It would seem that the answer is obvious and unequivocal: the possessed Fuhrer and his newly-made wife Eva Braun committed suicide on April 30, 1945 at 15:30 in Berlin, in an underground bunker equipped in the courtyard of the Imperial Chancellery. This is confirmed by people from Hitler's inner circle, as well as the results of the identification and examination of his exhumed corpse. However, there is another version: Hitler did not commit suicide at all, but, together with Eva Braun and associates, fled from besieged Berlin to South America and died there in 1964 at the age of 75 years. And this version is supported by a number of documents and evidence.
First inconsistencies
American historian and writer William Shearer in his fundamental research The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, published in 1960, claims that the bodies or bones of Hitler and Eve were never found, having been swept away and destroyed by Russian shell explosions.
And almost half a century later, the Argentine historian and documentary writer Abel Basti took up the clarification of the true fate of Hitler, Eva Braun and all the top Nazi leaders. The results of his research are presented in the book "Hitler in Argentina" published in 2006.
The author bases his conclusions and conclusions on numerous documents and testimonies of witnesses, on the basis of which he claims that the suicide and subsequent burning of the corpses of Hitler and Eva Braun was falsified. Hitler and his wife managed to escape to South America and live there to old age.
Facts and eyewitness accounts
What are these documents and testimonies? Here, for example, aircraft engineer Hans Bauer informs; On April 30, 1945, at 16:30 (that is, an hour after the declared suicide), he saw Adolf Hitler, dressed in a light gray suit, in the center of Berlin near the Junkers-52 aircraft.
According to another document, on April 25, a secret meeting was held in the Fuhrerbunker on the issue of Hitler's evacuation, in which the famous "pilot" Hanna Reitsch, ace pilot Hans-Ulrich Rudel and Hitler's personal pilot Hans Bauer participated. The Fuhrer's secret evacuation plan was codenamed Operation Seraglio.
And five days earlier, on April 20, the list of passengers flying from Berlin to Barcelona was approved. Hitler was listed first, but the names of Goebbels, his wife and children were deleted from the list.
So Adolf Hitler and, apparently, the entire "roster" on April 30, 1945, flew from Berlin to Spain, and from there the Fuhrer, Eva Braun and their extensive retinue and guards arrived in Argentina at the end of summer in three submarines, which then, in for the purposes of conspiracy, were flooded.
The reality of such an underwater flight is confirmed by the fact that off the coast of Argentina, at a depth of about 30 meters, divers discovered large objects covered with sand. The same objects are visible in the picture taken by the Americans from space.
The fact that these are Nazi submarines is also evidenced by the testimony of witnesses who observed the arrival of three submarines with a swastika in the Caleta de los Loros Bay, located in the Argentine province of Rio Negro, in the summer of 1945.
The US FBI archive contains a report from an American agent in Argentina - a gardener of wealthy German colonists, the Eichhorn spouses from the village of La Falda. The agent reports that the owners have been preparing the estate since June for the arrival of Hitler, which will take place in the very near future.
A letter from the Nazi General Seydlitz, dated 1956, has also been preserved - he reports that he is going to be present in Argentina at a meeting between Hitler and the "Fuhrer" of the Croatian nationalist Ustashe Ante Pavelić.
Bad performance?
As for the testimonies of witnesses who allegedly buried Hitler's corpse, it turns out that there is not a single person who would have seen with his own eyes how the Fuhrer bit through an ampoule of poison and shot himself in the head. Most likely, the story of the suicide of the head of the Third Reich was invented from beginning to end by people from his inner circle in order to confuse everyone.
And if you carefully study archival documents, you can find a number of contradictions in the testimony of "eyewitnesses" to Hitler's death. First, he was poisoned. Then - no, he shot himself in the temple. After - sorry, first he poisoned himself, and then he shot himself. Potassium cyanide causes convulsions and instant death: after that, how could a person pull the trigger of a gun?
In general, all witnesses to Hitler's death are confused in their testimony. For example, SS officer Heinz Linge claims that Hitler shot himself in the left temple with a Walther pistol and blew off half of his skull, while another SS man Otto Günsche (who carried out the body of the Fuhrer) shows: “Adolf hit the right temple, but his face was not injured at all” . Ten years later, for some reason, he changed his testimony - the shot through the temple of Hitler again became left.
In 1950, Günsche recalls: when he entered the room, the corpses were lying nearby on the sofa. And ten years later he changed his mind and said that they were lying at different ends of the sofa.
But the most interesting thing is that the Soviet physician, lieutenant colonel Shkaravsky, who took part in the autopsy of the bodies, pointed out that there were no traces of bullet wounds anywhere on them, only the remains of ampoules with potassium cyanide in their teeth.
From all this, the conclusion suggests itself: the SS men themselves never saw a dead Hitler, and hence such a discrepancy in the picture of his death. They were ordered in advance to categorically state that the Fuhrer was dead, but they did not learn their roles.
Stalin and Zhukov also doubted
No wonder that, reading the babble of such "witnesses", Stalin did not believe in Hitler's death. It is known that Soviet intelligence was looking for the Fuhrer in several countries of South America at once, which is confirmed by declassified archival documents of the KGB.
And on June 9, 1945, at a press conference for foreign journalists, Marshal Georgy Zhukov said: that the Fuhrer and Eva Braun secretly flew by plane to Hamburg, from where they sailed in a submarine.
It is also known that there are three verbatim records of Stalin's conversations (one of them with US Secretary of State Byrnes), in which the leader of the USSR frankly says that the Fuhrer managed to escape.
The Fuhrer was "covered" by a double?
Hitler lived in Argentina after the official date of his death for another twenty years. It doesn't fit with a large number evidence of the miserable state of the Fuhrer in March-April 1945: a physically emaciated man who had lost his understanding of the reality of what was happening, half-blind, sitting on tranquilizers.
However, there is no contradiction here - it must be borne in mind that in the spring of 1945, one of the Fuhrer's doubles appeared before the public, who looked older than his years. This man, who portrayed Hitler, remained in the bunker to the end - as a result, he died there.
Living in hospitable Argentina
All witnesses in Argentina describe the appearance of late Hitler as a fairly healthy person, although he moved with some difficulty, leaning on a cane - apparently, the consequences of a shell shock after the 1944 assassination attempt affected. He never learned Spanish and spoke it very badly. He no longer wore the famous mustache, and his hair was cut short, almost under a beaver, and turned gray.
Upon arrival in Argentina, the Fuhrer lived for a long time in a hotel owned by the Eichhorn spouses (they were mentioned in the report by an American agent). He repeatedly visited the luxurious villa of a large businessman Jorge Antonio (a friend of the country's president Juan Peron) and visited the mountain resort of Bari Loche, where his favorite pilot Hans-Ulrich Rudel, SS Hauptsturmführer Erich Priebke and the savage doctor from Auschwitz Josef Mengele settled. He especially liked Bariloche, the Fuhrer and Eva Braun lived there for several years in a two-story wooden mansion.
Eva Braun deserves special mention. She was born in 1912, was 23 years younger than Hitler. It is possible that Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler had children in Argentina.
good luck for the country
In one of the documents from the US FBI archive, declassified in 1997 and dated September 21, 1945, the informant reports that he is ready to provide evidence that three Argentine ministers met a submarine carrying Hitler.
It is worth adding to the above that Hitler and his henchmen sent huge financial resources to Argentina. Submarines U-235 and U-977 in August 45 unloaded more than four kilograms of diamonds, tons of gold and platinum in Argentine bays.
A CIA report declassified in 1996 shows that Argentine President Juan Peron received seven million dollars from SS-controlled secret accounts in Switzerland after the collapse of the Third Reich - this was the payment for silence.
Peron's statement on this matter is known; “This is good luck for us. The Germans have invested a lot of money in our economy, built factories and factories, placed billions of gold in our banks. Isn't that a good deal?"
They say that behind every great man is great woman. And who was behind the Nazi monster? What actually was the last woman of the Fuhrer.
Berlin. Bombs are exploding all around. An armored car makes its way to the bunker of the Reich Chancellery. The last hours of the Nazi regime. The people in the car are returning after completing the task. The streets of Berlin have become the scenery for "The Twilight of the Gods", and the crew of the armored car, risking their lives, is carrying very important person. But this is not a general or an ambassador. This is an employee of the civil registry office, which has just fought with Soviet soldiers in a street fight in a neighboring block. He must certify the marriage. The bride and groom are waiting for the wedding ceremony in a concrete bunker. This is Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun. It takes place on April 30, 1945. Hours later, a gun and two cyanide tablets will send the newlyweds on their final journey.
Historians until today have not paid due attention to the woman who became Hitler's life partner and died with him. According to Heike Görtemaker, author of the first scientific biography Eva Braun, for the first time post-war years she was thought to be a "stupid blonde". In an interview with the weekly Stern, Heike Görtemaker calls her "the bride of the monster". Thousands of books have been written about Hitler, in which for him personal life there is little space.
The British historian Ian Kershaw writes in his book Hitler that private and public life Reich Chancellor merged into a single entity. Hitler's personality was absorbed in the role of the Fuhrer, which he played perfectly. But was there something of a human in this animal personality? And this side of him cannot be considered in isolation from the personality of Eva Braun. “Of course, her life acquired significance only because she lived with Hitler. But I wonder if we can take a different look at Hitler by studying her biography,” writes Gertemaker. This is how the book "Eva Braun: Life with Hitler" appeared.
The author did not consider well-known banal stories in her work. How Eva was jealous of Hitler for his shepherd Blondie and secretly beat her. Like arguing with a dictator over the disgusting taste of his vegetarian diet. How the servants rummaged through Eve's bedding for evidence of their intimate relationship. In her research, the German historian looked at details that could shed light on the personality of Eva Braun and the vicissitudes of their relationship with Hitler. Eva's personal correspondence with the Fuhrer was destroyed by order of the dictator, so in her work the author used her letters to friends and relatives, entries from old diaries, scattered information from the testimony of the Fuhrer's inner circle, photographs and amateur films.
Very few documents have survived, but the author's approach is unique. Previous scholars have drawn on the verdict of the British historian Trevor-Roper, author of a book about the Fuhrer published in 1947. He believed that Eva Braun "is of no interest ...". Isn't it too categorical conclusion for 16 years of relationship?
Hitler studied family tree his chosen one and made sure that she had no Jewish ancestors. The story continued
Their acquaintance took place in the photography studio of Heinrich Hoffmann in 1929. The studio was located next to the headquarters of the Nazi Party. Hitler often visited his party comrade and part-time personal photographer. His attention was immediately attracted by Hoffmann's new assistant. She was much younger than Hitler, she was only 17. Cheerful, attractive and suave. "May I invite you to the opera, Fraulein Eva?" Hitler addressed her politely and courteously. And so their relationship began. In his 40s, the future bloody tyrant was still just a novice politician. Eve was youngest child in family. Mother is a seamstress, father is school teacher. Hitler allowed himself to be carried away by Eva only after he studied her family tree and made sure that there were no Jewish ancestors. They began a relationship, however, far from cloudless.
This is evidenced by at least two suicide attempts made by Eva. The first time she tried to shoot herself with her father's pistol was in 1932. At that time, Hitler was absorbed in the struggle for power: he spoke at rallies three or four times a day. With her, he was removed. Friends said that she was trying to attract attention to herself. Despite the crazy schedule, he found time to come to the hospital with a bouquet of flowers. Alarmed at the thought of the girl's possible death, he asked the doctors to tell him the whole truth. The doctors reassured Hitler and promised that Eva would live. He continued his election campaign with relief.
In 1935, Eva tried to commit suicide a second time, now with sleeping pills. The reasons were all the same: she felt abandoned and alone. Hitler was on the road, they rarely saw each other, and he did not pay attention to her complaints. "If I don't get an answer by 10 p.m. today, I'll just take 25 pills." Hitler, who by that time had already become the master of Germany, correctly understood this hint.
And although now he paid much more attention to Eve, she continued to occupy a very modest place in his life. Only trusted persons from Hitler's inner circle who visited the Berghof knew about its existence. Until the end of the war, it was a kind of residence of the Nazi court in the Alps. Eva moved there as the mistress of the house. It was a luxurious house, finished with Carrara marble and Bohemian stone. At the same time, it was very cozy there, almost like a family, and there were very few visitors. Eyewitnesses said that it was forbidden to talk about politics in the presence of women in the house.
Mostly they discussed fashion, breeding dogs and cars. In the light of candles, Hitler liked to make long speeches, and when those around him could hardly hide their yawns, Eva sent him to bed. He agreed and went up to his chambers. A few minutes later she too went up to her room. On the floor of the long corridor leading to their bedrooms was a massive velvet carpet. Their rooms were connected by a door.
Heike Gertemaker is sure that the question of whether Hitler and Eva Braun were in an intimate relationship should be answered in the affirmative. Let this side of life be hidden by a veil of secrecy. During his visit to the Berghof, Reinhard Spitzy, adjutant to the Reich Foreign Minister and a committed Nazi, was very surprised by the relationship between Hitler and Eva Braun. He considered the Fuhrer "an ascetic who was above sex and pleasure." But Eva Braun herself destroyed this image. Looking at a photograph of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain during a visit to Munich in 1938, seated on a sofa in Hitler's living room, she exclaimed: "If only he knew the history of that sofa!"
Total discretion. Secrecy. The Germans did not know about the existence of Eva. She lived in the shadow of the Fuhrer, the theatrical incarnation of Adolf Hitler. This was the role of his life, which took all his strength. There were strict requirements for this role: "Many women adore me because I am not married." Women were his main support: "They are the first to react to my speeches, then the children, and only then their fathers." According to the traditional view, women played a secondary role in the life of Hitler and the Nazi regime. All key positions were held by men. But the support of the female electorate was fundamentally needed.
Among the women, too, there were staunch followers of the Nazi idea: Magda Goebbels (Magda Goebbels), Reich Minister of Propaganda; Hanna Reitsch, a well-known pilot who suggested to Hitler the idea of creating a kamikaze detachment to use them against Russian troops on the Oder; Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, leader of the women's wing of the Nazi Party, who planned to create shock combat units from her charges. Well, what about Eva? Can it be compared with these German women? Heike Görtemaker believes that Eva not only created home comfort for the "great war", but also "fully shared Hitler's worldview and political views."
After the war, many attempts were made to cover up the role of women in the crimes of Nazi Germany.
There is evidence that Eva was present during the discussion of secret political issues. It is hard to believe that Hitler did not discuss political topics with her. Surely she was a devoted listener to his emotional monologues, many of which were fiercely anti-Semitic. Eva spent half her life surrounded by Nazi fanatics. It is hard to believe that she remained indifferent. Where did the version come from that women did not take part in the affairs of Nazi Germany? The leaders of the Third Reich, who gave their testimony after the war, are to blame for this, as well as historians, especially Anglo-Saxon ones, who interpreted these testimony in a peculiar way.
In an interview with The Observer, Heike Goertemaker says that “Albert Speer, the Reich Minister for Armaments, warned that Eva Braun would be a great disappointment to historians. He insisted that women, from wives to secretaries, did not play an important role in the Nazi Party. In fact, Scheer was just trying to shield his wife. Great efforts were made to get women out of the way, resulting in the myth of the modest role of ladies in the affairs of the Third Reich. During the denazification period, Eva Braun's parents claimed that their daughter was just Hitler's housekeeper. So they tried to protect the memory of her.
However, this housekeeper spent 2,280 days next to Hitler. At the end of the war, she moved to Berlin. And although her room was in the old part of the Reich Chancellery, she continued to meet regularly with the Fuhrer. When the bombardment intensified, she went down to the bunker with him. Eva was deaf to Hitler's pleas to leave Berlin to flee to Bavaria, and stayed with him to the end. Eva's loyalty was Hitler's greatest asset. Finally, Eve was rewarded. She got what she so passionately desired: a man engaged to Germany proposed marriage to her under bombs.
The next item in this pact with the devil was suicide: first - she, and after a few moments - he. 65 years have passed, and the portrait of Eva Braun flaunts on the front pages of the German press. But this is a different, new Eve. She's waiting - will she still be considered a "stupid blonde"? Still, in the depths of my soul I want to believe that there was only one beast, that very Hitler, a monolithic evil, without cracks and props.
It would seem that the answer is obvious and unequivocal: the possessed Fuhrer and his newly-made wife Eva Braun committed suicide on April 30, 1945 at 15:30 in Berlin, in an underground bunker equipped in the courtyard of the Imperial Chancellery. This is confirmed by people from Hitler's inner circle, as well as the results of the identification and examination of his exhumed corpse. However, there is another version: Hitler did not commit suicide at all, but, together with Eva Braun and associates, fled from besieged Berlin to South America and died there in 1964 at the age of 75 years. And this version is supported by a number of documents and evidence.
First inconsistencies
The American historian and writer William Shearer, in his fundamental study The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, published in 1960, claims that the bodies or bones of Hitler and Eve were never found, as they were swept away and destroyed by Russian shell explosions.
And almost half a century later, the Argentine historian and documentary writer Abel Basti took up the clarification of the true fate of Hitler, Eva Braun and all the top Nazi leaders. The results of his research are presented in the book "Hitler in Argentina" published in 2006.
The author bases his conclusions and conclusions on numerous documents and testimonies of witnesses, on the basis of which he claims that the suicide and subsequent burning of the corpses of Hitler and Eva Braun was falsified. Hitler and his wife managed to hide in South America and live there to old age.
Facts and eyewitness accounts
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What are these documents and testimonies? Here, for example, aircraft engineer Hans Bauer informs; On April 30, 1945, at 16:30 (that is, an hour after the declared suicide), he saw Adolf Hitler, dressed in a light gray suit, in the center of Berlin near the Junkers-52 plane.
According to another document, on April 25, a secret meeting was held in the Fuhrerbunker on the issue of Hitler's evacuation, in which the famous "pilot" Hanna Reitsch, ace pilot Hans-Ulrich Rudel and Hitler's personal pilot Hans Bauer participated. The Fuhrer's secret evacuation plan was codenamed Operation Seraglio.
And five days earlier, on April 20, the list of passengers flying from Berlin to Barcelona was approved. Hitler was listed first, but the names of Goebbels, his wife and children were deleted from the list.
So Adolf Hitler and, apparently, the entire "roster" on April 30, 1945, flew from Berlin to Spain, and from there the Fuhrer, Eva Braun and their extensive retinue and guards arrived in Argentina at the end of summer in three submarines, which then, in for the purposes of conspiracy, were flooded.
The reality of such an underwater flight is confirmed by the fact that off the coast of Argentina, at a depth of about 30 meters, divers discovered large objects covered with sand. The same objects are visible in the picture taken by the Americans from space.
The fact that these are Nazi submarines is also evidenced by the testimony of witnesses who observed the arrival of three submarines with a swastika in the Caleta de los Loros Bay, located in the Argentine province of Rio Negro, in the summer of 1945.
The US FBI archive contains a report from an American agent in Argentina - a gardener of wealthy German colonists, the Eichhorn spouses from the village of La Falda. The agent reports that the owners have been preparing the estate since June for the arrival of Hitler, which will take place in the very near future.
A letter from the Nazi General Seydlitz, dated 1956, has also been preserved - he reports that he is going to be present in Argentina at a meeting between Hitler and the "Fuhrer" of the Croatian nationalist Ustashe Ante Pavelić.
Bad performance?
As for the testimonies of witnesses who allegedly buried Hitler's corpse, it turns out that there is not a single person who would have seen with his own eyes how the Fuhrer bit through an ampoule of poison and shot himself in the head. Most likely, the story of the suicide of the head of the Third Reich was invented from beginning to end by people from his inner circle in order to confuse everyone.
And if you carefully study archival documents, you can find a number of contradictions in the testimony of "eyewitnesses" to Hitler's death. First, he was poisoned. Then - no, he shot himself in the temple. After - sorry, first he poisoned himself, and then he shot himself. Potassium cyanide causes convulsions and instant death: after that, how could a person pull the trigger of a gun?
In general, all witnesses to Hitler's death are confused in their testimony. For example, SS officer Heinz Linge claims that Hitler shot himself in the left temple with a Walther pistol and blew off half of his skull, while another SS man Otto Günsche (who carried out the body of the Fuhrer) shows: “Adolf hit the right temple, but his face was not injured at all” . Ten years later, for some reason, he changed his testimony - the shot through the temple of Hitler again became left.
In 1950, Günsche recalls: when he entered the room, the corpses were lying nearby on the sofa. And ten years later he changed his mind and said that they were lying at different ends of the sofa.
But the most interesting thing is that the Soviet physician, lieutenant colonel Shkaravsky, who took part in the autopsy of the bodies, pointed out that there were no traces of bullet wounds anywhere on them, only the remains of ampoules with potassium cyanide in their teeth.
From all this, the conclusion suggests itself: the SS men themselves never saw a dead Hitler, and hence such a discrepancy in the picture of his death. They were ordered in advance to categorically state that the Fuhrer was dead, but they did not learn their roles.
Stalin and Zhukov also doubted
No wonder that, reading the babble of such "witnesses", Stalin did not believe in Hitler's death. It is known that Soviet intelligence was looking for the Fuhrer in several countries of South America at once, which is confirmed by declassified archival documents of the KGB.
And on June 9, 1945, at a press conference for foreign journalists, Marshal Georgy Zhukov said: that the Fuhrer and Eva Braun secretly flew by plane to Hamburg, from where they sailed in a submarine.
It is also known that there are three verbatim records of Stalin's conversations (one of them with US Secretary of State Byrnes), in which the leader of the USSR frankly says that the Fuhrer managed to escape.
The Fuhrer was "covered" by a double?
Hitler lived in Argentina after the official date of his death for another twenty years. This does not fit with the large number of testimonies about the miserable state of the Fuhrer in March-April 1945: a physically exhausted person who has lost his understanding of the reality of what is happening, half-blind, sitting on tranquilizers.
However, there is no contradiction here - it must be borne in mind that in the spring of 1945, one of the Fuhrer's doubles appeared before the public, who looked older than his years. This man, who portrayed Hitler, remained in the bunker to the end - as a result, he died there.
Living in hospitable Argentina
All witnesses in Argentina describe the appearance of late Hitler as a fairly healthy person, although he moved with some difficulty, leaning on a cane - apparently, the consequences of a shell shock after the 1944 assassination attempt affected. He never learned Spanish and spoke it very poorly. He no longer wore the famous mustache, and his hair was cut short, almost under a beaver, and turned gray.
Upon arrival in Argentina, the Fuhrer lived for a long time in a hotel owned by the Eichhorn spouses (they were mentioned in the report by an American agent). He repeatedly visited the luxurious villa of a large businessman Jorge Antonio (a friend of the country's president Juan Peron) and visited the mountain resort of Bari Loche, where his favorite pilot Hans-Ulrich Rudel, SS Hauptsturmführer Erich Priebke and the savage doctor from Auschwitz Josef Mengele settled. He especially liked Bariloche, the Fuhrer and Eva Braun lived there for several years in a two-story wooden mansion.
Eva Braun deserves special mention. She was born in 1912, was 23 years younger than Hitler. It is possible that Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler had children in Argentina.
good luck for the country
In one of the documents from the US FBI archive, declassified in 1997 and dated September 21, 1945, the informant reports that he is ready to provide evidence that three Argentine ministers met a submarine carrying Hitler.
It is worth adding to the above that Hitler and his henchmen sent huge financial resources to Argentina. Submarines U-235 and U-977 in August 45 unloaded more than four kilograms of diamonds, tons of gold and platinum in Argentine bays.
A CIA report declassified in 1996 shows that Argentine President Juan Peron received seven million dollars from SS-controlled secret accounts in Switzerland after the collapse of the Third Reich - this was the payment for silence.
Peron's statement on this matter is known; “This is good luck for us. The Germans have invested a lot of money in our economy, built factories and factories, placed billions of gold in our banks. Isn't that a good deal?"
Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin. Later, the remains of the dictator were discovered by the Soviet military and taken to Moscow.
But the very fact of Hitler's death is still shrouded in all sorts of secrets and mysteries. There are many theories, in addition to the official version, according to which the remains of Hitler were not genuine, he did not commit suicide or even survived.
26 April. Soviet troops occupied three-quarters of Berlin. Hopeless Hitler is in a two-story bunker at a depth of 8 meters under the courtyard of the imperial office.
Together with him in the bunker are his mistress Eva Braun, Goebbels with his family, chief of the general staff Krebs, secretaries, adjutants, security guards.
According to an officer General Staff, on this day, Hitler was a terrible picture: he moved with difficulty and clumsily, throwing his upper body forward and dragging his legs ... The Fuhrer had difficulty maintaining balance. Left hand did not obey him, and the right one constantly trembled ... Hitler's eyes were bloodshot ...
In the evening, one of the best female pilots in Germany, Hanna Reitsch, fanatically devoted to Hitler, arrived in the bunker. She later recalled that the Fuhrer invited her to his place and said: "Hannah, you belong to those who will die with me. Each of us has an ampoule of poison."
He handed the ampoule to Hanna, saying: "I don't want any of us to fall into the hands of the Russians, and I don't want our bodies to go to the Russians. Eva's bodies and mine will be burned."
As Reitsch testified, during the conversation, Hitler presented a terrible picture: almost blindly rushing from wall to wall with paper in trembling hands. "A completely disintegrated person," the pilot stated.
29 April. The marriage of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun took place. The process took place in accordance with the law: a marriage contract was drawn up and a wedding ceremony was performed.
Witnesses, as well as Krebs, Goebbels' wife, Hitler's adjutants, General Burgdorf and Colonel Belov, secretaries and a cook were invited to the wedding celebration. And after a small feast, Hitler retired to draw up a will.
April 30. The Fuhrer's last day has come. After lunch, on Hitler's orders, his personal chauffeur, SS Standartenführer Kempka, delivers canisters with 200 liters of gasoline to the garden of the Imperial Chancellery.
This is the last photograph of Hitler taken on April 30th. On the threshold of the bunker in the courtyard of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, the Fuhrer was captured by one of the officers of his personal bodyguard.
In the conference room, Hitler and Braun say goodbye to Bormann, Goebbels, Burgdorf, Krebs, Axman, who came here, to the Fuhrer's secretaries Junge and Weichelt.
According to the first version, based on the testimony of Hitler's personal valet - Linge, the Fuhrer and Eva Braun shot themselves at 15.30. There is even a photo of Hitler's body with a bullet mark, the authenticity of which is in question.
When Linge and Bormann entered the room, Hitler was allegedly sitting on a sofa in the corner, a revolver lying on the table in front of him, blood flowing from his right temple. The dead Eva Braun, who was in the other corner, dropped her revolver on the floor.
Another version (accepted by almost all historians) says: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were poisoned by potassium cyanide. In addition, before his death, the Fuhrer also poisoned two beloved shepherd dogs.
By order of Bormann, the bodies of the deceased were wrapped in blankets, taken out into the yard, and then doused with gasoline and burned in a shell crater. Since they burned badly, the SS men buried the half-burnt corpses in the ground.
The bodies of Hitler and Brown were discovered by the Red Army soldier Churakov on May 4, but for some reason they lay for 4 whole days without examination: they were taken for examination and identification to one of the Berlin morgues on May 8.
An external examination gave reason to believe that the charred corpses of a man and a woman were the remains of the Fuhrer and his wife. But, as you know, Hitler and Braun had several doubles, so the Soviet military authorities intended to conduct a thorough investigation.
The question of whether the person delivered to the morgue was really Hitler still worries researchers.
According to an eyewitness, the man's corpse was in a wooden box 163 cm long, 55 cm wide and 53 cm high, respectively. A burnt piece of knitted fabric of a yellowish tint, similar to a shirt, was found on the body.
During his lifetime, Hitler repeatedly turned to his dentist, as evidenced by a large number of fillings and gold crowns on the preserved parts of the jaws. They were confiscated and transferred to the SMERSH-3 department of the Shock Army.
On May 11, 1945, the dentist Gaiserman described in detail the anatomical data of Hitler's oral cavity, which coincided with the results of a study conducted on May 8.
There were no visible signs of severe fatal injuries or diseases on the body damaged by fire. But a crushed glass ampoule was found in the oral cavity. The characteristic smell of bitter almonds emanated from the corpse.
The same ampoules were found during the autopsy of another 10 corpses close to Hitler. It was found that death was the result of cyanide poisoning.
On the same day, an autopsy was performed on the corpse of a woman, presumably belonging to Eva Braun. Despite the fact that there was a broken glass ampoule in the mouth and the smell of bitter almonds also emanated from the corpse, traces of a shrapnel wound and 6 small metal fragments were found in the chest.
Military intelligence officers packed the remains in wooden boxes and buried them in the ground near Berlin. However, soon the Chekist headquarters changed its location, and after it the boxes went.
In a new place, they were buried again, and then, at the next move, they were removed from the ground.
She found a permanent home at a military base near the city of Magdeburg. Here, the boxes lay in the ground until 1970, when the territory of the base came under the jurisdiction of the GDR.
On March 13, 1970, the head of the KGB, Yuri Andropov, gave the order to destroy the remains. They were cremated and the ashes scattered from a helicopter into the air.
For history, only the jaws of the dictator and a fragment of his skull with a bullet hole were left.
This material evidence of the death of Adolf Hitler was sent to Moscow and placed in the archives of the KGB.
Rumors that Adolf Hitler was alive appeared almost immediately after his death. The British, French, and Americans doubted the death of the dictator. There was persistent talk about the amazing rescue of the Fuhrer.
It was rumored that he fled from Berlin abroad along the so-called "rat trail". She was a "window" on the border with Switzerland. Through it, high-ranking officials of the Third Reich with forged documents made their way to a neutral country, and from there they were sent to fascist Spain or the countries of Latin America.
Regarding the flight of the dictator to South America, there are even a number of FBI "documents" regarding the investigation of this fact.
However, most historians continue to argue that Hitler had no chance of escaping Berlin.
In response, they put forward a version that Hitler might not have been in the bunker under the Reich Chancellery at all. On this issue, there is a version that all tactical issues were decided by the Fuhrer's double. It was he who was shot on April 30, 1945.
Together with him, Eva Braun was also killed, so that the death of the country's main Nazi would look more natural. Hitler himself, at this time, again sailed away in a submarine towards South America, changing his appearance.
Similar versions are expressed at the present time.
Newspapers wrote about them, publishing the supposedly surviving clothes of the Fuhrer, in which he arrived in Peru or Paraguay.
There were even photos of the surviving Hitler, calmly meeting old age incognito.
But historians say in response that the Fuhrer could not be called a coward. His courage is evidenced by the fact that he volunteered for the front in the First world war and was awarded several iron crosses for bravery, and also had wounds received in battle.
After that, it is simply illogical to say that at the most difficult moment for the nation, the Führer cowardly runs, leaving a double in his place, is simply illogical.
In favor of the fact that Hitler was in the bunker is also the fact that only after his death did the Germans put forward a proposal for a truce. Having been refused, Goebbels committed suicide, poisoning his entire family. Bormann did the same a few hours later.
In 2009, the head of the Registration and archival funds The FSB of Russia, Vasily Khristoforov, said that in 1946 a special commission carried out additional excavations at the site of the discovery of the corpses of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun. At the same time, "the left parietal part of the skull with an exit bullet hole" was found.
In 1948, the "finds" from the Fuhrer's bunker (several burnt objects, as well as fragments of jaws and teeth, which were used to identify the corpses of Hitler, Eva Braun and the Goebbels) were sent to Moscow, to the investigative department of the 2nd Main Directorate of the MGB of the USSR.
Since 1954, by order of the Chairman of the KGB under the Council of Ministers of the USSR Serov, all these items and materials were stored in a special order in a special room of the departmental archive.
Since 2009, Hitler's jaws have been kept in the FSB archive, and skull fragments in the State Archives.
However, a DNA analysis conducted in 2009 by employees of an American university from the city of Hartford (Connecticut) destroyed the entire evidence base regarding the death of the dictator. According to their version, the badly damaged skull bone did not belong to Adolf Hitler at all. She didn't belong to a man at all. It was a fragment of a woman's skull. Moreover, the woman at the time of her death was in the prime of life - 35-40 years old.
This statement caused a big scandal. The FSB officers completely refused to recognize its authenticity. And later they also expressed a version of the error Soviet soldiers who collected the remains.
It seems that the point in this matter will never be put. Although, at present, most often the "survivor" Hitler and his doubles become heroes of memes, rather than major scientific disputes.
How did Adolf Hitler die? Did he take poison, shoot himself, or did he die peacefully in his own bed? The answer to this question has been worrying many people for almost seventy years. And not in vain. The version of Hitler's successful escape from the Reich Chancellery has been exaggerated from the very moment of the capture of Berlin. It has been refuted more than once, but with enviable persistence it reappears...
Incomprehensible beginning
On April 30, 1945, a message arrived in Moscow about Hitler's death. Stalin's reaction was restrained: "Finished, scoundrel!" Then came the business question: "Where is the body?" In Berlin, the question was forwarded to the parliamentarian, German General Hans Kreb. He replied that Hitler's corpse was burned at the stake ... Apparently, Stalin did not believe the words of the German, and in early May a TASS message appeared in the newspapers: "Hitler's death is a new fascist trick ..."
By that time, groups to search for and capture Hitler had already been formed in all the armies storming Berlin. And on May 2, two dead doubles of Hitler were discovered by Soviet officers on the territory of the Reich Chancellery. One of them was found in an underground bomb shelter, the second - in a fire pool in the yard. Both were shot in the face.
The captured Vice-Admiral Hans Voss, who was brought in for identification, looked at one of the discovered "Fuhrer" and said: "This is Hitler, and no one else." And only when he noticed that the “Reich Chancellor” had darned socks on his feet, Voss began to doubt ...
On July 17, 1945, during a dinner in Potsdam, Stalin announced to Truman that Hitler had escaped. On that day, 78 days had passed since his "death".
charred remains
The next corpses of unknown men and women were discovered on May 4 in a crater from an air bomb in the garden of the Reich Chancellery. The burnt bodies could not be identified. Therefore, the remains were ordered to be buried. This find was not given any importance, because on that day the corpse of the second double was identified.
LIFE correspondent inspects the place where the "remains of Hitler" were buried.
But soon an SS man from Hitler's guard said that he personally observed the removal of the bodies of "Hitler and his wife" and their "burial" in the garden ... The remains were dug up again, and on May 8 a forensic medical examination took place in the hospital.
The conclusion read: “On the body changed by fire, there are no characteristic features not found ... ”So by May 9, the search officers had no evidence that the charred body was the ruler of the Third Reich. Only the jaw of the "Hitler" was well preserved, but there was nothing to compare it with.
"Unexpected Luck"
The investigators went in search of the dental clinic of Professor Blaschke, who served Hitler. And then the officers began to get lucky. They found the professor's assistant, Fraulein Heuserman, and she described from memory all the "repair work" of the Fuhrer. Moreover, she told the Russian officers where to look for Adolf's medical history.
As if by magic, X-rays and even gold crowns were found in the bunker of the Reich Chancellery, which Blaschke never had time to put on Hitler's teeth. Soon, the scouts also found a dental technician who accurately described the prostheses he made for the Fuhrer and Eva Braun, and then identified them.
However, at the beginning of June 1945, for some reason, Stalin issued a strange order: all information about the “unknown man (presumably Hitler)” was declared a state secret.
New consequence
And yet, it was not possible to silence the story of the death of the Fuhrer. At the end of 1945, the British and Americans proposed that the Soviet government conduct a joint investigation. The Soviet side accepted the offer, but did not share information with anyone. Perhaps because the new investigation has given more questions than answers.
One of Hitler's doubles was his driver (in the photo he is to the left of (Hitler). The driver very often replaced Hitler at various events. According to one version, it was he who was "killed by Hitler" ...
It all started with the fact that the NKVD specialists again began to verify the results of the previous investigation, since most of the witnesses to Hitler's death were at hand - in Soviet prisons. According to the testimony of the prisoners, the picture of Hitler's suicide looked as follows.
On April 30, at 15.30, the Fuhrer closed himself in the office, and after a while the Fuhrer's valet Heinz Linge and Bormann entered the office and saw the Fuhrer and Eva Braun sitting on the sofa with no signs of life. On Hitler's left temple, Linge noticed the entrance hole of a bullet.
True, Linge confessed to his cellmate informer: “I don’t know if this is really a bullet wound - they could have drawn this red spot ...”
oddities
Then the SS men doused the corpses of Hitler and Eva Braun with gasoline and set them on fire.
Moreover, only Bormann and Linge saw the dead Hitler. The rest of the witnesses saw the Hitler couple already wrapped in gray blankets. The act of investigation also noted the presence of spots of "red-brown" color on the armrest of the sofa. The upholstery elements were sent to the Moscow forensic laboratory for blood type determination. Express analysis gave a stunning result: the substance under study is not blood!..
Well, the English doctor Hugh Thomas, having gained access to the State Archives of the USSR, subjected the examination of photographs of the jaws of the "alleged Hitler" and an x-ray of Hitler's oral cavity, which was stored in the US National Archives. As a result, a sensational conclusion: the bridge put into the mouth of the "Hitler" found in the funnel does not correspond to the curvature of his jaw! The bridge was clearly a part of the wrong person.
random victim
The corpse of Eva Braun also "gave surprises." According to a medical examination, the Eve found in the funnel had only 11 teeth of her own. Moreover, the teeth of the found woman were in poor condition - they turned yellow and contained many fillings and crowns. But Eva Braun touchingly cared about her appearance all her life. She had 24 of her teeth, of which only three were sealed.
Shortly before his death, Hitler and Eva Braun married
Most likely, the unknown woman, whose body they tried to pass off as the body of Eva Braun, was an accidental victim of shelling and picked her up somewhere on the adjacent street.
Ready
Needless to say, the Fuhrer had a chance to escape, and not bad. For the highest ranks of the SS at the turn of 1944 - 1945, a secret evacuation route "Rat Path" was created, which led through Austria to Rome, where one of the highest hierarchs of the Catholic Church provided the fugitives with false documents. From Rome, the Nazis went to Spain, Argentina, Ecuador ...
Passenger list approved on 20 April 1945 from Berlin to Barcelona. The first is Hitler, the name of Goebbels, his wife and children is crossed out
And starting in March 1945, ten submarine captains based in Hamburg were ordered to maintain a constant readiness for the evacuation of members of the Reich government ...
Calm old age
So over the years after the war, the aspen stake was never driven into Hitler's grave. Moreover, in the recently published book of the Argentine writer Abel Basti "Hitler in Argentina" it is said that the Fuhrer, together with Eva Braun, fled to Argentina, where he lived until 1964. The author of the sensational study relies on declassified FBI archives.
In particular, - the author comments, - in the book I publish a secret report dated August 1945, which refers to the possibility of the Fuhrer's arrival to the shores of Patagonia. Most likely, Hitler and seven other Nazi leaders landed from German submarine off the coast of Caleta de los Loros, in the southern province of Rio Negro, in July-August 1945.
Hitler's submarine was accompanied by two more submarines, and all of them were flooded after the passengers disembarked, and this is a proven fact: three German submarines really rest at a depth of 30 meters at the site of Hitler's alleged landing. Unfortunately, we still have not been able to fully explore what is inside the submarines - this is too expensive an expedition.
Adolf Hitler died, according to the publicist, in 1964.
Photo of a man who died in 1964 in South America. According to a number of researchers, this was Adolf Hitler
In the book, I also published the story of a woman, Catalina Gamero, who served Hitler during his stay at the villa of the Eickhorns - these are well-known financial agents of Nazi Germany in South America. This woman is still alive, she is in her right mind and remembers such details that it is impossible to come up with ...
But what about the remains of Hitler stored in Moscow, you ask?
All these remains are pure farce, says Abel Basti. - There is no evidence of Hitler's death. The fact that Hitler managed to escape was unbearable for the USSR - so they created the myth of his suicide in the bunker ...
Declassified Archives
Be that as it may, the Russian secret services continue to claim that Hitler committed suicide in 1945. So, in April 2000, at the exhibition "The Collapse of the Third Reich", organized by the Museum Russian army and the FSB, were presented truly sensational materials on this subject. Judging by these documents, the remains of the dictator were "burnt completely" in 1970, and the ashes were scattered. It happened at the tank range of one of the parts of the Western Group of Forces.
According to a declassified criminal case, on June 3, 1945, the charred remains of Hitler and Eva Braun were taken to the Rathenow area, where they were buried.
For a quarter of a century, the USSR kept all this in absolute secrecy. And so, in 1970, the decision was made to "finish forever" the story of Hitler's death. This dramatic and dark epilogue to World War II was directed by Yuri Andropov, then head of the KGB. The operation was codenamed "Archive".
The task force of the KGB arrived in Magdeburg, at the location of the Soviet military camp. The remains of Hitler and Braun were brought there after being removed from the ground. Then they were burned and thrown into the Elbe ...
