Website note: The prisoner is still holding a blanket round his waist; he would have been initially unable to prevent a British agent from stuffing a capsule into his mouth during the "mouth inspection". Click the head for an enlargement to see the meticulous annotations by the artist: He believed that the nose had been broken. Illustration copyright The Illustrated London News.

[May 2005: Public Record Office London releases documents on the British secret service murder of Heinrich Himmler] [Back to Illustrated London News image map]