He puts a pistol to his head. Everybody says, “Nein, nein, nein.” He convinces everyone that shooting himself is the dignified thing to do. What should his last words be? He says, “How about ‘I regret nothing’?” Goebbels replies that such a statement would be appropriate, but that the Parisian cabaret performer Edith Piaf has made a worldwide reputation by singing those same words in French for decades. “Her sobriquet,” says Goebbels, “is ‘Little Sparrow.’ You don’t want to be remembered as a little sparrow, or I miss my guess.” Hitler still hasn’t lost his sense of humor. He says, “How about
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