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dated December 6, 1952: Hitler's Will

A German court recognised as valid Adolf Hitler's last will and testament dictated in a bunker under the Berlin Chancellery two days before he killed himself along with Eva Braun in 1945. Five copies of Hiteler's will had been taken from burning Berlin in the last days of the Second World War, and smuggled by Nazi officials through Russian lines. Recognising the will, the court rejected a suit by a Swiss publisher, Mr. Francois Genoud, against a German publishing house, Athenaeum Verlag. In his last will, Hitler had declared that his heirs should be the Nazi Party or, if it no longer existed, the German State. A few personal belongings were to go to his sister and other relatives. But Hitler did not assign the copyright of his works to any specific person or body.

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