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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald

'I burnt Hitler': a dramatic headline with an extraordinary story

How Stars and Stripes in the US reported the Nazi dictator's death on May 2, 1945.

I BURNT Adolf Hitler. Now, that's grabbed your attention, hasn't it?

Today's extraordinary tale first caught the world's attention with that same headline in a Hunter newspaper in 1973. And I, and others, have never forgotten it.

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