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Heinrich Himmler: World War
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After the war, Heinrich Himmler tried to escape by putting on a Wehrmacht uniform and a patch over one eye, but he was captured by the British Army about two weeks after the Germans surrendered. Himmler allegedly committed suicide by biting down on a cyanide capsule, that he had managed to keep hidden in his mouth while eating a sandwich during his interrogation by the British. Himmler's daughter did not believe that her father committed suicide. Himmler and his daughter, Gudrun, are shown in the photo below.
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[T]his version of events has recently been challenged by one Martin Allen in his work, Himmler's Secret War: The Covert Peace Negotiations of Heinrich Himmler, published on the 26th May 2005. In this book Allen contends that Himmler was in fact murdered by the British intelligence service in order to prevent him from revealing the fact that he and the British government had been involved in secret peace negotiations.
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Two death masks were made of Heinrich Himmler after he had hastily swallowed the cyanide capsule that ended his life within a few minutes while he was undergoing a medical examination by a British military doctor on 23rd May 1945. One of them shows a face twisted into a grotesque grimace, brutal, curiously impudent, its diabolical structure emphasized by the contortions of the death struggle, particularly by the pinched mouth. The other is an inexpressive, rather calm face with nothing frightening about it. It is as though death itself were trying, yet again, to demonstrate the strange combination to which it owed one of its most terrible and diligent servants in this world. (1)
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