Reports that Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler was shot by the daughter of Helmuth Brueckner, former governor of Silesia, were categorically denied by high Nazis officials late today.
Investigation of a story printed in a Linz, Austria, newspaper, which said rumors were widespread in Silesia that Fraulein Brueckner shot and wounded the Nazi potentate, revealed the tale as having no foundation in fact, high Nazi officials said.
According to the Linzer Volks-
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