Reopening the Hitler Conspiracy

On 29 April 1945 SS Gruppenführer Heinrich Müller, Head of the Gestapo, and Hermann Fegelein Himmler's iiaison with Hitler, married to Gretl, Eva Braun's sister, are taken up to the Chancellery's Gardens. The myth has it that they were both executed immediately, and with no trace of evidence or corpses left, in fact they both disappeared in thin air.

U.S. Army Intelligence records indicate that Heinrich Müller -- known as "Gestapo Müller" to distinguish him from another SS general named Heinrich Müller -- was captured by Americans in 1945, says historian George Chalou, who worked at the National Archives for 28 years.

But what happened after that "is the $64 question," he said.

According to sometimes contradictory Intelligence documents and media reports, over the years Müller was "sighted" in East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Cairo, Damascus, Moscow, Washington, D.C., and Portsmouth, N.H.

A German television network aired a program -- based in part on documents from the U.S. National Archives in Maryland -- claiming that Müller was captured by the U.S. Army, but released for unknown reasons.

The program speculated that Müller may have been employed by a U.S. Intelligence agency, but offered no substantiation for that assertion.

Müller played a key role in investigating a plot by a group of German army officers to kill Hitler in 1944 and remained loyal to Hitler until the end, according to Holocaust historians. Whether Müller lived past 29 April 1945, has been the subject of intense speculation for years. He was last seen in the Bunker on the evening of 29 April 1945, the day before Hitler's suicide. From that day onwards, no trace of him has ever been found. He is the most senior member of the Nazi regime whose fate remains a mystery.

In the last months of the war Müller remained at his post, apparently still confident of a German victory — he told one of his top counterespionage case officers in December 1944 that the Ardennes offensive [known in the U.S. as the Battle of the Bulge] would result in the recapture of Paris.

Not everyone was convinced of his sincerity. There were rumors among German Intelligence officers that Müller had himself been turned by the Soviets. Walter Schellenberg, chief of the RSHA's Foreign Intelligence Branch [Amt VI] and a bitter rival of Müller, was the source of some of this speculation. When interrogated by OSS in 1945, Schellenberg claimed that Müller had been in friendly radio contact with the Soviets, and Schellenberg's postwar memoirs contain verbatim exhortations from 1943 by Müller on Stalin's superiority to Hitler as a leader. Gestapo-men close to Müller considered such rumors unfounded and illogical. Müller's immediate superior Ernst Kaltenbrunner [Chief of the RSHA], later insisted under Allied interrogation that Müller could never have embraced the Soviets. Similarly, Heinz Pannwitz, Müller's Gestapo subordinate categorized the notion that Müller had turned as "absolutely absurd" in a 1959 CIA interrogation.

In April 1945 he was among the last group of Nazi loyalists assembled in the Führerbunker in central Berlin as the Red Army fought its way into the city. One of his last tasks was the sharp interrogation of Hermann Fegelein in the cellar of the Church of the Trinity. Fegelein was Himmler's liaison officer to Hitler and was shot after Hitler had Himmler expelled from his posts for negotiating with the western allies behind Hitler's back

Hans Baur, Hitler's pilot and an old friend of Müller's, recounts Müller as saying, "We know the Russian methods exactly. I haven't the faintest intention of … being taken prisoner by the Russians". Another witnee claimed that Müller refused to leave with the rest of Hitler's entourage, and was overheard saying "the regime has fallen and…I fall also". He was last seen in the company of his radio specialist Christian A. Scholz. No one witnessed the death of Müller or Scholz.

Possible explanations for his disappearance include:

• That he was killed or committed suicide, during the chaos of the fall of Berlin, and his body was not found.
• That he escaped from Berlin and made his way to a safe location, possibly in South America, where he lived the rest of his life undetected, and that his identity was not disclosed even after his death.
• That he was recruited and given a new identity by either the United States or the Soviet Union, and employed by one of them during the Cold War, and that this has never been disclosed.

There have been unconfirmed reports that he served as an "enforcer" for former Nazis living in South America and that he was kidnapped from Argentina in 1956 by Czech agents

In December 1999, the National Archives issued a one-paragraph news release stating that it was opening 135 pages of files on Müller, primarily covering the period from 1945 to 1963, but also including some earlier Nazi government documents.

The files contain tantalizing material, including many items that contradict one another. Despite the fact that the files were opened more than 50 years after the end of World War II, numerous portions have been redacted.

Among the materials the National Archives made public are the following:

• A December 1945 interview with a former Nazi stating that Müller escaped from Berlin through a secret underground passage that only he and Eichmann knew about.
• A July 1946 Army Counter-Intelligence Corps document saying "reports from the Russian zone of Berlin seem to indicate" that Müller shot and killed his wife and three children and then himself, two days before Hitler died.
• Index cards stating that Müller was in custody first in the town of Ilmenau and then in December 1945 in a "civilian internment" camp in Altenstadt in Upper Bavaria. The card does not state what happened to Müller at Altenstadt. It ends with the cryptic and provocative sentence, "case closed 29 Jan 46." It is unclear who placed the information on the card, which states that a Müller dossier was to be sent to Frankfurt.
• Another U.S. Army document dated 11 July 1946, states that British officials requested an investigation of Müller in the Würzburg area, saying that it was believed he was dead. But the document ends with: "results negative".
• A 1951 document, saying an informant had said Müller was in Czechoslovakia where he "is supposedly directing Intelligence activities for the Soviets against the U.S. zone of Germany."
• An August 1960 document saying Müller was believed to be corresponding with relatives.
• Numerous other documents from the 1950s and early 1960s indicating the belief that Müller was alive and that U.S. officials were interested in finding him.

There are no new reports after 1963.

The Central Intelligence Agency's file on Müller was released under the Freedom of Information Act in 2001, and documents several unsuccessful attempts by U.S. agencies to find Müller. The U.S. National Archives commentary on the file concludes: "Though inconclusive on Müller's ultimate fate, the file is very clear on one point. The Central Intelligence Agency and its predecessors did not know Müller's whereabouts at any point after the war. In other words, the CIA was never in contact with Müller."

The CIA file shows that an extensive search was made for Müller in the months after the German surrender. The search was led by the counterespionage branch of the U.S. Office of Strategic Services [forerunner of the CIA].

The seizure in 1960 and subsequent trial in Israel of Adolf Eichmann sparked new interest in Müller's whereabouts. Although Eichmann revealed no specific information, he told his Israeli interrogators that he believed that Müller was still alive. The West German office in charge of the prosecution of war criminals charged the police to investigate. The possibility that Müller was working for the Soviet Union was considered, but no definite information was gained. Müller's family and his former secretary were placed under surveillance in case he was corresponding with them.

The West Germans investigated several reports of Müller's body being found and buried in the days after the fall of Berlin. The reports were contradictory, not wholly reliable and it was not possible to confirm any of them. One such report came from Walter Lüders, a former member of the Volkssturm, who said that he had been part of a burial unit which had found the body of an SS general in the garden of the Reich Chancellery, with the identity papers of Heinrich Müller. The body had been buried in a mass grave at the old Jewish Cemetery on Grosse Hamburger Strasse in the Soviet Sector. Since this location was in East Berlin in 1961, this gravesite could not be investigated, nor has there been any attempt to excavate this gravesite since the reunification of Germany.

The CIA investigation concluded: "There is little room for doubt that the Soviet and Czechoslovak [Intelligence] services circulated rumors to the effect that Müller had escaped to the West ... to offset the charges that the Soviets had sheltered the criminal ...

There are strong indications but no proof that Müller collaborated with [the Soviets]. There are also strong indications but no proof that Müller died [in Berlin].

The CIA apparently remained convinced at that time that if Müller had survived the war, he was being harboured within the Soviet Union. But when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 and the Soviet archives were opened, no evidence to support this contention emerged.

The U.S. National Archives commentary concludes: "The CIA file, by itself, does not permit definitive conclusions. Taking into account the currently available records, the authors of this report conclude that Müller most likely died in Berlin in early May 1945".

In 2008, historian Peter Longerich published a biography of Heinrich Himmler, which appeared in English translation in 2012. Longerich asserts that Müller was with Himmler at Flensburg on 11 May, and accompanied Himmler and other SS officers in their unsuccessful attempt to escape capture by the Allies and reach Bavaria on foot. Longerich states that Himmler and Müller parted company at Meinstadt, after which Müller was not seen again.

Longerich provides no source for this claim, which contradicts previous accounts of Müller's disappearance. The source for Longerich's account appears to be the interrogation of one of Himmler's adjutants, Werner Grothmann, the transcript of which contains references to "Müller".

From January to April, 1945, Hermann Fegelein, and Martin Bormann controlled access to Hitler's office. After Himmler tried to negotiate a surrender to the western Allies via Count Bernadotte in April 1945 [Himmler falsely claimed leadership of the Reich in his failed attempt to negotiate a peace deal with Eisenhower], Fegelein, left the Reich Chancellery Bunker complex and was caught by SS-Obersturmbannführer Peter Högl in his Berlin apartment on 27 April, wearing civilian clothes and preparing to flee to Sweden or Switzerland with a mistress and forged passports. He was carrying cash—German and foreign—and jewellery, some of which belonged to Eva Braun. Högl also uncovered a briefcase containing documents with evidence of Himmler's attempted peace negotiations with the western Allies. According to most accounts he was also highly intoxicated when arrested and brought back to the Führerbunker.

At this point, historical accounts begin to differ radically. In "The Last Days of Hitler", historian Hugh Trevor-Roper remarked: "The real causes and circumstances of the execution of Fegelein provide one of the few subjects in this book upon which final certainty seems unattainable".

Journalist James O'Donnell discovered in his interviews numerous claims and theories as to what happened next to Fegelein, many of which disagreed with each other, and some of which seemed preposterous [i.e., a claim that Hitler himself gunned Fegelein down]. Many claimed he had been shot following a court-martial, and this theory predominated for many years.

General Wilhelm Mohnke, who presided over the court-martial, told O'Donnell the following:

"Hitler ordered me to set up a tribunal forthwith. I was to preside over it myself...I myself decided the accused man [Fegelein] deserved trial by high-ranking officers. The panel consisted of four general officers - Generals Burgdorf, Krebs, Rattenhuber, and me...We did, at that moment, have every intention of holding a trial.

"What really happened was that we set up the court-martial in a room next to my command post...We military judges took our seats at the table with the standard German Army Manual of Courts-Martial before us. No sooner were we seated than defendant Fegelein began acting up in such an outrageous manner that the trial could not even commence.

"Roaring drunk, with wild, rolling eyes, Fegelein first brazenly challenged the competence of the court. He kept blubbering that he was responsible to Himmler and Himmler alone, not Hitler...He refused to defend himself. The man was in wretched shape - bawling, whining, vomiting, shaking like an aspen leaf. He took out his penis and began urinating on the floor...

"I was now faced with an impossible situation. On the one hand, based on all available evidence, including his own earlier statements, this miserable excuse for an officer was guilty of flagrant desertion...Yet the German Army Manual states clearly that no German soldier can be tried unless he is clearly of sound mind and body, in a condition to hear the evidence against him. I looked up the passage again, to make sure, and consulted with my fellow judges...In my opinion and that of my fellow officers, Hermann Fegelein was in no condition to stand trial, or for that matter to even stand. I closed the proceedings...So I turned Fegelein over to [SS] General Rattenhuber and his security squad. I never saw the man again".

-- O'Donnell, "The Bunker", 1978.

Fegelein's wife was heavily pregnant when he was arrested (the baby was born in early May) and Hitler considered releasing him without punishment or assigning him to Mohnke's troops. Hitler's secretary, Traudl Junge—an eye-witness to Bunker events—stated that Braun pleaded with Hitler to spare her brother-in-law and tried to justify Fegelein's behaviour. However, he was taken to the garden of the Reich Chancellery on 28 April, and was "shot like a dog". Rochus Misch, who was the last surviving individual from the Führerbunker, disputed aspects of this account in a 2007 interview with "Der Spiegel". According to Misch, Hitler did not order Fegelein's execution, only his demotion. Misch claimed to know the identity of Fegelein's killer, but refused to reveal his name.

Many other people in the Bunker argued that Mohnke was lying, that he had in fact had Fegelein killed, and only made the above statement to try and explicate himself from any guilt. However, as O'Donnell noted, nobody actually saw Fegelein's execution [or, if they did, they weren't talking]. Nonetheless, O'Donnell and many historians, with the evidence at hand, agreed with Mohnke, and have concluded that Fegelein was doomed because of a combination of Himmler's betrayal and suspicions that his mistress was a spy. Fegelein, then, was killed without a proper trial on Hitler's orders, probably hanged by members of the SS in a nearby cellar. Furthermore, O'Donnell noted that Hitler held off on his marriage to Eva Braun until after he was satisfied Fegelein was dead - a means of ensuring that he would not have a "traitor" as a brother-in-law.

Hans Fegelein, Hermann's father stated several times after the war that he received packages containing Bundesmarks with notes stating that Hermann was alive and otherwise fine, but had to remain underground. However, the money could have been sent to his father by Fegelein's long time comrade, Albert Faßbender who resumed his lucrative business with his step-father after the war as a chocolatier. The alternative is that Fegelein did in fact, survive the Bunker. In order for this to have happened, he would have made a deal with Gestapo chief Müller. Müller and Fegelein also would have had to convince Johann [Hans] Rattenhuber, who Hitler sent to confirm the death of Fegelein, that he was in fact dead so the Hitler nuptials could take place without the possibility of Fegelein becoming a relative of Hitler by marriage. Fooling Rattenhuber by dressing up a battle death corpse in Fegelein's uniform was possible as there were so many corpses around the general area from the make-shift hospital on the upper floors of the Chancellory.

Next is the possibility that Fegelein was hanged in the Gestapo cellar as theorized by James P O'Donnell. In that case, his corpse would have remained in the Gestapo cellar until the Red Army investigated it in May, 1945. If he was hanged, his tunic would have been removed as was the custom, so there would be nothing distinguishing him as Fegelein. Möhnke states that in the abortive courts martial hearing, Fegelein tore off his collar and/or shoulder pieces from his tunic anyway.

Finally, there is the possibility that as reported by Hanna Reitsch, Fegelein was shot in the Ehrenhof. His body would have been hastily buried and removed to a mass grave later. A Soviet Newsreel identifed some of the corpses that they recovered, but Fegelein was not among them. A red army enlisted man claimed to have buried him in a makeshift grave around the Chancellery. After Berlin capitulated, there were a lot of bodies in the area of the chancellery. Some were stored in a damaged water tower that fell to the ground, some were left as they fell, and a number of suicides if not murders were left in the lower Bunker. If James O'Donnell's account is correct and Fegelein was killed in the Gestapo cellar and not the Ehrenhof as in Hanna Reich's statement, there would have been no great hurry to recover his body. Most accounts of Fegelein's execution also state that at some point before he was killed his medals and/or other insignia was removed from his tunic, possibly by Fegelein, and it is doubtful that anyone from the initial Red Army internment squads would have recognized the significance of a Florian Geyer cuff tab, had Fegelein been wearing a tunic at all when killed.

Something similar may have happened to Gestapo Chief Heinrich Müller.

Erich Kempka claimed that on 27 April 1945 Hermann Fegelein contacted him with a strange request:

"Hermann Fegelein, phoned me to ask if I would put at his disposal two vehicles for a reconnaissance. Moreover he would be grateful if I would do him a personal favour. He wanted me to take care of a briefcase with important files belonging to the Reichsfuhrer-SS and himself. He would hand it to me personally towards ten that evening in the Führerbunker. It was essential to keep it safe and in the event that the enemy entered the Bunker, the briefcase was to be hidden where it could never be found, or should be destroyed. Under no circumstances must it fall into enemy hands. As I had been on familiar terms with Fegelein for years and he enjoyed Hitler's fullest confidence as Eva Braun's brother-in-law, I had no hesitation in agreeing to his request. I had really no idea at that moment that my willingness to be of assistance to him was putting my own life in danger. A short while afterwards Fegelein left the Reich Chancellery with two vehicles I had had repaired. They were the last survivors to remain serviceable from my once great vehicle fleet. To my great surprise the two automobiles were returned thirty minutes later, although without Fegelein. The drivers told me that he had got out in the Kurfürstendamm district to proceed on foot."

When it was discovered that Hermann Fegelein had gone missing the Gestapo was sent out to find him. Heinz Linge recalled that "Fegelein's adjutant reported back to the Bunker, he stated that Fegelein had gone to his private flat and dressed in civilian clothing. The adjutant had been ordered to do the same." He told Hitler that the purpose of this being "to allow the Russians to roll over us and then we will make our way through to Himmler". Hitler came to the conclusion that Fegelein was involved in some sort conspiracy against him.

On 27 April 1945, Fegelein was arrested with his mistress in his apartment. SS-Obersturmbannführer Peter Högl discovered him with a great deal of money and discovered that he was just about to leave the country. Högl also found a briefcase containing documents with evidence of an attempted peace negotiation with the Allies. The following day the negotiations that were taking place between Himmler and Count Folke Bernadotte were leaked to the press. Hanna Reitsch was with Hitler when he heard the news: "His colour rose to a heated red and his face was unrecognizable... After the lengthy outburst, Hitler sank into a stupor, and for a time the entire Bunker was silent".

According to Heinz Linge: "Fegelein was returned under armed guard he made a poor impression: wearing gloves, a leather coat and a sporty hat he looked like a Kurfürstendamm dandy. On Hitler's order he was arraigned immediately before a court-martial and sentenced to death for treason. Eva Braun, though clearly fighting an internal struggle, would not enter a plea for mercy for her brother-in-law even though Hitler indicated that he would commute the sentence on the highly decorated SS-0bergruppenführer to 'atonement at the front'. Towards midnight an SS squad awaited Fegelein in the Reich Chancellery Ehrenhof. He remained impassive as the sentence of the court martial was read out".

According to the known story Hitler, together with his wife, would commit suicide at 3:30 p.m. on 30 April. The direct witnesses being, one way or the other, Erich Kempka, Otto Günsche and Heinz Linge and some members of the Leibstandarte who saw some bulks being taken out through the emergency exit of the Führerbunker into the garden and afterwards a bonfire.

The great avenue, the East-West axis which cut the Tiergarten in two, from the Brandenburg Gate to the Victory Column, with its 900m of length constituted a great landing strip. In March 1945, by Hitler's express order, the lights were taken out to allow big planes, like the Ju52 with its 19m wingspan, to land there. It was almost intact and the pictures of that time show that the nearby trees only had their branches damaged by shrapnel.The planes, generally, arrived from the Brandenburg Gate and took off from the Victory Column.

On the last day of April the battle for the Reichstag had virtually ended in the Königsplatz and the nearby avenue was less dangerous, a landing and a take-off was then possible. The probabilities of success during the afternoon were high, but during the night, between the 30th and the 1st, they were excellent.

On 30 April 1945, at 4:15 p.m., a Ju52 landed at Berlin Downtown, two of that plane's crew saw Adolf Hitler in front of a turbojet plane, probably an Arado 234 B, or Type C, a great tactical bomber of two/four jets.

Unlike the other German jet planes of that time, it could land on difficult landing strips or on natural fields due to its oversized landing gear.,

Its take-off was also very short if it carried no bombs, which according to the standard version was around 500 kg to 1000 kg. It had a big pilot cabin and a comfortable space behind the cargo compartment.

A perfect plane to escape in from an extreme situation, this tactical bomber both B and C

model had an autonomy of 1650/1400 km and flew at 10,000/11,000 Mts. which made it invulnerable together with its cruising speed of 700/800 km/h, these features were superior to the ones the Allied planes of that time had and similar to the ones of modern executive jets.

The new Chancellery made by the architect Speer is part of the myth surrounding Hitler's suicide.

The Chancellery's blueprint shows a 220m long building, which extended its front throughout the totality of the Voss Strasse and had Italian style gardens under which the Führerbunker was located.

The structural integrity of the architectonic set is evidenced by a picture taken during an Allied strike in April 1945 and another airshot taken days after Berlin's defeat. Indeed, it is not destroyed, though it is clear that only one 500 kg bomb hit near the secondary entrance of the Voss Strasse without doing any damage to the inside of the construction.

There was wall damage in the central hall, more than one hundred meters long, and in Hitler's study, where the Bohemian chandeliers were still intact.

The area that covers the Führerbunker was photographed from the roof of the Honor Court in June 1945, and it is of great importance, the amount of construction material and scaffolds present at the field which covers the area, specially near the emergency exit cube, where an L-shaped pit was found, destined to build the foundations of a protective wall.

War correspondents in 1945 are shown the grave where Adolf Hitler's charred body is alleged to have been buried, behind the Chancellery in Berlin

As late as May 1945 the hand removed gravel piled a few feet away from the Bunker's exit was still evident.

The piled gravel could still be seen two months later, in July 1945, and there had been very little crumbling in the pit, not deeper than 3 feet. Four 20 lt. cans of oil were still on the premises, abandoned by the Soviets as trophies, and a concrete mixer at the corner of the pit.

The Diplomat's Hall, behind the emergency exit door and the nearby looking outpost to the left of it showed very little shrapnel damage in their plastering.

The lamps and blinds were left untouched, so was the smooth surface of the concrete cube of the emergency exit. The disorder of the interrupted work is evidenced by the pictures taken in May and July 1945.

As a consequence of the area not being declared off-limit for the Allied Forces many visits were made by militaries, politicians and journalists. Everybody visited the miserable 3m by 4m L-shaped pit, measured by a white tape exiting the emergency door that was put when Churchill visited the site on 16 July 1945, site and sat on Hitler's sofa that had been brought from the Führerbunker.

To everyone's eyes it was a simple ditch that showed no trace of a bonfire, let alone of a bomb cone as it has always been told. There were no impact holes or other characteristics to justify that myth or the one of the Wagnerian bonfire where Hitler was supposedly burned to ashes.

It is true indeed that the Soviets wanted to show off with the Allies that visited the Soviet sector, they showed pictures of them around a body, in a trophy like manner. They also published a close-up of what they claimed was Hitler's lifeless body in "Pravda", the Official Bulletin of the Party, that was actually nothing more than a grossly tricked picture of a man twenty years younger than Hitler that but for the little mustaches bore no resemblance with him.

One servant from the Bunker declared that the dead man was one of Hitler's cooks. He also believed this man "had been assassinated because of his startling likeness to Hitler, while the latter had escaped from the ruins of Berlin". ["The New York Times", 9 May 1945]

His picture, however, kept appearing in history books illustrating Hitler's last days for at least fifty years afterwards.

The body is not that of Adolf Hitler, but rather of a Hitler double, he has a bullet hole in the center of his forehead, rather than the right temple as we are led to believe from numerous re-enactments seen in documentaries and moves when Hitler "shot himself." The body is unburned, which is at complete odds with the account of high ranking German aides burning the bodies of both Hitler and Eva Braun in a shallow grave in the Chancellery garden using gasoline.

No one WITNESSED the supposed drug suicide by "Eva Braun" or the supposed shooting-suicide of Hitler. They were in a soundproof room, yet a few witnesses claimed that they heard a shot, while others who were present in the corridor right outside the door say that they heard nothing.

The body of Eva Braun was never found in the Chancellery garden by the Russians, unlike the Hitler double who was dug up, unburned, from a shallow grave.

Russian photo of "Hitler's Corpse"
2 May 1945
[note bullet hole in forehead)]

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German historians like Anton Joachimsthaler looked at thousands of pages of data made public after inquiries into Hitler’s death.Joachimsthaler wrote:

"On 25 May 1952 the former US Chief of Intelligence, who had allegedly conducted an official investigation into Hitler’s disappearance, stated that he found no proof, only rumors of Hitler’s death".Colonel William F. Heimlich was an infantry officer in Europe during World War II, participating in the Battle of the Bulge, and was in the company of the first U.S. troops to go into Berlin. William Heimlich served as assistant chief of staff for U.S. intelligence in Berlin.

"The investigation of the stains on the couch, where Hitler allegedly killed himself according to the reports, showed that the stains were human blood, but not of the blood groups of either Hitler or Eva Braun.

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How and why such an extremely important forensic investigation could have been conducted in the 20th century, without extensive photographic evidence, remains one of the great mysteries of modern history.

When the bodies of Josef and Magda Göbbels were found, they were put on display and photographed from every angle, even on the autopsy table.

Rumors started to circulate about a double for Hitler. He was supposed to be a total look-alike, and he was trained to "be" Hitler and was supposedly going to die a martyr’s death on the battlefield so that Hitler could be glorified without dying".

- "New York Times" 19 April 1945.

The erratic rumors about Hitler's doubles were soon to be accepted by many as facts.

According to one report: "The doubles were given voice and movement instruction, and they mastered Hitler's soft conversational voice and distinctive walk. Their faces and dental work were altered, and even their spines were broken in the same place where Hitler had been injured in the First World War. German efficiency left nothing to chance".

"But the one thing that none of these Doppelgängers could ever hope to duplicate, was Hitler's hypnotic, charismatic public speaking style. His ability to sway a crowd had never been matched or equaled. The doubles would be good for public appearances, parties, or maybe meetings or briefings where Hitler was not expected to have that much interaction with his underlings".

According to a recent Russian story:

"Göbbels had engaged six doubles to impersonate Hitler for purposes of security and public appearances. After the capitulation of the Third Reich, Hitler had to die for the sake of vindication. There could be no doubt of his death".

Despite the Intelligence reports, many Western historians continued to maintain that Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his Berlin underground Bunker on 30 April 1945. Ironically, it was not the evidence provided by Russia that convinced them, but the testimony of the obsessively devoted Nazis who were also present in the Chancellery Bunker when Hitler allegedly killed himself. Here is where their futile pretence became a matter of imprudence: For they were primarily the very same historians who insisted that the body shown in the annoying Russian photos was a Doppelgänger killed by those Nazis in the Berlin Bunker who wanted to thwart Allied investigators. We were therefore expected to believe that after committing the outright murder of a double for the purpose of obstructing justice, our Nazi Bunker guests were nonetheless quite frank and honest in their eye-witness accounts of what really became of Adolf Hitler.

In 1943, the body of a Royal Marines captain washed ashore on the coast of Spain. A briefcase handcuffed to his wrist contained the Allied invasion plans for Europe. The Germans believed what they found. But little did they know that the body was really that of Glyndwr Michael, a homeless alcoholic Welsh suicide who had been packed in dry ice and dropped from a submarine as part of one of the most detailed hoaxes of the war.

"After three months on ice in Hackney Morgue, his body was shipped off to the coast of southern Spain for an elaborate plot to fool the Nazis. Intelligence officers Charles Cholmondeley and Ewen Montagu had painstakingly transformed the corpse into a soldier –– the fictitious Major William Martin –– for whom they had spent months creating a plausible backstory".

-- Megan Lane, 'Operation Mincemeat: How a dead tramp fooled Hitler', "BBC News Magazine", 3 December 2010

A factual account of the fictional officer was turned into a Hollywood film, “The Man Who Never Was,” in the 1950s, after Montagu wrote a book about the stratagem. The war hoax also became the subject of a 1998 BBC documentary called “The Corpse that Fooled the Axis.” Based on the discovery of the captain’s body, the Germans mistakenly concluded that the Allies planned to attack Greece, rather than Sicily. They misguidedly moved an entire Panzer division – 90,000 soldiers – to Greece. The fake soldier marked a major turning point in the war and signaled the final demise of Axis power and control over Fortress Europe.

Since the Allied forces used a dead body to dupe and trounce Germany, it may have been a tit for tat retaliation, to repay in kind, for a Gestapo team to do just the same thing with the real Adolf Hitler’s corpse.

The cadaver of the look-alike cook lying on scattered debris in the Berlin ruins was an illusory focal point. Of course, the Führer’s well-known portrait would also be placed noticeably among the rubble, as a deceptive "clincher" for Russians to discover.

Some historians were convinced that the Berlin decoy chef’s corpse was "spruced up" by photo stylists and craftily laid down among the Chancellery ruins.

Anton Joachimsthaler ["The Last Days of Hitler: The Legends, the Evidence, the Truth," 1996] wrote:

"One wonders just who it was who made that poor unfortunate up to look like Hitler, laid him out in the Chancellery, surrounded him with finger-pointing Russian soldiers and allowed him to be filmed and photographed".

Ironically, Dick White, the Intelligence officer who allegedly persuaded Trevor-Roper to examine Hitler’s death, had a prominent look-alike as well. The head of the British Secret Intelligence Service during the 1950s and 60s resembled the famed actor David Niven, as described by ex-agent Peter Wright [“Spycatcher,” 1985]. David Niven was a Colonel in the Army Kinematograph Section in 1944, when he purportedly helped put together a “Doppelgänger mission” to impersonate British General Bernard Montgomery.

There was not much accord to the aforesaid official suicide story. Yet there were possible strategic witnesses to a different version, which Trevor-Roper and various British Intelligence envoys wanted to write off. For instance, author Gregory Douglas, reporting in “The Military Advisor” in the 1990s, made known that the former Chief of the Gestapo, Heinrich Müller, had apparently passed through to Switzerland and later worked for the CIA. Müller evidently knew that a “Hitler double” was put to death in the Berlin Bunker, and he allegedly stated:

"I strongly assume that Otto Günsche had his doubts, in other words that he suspected that he was not dealing with the real Hitler in the final days".

New Book Claims Hitler Fled to South America

by Bob Flanagan
1 July 2014

Moscow| A new book by Russian author Dimitri Boryslev claims Adolf Hitler did not commit suicide in his Berlin Bunker, but instead fled in a submarine with many high ranking Nazi officials to different parts of South America.

The news comes at a crucial time, as recently declassified FBI files in 2014 claimed J. Edgar Hoover had information concerning leads about Hitler's possible escape to Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.

Dimitri Boryslev, who was an operative for the KGB under Nikita Khrushchev and later governments, claims it was a well known fact in Russian Intelligentsia that Hitler's body had never been found and was even taught in Russian schools until the 70's. "Until his death in 1953, Stalin always believed that Hitler had escaped. In 1945, Stalin told the Allies this same information but was met with great skepticism. Since then, Stalin never trusted the West again. He believed the West had made a secret pact with Hitler, who would have given them information on weapon technology and stolen treasure locations," explains the 93 year old man.

The proclaimed skull of Hitler was tested in 2006 by an independent forensic pathologist and declared to possibly be the remains of Hermann Lündeft, a well known Hitler look alike. Analysis of the teeth of the skull revealed discrepancies of age but also did not show traces of syphilis, a disease Hitler contracted in his youth, possibly from a prostitute in 1908 Vienna, but those sources are questionable. People suffering from syphilis have teeth that are smaller and more widely spaced than normal and which have notches on their biting surfaces, a trait easily recognizable to experts. Adolf Hitler received treatment for syphilis before and during World War II.

Another fascinating claim advanced by the author is that Otto Günshe, who was a Sturmbannführer in the Waffen-SS and later became Hitler's personal assistant and was eventually given orders by Hitler to burn his body after he had died, revealed in his diary several days before his death that he was ready to tell the world the truth about Hitler never committing suicide. He was found dead days later, having sweat to his death in his sauna where his house-keeper found him at temperatures over 80 degrees celsius. A death the author claims, is very suspicious.

"This crucial eye witness of Hitler's last moments suddenly dies after he writes in his diary that he his going to spill his guts about the whole affair. It is possible there are still people or governments that are not interested in these facts being revealed to the world. How would the U.S.A. look if people learned they let Hitler live in exchange of war secrets and stolen treasure, possibly worth billions in today's money?" he concludes.

The comedown of Trevor-Roper’s influence began in 1983, when as a director of "Times Newspapers" he endorsed the so-called “Hitler Diaries.”

"Stern" magazine claimed to have received the Führer’s diaries smuggled out from East Germany. The diaries were alleged to be part of a shipment of documents recovered from an aircraft crash near Dresden in April 1945.

Hugh Trevor-Roper inspected the dictator’s diaries and declared:

“I am now satisfied that the documents are authentic.”.

But within a few weeks, the West German Bundesarchiv revealed that forensic scientist Julius Grant had demonstrated beyond a doubt that the Hitler diaries were fakes –– made on modern paper using modern ink and crammed with chronological errors.

The Hitler diaries humiliation was portrayed in the 1991 British comedy TV miniseries "Selling Hitler". The news media around the world laid blame on what seemed to be the most expensive fraud in the annals of publishing. Some critics straightforwardly inferred that Trevor-Roper’s crowd was trying to fabricate modern history.

A considered review acknowledged: "Trevor-Roper’s initial endorsement of the alleged diaries raised questions in the public mind not only about his wisdom as a historian but also about his integrity, because "The Sunday Times", a newspaper to which he regularly contributed book reviews and of which he was an independent director, had already paid a considerable sum for the right to serialize the diaries."

At length, the hottest vexation to Trevor-Roper’s better judgment transpired in 2009. Researchers from the University of Connecticut released the results of a DNA test on “Hitler’s skull” that they said proved it did not belong to the Nazi leader. “The remains were that of a female aged between 20 and 40 years old,” according to DNA analysis.

In 1968, Soviet journalist Lev Bezymenski wrote that Hitler’s skull had been destroyed beforehand. When a fragment of Adolf Hitler’s skull went on display at Russia’s Federal Archives Service in 2000, an official at Russia’s Forensic Medicine Institute archives department stated with reservation that he had “not seen documents providing evidence that this is the skull of Hitler.” As presently avowed by Connecticut archaeologist and bone specialist Nick Bellantoni, the skull bone with a bullet hole shown in Russia came from an unknown woman, not the German leader.

The Trevor-Roper household version no longer presents much credible proof. It cannot establish a single certainty to the Berlin Bunker suicide. Former Soviet agents later said Hitler’s remains, buried in Magdeburg, except parts of his skull and jaw, were burnt in 1970 and thrown into the Biederitz River, in what was then East Germany. The orders to destroy the remains of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun came from Yury Andropov, at that time head of Russia’s KGB security agency.

Jim Williams is the given name of the British lawyer, commercial consultant and writer, who has also written under the pen names Richard Hugo [not to be confused with an American author of the same name] and Alexander Mollin.

His work as an author falls under four categories:

- Crime stories as Jim Williams
- Non-fiction as Jim Williams
- A single historical romance as Alexander Mollin
- Thrillers as Richard Hugo

Williams came to public attention when his first novel, "The Hitler Diaries", was published nine months before the famous Hitler Diaries forgery scandal, and he seemed again prophetic when "Farewell to Russia", a novel about a nuclear accident in the USSR, was completed four months before the Chernobyl Disaster.

"Lara's Child" was the subject of an international literary scandal in 1994 because its subject was a sequel to "Doctor Zhivago".

"Scherzo" was nominated for the Booker Prize. Frances Fyfield called it "Sparkling and utterly charming". "How to be a Charlatan" is winner of the IAC Prize and was commended by Nick Webb [author of "A Dictionary of Bullshit"] as "Appalling and immoral. How wonderful!"

Jim Williams' books have received positive reviews in "The Times Literary Supplement", "The Guardian" and "The Evening Standard".

Jim Williams has been translated into six languages.

Hitler's Bunker was another myth. It was depicted as a refuge but it was actually a system of several interconnected shelters. The Führerbunker, only Hitler himself and his closest men had access to it, and the Vorbunker, which had the services and accessories for the Führerbunker [a map was never published in benefit of the official story] thus being a huge shelter of covered and usable 500 sq. m.

Zugang

Entrance

Beobachtungsturm

Observation Tower

Lagerraum

Storage Room

Hitlers Schlafraum

Hitler's Bedroom

Vorzimmer

Antechamber

Hitlers Arbeits- und Wohnraum

Hitler's Work- and Living-Room

Eva Brauns Schlafraum

Eva Braun's Bedroom

Kleiderablage

Garderobe

Bad und Toilette

Bathroom and Toilet

Aufenthaltsraum RSD

Lounge RSD

Gasschleuse und RSD

Gas Lock and RSD

Ausgang

Exit

Arztraum

Doctor] Room

Schlafraum Göbbels

Bedroom Göbbels

A LIFE photographer took this picture [above right] inside Hitler's underground Berlin Bunker in July 1945. It had the kind of door that Deborah Lipstadt, Prof. Robert Jan van Pelt and Mr Justice Gray all agreed was conclusive evidence of a gas chamber. Hitler should have been told....

-- David Irving

In order to increase the mystery, its hard access was also mythified with the excuse that the Soviets prohibited the access, but the pictures show that both Hitler's and Eva Braun's bedrooms and the study-room had been entered by not only Soviet but also by American researchers, identifiable by their uniforms and weaponry.

Allied Journalists were also shown the interior of the Führerbunker and entered it through the 44 step stair which the Hitler couple had used on 30 April 1945 for the last time.

It is also true that the rooms of the Führerbunker were full of hundreds of items, furniture and even a huge safe box that had been in his private room, all of which are still missing.

In July 1945 Bill Vandivert, reporter for "Life" Magazine, took a picture of the American CIC researchers who, with nothing besides a candle, were examining the living room, Hitler's suicide site, where a blood stain in the armrest of the sofa constituted the evidence of the myth, [American researchers exclusively took into account the sofa's bloodstains, overlooking the similar stains that could be seen on Eva Braun's bed, even when by its shape and size it had probably been left by one of the hundred wounded that were found by the Soviets at the time of occupying the Bunker].

Percy Knauth also of "Life" Magazine reported that:

"Against one wall stood a sofa with a light wooden frame and thick brocade cushions. This was where Hitler and Eva Braun - his bride of 48 hours after she had been mistress for sixteen years - had shot themselves if the story told by Hitler's driver Ernst Kempka is true. We held our lights close to the sofa. There were blood stains on the light-coloured armrest of the sofa. Blood had dripped down and collected in small coagulated stripes in the corner. Blood was also to be seen on the outer side of the sofa on the brocade cloth".

Even that sofa disappeared together with every historical evidence that could be found on the site, from Hitler's "Brockhaus Encyclopedia" piled up in his room to Eva's clothing, scattered on the bed.

Historians always speak about a Chancellery hit by many bombs, but the pictures of the gardens and of the park of ancient oaks surrounding the Führerbunker area show exactly the opposite. All the trees surrounding the Führerbunker's exit are still standing with their branches intact, and there is no evidence of air-bomb hits nor of mortar craters. The Italian gardens also remained intact, those trees made it impossible for the SS Harry Mengershausen who testified that near Hitler's study, from a Chancellery's window, he could see Hitler's and Hitler's wife's body being burned, to have witnessed the Viking funeral. The supposed bonfire could not have been seen from the Chancellery's windows facing the exit because of the trees and the distance.

The photographic evidence presented two decades afterwards, also like identificating evidence, show just a jaw fragment with a golden prosthesis on top of it, the jaw bone has holes and the ceramic part of the golden bridge is missing. The X-Rays used for comparison taken of Hitler's head in 1944 are of very low quality and have no forensic value.

During the first days of May 1945, a picture of a carbonized cadaver was taken, burned to such an extent that the members broke apart when moved, the only intact thing that appeared on the picture was the penis and the scrotum of one testicle, hence another myth.

Soviet doctor Lev Bezymenski, allegedly involved in the Soviet autopsy, stated in a 1967 book that Hitler's left testicle was missing. Bezymenski later admitted it was falsified. Hitler was routinely examined by many doctors throughout his childhood, military service and later political career, and no clinical mention of any such condition has ever been discovered. Records do show he was wounded in 1916 during the Battle of the Somme, and some sources describe his injury as a wound to the groin. Hitler's World War I company commander said a VD exam found that Hitler had only one testicle, but this individual was known to be politically critical of Hitler, and no documentation of the exam seems to exist.

The only clear and attributable picture made public by the Soviet authorities during the autopsies made in the first half of May 1945, was Helga Göbbels, twelve years of age. Another one was her father's carbonized cadaver, Josef Göbbels who is still wearing a white cotton shirt and a black tie.

The phone rings and suddenly a man who introduces himself as the valet adjutant calmly informs you that the head of your government is dead. But the courteous butler asks you to trust him on this, because there's nothing to prove his claim, other than disfigured parts of a charred corpse with one testicle, and some gasoline rags, rammed into the ground-soil of the Berlin Chancellery garden with a clumsy wooden club.

Being a responsible civil servant, you wonder why it was necessary to dismiss your leader's body in such a macabre way. No funeral or burial rites?

Diplomatic Corpus strictly forbids the morbid abuse of the deceased body of a head of state.

"I did it with the bodyguard," the butler's voice politely cuts you off, "to prevent the enemy from desecrating his body."

While the reason for destroying essential evidence may seem dubious, if not bogus, you must now make a critical choice: Either insist on more proof, including photographs, or simply trust a valet adjutant and affix your signature to a formal agreement for the transfer of world power...

Strikingly, no films or photographs exist that would corroborate any aspect of the official narrative of the Third Reich's last days, least of all the claim that Hitler committed suicide.

While the reason for destroying essential evidence may seem dubious, if not bogus, you must now make a critical choice:

Either insist on more proof, including photographs, or simply trust a valet adjutant and affix your signature to a formal agreement for the transfer of world power...

The only witness to identify "Hitler's body" was a Russian diplomat who had previously met the Führer once.

No German witnesses ever saw and identified the body supposed to be Adolf Hitler but it certainly wasn't because of a shortage of potential witnesses. Zukhov had twenty Germans identify Minister for Propaganda Josef Göbbels!

When the bodies of Josef and Magda Göbbels were found, they were put on display and photographed from every angle, even on the autopsy table.

Only ONE photograph was taken of "Hitler's corpse" - it is a picture of a crate with something unidentifiable in it, and the shot was taken from a distance.

Did no one take a decent photograph of the corpse when it was discovered or during the autopsy?

The Soviets were not really convinced that they had Hitler's body.

They claimed to have part of the skull with some of the dentition and a mandible and the dental records and a "match", but never once did they ever produced the "evidence" or confront their German prisoners with it. T

his leads one to suspect that they were not really happy they had the real body. Kempka stated that the last he saw of Hitler's body was a "black substance".

One finds it difficult to imagine that had the skull survived the burning process, those thorough Germans would have left identifiable parts of the skull attached to this black substance when it would have been a simple matter to decapitate the body.

The skull , that has now been proven to be that of a woman between 20 and 40 years old, has been dismissed as evidence on previous occasions, as the bullet hole is not nearly large enough to be the exit hole of a round fired from a Walther PPK at close range.

And the fire damage is not nearly extensive enough - Hitler's body was almost completely burned, and any piece of skull or bone that survived would have been far more burnt than the Moscow fragment.

But if the fragment is not from Hitler, then who did it belong to? One theory is that it came from Eva Braun, but as she did not die from a gunshot wound, the fragment cannot be hers.

The truth is, many thousands were killed in Berlin in 1945, and the fragment could have belonged to any one of them.

Linge in "Bis zum Untergang" assisted by historian Werner Maser stated that although he carried out the head end of Hitler's body, he never looked at the head or face nor ever saw the bullet wound even though the blanket reached only to the root of Hitler's nose.

But if the fragment is not from Hitler, then who did it belong to? One theory is that it came from Eva Braun, but as she did not die from a gunshot wound, the fragment cannot be hers. The truth is, many thousands were killed in Berlin in 1945, and the fragment could have belonged to any one of them.

Linge in his book "Bis zum Untergang" assisted by historian Werner Maser stated that although he carried out the head end of Hitler's body, he never looked at the head or face nor ever saw the bullet wound even though the blanket reached only to the root of Hitler's nose.

There are only a couple of points of agreement between the entire accounts of Günsche, Linge and Kempka.

The following is from the school of thought that seeks to debunk the claims of Hitler's escape to Argentina. Although they attempt to go to great efforts to debunk the theories, actually what they present as evidence would not hold up in a modern court of law as evidence. The witnesses they claim prove Hitler's death in the Bunker are actually people with a complete motive to cover-up Hitler's escape.

“Hitler heroically had before the start of the Second World War connected his personal fate with the outcome this war [1]. Not only in words, but also in deeds: He committed suicide on 30 April 1945, when the war was irrevocably lost. His suicide is also stated by authentic witnesses, who also lived in the Führerbunker, and it can therefore be considered as a fact of history.

Despite this, rumours and theories that Hitler survived the war are widespread and popular. And there are many theories about what happened with Adolf Hitler after the fall of Berlin. These are all hoaxes; not based on the facts. Some of such rumours and theories say that Hitler escaped to continue the National Socialist struggle from a different country.

A particular popular version is the theory that Adolf Hitler would have escaped during the fall of Berlin in 1945 and gone to Argentina.

[…]

The Soviets weren’t helpful on the matter of the German leader’s death.

“The Soviets continued to be difficult. They refused to allow Westerners into Berlin even after the surrender of Dönitz' government and the last armies in the field on May 7-9. On May 10, they announced the existence of the burned bodies in the Chancellory courtyard, but only allowed that one might be Hitler. The same report went on to say that his body might never be found.

“On June 6, a spokesman for the Soviet army in Berlin announced unequivocally that Hitler had committed suicide and that his body had been identified. Three days later, Marshall Zhukov, the head of the Soviet army gave a press conference with Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinski looking over his shoulder. ‘We did not identify the body of Hitler,’ he said. ‘I can say nothing definite about his fate. He could have flown away from Berlin at the very last moment.'"

In an interview on "Deadline – Live", an Argentine news program, journalist Santiago Romero interviewed Abel Basti about Hitler’s escape, life in Patagonia, and the events that followed World War Two.

Interview with Basti:

Romero: What is your opinion on Hitler’s escape?

Basti: “Hitler escaped via air from Austria to Barcelona. The last stage of his escape was in a submarine, from Vigo, heading straight to the coast of Patagonia. Finally, Hitler and Eva Braun, in a car with a chauffeur and bodyguard—a motorcade of at least three cars—drove to Bariloche [Argentina].

“He took refuge in a place called San Ramon, about 15 miles east of that town. It is a property of about 250,000 acres with a lake-front view of Lake Nahuel Huapi, which had been German property since the early twentieth century, when it belonged to a German firm by the name of Schamburg-Lippe".

Romero: “On what basis do you claim that Hitler was in Spain after leaving his Berlin Bunker?”

Basti: “I was able to confirm the presence of Hitler in Spain thanks to a—now elderly—Jesuit priest, whose family members were friends of the National Socialist leader. And I have witnesses that allude to meetings he had with his entourage at the place where they stayed in Cantabria".

[…]

This article is printed in: "Latin America, Israel and the Jews" - Informing the world about events in Latin America that affect the Jews and Israel

The writer Abel Basti says the Nazi Führer died in Argentina
13 July 2010

The suicide in the Bunker in Berlin and with the Russians at the door, was a farce staged by the Nazis”.

This is the contention of the Argentinean historian Abel Basti, in his book "Hitler's Exile".

Basti says he started working on this issue when the case of SS captain Erich Priebke, who was arrested while he was interviewing him at home, broke out. The Nazi remained under arrest at his home for months and was finally extradited to Italy.

In "The Exile of Hitler" Basti claims that the German dictator did not die along with Eva Braun in the Bunker in Berlin, but that the Führer fled to Argentina stopping in Barcelona, where he remained hidden, and in Vigo, where he boarded the submarine that took him to Patagonia.

Basti provides a secret document where Hitler supposedly appears as one of the passengers who were evacuated on an Austrian plane to Barcelona on 26 April 1945. He claims that Hitler’s suicide, with his lover, Eva Braun, on 30 April 1945 in a Bunker in the building of the Chancellery in Berlin was "a farce staged by the Nazis".

"The big secret of the dictator’s flight was the arrival of a double at Hitler´s Bunker on 22 April 1945, when the real dictator flew to the Austrian airport of Hörsching together with eight other people, including Eva Braun "

This version coincides with that given to the CIA by Heinrich Müller, head of the Gestapo. Basti insists that his work also includes a paper from the British Secret Services revealing that a Nazi submarine convoy departed days later from Spain, and after a stopover in the Canary Islands, continued its journey to the south of Argentina.

"In one of these submarines Adolf Hitler travelled with Eva Braun, under the protection of the de-facto president of Argentina, Edelmiro Farrell, and his Minister of War, Juan Domingo Peron".

- Are there any witnesses who saw those Nazis in Spain?, asks Antonio Astorga on ABC.

And Basti replies:

"Yes, an officer of the Blue Division reported his presence, but many, because of fear, did not want their names to appear. A material witness is a Jesuit nonagenarian, who retreated to a monastery, and has ample information of their presence in Spain".

- You show a German secret document where Hitler appears as one of the passengers evacuated by plane from Austria to Barcelona on 26 or in the early hours of 27 April 1945.

"It was a secret official communication with copies to the pilot Werner Baumbach, who emigrated to Argentina and brought his copy. Baumbach, together with others known Nazi pilots, worked for Peron’s aeronautical project".

- What did Hitler do to avoid being recognized?

"Hitler cut his hair and shaved off his moustache. This was enough to go unnoticed, as well, of course, that he did not move overtly in public. The removal of his moustache exposed a scar on his upper lip, which was not known by the common people".

- Is then the version that the dictator together with his mistress Eva Braun, had committed suicide on 30 April 1945 in a Bunker in Berlin, false?

"There was never any evidence of that death. No criminological proofs showing suicide. The German government gave Hitler up for dead eleven years later, in 1956, by presumption of death. That is, legally for Germany, Hitler was alive after 1945. Not only alive, but also was not a man convicted by law, there was no warrant, no judicial process against him. While Hitler was in Spain, a great farce was played in the bunker, whose lead actor was one of Hitler's doubles. During the last hours, his lookalike was drugged and prepared to represent the final act".

- Do you think that suicide was a "safe conduct", a mere excuse, so that Hitler could get away?

"Hitler´s escape was provisioned in a large plan of escape by the Nazis: of men, capital and technology. That plan, in 1945, received the green light from the Americans, through a secret military pact. The thousands of Nazis that leaked into the West, of which about 300,000 came to the U.S., were "recycled" to fight communism. Hitler became a living dinosaur, protected and sheltered".

- In "Hitler's Exile,” you include the document of the British secret services revealing that Hitler fled to Argentina on a submarine, stopping to refuel in the Canary Islands. And you say that before the convoy of submarines left Spain, the U.S. Navy removed all units sailing the South Atlantic. You also indicate that Nazi submarines “exchanged messages" with the American fleet. The messages were intercepted by the English.

- How did the Nazi worm crawl into Argentina?

"Hitler was 56 years old when he came to Argentina, where he lived as a fugitive, with a false identity and trying to pass as unnoticed as possible. In the early years he lived in a ranch near Bariloche, then in other parts of the country, and he changed residence in more than one occasion. Always accompanied by two bodyguards, sometimes three. His political activity was limited to a few meetings with old comrades and some Argentinian military. Hitler died in Argentina in the sixties. Eva Braun, younger than him, survived".

Source: http://www.periodistadigital.com/ocio-y-cultura/libros/2010/06/27/-hitler-se-corto-el-pelo-al-ras-se-quito-el-bigote-y-huyo-a-espana-.shtml
Thanks to Ellen Popper for providing the information and the translation.

Historians have generally agreed since the end of the Second World War that, staring defeat in the face, an increasingly feeble and paranoid Hitler had married Eva Braun in the bowels of his Berlin Bunker after midnight on 29 April 1945, and later dictated his will. His physician Werner Haase, in response to Hitler’s questions, had recommended a dose of cyanide and a gunshot to the head as the most reliable form of suicide.

Hitler, convinced of the treason of SS leader Heinrich Himmler, doubted the reliability of the SS-supplied cyanide tablets and had one tested on his dog Blondi, after which the dog died.

Following lunch on April 30, with Soviet forces less than 500 metres from the Bunker, Hitler and Eva said goodbye to staff and fellow occupants, including the Goebbels family, private secretary Martin Bormann and military officers.

They went into Hitler’s personal study at 2.30pm and at around 3.30pm some witnesses reported hearing a loud gunshot.

Those, including valet Heinz Linge, who went into the study reported the smell of almonds, consistent with cyanide gas. They said they saw Hitler slumped on his desk with a bullet wound to his head, a pistol on the floor and blood pooling on the arm of the sofa on which Eva lay beside him with no visible sign of injury. Several witnesses said the bodies were then carried up to the emergency exit and into a small bombed-out garden behind the Chancellery where they were doused with petrol and set alight, then buried in a small crater when the Soviet shelling made it unsafe for the cremation to continue. Seven and a half hours later, Red Army troops began storming the Chancellery and the remains of Hitler, his wife and two of his dogs were said to have been discovered in a shell crater by a Soviet soldier.

But were they?

The Soviet story changed regularly in the aftermath of the fall of Berlin and in the following years. Conspiracy theorists point to suggestions that:

Josef Stalin told Western leaders at the Potsdam Conference in 1945 he believed Hitler may have escaped to Spain or South America.

Stalin’s top army officer, Marshal Georgy Zhukov, said: “We found no corpse that could be Hitler’s".

The acting chief of the US trial counsel at Nuremberg, Thomas J Dodd, said: “No one can say he is dead". The most convincing evidence of Hitler’s suicide came from the testimonies of those who were in the Bunker — but they did not all agree on the details.

Hitler’s bodyguard Rochus Misch, the only survivor of the Bunker still alive, told this year how he heard someone shout to Hitler’s valet, "Junge, Junge, I think it’s happened".

After the bodies were carried upstairs, Misch said: "Someone shouted to me, 'Hurry upstairs, they’re burning the boss!' But Misch decided not to go, in case the “last witnesses” were shot. He was later captured after fleeing the bunker and spent eight years in Soviet prison camps. Details of a Soviet autopsy on the remains they found, released years later, apparently showed gunshot wounds and cyanide poisoning. The remains were repeatedly buried and exhumed by Russian agents during their relocation from Berlin to a new facility at Magdeburg. There, they were put in an unmarked grave with the bodies of propaganda minister Josef Göbbels, his wife and their six children.

When the facility was due to be handed over to the East German government in 1970, the KGB, it is said, exhumed all ten bodies, burned them and threw the ashes in the river Elbe to prevent the area becoming a National Socialist shrine. They kept Hitler’s jaw and part of his skull — the fragment now thrown into doubt by US archaeologist Nick Bellantoni, who was given permission to examine the artefacts in the Russian state archive. Other discrepancies which have muddied the waters include a photo released by Soviets at the time of the fall of Berlin which purported to be the body of Hitler, shot in the forehead. It is now thought to be one of Hitler’s body doubles.

Others who believe he escaped subscribe to a variety of conspiracy theories. The most popular include one or more of these elements:

Hitler and Eva Braun escaped from the Bunker on 22 April 1945, leaving behind doubles who killed themselves or were murdered

They were flown to Norway where German subs were waiting to transport them away from Europe.

They were helped by the Vatican to escape to Spain then Argentina.

Two German submarines seized by Argentina after the war had delivered Hitler to a secret National Socialist base in the heart of Antarctica.

Forensic Evidence

Hitler did die in Berlin in 1945. A post-mortem was conducted and his dental records, jaw bones, teeth and in particular, his dental bridge work have positively identified the remains of Adolf Hitler.

Dr Erwin Giesling working with Dr Carl Von Eicken, were Hitler’s ENT specialists. They treated Hitler’s ear injuries caused by the assassination attempt of 20 July 1944. At the time of the X-ray Hitler was ‘suffering’ from a festering infection in his left maxillary sinus. Not long after this he had dental surgery performed by Hugo Blaschke (10 November 1944) as a result of a massive infection in tooth No 6 in the left upper Jaw. Since this tooth formed part of a substantial bridge and Hitler refused lengthy treatment, Blaschke decided to cut off the section of the bridge with teeth 5 and 6 and extract tooth 6. Someone has ‘added’ this dental work to the X-ray.

Conclusion

Hitler’s well known dental issues and his custom bridge work were positively identified by his dentist and the dental assistant. The jaw bones found in the Kremlin archives combined with the X-Rays from the Post-Mortem report, which matched these with other images known to be that of Hitler, plus the eye-witness testimony of those who were there prove that Adolf Hitler died in 1945. The evidence is conclusive and there is no "escaping" it.

Accompanied by a Copy of an A.L.S. by Billingsby, Two Pages, Berlin, 14 July 1945, to his Mother and Father, on the Printed Stationery of Hitler's Chancellery ['Kanzlei des Führers der NSDAP'].

Billingsby writes, in part:

"I am very pleased to say we are getting along much better now. We have got rid of the bugs alright....Last night our company arranged a trip sight seeing into Berlin. Me and about 20 of our fellows went....We visited the place where Hitler spent the last few hours. The Hitler Chancelery [sic] A most wonderful building I have ever seen. The Russians are keeping guard over it but they allowed us in to inspect the inside. We found quite a lot of usefull [sic] stuff. I gathered quite a lot of tbe old boys writing paper....You will see a bit of German on the top. The whole place has caught a most severe battering. Most of the place is all ruins....I can tell you the Coventry people can certainly rest assured that those German Swine were repaid with a little interest for what they did to them....I am sending you a little of Materials out of the Chancelery [sic] The bit of green off his Sette [sic] and the other bit off his Chair out of his sound proof Room".

A rare and unusual Artefact from the place where Hitler was to kill himself by gunshot on 30 April 1945.

Billingsby's reference to removing the present swatch from Hitler's 'Sound Proof Room', must clearly be taken as a reference to the Führerbunker where Hitler was to commit suicide. Billingsby's further comment in his letter in regard to visiting the place where 'Hitler Spent the Last Few Hours' reinforces this.

International Autograph Auctions' Autograph Auction July 2015
Saturday, 18 July 2015
Estimate: £400 - 500 each

Lot 918: [Hitler Adolf]: (1889-1945) Führer of the Third Reich 1934-45. A Small [2.5 X 0.5] Swatch of Gold Coloured and Patterned Upholstery Fabric removed from a Chair in Adolf Hitler's Führerbunker by Sapper Billingsby Of No. 2 Platoon, 672 Army Company In July 1945 and sent home to his Parents.

Lot 919: [Hitler Adolf]: (1889-1945) Führer Of The Third Reich 1934-45. A Small [2 X 1] Swatch of Green Coloured and Patterned Upholstery Fabric removed from a Sofa In Adolf Hitler's Führerbunker by Sapper Billingsby Of No. 2 Platoon, 672 Army Company in July 1945 and sent home to his Parents.

Hitler bloodstained suicide sofa fabric auctions for $16,000

A swatch of bloodstained fabric, taken from the sofa on which Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide, was auctioned in the US. The 6 x 3.5 inch piece sold for $16,000 on 19 February 2015 at Alexander Historical Auctions in Maryland, surpassing its $15,000 high estimate.

A combination of its grisly nature and strong provenance helped the lot to its excellent showing.

On the afternoon of 30 April 1945, just two days after being married, with the Russian army closing in on Berlin, Braun and Hitler retired to his personal study. There they were later found by Hitler's close associates, lying dead on the sofa. Braun had taken a cyanide capsule, Hitler had killed himself with a gunshot to the head.

The fabric was taken by a US army colonel, who entered Hitler's Bunker in the days after the Nazi leader's suicide.

As well as a macabre memento from the last moments of the Führer, the sofa also offers the opportunity for DNA testing.

"As no blood relics of Hitler's have ever been offered publicly, a DNA test would conclusively put to rest rumors of body doubles, flight to Argentina, and other theories of an escape from Berlin," says the auction house.

The item has undergone a Kastle-Meyer blood test, which demonstrated the presence of haemoglobin.

In the 1970s "National Lampoon" did a photo spread called 'Exile in Paradise', in which they got a Hitler lookalike and went down to the Bahamas and shot photos of him.

Midway through the shoot they needed money, and sent a telegram back to NY that said something to the effect of "This is an expensive trip. Hitler needs more money."

Western Union reported the message, and the US gov't took it seriously enough as to immediately investigate what "National Lampoon" was doing with Hitler.

The FBI showed up and seized a whole lot of stuff that they thought connected to Hitler, and it wasn't until "National Lampoon" could prove that the man they hired was not actually Hitler that the FBI backed off.

This combination of six pictures recently released by the US National Archives shows alteredheadshots of Adolf Hitler.
The Office of Strategic Services [OSS] had asked Eddie Senz,
a New York make-up artist to clone the portrait of German leader Hitler after D-Day on 6 June 1944 because they feared that the Führer would flee from Germany

When the end of World War II was near and the fall of Nazism was imminent,
one of the major concerns of the Allies was that the Führer could slip through their
fingers and disappear, hiding among "normal people". For this reason various photographic montages of possible aspects of him were made. But not only
governments and secret services speculated about the different appearances of
Hitler in a normal life. The press, also, 'played' with the face ofthe dictator trying to imagine what he might look like. This is the case for a Canadian newspaper,
"Free Press Weekly Prairie Farmer" in its edition of 8 November 1944.

Photo Creation by an Argentine Documentary Company in the 1990s
based on the picture below which was taken in Berchtesgaden
from his home movies

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Reopening the Hitler Conspiracy