Hitler's Last Will and Testament

In 1945 Arnold Weiss found Führer und Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler's Last Will and Testament, at the bottom of a dry well.  Mr Weiss with working with British Major Hugh Trevor-Roper, later to go on to be a noted historian.  While interrogating one of Adolf Hitler's close followers, SS-Standartenführer (Colonel) Wilhelm Zander, the military aide of Nazi Party secretary Martin Bormann, they were told where to find this important historic document.

Hugh Trevor-Roper, Lady Margaret Thatcher's first appointment to a life peerage, died in January 2003.  On Pearl Harbor day 2010 Arnold Weiss passed away in Rockville, Maryland.

Our connection with Mr Weiss, tenuous as it is, comes from his having lived his teenage years in Janesville, Wisconsin, my wife's home town, after he escaped from Germany in the early 1930s.

A fairly lengthy discussion of the tracking down of the Last Will and Testament and of Mr Weiss' life can be found in The Washington Post, here.

A hat tip to a friend in Northern Virginia, who wrote to several of us:

Every morning I scan obituaries to see if I'm still here. The
obit below is fascinating.

And so it is.  One more World War II Vet to acknowledge for what he did for us and our Republic.

Regards  —  Cliff