Here is a chronicle of the events leading up to the death of Adolf Hitler. In the last days of April 1945, the shock units of the Soviet troops completed the operation to defeat Nazi Germany. The Fuhrer's plans collapsed, which led him to despair. A few days before his death, Hitler took refuge in an underground bunker located in close proximity to the Reich Chancellery, waiting with despair and anxiety for new news from the battlefields. His girlfriend Eva Braun and a number of high-ranking German figures were also there.
Hitler gave the impression of an immensely tired man with a completely upset consciousness, who had lost interest in life. He often shouted at his subordinates, rushed around the room and showed all the signs of a man with a disintegrating personality, close to madness. He no longer resembled in any way the self-confident leader of the nation that the German people were accustomed to seeing Hitler in earlier times.
The day before his death, Hitler arranged an official wedding ceremony with Eva Braun, which ended with a modest feast. After the first and last family celebration in his life, the Fuhrer retired to his office to draw up a will.
Apparently, by this time the leader of Nazi Germany had made the final decision to die.
How Hitler died
On April 30, Adolf Hitler said goodbye to the highest representatives of the Reich and other people close to him. After the farewell ceremony, everyone left the room, going out into the corridor. Hitler and Eva Braun were left alone. The Fuhrer's personal valet wrote in his testimony that Hitler and his girlfriend committed suicide at half past four, shooting themselves almost simultaneously. The valet who entered after the shots saw the leader of the nation sitting on the sofa; Blood was flowing from his temple. Eva Braun's body was located in another corner of the room.
Many researchers are convinced that immediately before the shot, Hitler took an ampoule of potassium cyanide.
Martin Bormann, Hitler's closest assistant and ally, gave the order to wrap the bodies of the dead in blankets, move them to the courtyard, douse them with gasoline and burn them in the crater of an exploding shell. The corpses, which did not have time to burn completely, were buried in the ground right there, in the courtyard of the imperial chancellery. The remains of the Fuhrer and Eva Braun were subsequently discovered by Soviet soldiers, after which a thorough examination was carried out. The study was carried out by experienced forensic experts, so there is no reason to doubt the authenticity of the remains.
But the story of the remains of the leader of Nazi Germany did not end there. Hitler's body was reburied several times. After the war, some eyewitnesses to the death of the German leader renounced their testimony. There were also new witnesses who had previously remained silent. The story of the Fuhrer’s death began to acquire fantastic details that could well have been fiction.
A group of French experts came to the conclusion that the head of the Third Reich Adolf Gitler actually committed suicide in Berlin in April 1945. For 70 years this was repeated by the USSR, the leadership of the countries allied to the USSR in the war, Russia, historians, and doctors. But this did not stop citizens of all states from inventing and sharing myths in the logic “everyone is lying to us because they are lying to us.”
"We can stop all conspiracy theories about Hitler"
The scientific publication European Journal of Internal Medicine published the results of the work of researchers from France who were able to gain access to the teeth and fragment of Hitler’s skull stored in Moscow.
According to experts, the structure of the skull fragment is fully consistent with X-ray photographs of the skull of the leader of the Third Reich, taken a year before his death. An analysis of one of the teeth, carried out using an electron microscope, showed the presence of tartar deposits in the absence of traces of meat fiber. It is known that Hitler was a vegetarian and did not eat meat. Scientists also managed to detect traces of cyanide, directly indicating poisoning.
“These teeth are genuine, there is no doubt about it. Our research proves that Hitler died in 1945. We can stop all conspiracy theories about Hitler. “He didn’t escape to Argentina in a submarine, he didn’t hide in a secret base in Antarctica or on the dark side of the moon,” he told AFP. specialist in medical and legal anthropology Professor Philippe Charlier.
The theory that Adolf Hitler did not die in Berlin, but fled after living incognito for many years, has existed for decades.
Operation Seraglio
According to one of the most common versions, a special operation codenamed “Seraglio” was developed to save Hitler. By order Commander-in-Chief of the Navy of Nazi Germany Karl Dönitz three submarines were prepared in the ports of Spain, which were supposed to transfer Hitler, Eva Brown and several people from their circle to South America. The final destination of the trip is most often called Argentina.
Hitler was supposedly at the last moment safely taken out of Berlin, which was stormed by Soviet troops, and then transported by submarine to South America. There he lived quietly for almost two decades in Argentina and Paraguay, passing away in 1964.
In 2006, Argentine documentary writer Abel Basti, who spent many years studying the history of the Nazis' flight to South America, published the book "Hitler in Argentina."
“He was heading to Spain, from where he sailed on a submarine to Argentina at the end of the summer.”
“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 calmly returned back on a 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 a female pilot participated Hannah Reich, famous pilot Hans Ulrich Rudel and Hitler's personal pilot - Hans Baur. The secret plan for the safe movement of the Fuhrer from the besieged capital of the Third Reich was codenamed “Operation Seraglio,” Basti himself said in an interview with Arguments and Facts.
According to the writer, the escape happened like this: “Five Storch planes arrived in Berlin (each with seats for ten passengers), and on April 28 the same Ju-52, piloted by a pilot, arrived Bosser, - this was officially confirmed by Allied intelligence. A day later, by order of the general Adolf Galland The last forces of the German Air Force were suddenly 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, Muller And Borman».
“He was secretly under Anglo-American protection”
Abel Basti was convinced that the Western powers knew about Hitler’s flight: “Hitler’s flight to Argentina and the movement of tens of thousands of Nazis to South America is the result of a conspiracy between Berlin, Washington and London. In return, the allies received the latest technologies of the Third Reich - rocket and space research, jet fighters, an atomic project, thousands of unique specialists like rocket scientists Wernher von Braun. They also got the gold reserves of Hitler's Germany - approximately $100 billion in today's money: although, according to the official version, the train with Nazi gold and diamonds disappeared without a trace... In addition, Britain and the USA needed the experience of Hitler's specialists to fight communism: The superpowers were preparing for a new conflict with the Soviet Union - for all this Hitler bought his life. Therefore, no one was going to catch him; he was secretly under Anglo-American protection.”
Family man Schutelmeier
Basti is not the only one to describe Hitler's alleged life in South America. The habitat is called Villa Inalco, located near the Argentine city of San Carlos de Bariloche. The fugitive allegedly lived under the name Adolf Schutelmeier. According to one version, the Fuhrer, who was counting on the revival of his movement, suffered from a mental disorder from the early 1950s and gradually faded away.
In 2011 the British Gerard Williams And Simon Dunstan published the book "Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler." It also states that Hitler fled.
According to Williams and Dunstan, three days before the suicide, Hitler and Eva Braun were replaced with doubles who did not know what fate was in store for them. On April 30, 1945, the doubles were dealt with and their bodies were burned. It is these remains, the British believe, that were discovered by Soviet soldiers. Hitler and his wife had by this time been taken to Denmark, from there to the German Luftwaffe base in Trevemund, and then by plane to Reus, south of Barcelona. From there the fugitives were transferred to the Canaries, where a submarine was already waiting for them. The main Nazi arrived safely in Argentina, in the resort town of Mar Del Plata. Settling in the foothills of the Andes, the Fuhrer lived there until his death in the early 1960s.
British researchers, like Abel Basti, are convinced that Hitler and Eva Braun had children. Williams clarifies - two daughters, one of whom was allegedly born back in 1941. In recent years, several people have actually appeared in South America calling themselves children and even grandchildren of Adolf Hitler. However, they do not provide any evidence of their “kinship”.
Report from Agent CIMELODY-3
A new wave of speculation that the head of the Third Reich did not die in Berlin in the spring of 1945, but fled to Latin America, arose due to the release in the fall of 2017 of previously classified CIA documents.
According to the report, a CIA agent codenamed CIMELODY-3 received information from his informant that the former SS Philip Citroen, who worked for the Royal Dutch Shipping Company, met with Hitler in Colombia in 1954-1955. From the CIA report it follows that in September 1955, CIMELODY-3 received a photograph of "Adolf Schrittelmeier", which presumably depicts Hitler. However, the report states that neither the agent nor the CIA analysts can assess the reliability of this information.
It is common knowledge that thousands of former Nazis found refuge in Latin America after the end of the war. But Hitler is too prominent a figure for his presence in Argentina to be hidden for many years. The operation to evacuate him from Europe must have involved dozens, if not hundreds of people. Under such conditions, the secret would inevitably cease to be a secret.
Experts in the field of medicine pay attention to one more circumstance. Hitler's health was poor in the spring of 1945, and a submarine trip to South America was not a fun trip. Most likely, the leader of the Third Reich simply would not have been brought in alive.
Finding "SMERSH": how Hitler's remains were found and identified
All myths about Hitler's escape are based on the belief that the evidence of death available in Moscow is unreliable. However, those scientists who, like French researchers, actually got to know them, are sure that Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun really committed suicide in Berlin on April 30, 1945. The suicide took place in the bunker of the Reich Chancellery, where Hitler and his companion spent their last days. After committing suicide, their bodies were burned in a garden near the bunker.
Hitler hoped that in this way his body would not fall into the hands of Soviet soldiers. However, it was not possible to completely burn the body, and already on May 5, the SMERSH search group under the leadership senior lieutenant Alexey Panasov found burnt corpses. The find was classified. Government commission led by Lieutenant General Konstantin Telegin after conducting a series of various examinations in February 1946, she came to the final conclusion - the discovered bodies belong to Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun. In addition to these two bodies, the remains of Joseph And Magda Goebbels, as well as their six children, who were poisoned by their parents themselves. In addition, the body of Hitler's favorite shepherd was found.
While the examinations were being carried out, the remains were transported from place to place along with the relocation of the SMERSH counterintelligence department and were reburied several times - in the city of Bukh, in the city of Finov, and also in Ratenow.
Finally, in 1946, after all the examinations were completed, the remains of Hitler, Eva Braun, Joseph and Magda Goebbels, as well as their children, were buried in strict secrecy in Magdeburg, on the territory of the military camp of the 3rd Army of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany. The burial, made next to the building of the army counterintelligence department, was rolled up with asphalt, and only a very narrow circle of people knew about its existence.
“Together with coal, they were crushed into ash, collected and thrown into the Biederitz River.”
In March 1970, at the suggestion Head of the KGB of the USSR Yuri Andropov The Soviet leadership agreed to carry out an operation codenamed “Archive”.
On the night of April 4, 1970, a task force led by Colonel Kovalenko opened the burial. The boxes in which the remains were stored rotted and turned into dust, the bones were mixed with the soil.
The remains were placed in boxes, which were taken under guard by operatives, and the burial site was restored to its original form.
On the morning of April 5, 1970, the last stage of the operation was carried out, which was recorded in the act of destruction of the remains: “The destruction of the remains was carried out by burning them at the stake in a vacant lot near the city of Schenebeck, 11 km from Magdeburg. The remains were burned out, crushed into ash along with coal, collected and thrown into the Biederitz River.”
Acts on the removal of the remains and their physical destruction were drawn up in a single copy and sent to Moscow.
These secret documents became available to researchers relatively recently, in the post-Soviet period. There was no need for the Soviet leadership to spread disinformation in confidential documents. This means only one thing - there was no escape of Adolf Hitler to Latin America; he really ended his life in Berlin on April 30, 1945.
The central figure in the history of the first half of the 20th century, the main instigator of the Second World War, the perpetrator of the Holocaust, the founder of totalitarianism in Germany and in the territories it occupied. And all this is one person. How did Hitler die: did he take poison, shoot himself, or die a very old man? This question has concerned historians for almost 70 years.
Childhood and youth
The future dictator was born on April 20, 1889 in the city of Braunau am Inn, which at that time was located in Austria-Hungary. From 1933 until the end of World War II, Hitler's birthday was a public holiday in Germany.
Adolf's family was low-income: his mother, Clara Pelzl, was a peasant woman, his father, Alois Hitler, was initially a shoemaker, but over time began to work in customs. After the death of her husband, Clara and her son lived quite comfortably, dependent on relatives.
Since childhood, Adolf showed a talent for drawing. In his youth he studied music. He especially liked the works of the German composer W.R. Wagner. Every day he visited theaters and coffee houses, read adventure novels and German mythology, loved to walk around Linz, loved picnics and sweets. But his favorite pastime was still drawing, which Hitler later began to earn his living with.
Military service
During the First World War, the future Fuhrer of Germany voluntarily joined the ranks of the German army. At first he was a private, later a corporal. During the fighting he was wounded twice. At the end of the war he was awarded the Iron Cross of the first and second degrees.
Hitler perceived the defeat of the German Empire in 1918 as a knife in his own back, because he was always confident in the greatness and invincibility of his country.
The rise of a Nazi dictator
After the failure of the German army, he returned to Munich and joined the German armed forces - the Reichswehr. Later, on the advice of his closest comrade E. Rehm, he became a member of the German Workers' Party. Instantly relegating its founders to the background, Hitler became the head of the organization.
About a year later it was renamed the National Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (German abbreviation NSDAP). It was then that Nazism began to emerge. The party's program points reflected A. Hitler's main ideas on restoring the state power of Germany:
Establishment of the supremacy of the German Empire over Europe, especially over the Slavic lands;
Liberation of the country's territory from foreigners, namely from Jews;
Replacing the parliamentary regime with one leader, who would concentrate power over the entire country in his hands.
In 1933, these points would find their way into his autobiography, Mein Kampf, which translated from German means “My Struggle.”
Power
Thanks to the NSDAP, Hitler quickly became a famous politician, whose opinion was taken into account by other figures.
On November 8, 1923, a rally was held in Munich, at which the leader of the National Socialists announced the beginning of the German revolution. During the so-called Beer Hall Putsch, it was necessary to destroy the treacherous power of Berlin. When he led his supporters to the square to storm the administrative building, the German army opened fire on them. At the beginning of 1924, the trial of Hitler and his associates took place, they were given 5 years in prison. Nevertheless, they were released after just nine months.
Due to their prolonged absence, a split occurred in the NSDAP. The future Fuhrer and his allies E. Rehm and G. Strasser revived the party, but not as a former regional, but as a national political power. In early 1933, German President Hindenburg appointed Hitler to the post of Reich Chancellor. From that moment on, the Prime Minister began to implement the program points of the NSDAP. By order of Hitler, his comrades Rehm, Strasser and many others were killed.
The Second World War
Until 1939, the million-strong German Wehrmacht split Czechoslovakia and annexed Austria and the Czech Republic. Having secured the consent of Joseph Stalin, Hitler launched a war against Poland, as well as England and France. Having achieved successful results at this stage, the Fuhrer entered the war with the USSR.
The defeat of the Soviet army initially led to Germany’s seizure of the territories of Ukraine, the Baltic states, Russia and other union republics. A regime of tyranny that had no equal was established on the annexed lands. However, from 1942 to 1945, the Soviet army liberated its territories from the German invaders, as a result of which the latter were forced to retreat to their borders.
Death of the Fuhrer
A common version of the following events is Hitler's suicide on April 30, 1945. But did it happen? And was the leader of Germany even in Berlin at that time? Realizing that the German troops would be defeated again, he could leave the country before the Soviet army captured it.
Until now, for historians and ordinary people, the mystery of the death of the dictator of Germany is interesting and mysterious: where, when and how Hitler died. Today there are many hypotheses about this.
Version one. Berlin
The capital of Germany, a bunker under the Reich Chancellery - it is here, as is commonly believed, that A. Hitler shot himself. He made the decision to commit suicide on the afternoon of April 30, 1945, in connection with the end of the assault on Berlin by the army of the Soviet Union.
People close to the dictator and his companion Eva Braun claimed that he himself shot himself in the mouth with a pistol. The woman, as it turned out a little later, poisoned herself and the shepherd dog with potassium cyanide. Witnesses also reported what time Hitler died: he fired the shot between 15:15 and 15:30.
Eyewitnesses of the picture made the only, in their opinion, correct decision - to burn the corpses. Since the area outside the bunker was continuously shelled, Hitler’s henchmen hastily carried the bodies to the surface of the earth, doused them with gasoline and set them on fire. The fire barely flared up and soon went out. The process was repeated a couple of times until the bodies were charred. Meanwhile, the artillery shelling intensified. Hitler's lackey and adjutant hastily covered the remains with earth and returned to the bunker.
On May 5, the Soviet military discovered the dead bodies of the dictator and his mistress. Their service personnel were hiding in the Reich Chancellery. The servants were captured for interrogation. Cooks, lackeys, security guards and others claimed that they saw someone being taken out of the dictator’s personal chambers, but Soviet intelligence never received clear answers to the question of how Adolf Hitler died.
A few days later, Soviet intelligence services established the location of the corpse and began an immediate examination, but it also did not give positive results, because the remains found were mostly badly burned. The only way of identification was the jaws, which were well preserved.
Intelligence found and interrogated Hitler's dental assistant, Ketti Goiserman. Based on specific dentures and fillings, Frau determined that the jaw belonged to the late Fuhrer. Even later, security officers found prosthetist Fritz Echtman, who confirmed the assistant’s words.
In November 1945, Arthur Axman was detained, one of the participants in the very meeting held on April 30 in the bunker, at which it was decided to burn the bodies of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun. His story coincided in detail with the testimony given by the servant a few days after such a significant event in the history of the end of World War II - the fall of the capital of Nazi Germany, Berlin.
The remains were then packed into boxes and buried near Berlin. Later they were dug up and buried again several times, changing their location. Later, the USSR government decided to cremate the bodies and scatter the ashes to the wind. The only thing that was left for the KGB archive was the jaw and part of the skull of the former Fuhrer of Germany, which was hit by a bullet.
The Nazi could have survived
The question of how Hitler died, in fact, still remains open. After all, could the witnesses (mostly allies and assistants of the dictator) give false information in order to lead the Soviet intelligence services astray? Certainly.
That’s exactly what Hitler’s dental assistant did. After Ketty Goizerman was released from Soviet camps, she immediately retracted her information. This is the first thing. Secondly, according to USSR intelligence officers, the jaw may not belong to the Fuhrer, since it was found separately from the corpse. One way or another, these facts give rise to attempts by historians and journalists to get to the bottom of the truth - where Adolf Hitler died.
Version two. South America, Argentina
There are a large number of hypotheses regarding the escape of the German dictator from besieged Berlin. One of them is the assumption that Hitler died in America, where he fled with Eva Braun on April 27, 1945. This theory was provided by British writers D. Williams and S. Dunstan. In the book “Gray Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler,” they suggested that in May 1945, Soviet intelligence services found the bodies of doubles of the Fuhrer and his mistress Eva Braun, and the real ones, in turn, left the bunker and went to the city of Mar del Plata, Argentina.
The overthrown German dictator, even there, cherished his dream of a new Reich, which, fortunately, was not destined to come true. Instead, Hitler, having married Eva Braun, found family happiness and two daughters. The writers also named in what year Hitler died. According to them, it was 1962, February 13th.
The story seems absolutely meaningless, but the authors urge you to remember 2009, in which they conducted research on the skull found in the bunker. Their results showed that the part of the head that had been shot belonged to a woman.
Important proof
The British consider the interview of Soviet Marshal G. Zhukov dated June 10, 1945, as another confirmation of their theory, where he reports that the corpse that was found by USSR intelligence in early May of the same year might not have belonged to the Fuhrer. That there is no evidence to say exactly how Hitler died.
The military leader also does not rule out the possibility that Hitler could have been in Berlin on April 30 and left the city at the last minute. He could choose any point on the map for subsequent residence, including South America. Thus, we can assume that Hitler died in Argentina, where he lived for the last 17 years.
Version three. South America, Brazil
There are suggestions that Hitler died at 95. This is reported in the book “Hitler in Brazil - His Life and Death” by writer Simoni Rene Gorreiro Diaz. In her opinion, in 1945, the overthrown Fuhrer managed to escape from besieged Berlin. He lived in Argentina, then in Paraguay, until he settled on Nossa Senhora do Livramento. This small town is located in the state of Mato Grosso. The journalist is sure that Adolf Hitler died in Brazil in 1984.
The ex-Führer chose this state because it is sparsely populated and Jesuit treasures are supposedly buried in its lands. Hitler's comrades from the Vatican informed him about the treasure and gave him a map of the area.
The refugee lived in complete secret. Changed his name to Ajolf Leipzig. Diaz is sure that he chose this surname not by chance, because his favorite composer V. R. Wagner was born in the city of the same name. His cohabitant was Cutinga, a black woman whom Hitler met upon his arrival in do Livramento. The author of the book published their photograph.
In addition, Simoni Diaz wants to compare the DNA of things that were provided to her by a relative of the Nazi dictator from Israel, and the remains of Azholf Leipzig's clothes. The journalist hopes for test results that may support the hypothesis that Hitler actually died in Brazil.
Most likely, these newspaper publications and books are just speculation that arises with each new historical fact. At least that's what I'd like to think. Even if this did not happen in 1945, it is unlikely that we will ever know in what year Hitler actually died. But we can be absolutely sure that death overtook him in the last century.
Stepushova Lyubov 05.11.2013 at 11:37
The version that Adolf Hitler ended his days not in a bunker, but somewhere in Argentina has been debated for a long time. One of the adherents of this version, the Argentine historian Abel Basti, organized his own research center in the city of Bariloche (where the Nazis found refuge). He is preparing to release a sensational book, “On the Trail of Adolf Hitler.”
This is a continuation of many years of research that Basti reflected in his books “Hitler in Argentina” (2006); "Hitler in Exile" (2010) and "Hitler's Secrets" (2011), writes the Argentine newspaper Los Andes Basti is trying to prove that the Fuhrer was taken to Argentina by submarine, landed in the small port of Necochea in the bay of Caleta de los Loros , (about 300 miles south of Buenos Aires), moved around the country and died in the early 60s in the city of Mendoza.
Unlike the Soviet version, which claims that the corpses of Hitler and Eva Braun were burned next to the Reich Chancellery, there are a number of alternative versions of the Fuhrer's death. They began to be actively discussed after in 2009 the Americans carried out DNA examinations of the skull and jaw of the “Moscow artifacts” and announced that the remains of not Hitler, but his sister, were kept in Russia.
Basti is based on the testimony of many former Nazis, including his meeting with the recently deceased Erich Priebke, also a resident of Bariloche. German intelligence agent Reinhard Kops, who lived under the pseudonym John Mahler, also died there. In itself, the fact that many Nazis fled to Latin America is not disputed by anyone, among them were the notorious Adolf Eichmann and Joseph Mengele. Thousands of them were received with open arms by the dictator of Argentina, General Juan Peron (1946-1952, 1952-1955). But the topic of the Nazi presence in general and in Bariloche in particular is still taboo in Latin America. "Bariloche was a paradise for the Nazis, but it is a taboo. And even now the Germans continue to remain silent. No one is going to tell the story of their parents or grandparents. No one wants to have Nazi roots in the family," says Basti.
The main sensation of the book, which should be published early next year, will be the publication of Hitler’s “manuscript” and his drawings, which Basti received through third parties from a certain Abdon Valenzuela. The latter discovered them in a closet in 1987, writes the Los Andes newspaper. In previous books, Basti presented many other documents that support his version, for example, a report from an American agent in Argentina - a gardener for wealthy German colonists - the Eichhorns. The agent reported that the couple living in the village of La Falda had been preparing the estate for Hitler's arrival since June. A letter from Nazi General Seydlitz, dated 1956, has also been preserved, in which he reports that he is going to attend a meeting in Argentina between Hitler and the Croatian “Führer” Pavelic.
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.
It is necessary to 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 survival of 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.
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.