Death
There are different accounts of Kammler's death:
- That he committed suicide with a cyanide capsule on 7 May 1945.
- That he shot himself on 9 May 1945.
- That he asked his aide Zeuner to shoot him.
- That he was shot by his aide-de-camp in Prague.
- That the Soviets executed Kammler along with 200 other SS soldiers
- That he escaped to the USA where he died many years after the war.
Read more about this topic: Hans Kammler
Famous quotes containing the word death:
“Life is in the mouth; death is in the mouth.”
—Hawaiian saying no. 60, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)
“No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main.... Any man’s death diminishes me because I am involved in Mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”
—John Donne (c. 1572–1631)
“All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)