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Simon Dunstan, Gerard Williams

Gray wolf. Flight of Adolf Hitler

Publisher's Preface

When we received an offer to publish the book “The Gray Wolf. Escape of Adolf Hitler,” our first reaction was to dismiss it as just another conspiracy theory. Everyone knows that Hitler and Eva Braun lost their lives in an underground bunker in order to avoid the humiliation and inevitable execution that awaited them. However, out of respect for the brilliant reputation of the authors, Simon Dunstan and Gerard Williams, we have agreed to take their proposal seriously. In addition, we were inspired to take this step by a recent discovery by independent researchers: the remains found near the bunker did not belong to Hitler and Eva Braun. After studying the proposal and consulting for several months with the authors, we were convinced that they raised serious questions that made the generally accepted ideas about Hitler's death just one of the hypotheses, which is why we decided to publish this book.

The authors spent the last five years studying the subject: they traveled the world, interviewed eyewitnesses of the events of those years, searched for documents and bit by bit sorted through mountains of scattered evidence. In the end, they were convinced of a fact so terrible that it can hardly be taken seriously: Adolf Hitler escaped punishment unscathed and until his death in 1962 lived in relative peace in Patagonia.

The prospect that opened up turned out to be so vile that at first we wanted to refuse to publish the book. We were afraid of hurting the feelings of those people who might be offended by the very idea of Hitler's escape, regardless of whether the arguments presented seemed convincing to them. However, after much thought, after painstaking editorial work, during which the authors repeatedly had to prove the accuracy of the information they presented, we came to the conclusion that they may indeed have succeeded in exposing the greatest deception in history.

The book raises many intriguing questions, but offers no clear answers. Perhaps before us is a mystery that, like many other mysteries, is never destined to be revealed. It is also possible that after the presentation of this topic to the public, new facts will come to light that will bring us closer to the final answer. The authors wrote this book in search of the truth, and it is likely that their search was successful. In any case, our readers will be the judge.

Characters

In the list of significant figures, we did not include, in our opinion, unnecessary comments on the personalities of such famous historical figures as Adolf Hitler, Martin Bormann, Hermann Goering, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower and Winston Churchill. We were faced with the task of introducing the reader to the lesser-known characters that are found on the pages of this book. Small capital letters in the comments are the names of those people about whom you can find additional information in the "Characters" section.

Germans and Austrians

Abs, Hermann Joseph: Chairman of the Board of Deutsche Bank (1957-67). Member of the board of directors of the bank (1938–45).

Alvensleben, Ludolf von: SS Gruppenführer and police lieutenant general, wanted as a war criminal, later manager of the Nazi-owned Inalco estate in the Argentine province of Rio Negro.

Ahrenstorff, Gerda von: Dietrich Niebuhr's assistant at the German embassy in Buenos Aires (1938–45), who recruited Eva Duarte as an agent.

Barsh, Franz: Oberleutnant zur see, captain of the submarine U-1235.

Baumbach, Werner: Oberst Lieutenant of the Luftwaffe, commander of the Kampfgeschwader 200, the Luftwaffe Special Forces Aviation Wing; April 29, 1945 led Hitler's flight from Travemünde (Germany) to Reus (Spain).

Baumgart, Peter Erich: Born in South Africa, Luftwaffe Hauptmann and SS Hauptsturmführer, on April 28, 1945, flew the plane that transported Hitler and his companions from Berlin to Tönner (Denmark).

Bethe, Heinrich: German sailor from the heavy cruiser "Admiral Graf Spee", who became the last servant of Hitler.

Brown, Werner von: Technical director of the V-2 ballistic missile program. After the war he worked in America.

Simon Dunstan, Gerard Williams

Gray wolf. Flight of Adolf Hitler

Publisher's Preface

Characters

Germans and Austrians

Abs, Hermann Joseph: Chairman of the Board of Deutsche Bank (1957-67). Member of the board of directors of the bank (1938–45).

Alvensleben, Ludolf von: SS Gruppenführer and police lieutenant general, wanted as a war criminal, later manager of the Nazi-owned Inalco estate in the Argentine province of Rio Negro.

Ahrenstorff, Gerda von: Dietrich Niebuhr's assistant at the German embassy in Buenos Aires (1938–45), who recruited Eva Duarte as an agent.

Barsh, Franz: Oberleutnant zur see, captain of the submarine U-1235.

Bethe, Heinrich: German sailor from the heavy cruiser "Admiral Graf Spee", who became the last servant of Hitler.

Brown, Werner von: Technical director of the V-2 ballistic missile program. After the war he worked in America.

Winter, Gustav: Abwehr agent who founded the secret intelligence base of Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands.

Wolf, Carl: SS-Obergruppenführer, Supreme SS and Police Leader in Northern Italy; negotiated with Allen Dulles for the surrender of German army forces during Operation Sunrise.

Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Ernst Maximilian: Prince, German aristocrat and mediator between Heinrich Himmler and Allen Dulles.

Dörge, Heinrich: Senior official in the Reichsbank, seconded to Argentina as an assistant to Ludwig Freud and financial adviser to the Argentine government.

Sandstede, Gottfried: Press officer at the German embassy in Buenos Aires 1939-41, senior intelligence agent for General von Faupel, executive director of the shipping agency Delfino.

Kai, Walter: Captain zur see, former chief mate on the cruiser Admiral Graf Spee, later active in Nazi intelligence in Argentina and Uruguay.

Kaltenbrunner, Ernst: SS Obergruppenführer and police general, head of the Imperial Security Main Office (RSHA) from January 30, 1943 until the end of the war, who replaced Himmler in this post; coordinated the work of the police, Gestapo (secret police) and SD (intelligence and counterintelligence unit of the SS).

Canaris, Wilhelm: Admiral, head of the Abwehr - the body of military intelligence and counterintelligence of Germany, which was part of the High Command of the Wehrmacht (the armed forces of Nazi Germany).

Ken, Willy: Head of the Latin America Division of the German Foreign Office based in Madrid, active intelligence agent.

Lanchner, Friedrich: SS Standartenführer, later the owner of a construction company in the city of San Carlos de Bariloche in the Argentine province of Rio Negro.

Leman, Otto(possibly pseudonym): Military doctor at the Nazi-owned Inalco estate in Argentina, later Hitler's personal physician at his last asylum, La Clara.

Meinen, Otto: Senior intelligence agent at the German embassy in Buenos Aires in 1939-44, who succeeded Dietrich Niebuhr in this position.

Hitler outlived Stalin by nine years
From time to time there were rumors that the Fuhrer and Eva Braun did not commit suicide in the spring of 1945 in besieged Berlin, but moved to South America, Tibet or even Antarctica! English historians Simon Dunstan and Gerard Williams conducted an independent investigation. For 5 years they traveled around the world, bit by bit sorted through mountains of evidence, documents, interviewed eyewitnesses. And in the end they were convinced, according to them, of a terrible fact, far beyond the scope of official history. In 1945, one of the greatest villains in the history of mankind was able to hide in Argentina.

In Russian, the bestseller "The Gray Wolf: The Flight of Adolf Hitler" was published by the Dobraya Kniga publishing house.

Eugene CHERNYKH

Eagle Flight to Tierra del Fuego

The escape of the century was organized by Martin Bormann, the authors of The Gray Wolf claim. The most insidious and mysterious person in the leadership of Nazi Germany, the head of the party office. In 1933, he became in fact the shadow of the Fuhrer. The daily routine of the leader, including his meetings and personal affairs, completely depended on Martin. Afraid of losing his influence, Bormann never took a vacation! He was Hitler's treasurer, helping him increase his personal fortune. The intriguer gradually drove away from the leader of his closest associates, including Goering and Himmler. And at the end of the war, he completely controlled access to his body. (In the series "Seventeen Moments of Spring" Borman was played by Yuri Vizbor, - Ed.)

By 1943, he realized that the war was lost. After the First World War, defeated Germany found itself in debt, like in silks. Bormann did not want history to repeat itself. And he began to plan the operation "Flight of the Eagle" to withdraw the stolen gold, precious stones and other valuables to "safe havens" around the world. The sums were colossal!

Bormann's second operation, codenamed Tierra del Fuego, was intended to provide a safe haven for Hitler and his inner circle. So that after the war, where to lead the revival of Germany and Nazism. Bormann's choice fell on Patagonia - a vast and almost deserted region in the south of Chile and Argentina, four times the size of Great Britain! The Germans have settled here for a long time. In fact, it was a German colony in Latin America. In addition, in 1943, there was a coup in Argentina. The new regime was sympathetic to the Nazis. Colonel Peron, the future dictator, was completely supported by German intelligence. There is no better place to hide!

Bormann sent the stolen gold stream to Argentina. Only gold worth 50 billion dollars at current prices, the authors say. Plus platinum, gems, coins, art, stocks and bonds.

Martin was assisted by SS Gruppenführer Heinrich Müller, chief of the Gestapo, the secret state police of the Third Reich (in Seventeen Moments of Spring, old Müller was brilliantly played by Leonid Armor). The third was SS Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein, Bormann's friend and drinking buddy, married to Eva Braun's sister.

The Fuhrer called his sheepdogs Blondie. Both in Germany and Argentina.

At midnight on April 28, 1945, Operation Tierra del Fuego entered its decisive phase. Hitler, his beloved shepherd Blondie, Eva Braun, Bormann, Fegelein and six loyal SS men quietly got out of the famous Fuhrerbunker through a secret passage into the subway tunnels. Hitler had a gas mask case slung over his shoulder, which contained a portrait of Frederick of Prussia that had previously hung over his desk. This painting by Anton Graf accompanied the Fuhrer everywhere, like his beloved dog. The subway was damp, sometimes you had to walk ankle-deep in water. The heavy seven-kilometer underground passage took three hours. The fugitives were driven not only by the noise of the artillery cannonade above, but also by the distant echo of shots - somewhere in the metro Soviet and German soldiers were already fighting. When the group got outside at the appointed place, it was transported in tanks to a temporary airstrip on Hohenzollerndamm. Already without Bormann. The leader of Operation Tierra del Fuego had unfinished business in the bunker.

The Ju-52 was flown by SS-Hauptsturmführer Erich Baumgart. He did not know who his passengers were until the plane gained altitude and the fugitives removed their helmets. Landing at the airfield in the Danish town of Tenner, Baumgart went into the cabin and saluted Hitler. He shook hands with the pilot and put a piece of paper in his palm. Personal check for 20,000 Reichsmarks. Already on another Junkers, the group flew to the German Luftwaffe Travemünde base. From there - on the third plane - to the Spanish Air Force base in the town of Reus, 130 km from Barcelona. The Spaniards will dismantle that plane in order to cover their tracks and not give the Western allies a reason to accuse the dictator Franco of facilitating the escape. The Spanish Air Force aircraft will deliver the fugitives on the night of April 30 to the Canary Islands. At the top-secret object of the Nazis "Winter".

Meanwhile, in Berlin, Bormann and Müller were covering their tracks. In the underground "fuhrerbunker" they settled the twins of the leader and his mistress. Gustav Weber began to replace Hitler on July 20, 1944, when he was wounded in an assassination attempt at the Wolfschanze headquarters in East Prussia. Their incredible resemblance baffled even those who were in the inner circle of the leader. The name of the understudy Eva Braun is unknown. They spotted her in the troupe of young actresses whom Goebbels kept for his own pleasure. Eva and the actress were very similar. Plus, make-up artists and hairdressers worked. In the bunker, the cunning Bormann organized the famous "marriage" of twins. When he received a message that the head of the Nazis was in a safe place, Eva's understudy and Blondie's shepherds were poisoned. And the Fuhrer's double was shot at point-blank range. Possibly Mueller himself. The bodies were brought to the surface and buried. Soon they will be found by Soviet soldiers. Bormann reported the "death of Hitler" to Admiral Karl Doennitz. The Admiral became Reich President.

From that moment on, Bormann and Muller will disappear without a trace from the pages of official history. Later, at the Nuremberg Trials, Bormann would be sentenced to death. In absentia.

Submarine to Argentina

The Nazis did not use the top-secret Winter base on the uninhabited Cape Jandia during the war years. Bormann created the "disposable object" in 1943 on purpose: as the main transport hub for the Fuhrer's escape. The Hitler couple and the shepherd moved here to the submarine U-518. They had a long journey of 8.5 thousand kilometers to Latin America. Eva's brother-in-law on U-880 arrived at the shores of Argentina on the night of July 22-23. 5 days ahead of Hitler. He had to prepare his meeting.

At one in the morning on July 28, 1945, SS Gruppenfuehrer Hermann Fegelein met the submarine with the Fuhrer and his sister-in-law. The fugitives spent the night at Villa Moromar. And the next morning, the Argentine Air Force biplane flew to the San Ramon ranch. The Germans at that time completely controlled all the approaches to the city of San Carlos de Bariloche and the ranch. No one could enter or leave this territory without the official permission of the local Nazi leaders. Hitler and Eva lived here for eight months. In March 1946, ranch workers were told that the guests had died tragically in a car accident, their corpses supposedly burned beyond recognition.

In fact, the couple was transported to the even more secure and secluded shelter "Inalco". 90 km from San Ramon, on the border with Chile. On the remote shore of Lake Nahuel Huapi at the foot of the Andes. The two islands almost completely hid Hitler's ten-bedroom mansion and other buildings from prying eyes from the lake. There was a seaplane at the concrete pier. On the surrounding wooded hills, Nazi observation posts controlled all approaches by land, water and air.

Until October 1955, the Inalco Ranch was Hitler's main residence. Life here to the fugitives at first seemed idyllic. In summer they swam in the lake, in winter they skied at the nearest mountain resort. The couple, under guard, traveled around the surrounding towns, met with like-minded people, of whom many fled to Argentina after the defeat of Nazi Germany.

In 1948, Bormann and Muller showed up in Argentina, completing all the secret business in Europe. Bormann arrived at Inalco dressed as a priest, under the name "Father Augustine." Stayed for over a week. And later often visited Hitler. Bormann and led the "Organization" (an underground Nazi structure for the revival of the Fourth Reich).

However, the deterioration of Hitler's health and the fading of the dream of the revival of the "Fourth Reich" in the early 50s led to a decrease in the activity of the "Organization". Many convinced Nazis plunged headlong into a new life and a new job. And calls to work in the name of the defeated leader and the defeated ideology more and more remained unanswered. The Fuhrer's wife was also sad. A cheerful, frivolous woman loved noisy companies and parties. Life in a huge isolated estate was not at all what she dreamed of. Her beloved Adolf, who once looked so flamboyant surrounded by his servile companions, was now constantly ill. His former greatness faded in the seclusion of rural life and the care of two small children (yes, the authors of the bestseller claim that the Fuhrer got offspring!). There was no longer a hint that Hitler would again be able to influence the course of events in the world. Therefore, for Eve, who felt how her youth was leaving, her husband probably became a bad company. After Brown's official "death" in the Berlin bunker in 1945, no one would have suspected a young mother with two children of being Hitler's wife. It was not difficult for Eva to move around the country under assumed names. Perhaps in 1954, she finally left her husband, having moved with her daughters from Inalco to the town of Neuquen. She was 42. Hitler was 65.

The "Organization" continued to watch over Eve. Although Bormann moved away from politics, he was engaged in the preservation and increase of the capital of the "Organization". He became a world-class businessman - it was not for nothing that he was the Fuhrer's personal treasurer in Germany! His visits to Hitler became increasingly rare. Bormann spent a lot of time in the capital of Argentina, Buenos Aires. Here, under the roof of the company for the production of refrigerators, he conducted financial transactions around the world. And he regularly met with Argentine President Peron. He, on his advice, built his own "fuhrerbunker" with underground passages leading to the docks. Perhaps he escaped on them in 1955, when a coup took place in Argentina. From the docks on a gunboat to Paraguay. To some extent, repeating the escape of Hitler. But, unlike the Fuhrer, the Argentine dictator will later return power in the country.

Eva Braun has always loved merry company (1944). After 10 years, she will leave her sick husband in a remote secret estate and move with her daughters to the Argentine town of Neuquen.

The recluse of La Clara

After the coup in 1955, Bormann transported Hitler to the small La Clara estate in a remote corner of Patagonia. Leaving him only a personal physician, Otto Lehmann, and a servant, a former non-commissioned officer, Heinrich Bethe. Of the entire Nazi "Organization", only Martin knew where the Fuhrer was hiding. Again, as in 1945, Bormann had complete control over access to the leader.

Bormann told the chief how gravely the Organization was in danger after the fall of the Perón regime. But Hitler was no longer interested in politics. He developed Parkinson's disease. Most of the time he spent in peace and thought. I woke up late, before noon I went for a walk with a new shepherd dog with the old nickname Blondie. Then he rested. In the evening, he held so-called “working meetings” with the doctor and the servant, chatting incoherently and confusedly about everything in a row. Sometimes until 3-4 o'clock in the morning. Dr. Lehman called their company "eccentrics and exiles", completely cut off from the outside world.

In the fall of 1956, Bormann reappeared at the ranch. Hitler initially received the guest coldly, believing that Martin had betrayed him. However, he assured that the Nazi "Organization" is steadily growing and developing. Optimism returned to the Fuhrer. Bormann stayed at La Clara for two days. Before leaving, he thanked the former sailor Bethe for his service and invaluable services to the Reich, asked him not to disturb Hitler for any reason and try to make his life as calm as possible. Like, one day the day will come when the Fuhrer will again hear the whole world, but so far his health is most important.

Time for the recluses of La Clara dragged on gloomily and monotonously. According to the doctor, at times Hitler flourished again, but not for long. Year after year passed in despair. Melancholy became his usual state.

The Fuhrer gradually faded away. Physically and spiritually. In January 1962, part of the face was paralyzed. For hours on end, he sat, peering at the lake and the mountains on the horizon "as if possessed." Dr. Lehman felt that he could only wait until “the ghosts of Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Treblinka and many other places finally drag the patient out of this life. Now there is very little time left.” For several nights in a row, Hitler was plagued by visions of "distorted faces, fields littered with corpses, who rose up to accuse him, and reached out to him with shaking hands." Hitler could hardly sleep, refused to eat, and spent most of his time "alternating between sobs and childhood memories."

On the afternoon of February 12, 1962, Hitler fell unconscious in the bath. Three hours later he had a stroke. The left side of the body was paralyzed. He soon fell into a coma. On February 13, 1962, at three o'clock in the afternoon, Dr. Lehman stated that the patient had no signs of life. The former dictator was a little short of 73 years old.

After the death of the Fuhrer, his guardians became dangerous witnesses. Realizing this, Dr. Leman persuaded Bethe to run away. He, having taken with him the doctor's diaries and other documents, was able to escape from the murderers of Muller and Bormann. He changed his name to Juan Pawlowski and died in 1977 in the Patagonian town of Caleta Olivia. And Dr. Leman disappeared. Perhaps he was killed on Bormann's orders. Bad luck.

Bormann and Müller were still living in Argentina in 1980. When and where they died - no data. Both Nazis, born in 1900, knew how to deftly cover their tracks. Nothing is known about Eva Braun and her daughters either. It is unlikely that Eve is alive, she would now be a hundred years old. Although my grandmother lived 96. Well, the Fuhrer's heirs may still live in Argentina, or other parts.

OFFICIAL VERSION

TOP SECRET ANDROPOV'S "ARCHIVE"

According to the official version, Adolf and Eva committed suicide in the bunker on April 30, 1945. The comrades-in-arms took their bodies into the garden, doused them with gasoline, set them on fire, and buried them. On May 5, the burnt corpses were found by employees of the Soviet SMERSH, identified. But the Soviet leadership then had doubts about their authenticity, the documents referred to "the alleged corpses of Hitler and Braun." They were buried secretly at a Soviet military base in Germany. Together with the remains of the Goebbels family. A year later, additional excavations were carried out in the garden near the Fuhrerbunker. They found a partially charred piece of skull with a bullet hole, presumably Hitler's. From the allies, the Kremlin hid the fact of finding the bodies for a long time. The cover operation was personally led by the Commissioner of the NKVD in Germany, General Ivan Serov. In 1954, the first head of the KGB of the USSR, Serov, would order the storage in Moscow "in a special order" (read - top-secret!) of a piece of Hitler's skull and his jaw. In 1963, Serov was unfairly dismissed, depriving him of the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. The retiree sat down for memoirs. Perhaps he told something about the situation with the corpses of Adolf and Eve. But, they say, one popular Soviet writer, an organ singer, gained confidence in Serov, took his memoirs for lithoprocessing. They disappeared without a trace.

In 1970, the Soviet base was handed over to the authorities of the GDR. At the direction of Yuri Andropov, the KGB brilliantly carried out the top secret operation "Archive" to completely eliminate the corpses of Hitler, Brown, Goebbels. "The destruction of the remains was carried out by burning them on a fire in a wasteland near the town of Schönebeck, 11 km from Magdeburg. The remains burned out, crushed into ashes together with coal, collected and thrown into the Biederitz River." So that the burial place of the Fuhrer does not become an object of worship for neo-Nazis.

In 2009, researchers from the American University of Connecticut - archaeologist, bone specialist Nick Bellantoni and geneticist Linda Strosbach, said they had analyzed the DNA of the Moscow "fragment of Hitler's skull." Their conclusion is that the skull belongs to a woman of 30-40 years old, but not to Eva Braun. Representatives of the FSB denied their statement. Having reported that the remains are genuine, Hitler's jaw is in the archives of the FSB, a fragment of his skull is in the State Archives.

Do the mysteries continue?

COMPETENT OPINION

A DOZEN Führer Doppelgänger

Historian Andrey FURSOV:

Until now, there is no serious evidence of Hitler's suicide (death) in the last days of the war. What is presented as such is very unconvincing, and in the case of the "corpse of Eva Braun" frankly falsified. And with the "skull of Hitler" things are no better. According to his psychoprofile, Hitler was neither a suicidal type, nor a hysteric, nor a psychopath - a cold, calculating person. From mid-1943, the leadership of the Third Reich took fantastic measures to create a post-war economic base for the Nazis. About a thousand corporations were created through nominees and structures; including 234 in Switzerland, 233 in Sweden, 112 in Spain, 98 in Argentina, 58 in Portugal and 35 in Turkey. Funds were invested in the banking system, drug trafficking. The Nazis also created their own political (South America, the Near and Middle East) and intelligence structures.

The Americans found only the "gold of the Reich", having financed the Marshall Plan. And the “gold of the party” and “gold of the SS” disappeared - they were taken out, hidden and went to the construction of the Fourth Reich. By the spring of 1945, the task was basically solved.

And after such preparation, the Fuhrer committed suicide? In such situations, a stubborn leader like Hitler does not voluntarily die, but leads Sein Kampf (his struggle) to the end.

Did world leaders know that Hitler was alive? They couldn't help but know. And most likely it was an agreement. Although, of course, until the end, Hitler could not believe in anyone's guarantees and he had to provide some of them himself, using compromising evidence, technical achievements, and part of the loot. And also twins. The Fuhrer, according to some reports, had 12 of them. The only thing I disagree with the authors of the book “Grey Wolf” is that most likely “a person who looks like Hitler”, whose convincing evidence they found in South America is also a double. Hitler could come to Argentina, they could see him there. But he lived, I think, in a completely different place or in other places. “Where does a smart person hide a pebble? Among the pebbles on the seashore” (K. G. Chesterton).

MYSTICAL ORIGINS

RIENZI MUST DIE!

Writer Yuri VOROBYEVSKY:

In 1993, I was lucky. I learned that in Moscow, not far from the Vodny Stadion metro station, the so-called Special Archive of the USSR is stored - trophy documents related to the occult background of global politics. It was handy! On Channel One Ostankino, we were just preparing the documentary series Secrets of the Century. It was dedicated to the mystical aspects of the Second World War and for the first time aroused wide interest in this topic in our country.

At the same time, our colleague Mikhail Leshchinsky was filming a documentary about the mystery of Hitler's death. At that time, there were regular rumors that the Fuhrer allegedly escaped. Leshchinsky was allowed to remove a fragment of Hitler's skull in the archives of the special services. We looked at this piece of yellow bone not without interest, but we knew that we had found something much more important.

Among the yellowed papers of the Special Archives, decorated with runes, intricate symbols, impressive seals, a plain-looking sheet attracted special attention. Some kind of list, or rather, a copy of it, printed through a blue carbon paper and dated 1921. It was a list of organizations included in the super-lodge, clearly organized according to the Masonic principle - Germanenorden. In a modest 34th place - the National Socialist Party of Germany. Hitler's party, which will soon shock the whole world. It's amazing that the "initiates" left this mark! Documentary evidence that current politics, no matter how grandiose it may acquire, is just a branch of occult activity. There was something else notable. A number of Germanenorden units were called like this: “Lohengrin”, “Valkyrie”, “Nibelungen” ... Very Wagnerian. Here we also found the scores of fragments of the famous Wagner operas. It turned out that during the initiation into the Germanenorden, the Pilgrim Choir from Tannhäuser was performed. Then, before the novices took the oath of allegiance, “Lohengrin” sounded ... Taking into account the fact that the Charter of the Germanenorden influenced the fundamental principles of the Third Reich, for example, the essence of the Nuremberg racial laws, we can say that we, the creators of the “Secrets of the Age”, held in our hands scores of a German tragedy.

Hitler watched some of the operas of his adored Wagner, such as The Death of the Gods, more than a hundred times! Having enjoyed the operatic fire of Valhalla, he gave the order to participate in the Spanish events at the Wagner festival in Bayreuth. Then there was the fire of Guernica and much more ... So the boundaries of scenery and reality were blurred.

Even in his youth, excited by the next performance, Hitler felt like a Wagnerian hero. The stunning victorious spear Siegfried. Parsifal who wielded the Grail. Courageous Rienzi, dying in a wonderful attempt to restore the former spirit and former grandeur of Rome. "Heil Rienzi! Hello, people's tribune! ”- so, raising their right hand in a Roman greeting, they turn to the opera hero. Wagnerian performances, by the way, largely determined the style of behavior and especially the pretentious style of festive rituals in the Third Reich. And party congresses generally began with a viewing of Rienzi.

For the first time at the grave of his idol, Hitler said: "I feel a mystical connection between me and Wagner."

Many argue whether, in fact, some occult structure brought Hitler to power, to what extent and which one. Until the end it is not clear to anyone. But something else is obvious: almost all the people who made up the protege of the "people's tribune" in the first act of his terrible performance were fans of Wagner. It was an informal, unstructured, but influential force. Captain Mayr, head of the Munich political department of the Reichswehr, who sent Hitler as an agent to a meeting of the German Workers' Party. Manufacturers Bruckmann and Beshtein, who introduced the retired corporal into society and supported financially. A member of the secret society Thule Eckart Dietrich, who achieved an invitation to a talented speaker in Bayreuth, to the Wagner house, where he was approved by Sir Houston Stuart Chamberlain himself. This theorist of racism confirmed Mayr's hunch. Hitler was the Parsifal that the German people expected! Humiliated by defeat in the First World War, he needed someone who would embody Wagner's idea of the return of the hero-savior.

Numerous examples of how Hitler acted contrary to the laws of human logic, I cite in my book The Third Act (Third Reich and Third Rome). I won't dwell on this anymore. Let me just say that Hitler's self-confidence was rooted in Wagner's purely artistic demand to "transcend reality." The Fuhrer said: “I guarantee you that the impossible always succeeds. The most incredible is the most true.

Back in the 18th century, the German poet and philosopher Novalis wrote: “He will be the greatest magician who will enchant himself in such a way that he will take his fantasies for phenomena of reality.” Hitler "bewitched" himself, turning into a Wagnerian hero. But such a hero also needed an appropriate weapon. Hence his irrational desire to take possession of the Viennese Spear of Destiny ...

Yes, Hitler bewitched himself. And in the opera "Rienzi, the last tribune" he generally seemed to see his fate ... He will also be betrayed by his closest associates. He will also not fulfill his dream. And the flames of the fire will devour his body. Together with the body of his wife Eve. (The operatic Rienzi will die in a burning building along with his sister Irena - Ed.)

Feeling like a betrayed hero (such were both Rienzi and Siegfied), Hitler could not run. He was supposed to die almost on the battlefield. His pathetic role was such. And even if they give me not even such frail versions about the rescue of the Fuhrer as they are now, even if I get my hands on the materials of some radiation examinations, then I’m unlikely to believe them. I see them as fake because Hitler himself was too irrational to be subject to spectral and other analyses. Rienzi should have died! And so it happened. Operation Wotan has long failed - after taking Moscow, the Allies have already broken the Siegfried Line in the West. And in April 1945, on the eve of Walpurgis Night, the lead "Valkyrie" took his damned soul to "Valhalla". Where the fire rages forever.

... On April 27, 1945, when Soviet troops broke into Berlin, two figures crawled out of a secret tunnel that connected the Reich Chancellery with the outside world. Soon a middle-aged couple was sitting on a plane. Pilot Peter Baumgart was sweaty and deathly pale. After all, he lifted Adolf Hitler himself and Eva Braun into the air. Thus begins the story of the Führer's flight as told by Gerard. Like, three days before his official suicide, Hitler agreed to have a double take his place. And the role of Eva Braun was played by a little-known actress. The couple was first transported to the Danish city of Tonder, from there to the German Luftwaffe base in Trevemund, and then by JU 252 aircraft to Reus (Spain), south of Barcelona. There, General Franco provided the Fuhrer with a plane with Spanish markings. The leader of the Nazis was taken to the Canary Islands, to Fuertuventura, and the next day he, along with Eva Braun, boarded the submarine. At the same time, their doubles were killed in Berlin, and the bodies were burned.
When the Soviet troops seized the Reich Chancellery, bones and ashes were found in its courtyard, in a funnel. It was believed that these were the remains of Hitler and his passion. But those they were hunting for were in fact already at an inaccessible depth in the Atlantic Ocean.
Back in 1943, the head of the Nazi party and Hitler's closest ally, Martin Bormann, approved a plan to "relocate" the top Nazi leadership from Germany to South America.
It was proposed to create a fourth Reich there. The escape route was worked out to the smallest detail. Bormann himself also took advantage of it. The Nuremberg Tribunal, due to the absence of a "Parteigenosse", sentenced him to death in absentia. After that, disputes did not subside: where could he be hiding? When the statute of limitations for British secret documents (50 years) expired, one of the local James Bonds, Christopher Creton, said that Bormann had escaped from a bunker in Berlin on the evening of May 1. A week and a half later, he got to the allies, who brought him to Basel, Switzerland and then to England! As a result of plastic surgery, Bormann's face, gait, and voice were changed. In 1956, he was taken to Argentina, and later to a colony of Nazis who had taken refuge in Paraguay. There he died three years later.

Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden, who succeeded him in the summer of 1945 as Prime Minister, knew about this operation, according to Creton. In Bormann's plan, his boss was codenamed "grey wolf," Gerard says. Hence the title of our book. The US intelligence agencies secretly evacuated the Fuhrer and Eva Braun in the hope of having more access to German secrets. In addition, the Americans received fantastic money for saving the lives of Hitler's bosses. And they, quite understandably, concealed where the war criminals were. Remember the fate of the German rocket designer Wernher von Braun? He faithfully served the Fuhrer, and after the defeat of the Wehrmacht, he headed the American space program. Why was Argentina chosen for Hitler's flight? The authorities of this country sympathized with the leaders of the Third Reich, even sent them fake passports. After the war, it was in Argentina that the most inveterate Nazi executioners anchored: Josef Mengele, Adolf Eichmann, Klaus Barbier ... But they failed to dissolve in the selva. Many were caught later, but about a thousand more war criminals are still hiding in more than twenty countries: Bolivia, Chile, the same Argentina, Sudan. “We will chase them to the grave,” said Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. The search is called Operation Last Chance.
The Soviet Union has always given conflicting accounts of what happened in the chaos of the final days of the war in Hitler's bunker, Gerard says. - The remains, according to the Russians, were buried, but later exhumed and transported to different places so that Adolf's grave would not become a place of pilgrimage. Nevertheless, after some time it turned out that the Russians kept part of Hitler's skull with an entrance bullet hole, as well as the side handles of the sofa, on which, as it was supposed, the Fuhrer shot himself. They claimed that these items were evidence of his suicide. Recently, however, molecular biologists from the United States conducted DNA testing of the skull. Their conclusion: the skull belongs to a woman under forty years old, and not to Hitler, who was 56 in 1945. And he has nothing to do with Eva Braun. The Fuhrer's wife committed suicide by taking potassium cyanide. What's with the bullet wound?
In post-war FBI files, Gerard read reports from agents from various countries and other evidence that Hitler had fled Berlin and started a new life in South America. For more than 30 years, FBI Director Edgar Hoover and his subordinates kept a dossier on the leader of the Nazis.
The book about the "gray wolf" says that in 1945, US President Harry Truman, who participated in a conference in Potsdam, asked Stalin the question: was Hitler dead? "No," the Soviet leader replied. And the next head of the White House, Dwight Eisenhower, said in the 1950s: "The United States failed to find the slightest tangible evidence of Hitler's death."
The Fuhrer, along with Eva Braun, arrived in the Argentine resort town of Mar Del Plata. There he was greeted "with calm enthusiasm". In the foothills of the Andes, he lived until 1962. Mr. Williams was at his home, which resembles Hitler's Berghof residence in the Bavarian Alps. And Eva Braun, they say, left her missus forever in 1953 and moved to the city of Neucuen in western Argentina. Her house is also preserved. Who confirms all this? Pilot Peter Baumgart, a high-ranking Japanese diplomat who served in Berlin, doctors, cooks, bodyguards who worked for the Fuhrer ... Gerard met them during his numerous trips to Argentina. True, he does not name many of them. Why? After the publication of the book Gray Wolf last October, they received threats and asked that their details be kept secret.
“Two of my interlocutors,” Mr. Williams informs me, “told in detail how their parents saw the Fuhrer. And how many amazing facts I learned from a 78-year-old Argentine who now lives in London! In 1953 and 1956, as a very young man, he interacted with Hitler at a hotel in the center of Buenos Aires. His description of the aged Adolf exactly matches the impressions of other witnesses. By the way, Hitler was then without a mustache.
The name of another eyewitness, apparently for conspiracy, is simply "John". This pensioner, and in the past a businessman, recalled that dozens of planes and helicopters arrived at Hitler's funeral. It was full of German food and beer. Many visitors got completely drunk and bawled German songs for several days ... Recently, several "grandchildren" of Hitler and Bormann have appeared in South America. All of them are from among the German emigrants and are clearly impostors. Maybe Gerard's witnesses are also "grandchildren of Corporal Hitler"?
The Fuhrer's flight theory is rejected by many British scholars. The famous historian Guy Walters generally called it "two thousand percent garbage." But resentment fuels the excitement even more. Especially heated discussions ensued in connection with the assertion that Hitler died of natural causes at 3 pm on February 13, 1962. By that time he had dementia, but he still did not doubt the victory of the Nazis.
And finally, the biggest sensation. Adolf and Eva had children! Two daughters. One of them was born at the end of 1941. The lawyer who handled her divorce proceedings in Argentina is still alive today. The daughters first lived with their father and mother, and then only with Eva Braun. After her death, they left Neukuen, but remained in South America. And still there. If this statement is taken seriously, then the bloodline of Hitler continues ...

The book will be of interest to those interested in the history of World War II. But it shouldn't be taken seriously. There is not a single concrete proof of the authenticity of this version in the book. "So it could be" - it does not mean "so it was." It was or was not - in a historical study, you still need to prove it. Documents, testimonies of witnesses, expert opinions - there is nothing of this at all. Half of the book is a historical sketch of the formation, development and collapse of the fascist regime in Germany. Another description of crimes and atrocities, but, as they say, "the theme of the essay is not disclosed" ...
A detailed description of various reconnaissance and search (for searching for valuables, scientists, etc.) structures of the allies - and again, what does it have to do with a possible escape?
The second half of the book - the escape itself - is a broken narrative, where events "possible" in the previous chapter, in the next chapter for some reason become "proven". There is no logic, only absurd stories like that after landing from a submarine on the Argentine coast, the Blondi shepherd dog was the most happy ... With such success, one can tell in detail that Hitler fled to Mongolia with the favorite dachshund of the hanged Canaris, and Eva found her happiness with Darth Vader, who took her on a flying saucer to the far side of the moon...
The authors write that some "expert" concluded that in the photographs of Hitler on April 20, 45, allegedly, not Hitler, but his double. So publish this conclusion with photographs, evidence, etc. in a historical study. No, instead the famous photographs of Adolf and Eva with Ursula (daughter of Eva's friend) are called photographs of the couple with their own offspring. So they would prove this, for example - by the testimony of a doctor and a midwife, a birth certificate, photographs where Hitler "stands at the maternity hospital with a bouquet" ... Not a single concrete evidence, only statements like "in Argentina in the 45th everything could be. .."
The most delusional statement in the book still does not apply to the topic of "escape from the bunker". On page 82 we read: "In every psychiatric hospital [in Germany] buildings were built, supposedly for baths, where patients were killed first with carbon monoxide, and then with a special poison gas." The impression of the authors as serious researchers immediately disappears...
Probably, the authors wrote such a "study" in order to somehow distract the public reading on historical topics from more interesting topics, for example, about the leading role of their country in fostering the Nazi regime in Germany ... all directions...

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