The gun that Adolf Hitler used to shoot himself? Historian DAMIEN LEWIS reveals how pistol was handed over to SAS soldier during unofficial hunt for Nazi dictator in 1945

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The gun that Adolf Hitler used to shoot himself? Historian DAMIEN LEWIS reveals how pistol was handed over to SAS soldier during unofficial hunt for Nazi dictator in 1945

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As the SAS battled their way across Nazi-occupied France, Corporal Charlie Hackney – a veteran of the unit – had settled upon a 'novel way of subverting the enemy'. He and his self-confessed 'subdued bunch of cutthroats' from the elite regiment founded by David Stirling in 1941 had seized a red Renault butcher's van, transforming it into a battle wagon. With a Bren light machine gun mounted in the rear 'one only had to open the doors to fire the weapon', Hackney observed, their 'little red van' proving 'far less conspicuous' than any SAS jeep.
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