An unpublished photo of Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler moments after his suicide will be offered to the highest bidder on 29 March in Bristol (England), reported the auction house Dreweatt. The photo was taken by the Cape Guy Adderley, the British intelligence service in May 1945 shows Hitler's deputy died after ingesting cyanide capsules which he had hidden in his mouth.
Himmler, who is pictured with his eyes closed after his famous glasses, was arrested by British officers on a bridge with other members of the SS and was being questioned the next day on the war crimes Nazis. After his death he published several photos of his corpse lying on a makeshift bed, but kept the photograph Adderley had made.
The collection is now the firm Dreweatt auction along with other military memorabilia includes a photocopy of an official statement that describes how Himmler was handed to British intelligence chief, Maj. Michael Murphy, who drove to a house to be confiscated from Lüneburg interrogated there.
Malcolm Claridge, the auction house, said there are other photographs showing British and Russian officers in the house and where Adderley, who witnessed the suicide of the architect of the Holocaust, is in the background. At the time of his arrest by the British, the formidable SS Reichsfuehrer offered another aspect of the usual, because he had shaved his mustache, wearing a patch over one eye and false identity papers.
According to witnesses of his death, a doctor had made him open his mouth and saw a strange object between his molars, he introduced his hand into the mouth of Himmler to try it out. Himmler then bit the doctor's hand and broke the way the cyanide capsule. We attempted to induce vomiting with lime water and underwent gastric lavage, but to no avail and Himmler thus avoided having to appear before the Tribunal of Nuremberg.
After the suicide, the soldiers proceeded to photograph the body and made a death mask to record his death. Himmler was wrapped in a camouflage net and buried in an unidentified place called Lüneburg Heath. 
Himmler, who is pictured with his eyes closed after his famous glasses, was arrested by British officers on a bridge with other members of the SS and was being questioned the next day on the war crimes Nazis. After his death he published several photos of his corpse lying on a makeshift bed, but kept the photograph Adderley had made.
The collection is now the firm Dreweatt auction along with other military memorabilia includes a photocopy of an official statement that describes how Himmler was handed to British intelligence chief, Maj. Michael Murphy, who drove to a house to be confiscated from Lüneburg interrogated there.
Malcolm Claridge, the auction house, said there are other photographs showing British and Russian officers in the house and where Adderley, who witnessed the suicide of the architect of the Holocaust, is in the background. At the time of his arrest by the British, the formidable SS Reichsfuehrer offered another aspect of the usual, because he had shaved his mustache, wearing a patch over one eye and false identity papers.
According to witnesses of his death, a doctor had made him open his mouth and saw a strange object between his molars, he introduced his hand into the mouth of Himmler to try it out. Himmler then bit the doctor's hand and broke the way the cyanide capsule. We attempted to induce vomiting with lime water and underwent gastric lavage, but to no avail and Himmler thus avoided having to appear before the Tribunal of Nuremberg.
After the suicide, the soldiers proceeded to photograph the body and made a death mask to record his death. Himmler was wrapped in a camouflage net and buried in an unidentified place called Lüneburg Heath.
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