London, September 17, 1999

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REVEALED: HOW NAZIS STUBBED OUT SMOKING

WHEN HITLER and Eva Braun committed suicide on 30 April 1945, a little ceremony was held at the Fuhrerbunker. Liberated at last from the tyrannical house rules, the residents lit up. Then they poured petrol on the corpses and set fire to them, too.

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