While waiting for a co-worker to be ready to go to lunch today, I picked up a copy of the Deseret Morning News that was laying nearby. An account of Hitler's last days was one of the lead stories on the front page of the paper.
Talk about awkward phrasing (or a poor bit of editing):
With defeat imminent, Hitler, 56, shot himself, and his mistress Eva Braun—whom he married shortly before his death—committed suicide by taking cyanide in his underground bunker in Berlin.
Though in fairness, maybe the reporter really wanted to capture the confusion surrounding Hitler's death?
—Michael A. Cleverly
Tuesday, May 03, 2005 at 19:24