Death of Hitler. The Fuhrer's last secret

Argentine researcher Abel BASTI believes that Hitler died quietly in the arms of his wife and children in Paraguay in 1964...
Argentine writer Abel Basti, a researcher of the life of the head of the Third Reich, is seriously confident: on April 30, 1945, Hitler did not put a bullet in his head, but calmly packed his things for a safe departure from Berlin. Taking Eva Braun with him, he moved to Argentina to a friendly regime, and died only in 1965.

The writer did not find evidence that Frau Hitler also died. In addition, Brown had many long-livers in her family. Her mother died at 96. This suggests that Hitler's wife is still alive. Perhaps the three children of Adolf and Eva are also in full health. Abel Basti knows for sure that they had children! Two were born while the Fuhrer and his wife lived in Germany. Then, when they moved to Argentina, another child was born.

After multiple examinations and interrogations of witnesses, Moscow decided that it was indeed Hitler. Several times his remains were buried, dug up, and buried again. The Fuhrer's last refuge was a Soviet military unit in Magdeburg. In 1970, before handing over this territory to the Germans, on the secret order of Leonid Brezhnev, the remains of Hitler, Eva Braun and the Goebbels family were burned, and the ashes were poured from the bridge into the Biederitz river.

However, not everyone agrees with the official version to this day. Hundreds of studies have been conducted and many books have been written in search of the “escaped Hitler.” They searched for him in Spain, Latin America and even Antarctica. Recently, the Argentine writer Abel BASTI published his version of how the bloodiest dictator in Europe ended his days.

Escape from Berlin

The leaders of the Third Reich began to look for a safer refuge back in 1943, writes Basti. Preparations for the evacuation were kept in the strictest confidence - Muller and Bormann, keeping an eye on each other, did not allow a single leak.

In Argentina, bank deposits were made out in front of dummies, small companies were created, and farms were purchased. Nazi emissaries settled in hotels and inns - “transshipment points” for their leaders. At the same time, secret negotiations were ongoing with the allies. For gold and technology of the Third Reich, they allegedly agreed to leave Hitler and his henchmen alone.

At the end of April 1945, Operation Seraglio began. Several planes escaped from the burning Berlin, which Soviet troops were fighting to occupy, - the top of Nazi Germany was transported to Spain, under the wing of “friend Franco.” From there, the submarines headed for Caleta de los Loros Bay in Argentina.

The author claims that in the area where Hitler came ashore, at a depth of 30 meters under a layer of sand and silt, three submarines were discovered, about which there is not a word in the archival documents of the Argentine military. Thus began the new life of the Nazi leader in Latin America.

He lived until 1964

The fugitives followed a long-established route. They were received in the homes of people known for their ties to the Nazis and close to Argentine dictator Juan Peron. Hitler maintained relations with some of them, for example, the Eichhorn family, until his death. Basti cites the testimony of a maid from their estate, who herself saw the “cousin,” as her owners called the Nazi leader.

More and more documentary evidence is appearing, shedding light on one of the mysterious mysteries of the 20th century.

The Eichhorns' gardener, who worked for the FBI, also reported on the presence of the leader of the Third Reich in Argentina. His recently declassified report was found by the author of the book in the archives of this organization.

According to Basti, Hitler not only lived until 1964, but also had offspring. Allegedly, there are photographs of him, Eva Braun and their children, which, according to the official version, the German Fuhrer did not have and could not have had. However, the owners of the unique photographs “are not yet ready to publish them.”

The dictator lived out his last days in Paraguay, the head of which did not particularly hide his sympathy for the Third Reich. He died in the arms of his wife, surrounded by children, without answering for his atrocities. But the author speaks very vaguely about Hitler’s burial place and where his family lives. Apparently this is material for a new sensational book.

AiF provides an interview with writer Abel Basti:

On April 30, 1945, at 16:30 (that is, an hour after the alleged suicide), Hitler was seen next to his personal Ju-52 aircraft.

Bestseller "Hitler in Argentina"
Having conducted research, interviewed dozens of witnesses, and published documents declassified by the FBI, Basti wants to prove that Hitler could have hidden in South America and lived there to old age. Let the readers judge how well he succeeded.
- SENOR Basti, in your book you claim that on April 30, 1945, Hitler managed to escape from Berlin by plane. How could he do this if by that time the airfields were destroyed and the Allies controlled the skies?

My book contains previously classified evidence from the FBI archives that on April 30 at 16:30 (that is, an hour after the alleged suicide), Hitler was seen next to his personal Ju-52 plane.

At night, throughout the last week of April, air transport of the Fuhrer's trusted representatives landed on Unter den Linden Avenue, where street lighting poles were preserved. For example, Reich Minister Speer left the “Führerbunker” on the 20th, and three days later he calmly returned back on the Fieseler-Storch plane.

As you can see, the Allied air defense did not stop him. On April 25, a secret meeting was held in the “Führerbunker” to evacuate Hitler, in which the female pilot Hanna Reitsch, the famous pilot Hans Ulrich Rudel and Hitler’s personal pilot Hans Baur took part. The secret plan for the safe movement of the Fuhrer from the besieged capital of the Third Reich was codenamed “Operation Seraglio”.

And who exactly, in your opinion, carried out the evacuation of Hitler?

A day later, on the orders of General Adolf Galland, the last forces of the German Air Force were unexpectedly lifted into the air over the capital of the Reich - a hundred Me-262 jet fighters. They covered Hannah Reitsch’s plane: she managed to break through the fire of Soviet anti-aircraft guns and fly away from Berlin - it was an experimental flight, and the fact that it was carried out is not disputed by any historian.

Perhaps, having put on make-up, Hitler managed to leave the burning Berlin (the photo montage was made by FBI employees in 1945).

The next day, according to the scenario already tested by Frau Reitsch, Adolf Hitler also left Berlin - he was heading to Spain, from where at the end of the summer he sailed on a submarine to Argentina. He was accompanied by Eva Braun, Müller and Bormann.

Okay, but what about the fragments of Hitler’s jaw, which are stored in Moscow in the archives of the FSB? Research by both Soviet and independent experts unanimously confirmed that it belonged to the Fuhrer. What happens then - Hitler had part of his jaw torn off, but he still escaped?

If you know, no DNA testing has ever been carried out: Russia systematically refuses to allow such analysis. Meanwhile, this is the only way to find out the truth: it is necessary to compare DNA samples that can be obtained from the remains of Adolf Hitler’s sister, Paula, who died in 1960 and was buried in the Bergfriedhof cemetery.

The grave of the Fuhrer's sister - Paula Hitler

I formally appeal to the Russian authorities to allow me to examine this jaw to obtain final proof that I am telling the truth.

You know, people love conspiracy theories. For so many years there has been talk about the mysterious disappearance of “Nazi number two” - Martin Bormann, who evaporated from Berlin on May 1, 1945. A lot of people swore that they saw him in South America with their own eyes and could not be mistaken. But in 1972, a skeleton was found while digging a pit in Berlin, and a double DNA study showed that these were Bormann’s bones...

The funny thing is: both are right here. Martin Bormann really escaped, lived in Argentina and Paraguay: I found a lot of evidence of this, including documentary ones - especially a photo of Bormann taken in the fifties. Therefore, it is quite possible that when Bormann died of natural causes, his remains were secretly transported to Berlin, after which a performance was staged with their “find”.

AGAIN: in your book you write that Hitler and Eva Braun, along with an extensive retinue and security, arrived in Argentina on three submarines, which were then sunk in the bay for purposes of conspiracy. Indeed, in the place that you indicated, at a depth of approximately 30 meters under water, with the help of special equipment, teams of divers discovered large objects covered with sand. But where is the evidence that these are Nazi submarines?

However, in the archives of the Argentine Ministry of Defense there is not a single word about the sinking of any German submarines. Then where did these sunken ships lying on the ground come from? I submitted a request that the submarines be brought to the surface and thoroughly examined.

List of passengers from Berlin to Barcelona approved on April 20, 1945. First - Hitler, the name of Goebbels, his wife and children is crossed out.

German submarines sailed to Argentina several times after the war - for example, the submarine U-977 arrived in the country on August 17, 1945: it is assumed that its commander Heinz Schaeffer was transporting gold and other valuables of the Third Reich.

You published a US FBI document that casts serious doubt on the official version of the death of Adolf Hitler. This paper, dated November 13, 1945, contains a report from an American agent in Argentina who works as a gardener for wealthy German colonists - the Eichhorns. The agent reports that the couple, who live in the village of La Falda, have been preparing the estate since June for the arrival of Hitler, which will take place in the very near future. Is this document real?

There are several more secret reports from the FBI, CIA and MI5 about the living Fuhrer - but, unfortunately, the USA, Britain and Russia have not yet fully declassified all materials relating to this topic. For example, there are three shorthand recordings of a conversation between Joseph Stalin (one of them with US Secretary of State Byrnes) - there the leader of the USSR openly says that the Fuhrer managed to escape.

Over fifteen years, I conducted hundreds of interviews with direct witnesses to Hitler's presence in Argentina. Most of them have only started talking now - many Nazis in Argentina have died, they have nothing to fear anymore, although not everyone is still making contact. A letter from Nazi General Seydlitz, dated 1956, has also been preserved - he reports that he is going to attend a meeting in Argentina between Hitler and the Croatian “Führer” Pavelic.

You often refer to witness testimony. But how, in this case, should we treat the words of other witnesses who saw Hitler dead and buried his corpse?

But even at first glance, there are several contradictions in the eyewitness accounts of Hitler's death if you study the archival documents. At first it was said that he was poisoned. Then - no, he shot me in the temple. After - excuse me, first he poisoned himself, and then he shot himself.

Potassium cyanide causes instant death and convulsions: how did the person then pull the trigger of the gun?
“Hitler died in... 1964,” says the author of the scandalous bestseller

The writer is sure: the Reich Chancellor and his wife fled Berlin on the day when his suicide was announced.

How did Adolf Hitler die? Did he take poison, shoot himself, or die peacefully in his own bed as a very old man? The answer to this question has been worrying many people for almost seventy years. And for good reason. The version of Hitler's successful escape from the Reich Chancellery has been discussed since the very moment of the capture of Berlin. It has been refuted more than once, but with enviable persistence it appears again...

Incomprehensible beginning

On April 30, 1945, a message about Hitler's death arrived in Moscow. Stalin’s reaction was restrained: “I’ve finished my game, you scoundrel!” Then came the business question: “Where is the body?” In Berlin, the question was redirected to the parliamentarian, German General Hans Kreb. He replied that Hitler’s corpse was burned at the stake... Apparently, Stalin did not believe the German’s words, and already at the beginning of 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, Soviet officers discovered two dead Hitler doubles on the territory of the Reich Chancellery. One of them was found in an underground bomb shelter, the second in a fire-fighting pool in the yard. Both were shot in the face.

The captured Vice Admiral Hans Voss, brought in for identification, looked at one discovered “Führer” and said: “This is Hitler, and no one else.” And only after noticing that the “Reich Chancellor” had darned socks on his feet, Voss began to doubt...

On July 17, 1945, during lunch in Potsdam, Stalin announced to Truman that Hitler had escaped. On that day, 78 days had passed since his “death.”

Burnt remains

The next corpses of an unknown man and woman were discovered on May 4 in a bomb crater in the garden of the Reich Chancellery. The burnt bodies could not be identified. Therefore, the remains were ordered to be buried. This find was not given any significance, because on that day the body of the second double was identified.

A LIFE correspondent inspects the site where “Hitler’s remains” were buried.

But soon an SS man from Hitler’s guard said that he personally observed the removal of the bodies of “Hitler and his wife” and their “burial” in the garden... The remains were dug up again, and on May 8 a forensic medical examination took place in the hospital.

The conclusion stated: “No characteristic signs were found on the body changed by fire...” So by May 9, the searchers had no evidence that the burnt body was the ruler of the Third Reich. Only the jaw of “Hitler” was well preserved, but there was nothing to compare it with.

"Unexpected Luck"

Investigators went in search of the dental clinic of Professor Blaschke, who served Hitler. And then the officers started to get lucky. They found the professor’s assistant, Fraulein Heusermann, and she described from memory all the “repair work” of the Fuhrer. Moreover, she showed the Russian officers where to look for Adolf's medical history.

As if by magic, in the bunker of the Reich Chancellery, radiographs and even gold crowns were discovered that Blaschke never managed to put on Hitler’s teeth. Soon the intelligence officers also found a dental technician, who accurately described the dentures he had made for the Fuhrer and Eva Braun, and then identified them.

However, at the beginning of June 1945, for some reason, Stalin issued a strange order: all information about the “unknown man (presumably Hitler)” was declared a state secret.

New investigation

And yet it was not possible to silence the story of the Fuhrer’s death. At the end of 1945, the British and Americans proposed to the Soviet government to conduct a joint investigation. The Soviet side accepted the offer, but did not share information with anyone. Perhaps because the new investigation has raised more questions than answers.

One of Hitler’s doubles was his driver (in the photo he is to the left of (Hitler). The driver very often replaced Hitler at various events. According to one version, it was he who was “killed by Hitler”...

It all started with the fact that the NKVD specialists again began checking the results of the previous investigation, since most of the witnesses to Hitler’s death were close at hand - in Soviet prisons. According to the testimony of prisoners, the picture of Hitler's suicide looked as follows.

On April 30 at 15.30 the Fuhrer locked himself in his office, and after a while the Fuhrer's valet Heinz Linge and Bormann entered the office and saw the Fuhrer and Eva Braun sitting on the sofa without signs of life. On Hitler's left temple, Linge noticed a bullet entry hole.

True, Linge admitted to his informant cellmate: “I don’t know if this is really a wound from a bullet - this red spot could have been drawn...”

Oddities

The SS then doused the corpses of Hitler and Eva Braun with gasoline and set them on fire.

Moreover, only Bormann and Linge saw the dead Hitler. The remaining witnesses saw the Hitler couple already wrapped in gray blankets. The investigation report also noted the presence of “red-brown” stains on the armrest of the sofa. The upholstery elements were sent to the Moscow forensic laboratory to determine the blood type. Express analysis gave a stunning result: the substance being tested is not blood!..

Well, the English doctor Hugh Thomas, having gained access to the State Archives of the USSR, examined photographs of the jaws of the “alleged Hitler” and an X-ray of Hitler’s mouth, which was stored in the US National Archives. As a result, a sensational conclusion: the bridge placed in the mouth of “Hitler” found in the funnel does not correspond to the curvature of his jaw! The bridge was clearly a part of the wrong person.

Random victim

Eva Braun's corpse also "brought surprises." According to medical examination, the “Eve” found in the funnel had only 11 teeth. Moreover, the teeth of the woman found were in poor condition - they were yellowed and contained many fillings and crowns. But Eva Braun took touching care of her appearance all her life. She had 24 of her own teeth, only three of which were filled.

Shortly before his death, Hitler and Eva Braun got married

Most likely, the unknown woman, whose corpse they tried to pass off as the body of Eva Braun, was a random victim of shelling and was picked up somewhere on the adjacent street.

Ready

Needless to say, the Fuhrer had a good chance of escape. For the highest ranks of the SS at the turn of 1944 - 1945, a secret evacuation route “Rat Trail” was created, which led through Austria to Rome, where one of the highest hierarchs of the Catholic Church provided the fugitives with false documents. From Rome the fascists went to Spain, Argentina, Ecuador...

List of passengers from Berlin to Barcelona approved on April 20, 1945. Hitler first, the name of Goebbels, his wife and children crossed out

And starting in March 1945, ten submarine captains based in Hamburg were ordered to maintain constant readiness for the evacuation of members of the Reich government...

Calm old age

So in the years after the war, the aspen stake was never driven into Hitler’s grave. Moreover, the recently published book by the Argentine writer Abel Basti, “Hitler in Argentina,” says that the Fuhrer, along with Eva Braun, fled to Argentina, where he lived until 1964. The author of the sensational study relies on declassified FBI archives.

In particular,” the author comments, “in the book I publish a secret report dated August 1945, which talks about the possibility of the Fuhrer’s arrival on the shores of Patagonia. Hitler and seven other Nazi leaders most likely landed from a German submarine off the coast of Caleta de los Loros, in the southern province of Rio Negro, in July-August 1945.

Hitler’s submarine was accompanied by two more submarines, and all of them were sunk after the passengers disembarked, and this is a proven fact: at a depth of 30 meters at the site of Hitler’s supposed landing, three German submarines actually rest. Unfortunately, we still have not been able to fully explore what is inside the submarines - this is too expensive an expedition.

Adolf Hitler died, according to the publicist, in 1964.

Photo of a man who died in 1964 in South America. According to some researchers, this was Adolf Hitler

In the book, I also published the story of a woman, Catalina Gamero, who served Hitler during his stay at the villa of the Eichhorn couple, financial agents of Nazi Germany well-known in South America. This woman is still alive, she is of sound mind and remembers such details that it is impossible to invent...

But what about the remains of Hitler stored in Moscow, you ask?

All these remains are pure farce, says Abel Basti. - There is no evidence of Hitler's death. The fact that Hitler managed to escape was unbearable for the USSR - so they created the myth of his suicide in the bunker...

Declassified archives

Be that as it may, Russian intelligence services continue to claim that Hitler committed suicide in 1945. Thus, in April 2000, at the exhibition “The Collapse of the Third Reich,” organized by the Museum of the Russian Army and the FSB, truly sensational materials on this topic were presented. According to these documents, the remains of the dictator were “finally burned” in 1970 and the ashes were scattered. This happened at a tank training ground of one of the units of the Western Group of Forces.

According to a declassified criminal case, on June 3, 1945, the charred remains of Hitler and Eva Braun were taken to the area of the city of Rathenow, where they were buried.

For a quarter of a century, the USSR kept all this in absolute secret. And so, in 1970, the decision was made to “put an end to” the story of Hitler’s death. This dramatic and dark epilogue to World War II was directed by Yuri Andropov, then head of the KGB. The operation was codenamed “Archive”.

The KGB task force arrived in Magdeburg, the location of a Soviet military camp. After being removed from the ground, the remains of Hitler and Braun were brought there. Then they were burned and thrown into the Elbe...

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 on 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, so it was not they who were burned in the pit of the German bunker, the journalist assures, this is a falsification of history, the publicist is writing on his favorite topic.

We must recall the old story of conspiracy theorists for many years: in May 1945, near the bunker of the Reich Chancellery, SMERSH employees removed from a crater two charred bodies, which, according to the results of examinations of that time, are recognized as the remains of Hitler and Brown.

From that very moment until the present day, this story of the death of Babylon has been surrounded by many rumors and artifacts. Conspiracy theory experts claim that Brown and Hitler, like his clique, fled, which was actively supported by the American intelligence service in Berlin with the words “we have no evidence of Hitler’s suicide.” Later, the version is supported by the ex-director of the intelligence agency B. Smith, stating that not a single person can cite the facts of Hitler’s death in Berlin.

According to the journalist's carefully conducted research, the leader of the Third Reich did not actually die from poison and was not “cremated.” Hitler ended his last years of life much later than the time indicated by history. Facial plastic surgery, which changed Hitler’s appearance, helped the German mastermind of those events to successfully hide. This ancient story still interests people today:

Adolf Hitler died in Argentina after living a long life.

This statement was made by Argentine historian and journalist Abel Basti in his book “Hitler in Exile.”
While the book was quite popular in South America, its publication in Russia and the USA did not find a place. The two countries, despite periodicity about the surviving Hitler, still claim that the Fuhrer of the Third Reich committed suicide in the last days of World War II.

Speculation about the life of Hitler after the war, as well as of some high-ranking SS officials, has been heard for a long time, suggesting that they escaped punishment by taking refuge in South America in advance. To prove 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 interesting.

Neil Nikandrov spoke about Hitler’s life after the war on the pages “All the leaders of the Third Reich fled to Latin America.” Donald McKale traced the early source of the legend of Hitler's escape to the Southern Hemisphere to 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 this area. On July 16, 1945, a sensational article appeared in the Chicago Times about Hitler allegedly quietly escaping the wrath of the war participants to South America.

Ladislao Zsabó, a Hungarian resident, witnessed the arrival of the U-boat U-530 and observed the leisurely disembarkation of the Nazi leaders. He also heard talk about a German base in Antarctica, on the basis of which he came to the conclusion that Hitler had taken refuge in a secret base hidden somewhere in the ice.

Later, Ladislaus published a book about the head of the Third Reich (Hitler is alive), which talks about Hitler’s possible place of residence in the area of the “Queen Maud” land, called New Swabia by the Germans. Neuschwabenland - the area was explored in 1938/39 by a German expedition led by Captain Ritcher, who actually gave this name (some maps even now have a note about “Schwabeland” under the historical name of the land).

Now it is difficult to figure out what is more embedded here, a fairy tale, or fragmentary lines from historical documents. Rumors have surrounded the idea of a surviving Hitler so tightly, speculation on the topic is so high that it seems that the Fourth Reich is about to throw off its blanket of ice and enter society.

Hitler, the road of the fugitives.

When there is so much gossip out there, usually the truth may be nearby. Basti searched for the truth for seven years, conducting a difficult investigation into the death of Hitler. He personally visited German formations, whose safety was ensured by the stern faces of the guards, and, after reading hundreds of kilograms of old documents, he revealed the secret of Hitler's life and death.

This sounds like an April Fool's joke, but it's actually not. Basti's investigation plunges us into the world of secrets of the last century, revealing the hidden secrets of the conspiracy theories that rule 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 obtained photographs of Hitler and Eva Braun, who lived in exile in the post-war years.

Basti wrote that A. Hitler, E. Braun, and some of the Fuhrer’s close assistants flew from the burning Berlin to Spain. The fugitives then secretly cross the Atlantic Ocean in three submarines, and finally reach the shores 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 deeper into Argentina.

Presumably, the same secret route, prepared by employees of the head of the SS Himmler, was 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. Braun through Argentina, which, of course, was carried out with the assistance of local Nazi sympathizers, notes the happy family life of the couple in exile, during which, despite the difficulties of their life, they even had children!

The death of Hitler, a re-enactment of the play?

The war ended with the defeat of the Nazi army and complete surrender. On May 10, the Germans announced the existence of burnt bodies in the courtyard of the chancellery, saying that one of the bodies belonged to Hitler, the second to Eva Braun. Although the same American intelligence report reported that it was impossible to determine who owned 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 did he flee, putting an end to the staging of his death with fire?
On June 6, the press secretary of the Soviet army in Berlin announced unequivocally that Adolf Hitler had committed suicide, the body had been found, the remains had been identified.

Three days later, Marshal Zhukov, at a press conference attended by future Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Vyshinsky, looking over his shoulder, said: “We have not identified Hitler’s body” ... “I can’t say anything definite about his fate. He could have left Berlin at 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, hosts Santiago Romero and Abel Basti talk about Hitler's escape and life in exile:

Romero: What do you think about Hitler's escape?
Basti: “Hitler fled Austria to Barcelona. The final stage of the escape was by submarine, from Vigo, heading straight for the coast of Patagonia. Finally, Hitler and Eva, in a car with a driver and bodyguards, drove to Argentina in at least three cars.
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 his escape from the Berlin bunker?
Basti: I received information from an elderly Jesuit priest whose family was friends with the 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 the British intelligence services shows that the Nazi submarine and convoy left Spain, and after stopping in the Canary Islands, continued on its way 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 that lets us know that the FBI was persistently searching for Hitler in Spain after World War II. All evidence points to the Galician coast, where the boats were located during the Battle of the Atlantic.

When the Enigma code was cracked, it was possible to decipher the German submarine fleet messages and find out the course of Hitler's escort. There is a possibility that he fled from Vigo or Ferrol, but I am almost certain that Hitler fled from Vigo, as the British MI6 documents say.

Romero: What kind of life did Hitler have in Argentina?
Basti: Hitler lived with his wife and bodyguards, it was the life of fugitives, but quite comfortable. They spent the first post-war years in Patagonia, and then moved to the northern provinces of Argentina. Early in the year, the Führer held meetings in various parts of 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 had several meetings in Buenos Aires. The Fuhrer died in the early sixties, ending his days in Argentina. Currently, the journalist continues, I am trying to find out the place of his burial, studying the last days of the life of Adolf Hitler.

Romero: Do you have access to documents from the former Soviet Union?
Basti: Until his death in 1953, Stalin never believed that Hitler committed suicide, telling the Allies about it in 1945. At the same time, there are three different transcripts in which Stalin noted that the German leader had fled. While in Argentina, I interviewed people who saw and met Hitler. There are documents in Russian archives that show that Hitler fled from the fallen Berlin.

Romero: How will your new book affect the official version of Hitler's death?
Basti: Despite recent research that has proven that Hitler's remains in the Kremlin are not those of the Fuhrer, most Russians have always rejected the theory that he escaped. The same applies to the peoples who participated in the war.

The United States, just recently, under the auspices of national security, “closed” official materials related to this story for another 20-year period. It is possible that when the deadline is reached, it will probably be raised again.

British authorities also reviewed all relevant documentation, pushing back the time frame for solving the mysteries by 60 years or more. Researchers cannot access information about an important period of history, which in turn confirms the correctness of the conclusions about the escaped top of the Third Reich. Otherwise, why hide the documents?

One of the reasons why Hitler fled to Argentina, who allowed him to do this and why, the journalist, both at the time of writing the first books about Hitler, and now names one thing, America needed the Fuhrer.

Yes, the Second World War was over, and the ashes of the dead had not yet scattered, but the world was preparing for a new war, for a “cold” war with communism.
And here the Germans received by the Americans, whose number is estimated at 300 thousand, were a good help. Moreover, one should not underestimate the serious technological knowledge of the Nazis, which America so desperately needed.

by Notes of the Wild Mistress

On April 30 at 16:30 (that is, an hour after the alleged suicide), Hitler was seen next to his personal Ju-52 plane. Bestseller “Hitler in Argentina”. Having conducted research, interviewed dozens of witnesses, and published documents declassified by the FBI, Basti wants to prove that Hitler could have hidden in South America and lived there to old age. Let the readers of AiF judge how well he succeeded. The writer kindly agreed to give an interview to the largest Russian weekly magazine. The Fuhrer's jaw was not examined for DNA

SENOR Basti, in your book you claim that on April 30, 1945, Hitler managed to escape from Berlin by plane. How could he do this if by that time the airfields were destroyed and the Allies controlled the skies?

My book contains previously classified evidence from the FBI archives that on April 30 at 16:30 (that is, an hour after the alleged suicide), Hitler was seen next to his personal Ju-52 plane. At night, throughout the last week of April, air transport of the Fuhrer's trusted representatives landed on Unter den Linden Avenue, where street lighting poles were preserved. For example, Reich Minister Speer left the “Führerbunker” on the 20th, and three days later he calmly returned back on the Fieseler-Storch plane. As you can see, the Allied air defense did not stop him. On April 25, a secret meeting was held in the “Führerbunker” to evacuate Hitler, in which the female pilot Hanna Reitsch, the famous pilot Hans Ulrich Rudel and Hitler’s personal pilot Hans Baur took part. The secret plan for the safe movement of the Fuhrer from the besieged capital of the Third Reich was codenamed “Operation Seraglio”.

And who exactly, in your opinion, carried out the evacuation of Hitler?

Two days later, five Storch planes arrived in Berlin (each with seats for ten passengers), and on April 28, the same Ju-52, piloted by pilot Bosser, arrived - this was officially confirmed by Allied intelligence. A day later, on the orders of General Adolf Galland, the last forces of the German Air Force were unexpectedly lifted into the air over the capital of the Reich - a hundred Me-262 jet fighters. They covered Hannah Reitsch’s plane: she managed to break through the fire of Soviet anti-aircraft guns and fly away from Berlin - it was an experimental flight, and the fact that it was carried out is not disputed by any historian. The next day, according to the scenario already tested by Frau Reitsch, Adolf Hitler also left Berlin - he was heading to Spain, from where at the end of the summer he sailed on a submarine to Argentina. He was accompanied by Eva Braun, Müller and Bormann.

Experts only had the opportunity to compare this charred jaw with x-rays of that era, which were of terrible quality, and with the testimony of Hitler’s personal dentist - and he could say anything. If you know, no DNA testing has ever been carried out: Russia systematically refuses to allow such analysis. Meanwhile, this is the only way to find out the truth: it is necessary to compare DNA samples that can be obtained from the remains of Adolf Hitler’s sister, Paula, who died in 1960 and was buried in the Bergfriedhof cemetery. I formally appeal to the Russian authorities to allow me to examine this jaw to obtain final proof that I am telling the truth.

“Submarines found off the coast of Argentina”

I relied on the testimony of witnesses who, after the war, observed the arrival of three submarines with swastikas in the tiny bay of Caleta de los Loros, located in the Argentine province of Rio Negro. You say: Argentina has formally been at war with Germany since March 27, 1945 - maybe these are traces of past naval battles? However, in the archives of the Argentine Ministry of Defense there is not a single word about the sinking of any German submarines. Then where did these sunken ships lying on the ground come from? I submitted a request that the submarines be brought to the surface and thoroughly examined. German submarines sailed to Argentina several times after the war - for example, the submarine U-977 arrived in the country on August 17, 1945: it is assumed that its commander Heinz Schaeffer was transporting gold and other valuables of the Third Reich.

This is a very strange question because I legally obtained this document after it was declassified from the FBI archives: file number 65-53615. And this is far from the only documentary evidence of Hitler’s escape. There are several more secret reports from the FBI, CIA and MI5 about the living Fuhrer - but, unfortunately, the USA, Britain and Russia have not yet fully declassified all materials relating to this topic. For example, there are three shorthand recordings of a conversation between Joseph Stalin (one of them with US Secretary of State Byrnes) - there the leader of the USSR openly says that the Fuhrer managed to escape. Over fifteen years, I conducted hundreds of interviews with direct witnesses to Hitler's presence in Argentina. Most of them have only started talking now - many Nazis in Argentina have died, they have nothing to fear anymore, although not everyone is still making contact. A letter from Nazi General Seydlitz, dated 1956, has also been preserved - he reports that he is going to attend a meeting in Argentina between Hitler and the Croatian “Führer” Pavelic.

You often refer to witness testimony. But how, in this case, should we treat the words of other witnesses who saw Hitler dead and buried his corpse?

There is not a single person who saw with his own eyes how Hitler saw through an ampoule of poison and shot himself in the head. The story of the Fuhrer's suicide from beginning to end was invented by people from his inner circle - it was a special plan to confuse everyone. But even at first glance, there are several contradictions in the eyewitness accounts of Hitler's death if you study the archival documents. At first it was said that he was poisoned. Then - no, he shot me in the temple. After - excuse me, first he poisoned himself, and then he shot himself. Potassium cyanide causes instant death and convulsions: how did the person then pull the trigger of the gun?

“Hitler died in... 1964,” says the author of the scandalous bestseller

Writer with his book

The writer is sure: the Reich Chancellor and his wife fled Berlin on the day when his suicide was announced.

What's special about this 50-year-old documentary writer from Argentina is not that he puts forward such theories. Perhaps Abel Basti was the first to support the theory of Hitler’s disappearance with real documents and photos from the archives of the special services. In 2004, the writer published his first book, which brought him international success, “The Nazis in Bariloche.” However, it was impossible to predict what kind of “bomb” he would explode in the second part of his story - the bestseller “Hitler in Argentina.” Having conducted research, interviewed dozens of witnesses, and published documents declassified by the FBI, Basti wants to prove that Hitler could have hidden in South America and lived there to old age. Let the readers of AiF judge how well he succeeded. The writer kindly agreed to give an interview to the largest Russian weekly magazine.

And they explained the situation with the DNA examination of the remains of the main Nazi

All that was left of Evil fit in the palm of my hand. I hold Hitler's jaw in my hands. The German Fuhrer clearly did not take care of his teeth: most of them are artificial, made of gold.

There are a lot of conspiracy theories that Adolf Hitler did not commit suicide, but managed to escape. In the West they say: Russia does not specifically do a DNA examination of the Fuhrer’s jaw... I went to the archives of the Russian FSB to get answers to the questions that had arisen.

Hitler and Eva Braun

Adolf Hitler's jaw is the main artifact kept in the archives of the Federal Security Service. It is she who is considered the main evidence that the Fuhrer committed suicide and did not spend the rest of his days somewhere (for example, in Argentina).

Hitler's jaw

“Russia still has not done a DNA examination of Hitler’s jaw!” - said former CIA officer Bob Baer recently. He, together with the American military man who participated in the liquidation of bin Laden, “threatened” to publish documents confirming that Hitler was taken alive from Berlin, and that the jaw of the Reich Chancellor’s double was always in the hands of the MGB-KGB-FSB.

Is there any truth to this? What other evidence of Hitler's suicide do the Russian intelligence services have?

Intelligence investigation: “Hitler’s personal dog is buried in the specified crater”

Conversations that Hitler remained alive in the meat grinder of the spring of 1945 have not stopped for more than 70 years. And it is unlikely that this “alternative” version will ever be completely dispelled. As historians say, no matter how much or what evidence is presented, people will always doubt the suicide of one of the bloodiest rulers on the planet during the days of the storming of Berlin by the Red Army.

The case initiated to search for the Fuhrer

But now there is a reason to conduct another historical investigation. In January 2017, ex-British and American intelligence officials said they had studied 14,000 different documents and concluded that Hitler did survive. According to them, the Fuhrer was taken to a secret prison. They threw a stone at Russia, saying that our country knew this and allegedly therefore did not conduct a DNA examination of Hitler’s jaw.

There really was no DNA examination, but that’s not why,” says Nikolai Ivanov, deputy head of the Central Archive of the FSB of Russia. - We are ready to show Hitler’s jaw and other material evidence confirming his death.

But I decide to start my search for truth with documents. These are not copies, but originals. Only a few saw these secret papers.

Hitler's destroyed bunker

The FSB archive contains an intelligence investigation file against Adolf Hitler, opened in 1945. A large folder with yellowed sheets. On the cover is Hitler's name in strikingly beautiful handwriting. And further: “Ministry of State Security of the USSR. Case No. 300919.”

It's always good to visualize the crime scene first.

Here are pictures of the bunker where Hitler hid with Eva Braun in the last days of his life. More precisely, the photo shows only the burnt remains of the shelter. Parts of walls, stairs... To understand what it looked like during Hitler's life, it is better to study the plan diagram of the bunker. The drawing was made by one of the Red Army officers.

So, in the very corner was Hitler's bedroom. Nearby there is a private bathroom, an office, and a “map room.” Eva Braun's bedroom-living room and her dressing room are adjacent. There is also a “dog bunker” or security room. All this occupies one half of the shelter, separated from the other by a conference room and a common living room.

Photo from Hitler's bunker.

And on the other half are Goebbels’ bedrooms (the main ideologist of Nazi propaganda), Stumpfegger’s rooms (surgeon, Hitler’s personal physician), diesel room, switchboard room, security room, etc. The kitchen, closets, servants' quarters, and the rooms of Frau Goebbels and her children were located separately.

Judging by the diagram, there were several exits from the bunker, including one into the garden. A cross marks the place where the bodies of Hitler and Eva Braun were burned in this garden...

I read the testimony of Hitler's servants. She claims that the last time she saw him and his wife alive was at 14.30 on April 30. “They walked around the bunker, shook hands with all the assistants, then returned to their rooms where they committed suicide.”

Photo from Hitler's bunker

Next comes the testimony of the guards, who tell how, on orders from their superiors, the external doors were walled up, how they brought about 180 liters of gasoline. They didn't know what happened next. From the secretaries' testimony, it becomes clear that Goebbels, Bormann (head of the party chancellery, personal secretary of the Fuhrer), Hitler's adjutant Günsche, and personal bodyguard of the Fuhrer Linge carried the bodies of Hitler and Eva into the garden. At the same time, the Fuhrer's corpse was wrapped in a blanket, but his wife was not. The bodies were doused with gasoline, and when they caught fire, they saluted and hastily returned to the shelter (it was dangerous because the Russian artillery fire was intensifying).

One of the main witness documents:

“Identifier Mengeshausen Harry stated that from April 10 to April 30, 1945, while serving in the SS group Mundke, he participated in the defense of the Imperial Chancellery and the direct protection of Hitler. At noon on April 30, he was on patrol duty in the Imperial Chancellery building, walking along the corridor past Hitler’s work room to the blue dining room. While patrolling along the indicated corridor, Mengeshausen stopped at the extreme window of the blue dining room, which is the first one at the exit door to the garden, and began to observe. At that moment, the bodies of Hitler and his wife were carried out of the emergency exit by Günsche and Linge. Günsche doused them with gasoline and set them on fire. The bodies were then carried into the shell crater.

Mengeshausen observed the entire procedure of removing, burning and burying the corpses of Adolf Hitler and his wife from a distance of 60 meters. Mengeshausen further stated that Hitler’s personal dog was buried in the said crater on April 29th. Her characteristics: a tall shepherd with long ears, a black back... Mengeshausen knows that she was poisoned. An examination of the places indicated by Mengeshausen established the veracity of the testimony: from the window of the blue dining room he could perfectly observe what was happening.”

In general, Hitler gave the order to burn them during his lifetime. He was afraid that they would carry him dead around Moscow and show him off like a monkey. He did not want to go to the Russians, either alive or dead.

It is impossible to understand exactly from the documents how long the bodies burned, how often they were doused with gasoline. In the general turmoil, few of those close to him were interested in this fact. And by the way, this offended one of the employees: in his testimony he complains about the general indifference to the fate of the corpses... But Hitler’s body was not destined to burn to the ground. Fact.

Then there are testimonies related to the suicide of Goebbels and his wife.

Probably, then the burned bodies of both Hitler and Goebbels were simply covered with earth and forgotten about. At that time, everyone was busy thinking about how to save their lives, and no one cared at all about the dead Hitler. Red Army soldiers have already shown interest in him.

I am holding a unique document. Spelling and punctuation have been preserved.

“Owl. secret. Berlin. Act. 1945, May 5th day.

Me guards senior lieutenant Aleksei Aleksandrovich Panasov and privates Churakov, Oleinik and Seroukh in Berlin in the area of Hitler’s Reich Chancellery near the place where the troupes were discovered (for some reason “corpses” are written everywhere with two “p.” - E.M.) of Goebbels and his wife, about Hitler's personal bomb shelter discovered and seized two burned troupes, one female, the other male. The corpses were badly burned and it is impossible to identify them without any additional information. The troops were located in a bomb crater, three meters from the entrance to the bomb shelter and covered with a layer of earth. The troupes are kept under the SMERSH counterintelligence department.

Photo of Hitler's charred remains (it can be seen that the fire hardly affected his legs)

Attached to the act is another diagram, apparently drawn by Panasov. It shows in more detail where the corpses were found.

The numbers indicate the old and new imperial chancellery, Hitler's dugout, his work room, the blue dining room, the outer window of this dining room, water pools, an observation tower, a funnel, and the place where Hitler was burned.

“Eva Braun’s body was in a black dress, with several pink flowers on her chest.”

So, the bodies have been found. Everything that happened next was documented, but it was included in another matter. It's a matter of identification. Officially, it has a long title: “Acts of identification, forensic medical examination of corpses, protocols of interrogations of witnesses.”

In general, even before the end of the Great Patriotic War, several corpses of Hitler's doubles were found. So Stalin needed irrefutable evidence that the body buried in a crater near the Reich Chancellery bunker belonged to him.

I’m reading the original protocol for identifying Hitler’s body. It follows from the document that the external inspection was carried out in the morgue of the city of Berlin on May 8, 1945. The remains were brought here in a wooden box. Photo of the box and its “owner” is here. I can clearly see the contours of the body. The feet were completely preserved, the fire did not touch them. But everything else... You shouldn't look at the photo for a long time - you might feel a bout of nausea.

The forensic expert - the chief pathologist of the Red Army, Kraevsky - points to a strong smell of charred meat. He notices that even the remains of the yellow shirt have been preserved. Lists the parameters of the deceased: height 165 cm, anatomical features of the teeth, etc. He especially notices that he found pieces of glass in his mouth - part of an ampoule with poison.

Kraevsky takes blood and tissues for examination.

In general, all the same manipulations that modern pathologists do were done with the corpse,” says the deputy. head of the archive Ivanov. - Moreover, the remains of Eva Braun, Goebbels and his wife, and even all of Hitler’s and Eva’s dogs were subjected to exactly the same procedure.

All autopsy reports have been preserved. Several hours of studying them won't do much. However, what kind of findings can be expected from a completely standard procedure?

The procedure for identifying Hitler's body was painstaking.

For this purpose, all employees of the Reich Chancellery were interviewed. And Mengeshausen was interrogated again (the first interrogation took place on May 13, the second on the 18th).

“I knew Hitler by his face and the way he dressed. He was wearing black trousers and a gray-green jacket. None of the leaders of the fascist party, except him, wore such a uniform. When they carried Hitler out, I personally saw the profile of his face - nose, hair, mustache. That's why I claim that it was him. Hitler's wife, Eva Braun, when she was taken out of the bomb shelter, was dressed in a black dress, with several pink flowers made of material on her chest. I saw her in this dress several times in the bunker... Knowing Hitler’s wife well, I affirm that it was she who was taken out of the bomb shelter.”

Original photos used to identify Hitler (from the FSB archives)

FROM THE MGB DOSSIER: “Harry Mengeshausen, born in 1915, German. By resolution of a special meeting of the USSR Ministry of State Security on December 26, 1951, he was imprisoned in a forced labor camp for a period of 15 years. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, he was released early in 1955 and handed over to the authorities of the GDR.”

Hitler was also identified from photographs. The FSB archive contains the original photographs of the photographs that were used for this. On the back of each (they all pass as material evidence) there are corresponding notes. The pictures are of quite high quality, some are quite large, A4 format. In one, in addition to Hitler, a limping Goebbels is visible - from this frame, Goebbels himself and his crooked leg, which was always in an orthopedic boot, were identified.

And yet, Hitler’s dental chart (information about the condition of his teeth) was one of the main pieces of evidence. But what would it mean without the testimony of dentists? First of all, dentist Ehman Fritz was interrogated. He stated: “In January 1945, Hitler’s personal dentist, Professor Blaschke, gave me several x-rays of the Fuhrer’s teeth in Berlin.”

Blaschke himself, by the way, was also interrogated. His testimony completely coincided with those given by Ehman and the nurse. Blaschke was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in the camps, released early in 1953.

At that moment no one had any doubt that the corpse belonged to Hitler. Otherwise, no one would dare to report to Moscow, to the Kremlin.

Hitler was buried more than once

In the folder I find the very paper that tells how it happened.

“Owl. secret. May 31, 1945. To the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR, Comrade L.P. Beria.

I am sending acts of forensic research and identification of the supposed corpses of Hitler and Goebbels, as well as interrogation reports and photographic documents.

The listed documents and photographs confirm the correctness of our assumptions about the suicide of Hitler and Goebbels. There is no doubt that the corpse of Hitler we offer is genuine. This was established based on the testimony of the dentist and nurse who treated Hitler, who drew the location of the false teeth.”

Beria's resolution: “Send to Stalin and Molotov.”

From the point of view of the department and the country's leadership, this issue was put to rest. Neither Stalin nor anyone else doubted that Hitler was dead and that his remains lay there.

Immediately after this, Hitler was buried. And more than once.

And again, an authentic document confirms this.

After completing the forensic examination and carrying out all operational measures to identify them, the corpses were buried in the mountain area. Buh. In connection with the relocation of the SMERSH counterintelligence department, the corpses were seized and transported first to the mountain area. Finov, and then - mountains. Rathenov, where they were finally buried. The corpses are in wooden boxes in a pit at a depth of 1.7 meters and are placed in the following order (from east to west) Hitler, Eva Brain, Goebbels, Magda Goebbels, Krebs, Goebbels' children... The buried pit with corpses is leveled to the ground, on The number of small trees planted on the surface is 111.”

The site of Hitler's reburial by the SMERSH department. 111 small trees were planted on the surface.

Our troops have redeployed, but how can we leave the corpse of Hitler himself? In February 1946, a special commission headed by the head of the SMERSH department of the 3rd Shock Army, Colonel Miroshnichenko, decided to open the burial.

I am studying the relevant act.

“The corpses are in a semi-decayed state and were delivered to the mountains in this form. Magdeburg to the location of the SMERSH counterintelligence department, and were again buried in a hole at a depth of 2 meters in the courtyard of house No. 36 on Westendstrasse, near the southern stone wall of the courtyard, from the garage of the house to the east - 25 meters. The buried pit with the corpses was leveled to the ground, the external appearance was brought to match the appearance of the surrounding area.”

The counterintelligence officers could not afford to transport Hitler’s corpse with them to a new city each time. In March 1970, the “Archive” plan appeared. In a nutshell: it was ordered to set up a tent at the burial site, organize excavations, get the boxes with the corpses, take them to the Rotten Lake area, where they burn them and throw the ashes into the water. A cover legend is separately spelled out in the plan (even the military of the Soviet army should not have known about the event, only a narrow circle of high-ranking officers): “The work - installation of a tent, excavation - is carried out in order to verify the testimony of a criminal arrested in the USSR, according to which information in this place may there are valuable archival materials.”

Among the documents I find the act of opening the pit and the act of burning. The last one is handwritten, dated April 5th. It says that the remains were burned in the wasteland, they were burned out, and together with coal they were crushed into ash.

All that remains are the jaws of Hitler and Eva Braun, Goebbels' orthopedic boot. They were seized in advance and stored as evidence. At the same time, it was Hitler’s jaws (an upper jaw bridge with 9 teeth and a burnt lower jaw with 15 teeth) that were considered the main and unconditional proof that it was him.

The Fuhrer's teeth are kept in a cigarette box

The Fuhrer's teeth are in a small box of "Guards" cigarettes. Archive workers allow you to open it and take them in your hands. There are only four fragments, in the largest I counted nine teeth.

I compare these teeth with the description given by the dentist and nurse: “Lower jaw. A gold crown on its own root, a gold bond, a natural tooth with a gold filling on the inside, a gold pendant with a porcelain facet... Upper jaw. Richmond crown with natural root and porcelain facet, gold bridge with nine intermediate links and four supports..."

In 2002, a famous American dental scientist came to us,” says special services historian Oleg Matveev. - Unexpectedly - he did not warn any of us in advance - he took out an x-ray. This was the one that Professor Blaschke kept. He checked it against the one with the jaw. The coincidence was complete. Therefore, it is now strange to hear from the American side that there are some doubts about Hitler’s suicide and the authenticity of this jaw.

All that remains of Hitler is in the palm of the MK observer.

The FSB receives requests for a DNA examination of the Fuhrer's jaw regularly (no one has ever been interested in Eva Braun's teeth, which, by the way, are in excellent condition). But who are they from? Some private companies, funds, media. They wrote: they say, we have some DNA material, we propose to carry out an examination taking into account the capabilities of modern science and technology.

The last time one journalist became interested in the jaw was in December last year. She allegedly found relatives of the Fuhrer in America and obtained saliva samples from one of them. But, firstly, how do we know that there are DNA samples from a relative? Relatives always tried to hide their affiliation with Hitler, changed their places of residence, etc. There is little hope that they will suddenly want to give DNA samples themselves.

Secondly, if one of the relatives decides to do this, there is an official procedure. I repeat, we do not need this - from the point of view of the Russian FSB there is no need to conduct these examinations. Everything has been proven a long time ago, and we have no doubts.

As if to confirm this, the memoirs of Adolf Hitler's former bodyguard, Rochus Misch (died in Berlin in 2013), were recently published. He describes how he discovered the still warm bodies of Hitler and Eva Braun. The woman’s legs were unnaturally elongated and her shoes were lying under the sofa. How Hitler's eyes were open and his head slightly bent forward...

Scientists are convinced that a genetic examination of Hitler’s jaw will yield nothing. Just like the one that was spent with the remains of the murdered royal family did not. Still, there were and will remain doubters. And it’s not a matter of imperfect technology, or a secret conspiracy. People are just greedy for myths. And the myth of the surviving Hitler is one of the most terrible and therefore attractive.