From the author.
Three-quarters of a century has passed since the last days of the Great War in Europe. It contained so many mysteries that it is still called ‘The Unknown War.’ One such mystery was Hitler’s disappearance from besieged Berlin. His footprints have never been found and the remains attributed to him have never been identified. Mysteries give rise to myths, and historians, fulfilling the will of their masters, multiply these myths.
In April 1945, in the days of the collapse of his Reich, Hitler disappeared. He was no coward, he had fought in World War I and had battle honors, and he had been in the battlefield areas throughout World War II. He was able to shoot himself, to not fall alive into enemy hands.
The victors found a body in the courtyard of the Reich Chancellery that looked like Hitler, with a bullet hole in his forehead. However, experts determined that it was the body of his double, Gustav Weber. According to the then-head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, in the documents collected by his service, there was nothing to indicate that Hitler was dead. Stalin, who searched for Hitler for the rest of his life, was also convinced of this.
Fictions and speculations on the subject were written and circulated worldwide in hundreds of thousands of copies.
But as the rain washes away the old paint from the fence, so time washes away the lies. And many of the secrets of that war are now open. And the uncovered truth is available to millions. The question remains: if the Führer fled, what changed his vow to die for Germany? After all, he swore loyalty to his nation until his death, which proved decisive in his election as chancellor in 1933.
There are several versions of Hitler’s suicide. Officers close to him were in Soviet captivity. In a confidential conversation, the Führer’s adjutant, SS Major Heinz Linge, told the Führer’s security chief, SS General Rattenhuber, that he had carried out the last order of his boss and shot the dead Führer in the head after he had taken poison. The Führer’s wife, Eva Braun, was also poisoned. The bodies, wrapped in soldiers’ blankets, were then taken to the courtyard and burned.
Here the testimony of officers from Hitler’s entourage who were present at the burning of the corpses diverges. No one saw the faces of the corpses, some saw shoes, some saw boots, and others saw nothing. Though carried out, doused, set on fire… Wikipedia, this modern internet tool of mass propaganda offers its version, talking about the bloodstain on Hitler’s temple. According to this source, the dictator shot himself in the temple. According to the KGB version, Hitler swallows poison and then shoots himself in the mouth. There is even more drama here, just breathtaking! This story also ends with the burning of the bodies in the garden of the Reich Chancellery.
All versions are full of contradictory details. If you put them all together, the version of Hitler’s suicide looks like this: Hitler poisoned himself, then shot himself in the mouth, and for reliability put another bullet in the temple. Then the Fuhrer’s adjutant, Major Linge, shot his chief in the forehead. But that was not enough for Hitler! Wrapping himself in a soldier’s blanket so that no one would recognize him, he went out into the courtyard of the Reich Chancellery, doused himself with petrol, and burned himself, carefully mixing the burning remains, because even in this matter he trusted no one…
In the post-war years, the results of the work to identify Hitler’s alleged remains were never published. Nor were the archives of his doctors, dentists, and other medical records that could have been used as evidence made public. In secret from the Allies, Stalin continued his search, his special teams digging up the entire territory of the Reich Chancellery, and the excavations were only stopped with the death of the Kremlin schizophrenic in 1953.
After Germany’s surrender in May 1945, Stalin, watching the Allies’ fuss over projects to redefine the post-war world, realized that they had exhausted the subject of Hitler’s disappearance. Having told the people of Europe that Hitler was dead and they had nothing to fear, America became the main figure in the restoration of their economies. Britain was shattered by the war, lost its colonial power, and ceded it to America.
And what could Comrade Stalin offer the occupied countries of Europe? He had no economic model other than the Gulag economy. All he had to do to keep the people in line was to frighten them with the myth of a living Hitler. But Stalin himself needed proof that Hitler was dead and would never tell the world about the Soviet dictator’s plans to take over and divide Europe. Stalin’s fable writers distorted the truth about that war forever. Later, with the fall of communism in the late 90s, the KGB opened part of its archives and presented new documents to the public. There was nothing new in them.
“AND WHERE IS THE BODY…?”
On the night of May 2, 1945, the breakout groups were leaving the Reich Chancellery. Their fate was different. Some were lucky enough to escape and melt into the mass of refugees. Others were captured by the Americans, served short sentences, and were released, some were recruited and continued their normal lives, earning US dollars.
Those who were captured by the Russians were less fortunate: they spent many years of their lives in camps, and many died in Russia, far from home. Several officers from Hitler’s entourage who were present at the burning of corpses in the garden of the Reich Chancellery on April 30, 1945: the Führer’s personal adjutant Linge, chief of personal security Rattenhuber, military adjutant Günsche, the Führer’s pilot Baur and many others – were captured by the Russians.
When questioned, they all stated that they had not seen Hitler dead. But were these testimonies of the prisoners published in the Soviet press? Well, not least to support the myth of a living Hitler and continue to frighten the common people? No, they were not published! Stalin’s satraps hid these testimonies in their vaults forever. In the cellars of the KGB, prisoners were interrogated hundreds of times, squeezed out of them the necessary testimony, letter by letter, word by word, and forced to sign what the poor people could no longer remember. They were signing papers in exchange for their lives.
On 1 May 1945, when the commander of the 8th Red Army, General Chuikov, learned of Hitler’s suicide from the commander-in-chief of the Wehrmacht troops, General Krebs, he immediately reported the news to Marshal Zhukov. Marshal Zhukov telephoned Stalin.
“And where is the body?” came the question from Moscow. The very next day, the body was found by the counterintelligence of the 3rd Army on the grounds of the Reich Chancellery. The body was wrapped in a soldier’s blanket and lightly buried in the ground. This “Hitler” had a bullet hole in the middle of his forehead. There was no exit wound, the gun was of small caliber and the bullet was lodged in the dead man’s skull. As the digging continued, another “Hitler” was found!
On 4 May 1945, a special commission headed by Colonel Miroshnichenko, chief of counter-intelligence for the 3rd Army, drew up a report and sent it to Moscow. The report listed two bodies of Adolf Hitler, the body of his wife Eva Braun, and the bodies of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, his wife Magda Goebbels, their six children, and the body of General Krebs, which had been found on the grounds of the Reich Chancellery. The burned remains, allegedly those of another Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, could not be identified; both bodies were almost destroyed by the fire. The remains of one of the unidentified corpses were missing the upper occipital part of the skull.
The body of “Hitler”, the one with the hole in the forehead, was urgently sent to Moscow, to Stalin, who wanted to personally confirm the death of his enemy. Subsequent investigations revealed that it was a prank, a parting joke of the Third Reich. Stalin’s experts found darned socks on the body. But Hitler wouldn’t wear darned socks. Most importantly, the corpse had only one testicle in its scrotum, whereas Hitler had two. The Führer was a full-fledged man with a son and two daughters.
The “Hitler” found turned out to be Gustav Weber, a professionally trained stand-in who played his part to the end. The idea for the prank probably came from SS General Heinrich Müller, head of the Gestapo. The General was a master of practical jokes. Before the war, he had played a prank on Stalin. Taking advantage of the Soviet leader’s manic suspicions, he slipped Comrade Joseph a masterful fake, which provoked Stalin’s purges in the Red Army in 1936-1938.
The body of the double was cremated, and the unidentified burned corpse was thought to be Hitler’s remains. There was no proof, so the discovery was kept secret for many years. A search was ordered for the missing skull fragment. Stalin spent the rest of his life searching for it. After his death, Soviet propaganda published fictitious arguments and wrote weighty books about the discovery of Hitler’s remains.
Soviet intelligence shared some of its findings with the Allies. This information was included in the US intelligence report submitted to the Nuremberg Tribunal on 3 November 1945. The report stated that between 2 and 8 May 1945 a special unit of the Soviet Army had found two corpses on the grounds of the Reich Chancellery. The corpse, which matched Hitler’s features, was wearing his uniform and had a bullet hole in the middle of its forehead. The second corpse was wearing the uniform of Martin Bormann, the sinister secretary of the Nazi Party. Original identity papers were found in the pockets of this corpse’s uniform. Stalin’s pathologists concluded that both bodies were fakes. The “Hitler” corpse was younger and shorter than the original, the “Bormann” corpse was taller than Bormann himself, and the corpse’s head was so disfigured that identification was impossible. Unlike Hitler, Bormann had no double, so at the last moment, his assistants had to make do with whatever material was available. The “material” was taller than Bormann, and the limbs sticking out of the uniform gave the fakeaway. The fake was so crude that the body was photographed and immediately burned. Bormann acted hastily and his unprofessional intervention only damaged Muller’s plan, who hoped that the body of Hitler’s double would be taken for the original. The search for the victors would be stopped.
In secret from the Americans and the British, Stalin’s services continued to excavate the Reich Chancellery for several more years. The results of the excavations were made public only 23 years later, in Lev Bezymyansky’s book ‘The Death of Adolf Hitler’, published in 1968. The author pointed out that in May 1945, brave diggers found the burnt bodies of Goebbels and his wife Magda on the territory of the Reich Chancellery. The bodies of Goebbels’ six children and the body of General Krebs were found in the bunker. In addition, two completely burnt corpses, which could not be identified, were found in a shell crater on the site. These unidentified remains were believed to be those of Adolf Hitler and his wife Eva Braun. Evidence that the remains of these two bodies belonged to Hitler and his wife was never presented. In his book, the security author did not mention the body of Hitler’s doppelganger. An example of how history can be changed by glossing over some facts. In May 1945, Stalin did not believe that the remains found by his Cerberus belonged to Hitler, he was afraid that the latter was alive and could tell the truth about him, the perpetrator of the world slaughter. Stalin needed Hitler alive so he could find him and kill him immediately. But Stalin also needed Hitler alive to justify the Soviet occupation of part of Europe. On 26 May 1945, Stalin told Harry Hopkins, the American government representative in Moscow: “In my opinion, Hitler is alive and hiding somewhere..”.
On 9 June 1945, the Soviet military command in Berlin held a press conference for the Western press. Asked by journalists what the Soviet command knew about Hitler’s fate, Marshal Zhukov replied:
“We have not been able to identify Hitler’s body. I cannot say anything definite about his disappearance. He could have left Berlin at the very last moment…”.
General Bezarin, the Soviet military commander in Berlin, added his opinion: “…Hitler has disappeared somewhere in Europe. Perhaps he is in Spain, with Franco. He had the opportunity to fly away…”.
On 17 July 1945, at the Allied Conference in Potsdam, Stalin told the new US President Harry Truman and his Secretary of State James Byrnes: “I believe that Hitler is alive. A detailed examination by our experts found no evidence that the remains belonged to Hitler, nor did they find any other evidence of his death.”
In October 1945, Stalin’s NKVD opened a search file on Adolf Hitler, number 300919. At the same time, Gestapo chief SS General Heinrich Müller was declared wanted. In 1946, Stalin ordered the resumption of excavations in the courtyard of the Reich Chancellery. Stalin’s “archaeologists” searched for the unfortunate fragment of the occipital bone of one of the unidentified corpses. They found only a fragment of the left temporal part of the skull with a bullet hole, indicating that the owner of this skull shot himself in the right temple. The burnt corpse found, which was to be regarded as Hitler’s corpse, lacked the back of the skull, so the fragment of temporal bone found did not fit Stalin’s version of Hitler’s suicide, in which he was said to have shot himself in the mouth. Orders were given to dig deeper. In 1948, the Ministry of State Security of the USSR opened another search case on Adolf Hitler under the number PF10422 (archive number of the MGB Agent Fund 300919). Dead or alive, Hitler guaranteed Stalin sleepless nights.
HITLER’S DENTISTS.
The found, burned, and unidentified remains had teeth that were known not to burn in fire. That’s why counter-intelligence officers were so keen to find Hitler’s dentist. He was SS General Professor Hugo Blaschke, who had served the Führer since 1932 and knew his patient’s teeth as his own. The professor disappeared from Berlin on 21 April 1945, the day after attending the Fuhrer’s 55th birthday celebrations. With him disappeared the medical records of all his high-ranking clients. The dentist was later captured by the Americans, but the files disappeared without a trace.
While in American custody, Blaschke was informed of the Russians’ search for evidence and agreed to cooperate by offering his services to identify the teeth of his former client’s corpse from memory. The Americans then informed their Soviet allies. On learning that the Americans had the man they wanted, Stalin’s secret services immediately lost interest in him and never tried to take him up on his offer. Why was this?
They must have realized that if Blaschke failed to identify his former client’s teeth, their version of the discovery of Hitler’s body would burst like a soap bubble. Passionate interrogation, a favorite method of Stalin’s secret services to extract the necessary testimony, was impossible; Blaschke was in the American zone. And if, in the presence of the Americans, the dentist identified the remains presented him with Hitler’s teeth, the myth of a living Hitler, blown up by Stalin, would burst. The occupation of European countries by Soviet troops was explained to the world as protective action arguing Hitler was still alive and danger was real. The dentist’s proof of Hitler’s death would have immediately demonstrated to the world community Stalin’s real invasive intentions. The Soviet troops would then have had to withdraw from Europe and return home, to the East. Could Stalin himself have allowed this to happen?
Blaschke took the papers out of Berlin, but in his haste, he forgot something. While rummaging through the professor’s office, Stalin’s bloodhounds found in the remaining papers the names and addresses of Blaschke’s assistants. They were an assistant, Kathy Heusemann, and a technician, Fritz Echtmann, who made dentures. These two were taken to Moscow, to the Lubyanka. During the first interrogations, on 10 and 19 May 1945, Keti testified that she had worked as an assistant to Professor Blaschke since December 1944 and had served numerous leaders of the Reich. Blaschke’s employment of Keti lasted until April 1945, less than six months. All of her work as an assistant consisted of preparing instruments for the dentist, so when questioned by investigators, Kathy was unable to recall how Hitler’s teeth differed from those of two dozen of her boss’s high-ranking clients.
Technician Fritz Echtmann testified under questioning that he never witnessed Prof. Blaschke’s work at all, performing his assignments based on casts and recommendations. Echtmann noted that the dental bridge he made for Hitler in March 1945 was not claimed due to lack of availability, due to critical war circumstances. In the last days of the war, Hitler had no time for his problems. But Stalin’s services had their methods of restoring memory, so arrested people were sent to cellars so that there they could begin to remember.
THE GESTAPO CHIEF’S SENSE OF HUMOUR.
After the war, the head of the Gestapo, SS General Muller, was wanted by the secret services of many countries. Hunted for one reason: Muller had exclusive information on the intelligence and counter-intelligence agents of every country. General Muller was the only man in the world who not only knew the secrets of spies but knew many of them by sight, drinking coffee and cognac with them in his office. Possessing the art of psychology, he easily converted spies, turning them into his informants, double and triple agents.
According to official documents from the German authorities, the Gestapo chief died at the end of April 1945. There was also his grave in the cemetery, with a modest monument and an appropriate inscription. In 1963, the American Secret Service, overcome by professional curiosity, opened the grave. They discovered the remains of three bodies, none of which belonged to Mueller. Moreover, the remains of two of the bodies belonged to women. The familiar handwriting revealed the author of the riddle he had left for the Russians in Berlin in May 1945. A master chess player, Muller always calculated the game several moves in advance. A master of the secret police, whose profession taught him to see through people, he was also a master of black humor…
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MYTHMAKERS.
For half a century after the war, historians in many countries questioned the conclusions of the Soviet secret services, who made fog and claimed that the remains they had found had been identified and that it was a dead Hitler. In the end, the Soviet-Russian authorities decided to close the issue pompously.
In 2000, they organized an exhibition in Moscow called “The Agony of the Third Reich”. Among the many exhibits was a fragment of the back of a skull with a bullet hole. With an inscription that this fragment was part of Hitler’s skull. The organizers of the exhibit did not expect this unfortunate fragment to attract the attention of meticulous geneticists. There was no pomp but a sensation that the Russian authorities did not expect. American scientists from the University of Connecticut under the leadership of Linda Strosbaugh had enough an hour to analyze the DNA of the bone tissue of the exhibit and determine that the fragment of the skull belonged…. a woman. Technology is a great power. The exhibit was hastily removed.
Having disgraced themselves at the exhibition, the Chekists decided to justify themselves and called in their experts on forgeries. The work boiled over, and five years later the “experts” published a weighty 400-page book, calling it “the last great secret from the KGB archives”. Chekists Vinogradov, Pogonyai, and Teptsov in the book “Hitler’s Death” told the world the already-known story of how Hitler had bitten open a vial of poison and then shot himself in the mouth. They quoted the testimony of the guards who removed and burned Hitler’s body. They told how Hitler’s remains were found by brave Chekists at the capture of Berlin in early May 1945. They filled many pages of their book with photographs and biographies of these Chekists. Finally, they diluted their work with the testimony of captured assistants of the chief Nazi dentist, transcripts of interrogations of guards and officers from the Führer’s inner circle, and accounts of events from captured generals – in short, everyone who could be captured and interrogated.
While reconciling inconsistencies, discrepancies, and contradictions in the testimony of witnesses, the book’s authors demonstrated a touching understanding of the moment, pointing out that the prisoners were still depressed after their country’s defeat in the war and could give confused testimony.
Further, the authors dared to say the truth, pointing out that many of the prisoners told the victors what they wanted to hear from them. Such an admission is a feat for authors living in a country of Soviet dictatorship. For such a few words, which shows the inconsistency of much of the material in their book, the authors would have been sentenced to twenty years in Siberia without the right to correspondence. Probably, the authors of the book were saved from punishment by the fact that they were Chekists. The raven will not peck out the eye of the crow.
After enriching their book with plans and drawings of Hitler’s last bunker, photos of captured witnesses and brave NKVD officers, the authors told how, for many years after the war, excavators continued to dig in the garden of the Reich Chancellery, sending bones, teeth, and other spare parts of “Hitler” to Moscow. The missing Führer became a multi-toothed shark in the search for Stalin’s diggers. With Stalin’s death in 1953, the work was curtailed and the finds were boxed up and hidden in the KGB archives. Had Stalin lived a little longer, the shovels of his ‘archaeologists’ would surely have been picking at the bones of medieval Teutonic knights.
At the end of the book, on the last page and in the last paragraph, the authors pull a classic verbal trick. They mention in passing that the skull fragment exhibited at the Moscow exhibition in 2000 was not the original, adding that the photograph of a real fragment of Hitler’s skull with a bullet hole is only shown in their book. From the pages of which, as one might guess, no sample can be scraped for DNA analysis. With this twist, they confirm that the skull fragment exhibited in Moscow in 2000 was just another piece of tuff for journalists. They don’t even need to be caught playing tricks, they give themselves away.
In the Siberian expanses of Russia, in areas surrounded by barbed wire, there are many places where similar fragments of human skulls with bullet holes can be found in piles. Stalin is long gone, and his methods of playing with speckled cards are passed down through the organs from generation to generation. The last page of the book is turned under a fanfare of Lubyanka’s humor.
Initially, all the remains of the leaders of the Third Reich found on the grounds of the Reich Chancellery were buried in May 1945 on the grounds of the 3rd Army Counterintelligence Department in Berlin. In early June, the remains were transported and reburied in a forest near Rathenow, Brandenburg. Nine months later, in February 1946, the remains were exhumed and transported to the Soviet military base in Magdeburg, again under the supervision of the 3rd Army Counterintelligence Department. There, all exhumation efforts still failed to identify Hitler’s body. Twenty-four years later, when the question of handing over the site of the base to the local authorities arose, Yuri Andropov, then Chairman of the KGB, ordered that the remains be exhumed and burned, the ashes ground to dust and dumped in the nearby Biederitz River.
Indeed, even the ashes of the unidentified Hitler gave no rest to Stalin’s NKVD and their chief, Andropov, whose real name was Fima Feinstein. The loyal Leninist acted exactly like his idol, who unleashed the Red Terror after seizing power in 1917. It was not enough for him to shoot the entire royal family, including the children. He ordered the tombs of the Russian tsars opened and the ashes of the dynasty buried under the ice of the Neva River. So this was done…
TWO QUESTIONS.
My questions are not for ordinary people, who have their problems to deal with, then for inquisitive historians, who were trying to clarify and connect the contradictory, who were to create a myth to finally appease the pesky curious. That’s why soviet officials held an exhibition and then published a book. On the cover of this book, entitled ‘The Death of Hitler’, the authors stated in large letters that the book contained the most secret secrets from the KGB archives. Then, on hundreds of pages, they listed all the arguments they knew to make their point about the story of Hitler’s death. But their point turned out to be vague. For the thoughtful reader who hoped to learn the truth, the point became a blot, a question mark. To remove this question mark, in a book that claimed the right to be the final argument in the story of Adolf Hitler’s death, the authors only had to answer two questions.
FIRST QUESTION:
“Why, in a book full of transcripts of the interrogations of many secondary witnesses, is there no transcript of the interrogation of the most important witness, the Führer’s personal orderly, SS Major Heinz Linge?”
Linge (in black uniform) had been under Hitler for ten years without interruption, since 1935. He knew the Führer like no one else, was devoted to him like a dog to its master, and was always and everywhere with him. Linge claimed in his memoirs that the only person closer to Hitler was Eva Braun.
According to the testimony of the head of Hitler’s guard, General Rattenhuber, quoted in the book of Lubyanka writers, Linge is said to have confessed to him that he had carried out Hitler’s last order by shooting the Führer in the head after he had poisoned himself. But what part of the Führer’s head did Linge shoot at?
If he shot at the forehead, then his shot was at the head of the doppelganger discovered by Stalin’s diggers on the grounds of the Reich Chancellery on 4 May 1945.
If Linge shot into the dead Führer’s mouth, then where was the piece of the occipital bone that had fallen off, which the archaeologists of Stalin’s NKVD tried in vain to find in the years after the war, and which was replaced by a fake half a century later, only to be exhibited at the Moscow exhibition and embarrassed in the eyes of the world’s experts – geneticists? And if Hitler shot himself in the temple, as Wikipedia says, then he did not need an assistant for that, and Linge simply lied to Rattenhuber.
SS Major Linge was the one who, on 30 April 1945, came out of Hitler’s office and announced the Führer’s death to those present. Linge was the only one who helped the mysterious unidentified SS men to wrap the bodies in blankets and carry them from the office to the reception room, where they were then picked up by Günsche, Kempka, Rattenhuber…
Linge was captured on 2 May 1945, sentenced to 25 years in prison, and spent many days and nights in the NKVD cellars, where they knew how to restore memory and untie tongues. He would write about those nights in the cellar later in his memoirs.
On all the questions Linge was asked he must have answered and this must been reflected in the multi-page protocols of his interrogations. Moreover, in captivity, Linge and military adjutant Günsche were placed in a house near Moscow of one of the Soviet military commanders, forcing them to write detailed memoirs there. They wrote it.
Linge spent 10 years in Soviet prison. Released by amnesty in 1955, he lived and worked in West Germany and died in Bremen in 1980. On his return from captivity, Linge was bombarded by publishers with telegrams of roughly the same content: ‘Don’t hurry to sign a book contract, we will pay you more…’. He could have become rich selling his memoirs. But Linge didn’t. Why not?
Perhaps the soviet officials’ demand that he not publish his memoirs was a condition of his release. Perhaps the promise of secrecy he made to the head of the Gestapo in April ’45 prevented him from publishing his revelations. After all, a bullet for these revelations could come from the East or the West. He kept the secret for another 25 years, leaving it to his family to publish his memoirs only after his death.
In his memoirs of Hitler’s death, Linge writes that he was in the reception room and did not hear the shot. He did not see the faces of the dead Führer and Eva Braun – their bodies were wrapped in blankets. He did not know the names of the SS men who carried the bodies out and burned them. Reading the last pages of his memoirs, one notices a sharp change in the author’s style. It’s as if he had written these last pages under someone else’s dictation. The faithful orderly made a compromise decision that helped him to live a long life: he did not hear, he did not see, he did not know…
Linge’s fears are understandable. But why, half a century after these events, in a book that claims to be the best-kept secret about Hitler’s death, is there no transcript of his interrogation?
The answers given by the Führer’s companion, SS Major Heinz Linge, differed from the Soviet version of Hitler’s suicide and contradicted the story of Stalin’s mythmakers. That is why, after listing all the witnesses and accomplices, the authors of the book tried to forget the most important one. Or they were ordered to forget.
SECOND QUESTION:
“Where disappeared the bullet that made a hole in the Führer’s skull?”
The fragment of the skull was presented to the public and a photograph of that fragment was shown by the writers in their book. But the bullet is not a bird, it didn’t fly out of the bunker. According to the Kremlin investigators, Hitler shot himself in his office; the photo in their book shows a bloody sofa. The bullet that pierced the suicide’s skull should have continued its flight and lodged in the wooden panels that lined all the walls and ceiling of the bunker. But the hole in the skull made by the bullet they show, but the bullet itself – not at all!
Stalin sent professors of criminalistics to Berlin not undergraduates to look for evidence of Hitler’s suicide. His experts would have found the bullet, if there was one. And they would have taken lots of pictures of the wood paneling in the bunker where the bullet was lodged. And in their book, the KGB writers would have included at least one photo of the bullet as indisputable evidence, along with a photo of a bloody sofa! But there is no photo! Because no bullet pierced the skull, the fragment of which was revealed to the public half a century later.
A single missing page of the interrogation report containing Linge’s revelations, and another missing page containing a photograph of the bullet that pierced Hitler’s skull, turn all the other 400 pages of the book into entertaining fiction for schoolchildren. Without these two pages, the KGB work is just another failed attempt to justify speculation about the discovery in the courtyard of the Reich Chancellery in May 1945. The story of those who were east of the front. There are other versions to the west of that long-gone front line, and each of them, supported by arguments and facts, has the same right to live as the Kremlin’s story.
After the war, alongside the versions of Hitler’s death, there was another version according to which Hitler had chosen a different path. This version was known to American intelligence. But comrade Stalin never got the information about it. Although he tried very hard.
AUTHOR’S NOTES.
1) In my search for traces of the missing Hitler, I have found valuable sources in declassified documents from special services and the memoirs of participants in events and officers in the Führer’s inner circle. These include the diaries of the head of the Gestapo, General Muller, who was recruited by US intelligence after the war.
After Muller died in 1983, his diaries were accidentally accessed by an American journalist with connections in the right circles. He intended to publish a large series but only managed to publish a few volumes, and his work was stopped by the CIA. Had he succeeded, the world would have known another James Bond, this time named Heinrich Müller. These few editions immediately became rarities. I am lucky to have these books in my library, each one numbered and signed by the author.
Muller himself had no intention of publishing his notes. They are full of the kind of blatant cynicism that no one who expected to publish them would have dared. The diaries were probably a way for Müller to communicate with himself; he had no friends. He kept diaries all his life, and even wrote in them from right to left, just in case his wife happened to stumble across his papers.
Müller’s diaries detail Hitler’s escape plan. Operation “Tierra del Fuego” took two years to develop by a special unit of the German General Staff and the Reich’s secret services. The diary entries show that the Gestapo chief was the direct leader and executor of the operation.
An additional source was a book by American writers presenting evidence of Hitler’s life in Argentina after 1945. Military historian Simon Dunstan, author of 50 books on the war, and investigative journalist Gerrard Williams, with thirty years’ experience, made 17 trips to Argentina and Europe and collected many rare documents for their book, which they called The Grey Wolf.
Their work contains a huge amount of valuable information that helps to understand the reasons behind many events in the life of the Third Reich. In the book, there are documentary photos and memories of Argentinians, people from the personal staff of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun. These people describe the personal habits of those they served, leaving no doubt as to the reliability of their testimony.
Another source is the books of the Argentine writer Abel Basti (the author’s books are available online and can be downloaded). The researcher spent many years tracking down Nazis from the Third Reich who fled to Argentina after the war. He has published several books on the subject, including ‘Nazis in Bariloche’. His latest book, published in 2006, is entitled ‘Hitler in Argentina’. This book, which is the last part of the author’s long-term research, contains unique facts, in particular the date and place of arrival of three German submarines with important Nazis on board, the place where these boats were sunk, and where the submarines are still lying on the seabed. In the book, the researcher has many photos of eyewitnesses, witnesses, photos of Hitler’s Argentinean estate, and many other confirmations that Hitler did not end his life in the Berlin bunker in the spring of 1945.
And finally, a book by three KGB writers from the former Soviet Union who described their work as ‘the last great secret of the KGB’. In an attempt to convince readers of the Kremlin’s version of Hitler’s death, the authors made a gaffe on the last page that made their book an entertaining read for high school students.
I gathered material from a variety of sources, but my search led me to one point. Four sources, illuminating the dark stain of history from different angles, left no penumbra. Hitler fled besieged Berlin and lived in Argentina, where he died in 1962, outliving all his enemies. The American secret services knew but kept silent. They also carefully concealed information about Hitler from the curious, especially from Stalin. Why did they do this? The answers to these and other questions can be found in my book “Hidden Traces of the Grey Wolf”, (chapter ‘Germans, teach us to fight’).
The book contains facts that are unknown to most people. But these facts influenced the events known to the absolute majority of them.
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