Monday, 30. April 1945


On the Reichstag building in the center of Berlin, the Soviet sergeant Mikhail Minin ...



and Sublieutenant Abdulchakim Ismailow...



... of the 150th Rifles Division of the Red Army hoisted the Soviet flag ...:




The soldiers of the 171st Rifle Division meanwhile approached Hitler's Reich Chancellery at around a hundred yards at noon.

At about 11:30 Hitler gets the news that a rescue in the last minute, so to speak, by the soldiers of the 12th Army of General Wenck or the 9th Army of General Busse is no longer possible!

The message is:

"12 Army is grounded - 9th Army included with mass." General Busses soldiers have gotten into the bloody cauldron of Halbe.

Now the "Leader" knows that he has lost his game!

Hitler is very well informed about the end of his buddy Mussolini, he is very afraid that he will face the same thing - execution, public presentation and desecration of his corpse.

But he is even more afraid of being captured alive by the Soviet soldiers and exhibited in Moscow "in a panopticon".

So there is only one way out: suicide!

His wife Eva (he married her the day before)...





...has declared that she wants to share his fate!


Around 12 o'clock he - together with his secretaries Traudl Junge, Gerda Christian and his wife Eva - has a last meal.

He is gregarious and eats little, speaks completely against his habit nothing - and retires with Eva Hitler at 15:00 clock in his private room in the bunker back.

Before that, he hired his personal adjutant, SS-Sturmbannführer Otto Günsche ...



... to burn his body beyond recognition.

Günsche occupies post outside the door of Hitler's room.

Shortly thereafter, a shot is heard in the Fiihrer bunker! Only one.

When Günsche enters the room, he realizes that Eva and Adolf Hitler are dead. After him comes Hitlers personal servant, SS Sturmbannführer Heinz Linge ...



... and "Reich Youth Leader" Artur Axmann ...



They realize:

Eva Hitler poisoned herself with cyanide by biting on a small glass vial.





Even Hitler took poison - and obviously at the same moment with his personal pistol, a "Walther" caliber 7.65 mm - here the orogonal weapon ...



... shot in the right temple.

Both are dead.

Later, the NKVD arrests Günsche, Linge, and Axmann and interrogates him for years at Butyrka Prison in Moscow on behalf of Stalin, since Stalin is almost obsessively interested in all the details of Hitler's life and death.

The statements of the three prisoners about the finding situation of the two corpses contradict each other!

Did they both sit on Hitler's sofa ...?



Or was Hitler sitting in a nearby chair?





The contradiction has never been clarified - and will probably never be clarified!

After the death of Hitler is officially established, Günsche and Linge carry the two bodies to the court of the Reich Chancellery - which is not without its dangers due to the constantly smashing Soviet grenades - and lay them down in a deep shell funnel ...:



Then empty Linge and Günsche several jerrycans, the Hitler's driver Erich Kempka ...



... from the still intact underground car park of the Reich Chancellery - took out the corpses and lit them.

The two can no longer observe the end of their work of destruction, the shelling forces them back into the bunker.

So ended the life of Adolf Hitler - but not the story about his dead body!

**continued next post**

On October 25, 1956 Adolf Hitler is officially declared dead by the district court Berchtesgaden ...:



What only a few initiates know:
At this time, the remains of the "Führer" and those of his wife Eva ...



... lay superficially buried in a garage in Magdeburg in the courtyard of the house Westendstraße 36 (today Klausenerstraße 23) in the command area of the 3rd Soviet Shock Army ...:









Members of the "Special Section of the KGB" (formerly "Smersch") at the 3rd Shock Army (unit No. 92626) under the personal command of General Nikolai Kovalenko ...



... had found the corpses of Hitler and his wife Eva and spent them here in the utmost secrecy.
However, the Ex-"Führer" is not complete!
His teeth...







... store a wooden box lined with red velvet in the Kremlin - as well as a piece of his skull, that with the bullet hole ...:



Even the commander-in-chief of the Soviet troops in Germany, Marshal Georgy Zhukov, will learn of the secret burial and the transfer of the "Führer's" parts to Moscow many years later and describe this in his memoirs as the greatest breach of trust in his career.
In 1970, the Soviet troops will clear the object in Westendstraße / Klausenerstraße.

By order of the then KGB chief Yuri Andropov (here his ID card) ...



... the corpses of the "Führer" and his wife are dug up, burned and the ashes dumped in the river Ehle near the village of Biederitz (near Magdeburg, see map above)...:



The teeth and the part of the skull are still in Moscow.

Eva Hitler, b. Braun is officially declared dead by the district court of Berchtesgaden on 17 January 1957. As the time of death, the court determines the 30th April 1945, 15:28 clock, so exactly two minutes before Hitler's end.
Officially, the Soviet authorities will deny until to the times of Gorbachev, to have found the corpse of Hitler ...

(This text is part of my (yet?) unpublished manuscript titled "The Last 100 Days of the Third Reich")


Cheers

I heard his last words were " When I come back,...No more "Mister nice guy"...…..You show know your history Mr. Rohmann…….

staged pictures of the flag raising - Hitler´s end has been done "to death" by all kind of historians - he would have had the chance to leave Berlin before the city was encircled but decided to stay knowing that he sealed his fate.... - what would our media and countless writers do if they could not dig up these things again and again....
A person like this one does not deserve this kind of attention IMHO. They should dump the rest of his remains.

He will always be a figure that will continue to fascinate. I think we'll always be asking, "How could all that have happened?" It was a period of history that gives us endless interest.

Something that may have been missed in all the excitement .................