BERLIN, May 2 (UPI) -- A nurse who was in Adolf Hitler's Berlin bunker when he killed himself in 1945 has surfaced with new details of the final days of World War II.
In an interview with the Guardian, 93-year-old Erna Flegel described the early hours of April 30 1945, when the German fuhrer shot himself.
"He came out of the side-room, shook everyone's hand, and said a few friendly words. And that was it," she said.
She said Hitler was so paranoid he even suspected spies had filled his cyanide capsule with false poison, which is why he shot himself.
Now living in a nursing home, Flegel described Hitler's mistress, Eva Braun, as a "young girl" who "had no meaning" and said the death of Hitler's dog Blondi "affected us more than Braun's suicide."
Flegel's existence only emerged after a transcript of an interview she gave to U.S. interrogators immediately after the war surfaced in a CIA archive.
Soviet troops took control of the bunker 60 years ago Monday, on May 2, 1945.
