the Early morning of 1 may 1945, the last chief of staff of the land forces of Nazi Germany, General Hans Krebs was awarded the commander of the 8th guards army, General Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov political Testament of Adolf Hitler, in which he appointed the members of the new German government led by Admiral Karl Doenitz. Krebs reported suicide of Hitler and was authorized by the new Chancellor Joseph Goebbels to negotiate a truce with the Soviet side. The Soviet Union recognized only by the unconditional surrender of1.
the Third Reich survived its founder for exactly seven days2, and already on may 2, 1945 in Berlin, the red Army found the corpses of Hitler, his “day”3 wife, Eva Braun, Goebbels, his wife Magda and their six children, and the bodies of two dogs.
he found the remains were investigated dentures, as well as the contents of the intestine and other internal organs to confirm the use of poison before you die. Protocols were made forensic medical examination. To acts attached the tubes with pieces of glass vials, discovered in the mouth of corpses in the mouths of dogs, tubes of blood from the heart, part of the lungs, liver, part of stomach with contents, the part of the brain 4. In Moscow were sent to acts of detection and identification of the corpses of Goebbels and his wife and six children, the act of discovery of the corpses of Hitler and his wife, the act of discovery of the corpses of dogs. It turned out that one shepherd was poisoned cyanide compounds, the other was first poisoned with a small amount of cyanide compounds, and then, agonizing, shot four shots5.
on may 27, 1945, the head of Department of counterespionage “SMERSH” of the 1st Belorussian front A. A. Vadis sent to the people’s Commissar of internal Affairs L. P. Beria a note on the discovery of the bodies of Hitler and Goebbels. Copy of the note was sent to I. V. Stalin, people’s Commissar for foreign Affairs V. M. Molotov6, Deputy Chairman of people’s Commissars of the USSR G. M. Malenkov and to the chief of the General staff of red Army A. I. Antonov.
in addition, the staff of the Soviet counterintelligence interrogated employees of the Reich Chancellery from among the personal entourage of Hitler and Goebbels, the medical staff of the Reich Chancellery, including those who participated in the killing of the Goebbels children7.
Every witness recovered only a fragment of the event. The Germans were confused in indications, talking about what happened a couple of days ago. They couldn’t restore the course of events, the participants of which were. Dentist Helmut Kunz (see Doc. 2-3) has attributed the killing of the Goebbels children, even though he’s actually he failed to do it and several times offered Magda Goebbels to convey six children in the care of the red cross. Alarmed that employees minis��Erste enlightenment and propaganda, part of the inner circle of employees of Goebbels, those with whom he regularly interacted, was hampered when describing its external appearance, and even confused the leg he was limping, calling the patient the left, the right. Substantial assistance in the identification of corpses has provided dentists and their assistants. Features of dentures their former charges was evident8.
to cross-check information, the dentist, Professor Blaschke, who put Hitler dental crowns in a pow camp, where he was staying, was taken to a plaster spatula and knife, that he restored the dentures of Hitler’s memory. Cellmate Blaschke was surprised with how accurate the restored jaw and the dentures of his former patient. Soviet military that had the jaw of Hitler found at the Reich Chancellery, was amazed to see a full match of bite from the detected body and the prosthesis, recreated Blaschke9.
One of the sources who confirmed the death of Hitler and Eva Braun, was a fragment of the diary of Martin Bormann, the translation of which was also sent to Moscow10. In the diary, Bormann noted that on 30 April 1945 was the day of the death of Adolf and Eva Hitler11.
In Germany the official announcement took place only on 25 October 1956, when the district court of Berchtesgaden announced the suicide of Adolf Hitler. This solution was able to reduce the activity of neo-Nazi organizations, disavowed the version of the miraculous salvation of the führer. But first and foremost it was a question of money and valuables of the deceased.
In summary, personal expression 29 April 1945, Hitler indicated that his property that has any value, belongs to the party (NSDAP), and if its existence ceases, then the state; if will cease to exist by the government, further instructions on his part not will need12.
In the 1950s raised the question of who is the heir to the estate of Hitler. After the war, several of his closest associates were the owners of various dishes and utensils. In his Testament of 29 April 1945, the Nazi dictator made the housekeeper, Anni winter, the owner of his personal items, including pencil and watercolor drawings, sketches and so on 14 December 1950 all of this and more was hidden in suitcases in the apartment of a Munich merchant. After this winter I tried to sell things to Americans for 200 thousand U.S. dollars, but the police confiscated the suitcase along with the contents.
Until 1956, tried several times to sell the property of Hitler. However, litigation and trials were interrupted due to the absence of a Declaration of death. Things started to happen again after the court in October 1956 recognized that Hitler finally died, and no doubt13.
As you know, after the identification of the remains of Hitler, Goebbels and their families in 1945, they were reburied in 1946 in Magdeburg on the territory of barracks in the Soviet zone of occupation. Later on this place was a military camp of the group of Soviet forces in Germany. In 1970 the bodies were last exhumed, burned and the ashes scattered over the Elbe14.
Soviet counterintelligence interrogated dozens of witnesses who participated in the identification of Hitler’s body. After that, he could not doubt that the Nazi No. 1 is dead. However, all work on the identification of the remains remained classified. Before 1949 were also classified additional measures to search for evidence to clarify the fate of Hitler in Germany, was interrogated prisoners among his closest confidants. To speak openly about the history of the identification of the remains of domestic historians began only in the 1990s15.
the Myth about the miraculous salvation of Hitler was fueled by a man-made restrictions. In post-war Germany was a neo-Nazi, who believed that “the führer is alive, and he will not fail us.” Rumors about the miraculous rescue has supported the myth that Hitler never lost the war16. Subsequently, the authors of publications about salvation, rather, were driven by a desire to make money on cheap sensations17.
Offered dozens of variants: Hitler flew a plane, sailed on a submarine; in 1945, Berlin had only his double, and the Fuhrer himself lived in a Catholic monastery in Europe, Latin America or at a secret base in Antarctica. The “witnesses” claimed to have seen Hitler and in the 1950s and 1960s and in the 1970s and 1980s Printed DIY absurd content came out in huge numbers18. Was quite appropriate old joke: according to news agencies, Berlin found not only five doubles, two tee and one extension tube Hitler19. Even today, when declassified and published extensive evidence of the death of the main Nazi, conspiracy theories about his salvation sometimes there.
Below we publish some of the documents RGASPI (F. 82. V. M. Molotov), which reflect the challenge of identifying the remains of Hitler, Goebbels and their families the staff of the “SMERSH” in 1945.
Publication was prepared by the Marina Datsishin, candidate of historical Sciences, chief specialist RGASPI.
people’s Commissariat of internal Affairs of the USSR
top secret
June 16, 1945 Ex. N 2
N702/b
Moscow
SNK
Comrade Molotov V. M.
Send You a copy obtained from tov. Serov acts of identification and forensic study of the alleged corpses of Hitler, Goebbels and their wives, as well as interrogation of those close to Hitler and Goebbels.
people’s Commissar of internal Affairs of the USSR
Beria
RGASPI. F. 82. Op. 2. D. 1166. L. 9.
the Original. Typescript, signed, autograph, LP Beria.
Copy
record of interrogation
1945, the month of may, day 7, head 4 Department of the counterintelligence “SMERSH” of the 1st Belorussian front Lieutenant Colonel Vasilyev through an interpreter of the German language investigator Lieutenant Vlasov was interrogated as a pow of the German army –
Kunz Helmut Gustavovich, born in 1910, native of the city mountains. Ötlingen of the province of Baden, the dentist, the last time working in the sanitary Department of the SS Berlin to the post of adjutant-General dental doctor.
Question: Before 23 April you were related to the Imperial office ?
Answer: Until that time, I have no relationship to the Reich Chancellery had not.
Question: What you have title?
Answer: to SS sturmbannführer.
Question: Who you are personally served, when they were in the Reich Chancellery?
Answer: Personally, I serviced the wife of Goebbels, and subsequently treated, and the soldiers in the Reich Chancellery.
Question: how Long did you know Goebbels and his family?
Answer: With Goebbels, I met 1 may this year by his wife. I had known him for performances in parades. The first time I saw Goebbels about 1922, when he gave a speech in the people’s house in Vienna.
Question: How is it that you are not having access to the Imperial office, and on 1 may this year you acquainted with Goebbels and immediately gained access to his apartment?
Answer: Probably because I was familiar with the wife of Goebbels, which I treated.
Question: You were in the apartment Goebbels?
Answer: I was in the bunker of Joseph Goebbels in the Reich Chancellery, where he also lived with his family – wife and children.
Question: do you know Any physical defects Goebbels, his wife and children?
Answer: Wife and children were perfectly normal, and Goebbels had a limp on the right leg.
Question: we will Specify in more detail what happened with Goebbels and his family?
Answer: 27 April before dinner at 8-9 PM I met the wife of Goebbels in the hallway at the entrance to Hitler’s bunker, where she told me that she wants to contact me on one very important issue here, added now this situation, obviously, we have to die, and therefore asks me to help kill her children, I gave my consent.
After this conversation, Goebbels ‘ wife invited me into the children’s bedroom and showed all his children. At this time the children were going to go to bed, and I with them no one was talking20.
At that moment when the kids went to bed, went Goebbels himself, who wished Goodnight to the kids and left.
having been in the room for 10-15 minutes, I said goodbye to his wife and Goebbels went to his hospital, which was located there in the bunkers, about 500 meters from the bunkers of Hitler, Goebbels and other persons who were at Hitler’s headquarters.
may 1 this year, about 4-5 o’clock in the afternoon, I was in hospital telephoned the wife of Joseph Goebbels, who said that enough time has passed, and begged now to come to the bunker. Then I went to her, but without any medicines.
When I came into the bunker of Goebbels, he found in the office of Goebbels himself, his wife, and the state Secretary of the Ministry of propaganda Nauman, who about something talked.
Waiting at the door of the Cabinet about 10 minutes, when Goebbels and Naumann came out, Goebbels ‘ wife invited me to go to the office and said that the decision has already been made (it was about the death of children), as the führer is dead and about 8-9 hours part will be trying to get out of the environment, and therefore we must die, no other choice we have.
During the conversation, I suggested to my wife Goebbels to send their children to the hospital and to provide care of the red cross, to which she disagreed and said: better to let children die.
20 Minutes later, at the time of our conversation returned Goebbels in office, which has appealed to me with the words: “Doctor, I’ll be very grateful if You help my wife to kill the children.”
I Goebbels, and his wife proposed to send the children to the hospital under the protection of the red cross, to which he replied: “It is impossible, after all they are the children of Goebbels.”
After that, Goebbels is gone, and I stayed with his wife, which is about an hour engaged in a game of solitaire (card reading).
About an hour later Goebbels again returned, together with Deputy Gauleiter for Berlin, Schacht, and since the Mines, as I understood from his conversation needs to go on breakthrough with units of the German army, he said farewell to Goebbels, Goebbels gave him horn-rimmed glasses, a dark color with the words: “Take the memory, these points always wore the Fuhrer”. After that, the Mines said goodbye to his wife of Goebbels, and also with me and left.
After leaving the mine the wife of Goebbels declared: “Our troops now gone, the Russians could at any moment come here and stop us, so we need to hurry with the decision.”
When we, i.e. I and Goebbels ‘ wife came out of the office, in front in this moment, he saw two unknown military persons, one in the form of the Hitler youth, the second form can’t remember which Goebbels and his wife began to say goodbye, and the unknown asked: “how are You, Mr. Minister, have decided?” Goebbels didn’t answer, but his wife said: “the Gauleiter of Berlin and his family will remain in Berlin and die here.”
taking leave of these persons, Goebbels returned to his office, and I, along with his wife went to their flat (the bunker) where in the front room of the wife of Goebbels took from the wardrobe a syringe full of morphine, and handed me, and then we went into the children’s bedroom, in this time the children were already in bed, but not sleep.
the Wife of Joseph Goebbels announced to the children: “Children, do not worry, you now the doctor will inoculate you are doing now to children and soldiers.” With these words she left the room and I was left alone in the room and proceeded to the injection of morphine, first two older girls, then the boy and the rest girls. The injection was done in hands below elbow 0.5 cube in order to bring them into a half-asleep state. Procedure inject lasted approximately 8-10 minutes, after which I again went out into the hall, where he found the wife of Joseph Goebbels, who said that you need to wait 10 minutes while the kids are asleep and I simultaneously looked at the clock, it was 20-40 minutes (may 1).21
10 minutes Later Goebbels ‘ wife accompanied me went into the bedroom for children, where he stayed for 5 minutes, each of them put in your mouth for crushed ampoule of cyanide. (Cyanide was in the glass vials that contained 1.5 cubic meters.) When we got back to the front, she said: “With children it’s over, now we need to think about yourself,” to which Goebbels replied, “we Need to hurry, as we have little time.” On Goebbels ‘ wife said: “to Die here in the basement won’t”, and Goebbels added: “Sure, we’ll go outside in the garden.” His wife threw a remark: “We will not go into the garden, and in the area of Wilhelm, where have you spent your whole life working.” (The area of Wilhelm – the area between the buildings of the Imperial propaganda Ministry and the Reich Chancellery).
During the conversation, Goebbels thanked me for the relief of their fate and said goodbye to me and wished success in life and happy way. After that, I went to his hospital.
Question: Where Goebbels ‘ wife could take the toxic poisons (cyanide)?
Answer: Goebbels ‘ Wife told me personally that the morphine and the syringe she got from the second doctor Hitler Stumpfegger, where she took vials of cyanide is unknown to me.
Question: At the moment of farewell with Goebbels was dressed Goebbels and his wife?
Answer: At the moment of farewell with Goebbels, he was dressed in the party uniform – brown tunic, black trousers, were shod in boots. On the left sleeve had a simple red armband with white circle, inside of which was a swastika in black. Whether on the uniform of the Golden party badge, I’m not saying because I don’t remember.
Goebbels ‘ Wife was dressed in a suit (jacket and skirt) dark grey stripe, without headgear. On the left breast was a silver icon “mother cross”, which was awarded to mothers who had up to seven children. If she had the party badge, I don’t remember.
I should add that on 24 April, when Goebbels ‘ wife was with me at the reception as a dentist, it is in a personal conversation told me that she has another son from her first husband by the name of quantum (not sure), which serves in the German army in the rank of Lieutenant or Lieutenant and being in 1944 on the Italian front, was captured by Anglo-American troops, then sent to Algeria, and from there through the Red Cross has established with the family of Joseph Goebbels written communication.
Question: Specify the age of the children of Goebbels, and what they were wearing.
Answer: All children, the killing of which I spent, it was six, five girls and one boy. The older girl were 12-14 years old, the second girl 10-12 years old boy 8-10 years, a third girl 6-8 years, 4-6 years, fourth and fifth about four years. The older girl was dressed in a light blue sleeping suit, consisting of jacket with short sleeves and pants. All the other kids, as I remember, were dressed in white night shirts.
Question: From whom you have learned of the death of Goebbels and his wife?
Answer: this is what we absolutely know nothing.
Question: Specify which of the medical staff of the hospital was on the reception of Hitler when he was awarded them, and how you got there.
Answer: In the night from 30 April to 1 may this year I was in the officers ‘ casino, which was placed on Hitler’s bunker. In about half a second on the phone in the casino called me Professor Haase, the chief doctor of the hospital, who said that the Fuhrer invited me and the entire staff of the hospital to his bunker. After 20 minutes, when all the employees went to the apartment of Hitler, joined me. In this group were:
Chief physician of the hospital – Lieutenant, Professor Dr. Haase.
St. the doctor at the hospital standartenfuhrer, Professor Dr. Schenk.
the Second hospital – sturmbannfuhrer, Dr. Kunz.
Sister surgery – Erna, Flagel.
Sister surgery – Liselotte chervinska.
Sister surgery – Ruth (surname not known).
In the hallway of the apartment Fuhrer we stopped, where to us 10 minutes later came Hitler himself, whom Haase introduced me and doctor Schenk. After that, on behalf of the awardees was made by the nurse Lyndhurst a short speech about loyalty to the führer. Hitler thanked all the awardees for their service and went to his office and we went to their places.
among the awardees were: Professor Haase – awarded the “Cross Crossvergence Kreuz 1st class” (for special services) and four sisters: Erna FLEG��eh, Liselotte chervinska, Elsbeth Lyndhurst and rut (surname unknown). All were awarded the “Cross Kirstendunst Kreuz 2nd class” awards which were presented by the adjutant of Hitler – Herr günsche in the hospital before coming to the reception to Hitler.
Question: Tell us more about Hitler, what happened to him.
Answer: On the death of Hitler the first time I heard at 9 o’clock on may 1, when the red army has surrounded Berlin. I came to the apartment of Joseph Goebbels, his wife cried and told me that she was kneeling before Hitler and asked him not to do it, and then added – Yes, but there was no other way. Goebbels ‘ wife doesn’t know, what Hitler did with them.
Question: How is it that you are there all the time and don’t know the circumstances of the death of Hitler ?
Answer: In this moment I was not and can only say what I heard. That said, the wife of Goebbels, I believe. She said that Germany is a flock without a shepherd, as Hitler died.
Question: can Not be, you don’t know how Hitler died, because he was at bet. Demand that you told the whole truth.
Answer: Details of the death of Hitler, I don’t know, and tell you what I know from the wife of Goebbels. In addition, among the staff there were rumors that Hitler had committed suicide and that Hitler’s body should be burned in the garden of the Reich Chancellery.
Question: From whom did you hear that Hitler’s body should be burned?
Answer: I have heard of Rittenauer – SS-gruppenfiihrer, which was responsible for security in rate. He said: “Father left us alone, and now we have to drag his corpse to the top.”
Question: Hitler one has committed suicide or someone else?
Answer: suicide Hitler committed suicide along with his wife brown, whom he married a few days before death.
Question: What have you heard about this?
Answer: I know of a case that on the evening of 30 April to Mrs. brown ran the children of Goebbels and called aunt brown. She told them – now I’m not aunt brown, and aunt Hitler. [ …]
Question: how do you know that brown had to commit suicide along with Hitler ?
Answer: 30 April in the evening Eva Braun invited me, Professor Haase and two female secretaries of the führer for a Cup of coffee. She told us that Hitler had written a will and that the führer is dead when you receive confirmation that the will is delivered to the person to whom it is intended. She also said that “we were betrayed – and Goering and Himmler” and that “to die is not so difficult, because drugs are tested on the dog, death will come quickly.”
Question: Who have experienced etfrom the poison on a dog ?
Answer: brown said there has already been a test of poison, and who is made a test of poison, she did not speak.
Question: You stated that Hitler a few days before his death, he married Eva Braun. Specify, where there was a brown before her marriage and what she was doing.
Answer: according to gruppenführer Rattenhuber (the chief bodyguard of the apartment of Hitler) and the personal pilot of Hitler – Bauer, gruppenführer, I know that before the official marriage Eva Braun was with Hitler. Any other details about her I don’t know.
Question: From which sources do you know that Himmler was negotiating with the allies and with whom ?
Answer: As I have shown above, 30 April between 10-11 p.m. I was at the casino together with Professor Haase and Hitler’s secretaries, Frau Junge and Christian, he went to the wife of the Hitler – Eva Braun, who invited us to one of the rooms of the casino, where we were about 20 minutes.
During the conversation, Eva Hitler, we said that Goering’s unreliable, what we always knew and that Himmler, instead of having to transfer troops from the West to the defense of Berlin, is in talks with the allies (presumably with America and England) about a truce, without the consent of Hitler. More than anything detailed on this issue she didn’t tell22.
Question: When and with whom did you leave the bunker and where it was going ?
a: I was in the bunkers of the hospital until 2 o’clock in the afternoon of 3 may, i.e. till the moment of capture. With me in the hospital remained: Professor Haase, sister, Flegel and Chervinsky.
Professor Schenk and a sister named Ruth (name not know) participated in the breakthrough and destiny is never known.
the Interrogation is interrupted.
Readings I read with translation
German language
and my words are spelled correctly.
Kunz
Interviewed: 4 head of Department of counterespionage “SMERSH” of the 1st Belorussian front Lieutenant Colonel Vasilyev
Translator: Lieutenant Vlasov.
Testimony in shorthand ensign ADM. service – Khrushchev.
RGASPI. F. 82. Op. 2. D. 1166. L. 127-138.
Copy. Typescript, notes and autograph of V. M. Molotov.
Copy of
record of interrogation
1945, the month of may, day 19, I the investigator 1 Department 4 Department of the counterintelligence “SMERSH” of the 1st Belorussian front Lieutenant Vlasov was interrogated prisoner of war Helmut Kunz.
the Interrogation started at 12.00
and produced in the German language.
Question: Specify the time when you last saw Hitler.
Answer: In previous interrogations, I mistakenly called the date of my visit apartments Hitler, along with honey. the staff of the infirmary at the Reich Chancellery on the occasion of awarding the medical staff of the infirmary, I said it was may 1, 1945, at about 2.30 am, when it took place on 30 April 1945 at the same time.
With 2.30 on 30 April 1945 in 16-17 hours 1 may this year I was in the infirmary at the Reich Chancellery, after which he was summoned to the apartment of Joseph Goebbels, to help the wife of the latter in the killing of their children, as I gave detailed testimony on the previous interrogations.
for the First time about the death of Hitler, I found out on may 1, 1945 in 16-17 hours from the wife of Goebbels, when he came to her call. On 30 April 1945 on Hitler’s death, I heard nothing.
Goebbels ‘ Wife said to me: “the Führer is dead. I begged him on my knees not to do this. However, he still left.” When she pleaded with Hitler, and what not to do, she said.
Question: You are the one involved in the killing of the Goebbels children?
Answer: Yes, one.
Question: However, the consequence has the data that you helped in the killing of the Goebbels children Dr. Stumpfegger. Do you confirm this?
Answer: Yes, I admit I gave incorrect testimony about the circumstances of the killing of the Goebbels children. Do doctor Stumpfegger helped me in this. The circumstances of the killing of the Goebbels children in accuracy were as follows:
After I all the children did a shot of morphine, I, leaving the child sleeping in the next room, waited with his wife Goebbels, until the kids were asleep, she asked me to help her is to give children the poison. I refused, saying that I lack the mental strength. Then Goebbels ‘ wife asked me to find and call to her doctor Stumpfegger, who accompanied the first doctor of Hitler. After 3-4 minutes I found Stumpfegger there, in Hitler’s bunker, sitting in the dining room and said to him: “Doctor, you are asked to imagine Mrs. Goebbels”. When I returned with Stumpfegger back into the room near the children’s bedrooms, where the left wife of Joseph Goebbels, she wasn’t there and Stumpfegger went straight to the bedroom. I was left to wait in the next room. After 4-5 minutes has come out of a child’s bedroom along with his wife, Goebbels and immediately, without saying a word, left. Goebbels ‘ wife, I also did not say anything, just cried. I went with her to the lower floor of the bunker, went to the office of Goebbels, where he left them both and went to the infirmary.
Question: Why in the previous interrogations, you did not mention the participation of Dr. Stumpfegger in the killing of the Goebbels children?
Answer: the events of the last days before the surrender of the German garrison in the mountains. Berlin made a strong impression on me, and I circumstance just missed without any intent.
[…] the interview is over at 16.00.
transcript of interrogation is read to me
translated to German
readings recorded from my words correctly – Kunz.
Interrogator: the interrogator 1 otd.[balance] 4 Department of the counterintelligence “SMERSH” of the 1st Belorussian front senior Lieutenant Vlasov.
RGASPI. F. 82. Op. 2. D. 1166. L. 139-142.
Copy. Typescript.
1. Chuikov, V. I., From Beijing to Berlin. 1927-1945. M., 2015. P. 792-794; At the end of the day may 1, 1945 Krebs committed suicide.
2. Shearer, W. the Rise and fall of the Third Reich. M., 2015. S. 1193.
3. The wedding took place the day before the double suicide of the couple – April 29, 1945
4. RGASPI. F. 82. Op. 2. D. 1166. L. 44, 46, 49, 79.
5. Ibid. L. 50-56.
6. Ibid. L. 1-8.
7. For more information, see: ibid. L. 1-200.
8. Ibid.
9. For more information, see: Kulke U. Von Hitlers zweiter Tod // Die Welt. 2006. 25 Oktober. S. 10.
10. RGASPI. F. 82. Op. 2. D. 1166. L. 201-217.
11. Ibid. L. 217.
12. McGovern L. Martin Bormann. Unknown Reichsleiter. 1936-1945. M., 2010. P. 143-144.
13. See more: Von U. Kulke Op. cit.
14. On detection, the identification of Hitler’s body and clarify the circumstances of his death see also: Bezymensky, L. A., “Operation Myth” or how many times buried Hitler. M., 1995; Kozlov V. A. the “Myth”: an investigation of the NKVD/MVD of the USSR, the disappearance of Hitler (November 1945-1949 gg.) / / national history. 1996. N 1. S. 121-138; Rzhevskaya E. Berlin, may 1945. Notes of a military interpreter. M., 1985; the Unknown Hitler: secret files of the NKVD, drawn up on the basis of interrogation of the personal Hitler’s adjutant Otto Herr günsche and Hitler’s Valet Heinz Linge in Moscow in 1948-1949 M., 2005, etc.
15. Bezymensky L. Nine graves of Hitler. The story of the corpse of the Fuhrer // New time. 1992. N 1. S. 4-8.
16. See more: Von U. Kulke Op. cit.
17. Klinge A. 10 myths about Hitler. M., 2020. S. 276-277.
18. Ibid. P. 256.
19. The modern version of the anecdote, see: ibid. P. 276.
20. So in the text of the document.
21. Ie, may 1, 1945 at 00: 20 to 40 minutes.
22. Paragraph otcherknut on fields a red pencil. Autograph Of V. M. Molotov.
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