Hitler admits defeat
On April 22 1945 Adolf Hitler learning from one of his generals that no German defense was offered to the Russian assault at Eberswalde admits to all in his underground bunker that the war is lost and that suicide is his only recourse. Almost as confirmation of Hitlers assessment a Soviet mechanized corps reaches Treuenbrietzen 40 miles southwest of Berlin liberates a POW camp and releases among others Norwegian Commander in Chief Otto Ruge.
