Another revelation about the post-war years of the life of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler is the most important secret document, according to which the Fuhrer was one of the passengers of a special plane from Austria on April 26, 1945.
The life and death of Hitler in exile, Argentina
Although official history claims that Hitler committed suicide and then ordered his corpse to be burned along with his newlywed wife Eva Braun on April 30, 1945, Abel Basti knows this page of history is fiction.
The deceased Hitler and Brown were not there, respectively, it was not they who were burned in the pit of a German bunker, the journalist assures, this is a falsification of history, write a publicist on your favorite topic.
Need to be reminded old story conspiracy theorists for many years: in May 1945, near the bunker of the Reich Chancellery, SMERSH officers removed two charred bodies from the funnel, which, according to the results of examinations of that time, were recognized as the remains of Hitler and Brown.
From that very moment, and up to the present day, this story, like the death of Babylon, is overgrown with many rumors and artifacts. Conspiracy theorists claim that Brown and Hitler, like his cabal, fled, which was strongly supported by the American intelligence service in Berlin with the words "we have no evidence of Hitler's suicide." Later version supported by ex-director intelligence agency B. Smith, stating that not a single person can bring the facts of Hitler's death in Berlin.
According to the journalist's carefully conducted research, the leader of the Third Reich did not really die from poison and was not "cremated". Hitler completed his last years life much later than the time indicated by history. Facial plastic surgery, which changed Hitler's appearance, helped the German mastermind of those events successfully hide. This long history, people are still interested in:
Adolf Hitler died in Argentina, having lived a long life.
This statement was made by Argentine historian and journalist Abel Basti in his book Hitler in Exile.
While the book had good popularity in South America, its publication in Russia and the USA did not find a place for itself. The two countries, despite the periodicity of a surviving Hitler, still claim the Fuhrer of the Third Reich committed suicide in the final days of World War II.
Assumptions about the life of Hitler after the war, as well as some high-ranking officials of the SS, have been heard for a long time, suggesting that they escaped punishment by hiding in South America in advance. To prove the assumptions from the field of "conspiracy theories", fans of the idea cite a lot of facts, usually of dubious reputation, but, nevertheless, quite popular and curious.
Nil Nikandrov spoke about Hitler’s life after the war on the pages “All the leaders of the Third Reich fled to latin america". Donald Mackail correlated an early source for the legend of Hitler's escape to Southern Hemisphere with the unexpected and illogical surrender of a German submarine, in early July 1945 at Mar del Plata, Argentina.
Several newspapers in Buenos Aires, despite the denial of the Argentine fleet, claimed that there were eyewitnesses who saw rubber boats and submarines in the area. On July 16, 1945, the Chicago Times published a sensational article about Hitler, allegedly quietly slipping away from the wrath of the participants in the war to South America.
Ladislao Zsabó, a Hungarian resident, witnessed the arrival of the U-530 submarine and watched the Nazi leaders slowly disembark. He also heard about the German base in Antarctica, on the basis of which he came to the conclusion that Hitler took refuge on secret base hidden somewhere in the ice.
Later, Ladislav published a book about the head of the Third Reich (Hitler is alive), which refers to possible place Hitler's residence in the area of the land of "Queen Maud", named by the Germans in New Swabia. Neuschwabenland - the area was explored in 1938/39 by a German expedition led by Captain Ritscher, who actually gave this name (some maps are still under historical name lands have a postscript about "Schwabeland").Now it is difficult to figure out what is more embedded here, fairy tales, or fragmentary lines from historical documents. Rumors are so densely surrounded by the idea of a surviving Hitler, speculation on the topic is so high that it seems that the Fourth Reich is about to throw off the ice and enter society.
Hitler, the road of the fugitives.
When there is so much gossip, the truth is usually around. Basti searched for the truth for seven years, conducting a difficult investigation into the death of Hitler. He personally visited the German formations, whose security was ensured by the stern faces of the guards and, after reading hundreds of kilograms of old documents, revealed the secret of Hitler's life and death.
It looks like an April Fool's joke, but it really isn't. Basti's investigation plunges us into the world of secrets of the last century, revealing the innermost secrets of the conspiracy theory that rules the world.
The journalist managed to talk with living witnesses of those years, and he not only interviewed people who lived next to Hitler, but even got photographs of Hitler and Eva Braun, who lived in exile in post-war years.
Basti wrote that A. Hitler, E. Braun, and some of the Fuhrer's close assistants flew out of burning Berlin to Spain. Then the fugitives secretly cross Atlantic Ocean three submarines, and finally reach the coast of Argentina. In July / August 1945, Hitler and his retinue arrive in the province of Rio Negro, which lies near the village of Caleta and move deep into Argentina.
Presumably the same secret route prepared by the staff of the head of the SS Himmler, later used by Bormann, the monster doctor Mengele, Eichmann, and some other participants in the events of those years.
An Argentine journalist and publicist, describing the journey of A. Hitler and E. Brown through Argentina, which of course was carried out with the assistance of local Nazi sympathizers, notes a happy family life spouses in exile, during which, despite the difficulties of their own, they even got children!
Hitler's death, stage play?
The war ended with the defeat of the Nazi army, complete surrender. On May 10, the Germans announced the existence of burnt bodies in the Chancellery courtyard, saying that one of the bodies belonged to Hitler, the other to Eva Braun. Although the same American intelligence report reported that it was impossible to determine who owns the remains of the burned bodies.
It really was the strangest funeral in history, taking away the authenticity of the death of the Nazi courtier from understanding: did he die or fled, putting an end to the staging of his death with fire?
June 6, press secretary Soviet army in Berlin announced unequivocally, Adolf Hitler committed suicide, body found, remains identified.
Three days later, Marshal Zhukov, at a press conference attended by the future Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Vyshinsky, looking over his shoulder, said: “We did not identify Hitler’s body” ... “I can’t say anything definite about his fate. He could have flown from Berlin to the very last moment/Nil Nikandrov/.
Conspiracy Theory: Hitler's Life After the War.
Journalist Basti, in an interview with Deadline - an Argentine news program broadcast, host Santiago Romero and Abel Basti talk about Hitler's escape and life in exile:
Romero: What do you think of Hitler's escape?
Basti: “Hitler fled from Austria to Barcelona. Final stage the escape was in a submarine, from Vigo, heading straight for the coast of Patagonia. Finally, Hitler and Eva in a car with a driver and bodyguards, at least, three cars went to Argentina.
He took refuge in a place called San Ramon, about 15 miles east of the city. This place is opposite Lake Nahuel Huapi, which has belonged to a German company since the beginning of the 20th century.
Romero: On what basis do you claim that Hitler was in Spain after he escaped from the Berlin bunker?
Basti: I received information from an elderly Jesuit priest whose family was friendly with Nazi leader. I have witnesses who saw Hitler and his entourage at the place where they were staying in Cantabria.
In addition, a document from British intelligence shows that the Nazi submarine and convoy left Spain, and after stopping at canary islands, continued its journey to the south of Argentina.
Hitler and Eva Braun were on board one of the submarines that subsequently arrived in Patagonia between July and August 1945.
There is also another important document which lets us know the FBI was hard at work searching for Hitler in Spain after World War II. All evidence points to the Galician coast, where there were boats during the Battle of the Atlantic.
When the Enigma code was cracked, the German messages were deciphered. submarine fleet, and find out the course of Hitler's escort. There is a possibility that he fled Vigo or Ferrol, but I'm pretty sure Hitler fled Vigo, according to British MI6 documents.
Romero: What kind of life did Hitler have in Argentina?
Basti: Hitler lived with his wife and bodyguards, it was a life of fugitives, but quite comfortable. They spent the first post-war years in Patagonia and then moved to the northern provinces of Argentina. At the beginning of the year, the Führer held meetings in various parts Argentina with other Nazis in Paraguay, as well as with sympathizers from foreign countries.
Hitler shaved his head and shaved off his mustache, and was no longer so easily recognizable. They lived away from major urban areas, although he did have a few encounters in Buenos Aires. The Fuhrer died in the early sixties, ending his days in Argentina. At present, the journalist continues, I am trying to find out the place of his burial, studying the last days of Adolf Hitler's life.
Romero: Do you have access to documents from the former Soviet Union?
Basti: Until his death in 1953, Stalin never believed that Hitler had committed suicide by telling the Allies about it in 1945. At the same time, there are three different transcripts in which Stalin noted that german leader fled. While in Argentina, I interviewed people who saw and met Hitler. AT Russian archives there are documents that show that Hitler fled from fallen Berlin.
Romero: As yours A new book influence the official version of Hitler's death?
Basti: Despite recent research that has proven that Hitler's remains in the Kremlin do not belong to the Fuhrer, most Russians have always dismissed the theory that he escaped. The same applies to the peoples who participated in the war.
British authorities have also revised all relevant documentation, pushing back the deadline for solving mysteries by 60 years or more. Researchers cannot access information about important period history, which in turn confirms the correctness of the conclusions about the fugitive top of the Third Reich. Otherwise, why hide documents?
One of the reasons why Hitler fled to Argentina, who allowed him to do this and why, the journalist, and at the time of writing the first books about Hitler, and now calls one thing, the Fuhrer was needed by America.
Yes, the Second World War was over, and the ashes of the dead had not yet dissipated, but the world was preparing for a new war, for the "cold" war against communism.
And here the Germans accepted by the Americans, whose number is estimated at up to 300 thousand, were a good help. Also, do not underestimate the serious technological knowledge of the Nazis, which America so badly needed.
How did Adolf Hitler die? Took poison, shot himself or deep old man died 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 on the territory of the Reich Chancellery Soviet officers Two dead doppelgangers of Hitler were discovered. 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 ...
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 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 his associates, fled from besieged Berlin to South America and died there in 1964 at the age of 75. 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 hide in 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 personal pilot Hitler Hans Bauer. 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 bay of Caleta de los Loros, 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 testimony 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, then can be found in the testimony of "eyewitnesses" to the death of Hitler whole line contradictions. 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 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 the 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 searched for the Fuhrer in several countries at once South America, 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 the "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 language 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). Repeatedly he 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 fanatic 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.
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 besides 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 presented a terrible picture: he moved with difficulty and clumsily, throwing upper part torso forward and dragging his legs ... The Fuhrer could hardly maintain his 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 pilots in Germany, Hanna Reitsch, arrived in the bunker fanatically devoted to Hitler. 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 oral cavity Hitler, which coincided with the results of a study conducted on May 8.
On a body damaged by fire visible signs no serious fatal injuries or diseases were found. 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. corpse of a woman, presumably owned by Eva Braun. Despite the fact that there was a broken glass ampoule in the mouth and the smell of bitter almonds emanated from the corpse, chest traces of a shrapnel wound and 6 small metal fragments were found.
Employees military intelligence the remains were packed in wooden boxes and buried 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 neutral country, and from it 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, Vasily Khristoforov, head of the Registration and Archival Funds Department of the FSB of Russia, said that in 1946 a special commission conducted 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.
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The ability to live well and die well is one and the same science.
Epicurus
HITLER Adolf
(pseudonym, real name Schicklgruber)
(1889-1945) leader of the National Socialist Party, head German state in 1933-1945
In April 1945, the Allied troops were finishing the defeat of Germany. The idea of Hitler's life collapsed - the idea of world domination of the Aryan nation. Albert Speer, head of military production in Nazi Germany, says that a few days before his death, Hitler shouted: “If the war is lost, the German people should not exist. so the future belongs to people of the East who proved to be stronger."
Here brief chronicle last days Fuhrer.
Soviet troops have occupied three-quarters of Berlin, but Hitler still hopes for something ... He is in a two-story bunker at a depth of 8 meters under the courtyard of the imperial office, anxiously awaiting news. By evening, however, it becomes clear that the 9th and 12th armies are not able to liberate the capital. Together with Hitler in the bunker are his mistress Eva Braun, Goebbels with his family, the chief of the general staff Krebs, secretaries, adjutants, security guards. According to the testimony of an officer of the General Staff, at that time "physically, Hitler presented a terrible picture: he moved with difficulty and clumsily, throwing his upper body forward, dragging his legs ... With difficulty he could maintain balance. His left hand did not obey him, but his right trembled constantly ... 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. According to the story of the pilot, the Fuhrer invited her to his place and said quietly: - Hannah, you belong to those who will die with me. Each of us has a vial of poison." He handed the vial to Hanna. "I don't want any of us to fall into Russian hands, and I don't want Russians to get our bodies. Eve's bodies and mine will be burned.
Hanna Reitsch testifies that during the conversation, Hitler presented a tragicomic picture: almost blindly rushing from wall to wall with paper in trembling hands; then he suddenly stopped, sat down at the table, moved flags around the map, denoting non-existent armies. "Completely disintegrated man," Reitsch stated.
Personal disintegration and insanity did not prevent Hitler from ordering the opening of the floodgates on the Spree River and the flooding of the metro station when he learned that Soviet troops had infiltrated the Berlin underground. The execution of the order led to the death of thousands of people who were in the subway: the wounded German soldiers, women and children.
Goebbels and Bormann attend the wedding of Hitler and Eva Braun as witnesses. The process takes place in accordance with the law: a marriage contract is drawn up and a wedding ceremony is performed. Witnesses, as well as Krebs, Goebbels' wife, Hitler's adjutants General Burgdorf and Colonel Belov, secretaries and a cook are invited to the wedding celebration. After a small feast, Hitler retires to make a will.
The last day of the Fuhrer is coming. 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. In the conference room, Hitler and Eva Braun say goodbye to Bormann, Goebbels, Burgdorf, Krebs, Axman, who came here, to the Fuhrer's secretaries Junge and Weichelt. Then everyone, except for Hitler and his wife, goes out into the corridor. Further developments presented in two main versions.
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. 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: Hitler and Eva Braun were poisoned by potassium cyanide. Before his death, Hitler also poisoned two beloved sheep dogs.
By order of Bormann, the bodies of the dead were wrapped in blankets, taken out into the yard, doused with gasoline and burned in a shell crater. True, they burned badly, and, in the end, the half-burnt corpses were buried by the SS men in the ground.
The bodies of Hitler and Eva Braun 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 delivered for inspection and identification to one of the Berlin morgues on May 8th. An external examination gave reason to believe that the charred corpses of a man and a woman were the remains of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun. But, as you know, the Fuhrer and his mistress had several doubles, because the Soviet military authorities wanted to conduct a thorough investigation.
The question of whether the person delivered to the morgue was really Hitler still worries researchers. Here is what one of them says about the circumstances of the case:
“The corpse of a man was in a wooden box 163 cm long, 55 and 53 cm wide and 53 cm high, respectively. age and height could only be assumed: about 50-60 years old.Height - 165 cm.During his lifetime, Hitler repeatedly turned to his dentist, as evidenced by the large number of fillings and golden cows on the preserved parts of the jaws.They were seized and transferred to the SMERSH department -3 shock army.
From the protocol of the interrogation of the dentist K. Gaiserman, it was seen that the jaws belonged to the Fuhrer. On May 11, 1945, Gaiserman described in detail the anatomical data of Hitler's oral cavity, which coincided with the results of a study conducted on May 8. But still, in our opinion, it is impossible to completely exclude the notorious game on the part of those who could stand behind it.
There were no visible signs of severe fatal injuries or diseases on the body significantly altered by fire. But a crushed glass ampoule was found in the oral cavity. The 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", as stated in the acts, which belonged to Hitler's wife Eva Braun.
It was also difficult to determine the age: between 30 and 40 years. Height is about 150 cm. It was also possible to identify the corpse only by the golden bridge of the lower jaw. But, apparently, the causes of death were different: 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.
The study of the remains of Hitler and Braun was carried out by Soviet military forensic experts and pathologists; to date, they have all died, and therefore it is difficult (almost impossible) to know the fate of Hitler's remains. Writer Elena Rzhevskaya, who during the war was a translator of the 1st Belorussian Front, in the book "There was a war ..." writes that these remains were sent to Moscow. However, no one managed to find their traces in the former USSR.
