(Ha'aretz) Ofer Aderet - New testimony on the death of Adolf Hitler in his Berlin bunker came to light in Germany this week. The Spiegel TV channel discovered recordings of statements given by Hitler's aide, SS officer Otto Gunsche, and his valet, Heinz Linge - the first two people to discover the bodies of Hitler and Eva Braun after they committed suicide on April 30, 1945. "When I entered on my left I saw Hitler on the sofa," said Linge in the recording. "His head was bent forward and I could see a bullet hole about the size of a penny on the right side of his temple." Gunsche said, "Hitler sat leaning on the arm of the sofa with his head hanging down on the right shoulder....On the right side I saw the bullet hole." The Bavarian government taped the recording in a Berchtesgaden courtroom on October 25, 1956.
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