PART II
I still [in 1974] wear the Iron Cross with diamonds Hitler gave me…The real guilt [is] that we lost.
—Hanna Reitsch, “Germany’s Amelia Earhart.” Presented a poison vial by Adolf Hitler, in his bunker April 26, 1945. Died August 24, 1979.
If some day we are compelled to leave the scene of history, we will slam the door so hard that the universe will shake.
—Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda. Appointed successor Chancellor of Germany by Hitler, April 30, 1945. Cremated the following day in the bunker’s courtyard. Alongside his wife, after they poisoned their six children, then themselves.