partly because
of expected business, partly driver
by propaganda arranged by inter
national Jewry.
But I left no doubt about the