NEW YORK: Reports reaching New York indicate that Adolf Hitler, in spite of all Nazi professions to the contrary, is not in Berlin or, if he should be there, most certainly not as a fighting soldier like the rest of the German men, women and children who still sacrifice their lives for him.

The theory that Hitler is not in Berlin at all was supported strongly by a dispatch from the Free German press service in Stockholm which said that a former German grocer, August Wilhelm Bartholdy, is functioning as the Fuehrer’s dummy and standing in the Nazi capital. The dispatch said that Bartholdy had been trained long and carefully at Berchtesgaden to imitate the Fuehrer and that he would fake a hero’s death on the barricades of Berlin in a last service to the man who led his people into disaster. The theory was supported by a Stockholm journalist, George Axlesson, who pointed out that Hitler might await the fall of the capital in one of the many bomb-proof shelters built specially for Nazi leaders. Axlesson said that Hitler … might then end his own life in his hideout rather let himself be captured….

Published in Dawn, May 1st, 2020