On this day 1945: Germany announces Hitler is dead

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1st May 1945
Adolf Hitler has been killed at the Reich Chancery in Berlin, according to Hamburg radio.
At 2230 local time a newsreader announced that reports from the Fuhrer's headquarters said Hitler had "fallen at his command post in the Reich Chancery fighting to the last breath against Bolshevism and for Germany".

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[Yahia Al Shaer]

It is widespread that, it is proven, that Adolf Hitler had committed suicide and his remains as well as that of Eva Braun , whom he married short before killing themselves, were burned in the "Bunkers garden"

The personnel have porded "Benzin" on both corps and burned them.

The body of Jodeph Goebels family (wife and six joung children) were
found laying there as well.


The advancing Russian soldies found the two corpses in a ditch, took the remains to a garden near Potsdam ... and there . there authentity based
upon the dentist record and X-ray photos was examined and confirmed.

The Skull had been examined several times by experts ...

It is said, that after the fall of the Berlin wall, the commander of the Russian Garrison, have orderd burning every thing , and spreading the ashes in the river spree , which divids Berlin , for fear of finding out where his body or durred ashes woud be and turning the place to a pilgimage for the
ultra rights.

If wanted, I can find more details and photos ... may be documentary clips as well


Dr: Yahia Al Shaer

Hitler's Death

30th April 1945

HITLER's greatest fear in the Berlin bunker in April 1945 was that he would be captured alive by the Russians and displayed in Moscow as some sort of freak exhibit. His suicide on 30 April 1945 and the burning of his body, alongside that of his wife of one day, Eva Braun, was intended to avoid what, for Hitler, was quite literally a fate worse than death. But it did not avoid a posthumous, somewhat sordid, freak-show more than half a century later.​

In April this year, as the centrepiece of an exhibition on 'The Agony of the Third Reich', the Russians displayed in Moscow part of what they claim was Hitler's skull. Is it authentic? A DNA test would prove it one way or the other. But so far the Russians have resisted one. However, it is not just the reluctance to carry out a DNA test that provides reasonable grounds for doubt. The strange and contradictory stance of the Soviet authorities after 1945 on the question of Hitler's end and the dubious nature of some of the evidence they presented allows for justifiable scepticism about whether they found much of Hitler at all when they dug in the Reich Chancellery garden.​

Hitler's badly-burnt body was allegedly discovered on 4 May 1945, two days after Soviet troops had entered the garden. An autopsy was carried out on 8 May. But even the Soviet authorities recognised its deficiencies. A year later, they concluded a second investigation into Hitler's death by criticising the work of the first, saying the deficiencies of the evidence meant 'we cannot just state: this was Hitler.' This lingering uncertainty that the remains were indeed Hitler's could be the explanation for the stubborn refusal of the Soviet leadership, above all of Stalin himself, to believe that Hitler had committed suicide. Stalin's paranoia meant that he did not believe that Hitler's body had been found. Perhaps he was right.​

A part of Hitler's jawbone and some dental fittings were indeed identified. But they may not have been enough to convince Stalin. In the light of eyewitness testimony it can be concluded with little doubt that Hitler shot himself in the right side of his head. This, however, conflicts diametrically with the Soviet autopsy evidence. This found no evidence of shooting in the case of the corpse taken to be Hitler's. Within minutes of establishing that Hitler and Eva Braun were dead, their bodies were carried up the steps of the bunker, placed outside the entrance, and set on fire. When two of the guards went across to view the scene around 6.00 pm, they found, in the words of one of them, 'two charcoaled, shrivelled, unrecognisable bodies'. There was probably little to dispose of. The mortal remains of Hitler and Eva Braun joined the numerous unidentifiable bodies rapidly thrown into bomb-craters and improvised graves during the previous days. The intense shelling also contributed to destroying and scattering the human debris in the garden. When the Soviet victors arrived, there was most likely little of Hitler and Eva Braun left for them to find. The cigar-box containing Hitler's dental fittings may indeed have held the sole remains of the German dictator.​

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[Yahia Al Shaer]

Secret evidence of Hitler's identity

IN the smouldering ruins of Berlin, Elena Rzhevskaya stooped by a radio to hear the announcement of the Nazis' final capitulation, a small box clutched to her side. It was 8 May 1945 and at Karlshorst, on the edge of the city, the German high command had surrendered to Russian, British and American forces.
But the young interpreter from Soviet military reconnaissance was subdued as her comrades across the city broke into wild celebrations.
Tucked in the satin-lined box she was clutching were the flesh-specked jawbones of Adolf Hitler, wrenched from his corpse just hours earlier by a Russian pathologist.
A burnt body thought to be the Führer's had been found by a Red Army soldier near his bunker days before, but Josef Stalin ordered the discovery be concealed.
"Only two officers knew what I was carrying and I had to keep my tongue," Rzhevskaya (85) told The Observer in a rare interview at her Moscow apartment.
Hitler's teeth would be key to proving the corpse was his and only a select few knew what had been entrusted to Rzhevskaya.

It was not until the 1960s that her secret would be revealed, and the full truth only emerged in Russia a decade ago.
Her story is a telling reminder of the jealousy and rivalries that split the Allies even in their hour of victory, and foreshadowed the Cold War.

On 8 May, as Soviet soldiers in Berlin's streets shouted with joy at the news of German surrender, Rzhevskaya poured wine for her colleagues with one hand -- while clamping the little box to her side with the other.

Can you imagine how it felt? A young woman like me who had travelled the long military road from the edge of Moscow to Berlin; to stand there and hear that announcement of surrender, knowing that I held in my hands the decisive proof that we had Hitler's remains.

For me it was a moment of immense solemnity and emotion; it was victory.

Rzhevskaya was ordered to carry the bones by Colonel Vassily Gorbushin, the head of a tiny secretive Soviet team tasked with identifying the remains.

Soviet troops were obsessed with finding Hitler and competing groups roved around hunting for him.

A Red Army soldier spotted the edge of a blanket poking from freshly turned earth in a bomb crater, near the bunker.

Adolf and Eva Hitler's bodies were soon unearthed and forensic experts were delighted to find the Nazi leader's jawbones in perfect condition. "These are the key," said one doctor.

After a brief pause to celebrate VE Day and a frantic search through the ruined city, Rzhevskaya and her two superior officers tracked down an assistant [Käthe Häusermann] to Hitler's dentist [Hugo Blaschke] who was able to confirm his identity.


WELL, perhaps not so secret after all. Elena Rzhevskaya published a book not long after WW2 with the same revelations.</B>
More important is the work of Lev Bezymenski, Der Tod von Adolf Hitler. Bezymenski., a KGB officer (and, like many of them, a Jew) was a fine Intelligence officer, but not such a conscientious historian; he was ordered (he said) by the KGB to conceal in his book the fact that Hitler shot himself, and to make various other propagandistic amendments to the version of the autopsy report which he published as an appendix.

A later edition, post-KGB, rectifies this however.

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Hitler's Skull Fragment Displayed
By Anna Dolgov
Associated Press Writer

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MOSCOW -- What officials claim is a fragment of Adolf Hitler's skull went on display Wednesday, along with documents revealing what happened to the dictator's remains after they were seized by Soviet troops in 1945.
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The four-inch fragment -- with a hole where a bullet reportedly exited through the left temple -- was displayed under thick glass at Russia's Federal Archives Service. The exhibition, called "The Agony of the Third Reich: The Retribution," was timed to mark the 55th anniversary next month of the defeat of Nazi Germany.

The piece of skull and the jaw are the only surviving remains of Hitler's body, according to officials at the archive service and at the Federal Security Service, or FSB, the main successor of the KGB.

Photographs of the jaw went on display Wednesday. But the jaw itself, with the dental work that originally allowed the Soviets to identify Hitler's body, is still in secret archives.

"The jaw is the main piece of evidence" in the decades-old Soviet investigation into Hitler's death," said Yakov Pogony, head of the FSB archive department. "And the main piece of evidence must be preserved."

After Hitler shot himself in his Berlin bunker on April 30, 1945, his body was taken outside by his staff, doused with gasoline and set ablaze along with the remains of his long-time companion, Eva Braun.

Soviet troops seized the remains when they captured the bunker. But what happened later has been shrouded in mystery and speculation.

Secret communications between Soviet counterintelligence units in Germany and the government in Moscow tell of repeated burials and exhumations of the remains, and of their final destruction by fire in 1970.

According to the documents, which also went on display Wednesday, the remains had been kept by the counterintelligence unit of the Soviet 3rd Army, part of an intelligence organization called SMERSH -- a Russian acronym for "Death to Spies." The soldiers buried and dug up the remains at least three times in 1945-46 as the army moved around Germany.

They were finally interred on SMERSH-controlled grounds in Magdeburg, a town about 70 miles west of Berlin -- until the Soviet government in 1970 ordered the remains be dug up and burned, the documents say.

The Magdeburg base was about to be transferred to East German authorities, and the Soviets feared "possible construction or excavation work on this territory that might lead to the discovery of the remains," according to a report by KGB boss Yuri Andropov.

Hitler's jaw, however, had been removed and brought to Moscow in 1945, to be included as evidence in an investigation into Hitler's death, said Sergei Mironenko, head of Russia's State Archive.

The skull fragment was found separately in 1946, when the Soviet secret police opened a second investigation, prompted by rumors that Hitler had survived. They again dug up the hole outside Hitler's bunker, Mironenko said. The fragment they found was sent to Moscow.

Russia announced it had the skull fragment in 1993, and some Western experts argued it was not Hitler's. But Mironenko insisted his service had "no doubts that it is authentic."

"It is not just some bone we found in the street, but a fragment of a skull that was found in a hole where Hitler's body had been buried," Mironenko said in an interview.

Still, the archives service has asked Russia's Forensic Medicine Institute -- a top agency for genetic testing -- to help in positively identifying the skull fragment, Mironenko conceded.

So far, there seems to be no conclusive evidence.

"I have not seen any documents providing evidence that this is the skull of Hitler," said Alexander Kalganov, an official at the FSB's archives department.



In April of 2000, a skull fragment went on display in the National Archives in Moscow. It is said to be a piece of Adolf Hitler's skull. According to the Russians, the charred remains of Adolf and Eva Hitler were discovered by the Red Army in 1945; part of the skull was missing on one of the corpses. The Russians took the corpses to a pathology lab and they proceeded to conduct a secret investigation into the death of Adolf Hitler. The jaw fragments were removed and placed into a cigar box and shown to two former dental assistants who worked on Hitler's teeth, Käthe Heusermann and Fritz Echtmann. Both Heusermann and Echtmann positively identified the fragments as belonging to Adolf Hitler. In July of 1946, the Russians conducted a search in the area around the Berlin bunker and discovered the fragments of a skull which had a bullet hole in it. The skull fragments were taken to Moscow and were positively matched to the Hitler corpse. The corpses of Adolf and Eva were kept in Moscow and the skull fragments were kept in the stores of the KGB. In the 1970's the corpses were destroyed on orders from Leonid Breshnev. The skull and jaw fragments were not destroyed. The authenticity of the jaw fragments is not a matter of debate, everyone agrees that these are indeed the fragments of Hitler's jaw.
The Russians put the skull on display in 2000 as part of an exhibit called The Agony of the Third Reich: Retribution. Along with the skull, the exhibit displayed some of Hitler's personal items that were found in the bunker after the collapse of the Third Reich. Parts of a bloodstained mattress were also on display - the mattress is said to have been part of the sofa that Hitler was sitting on when he committed suicide.
Looking at the hole in the skull, it is difficult to tell whether it is an entry wound or an exit wound. According to Hitler's entourage, he used a self-loading 7.65mm Walther PPK. With this type of pistol, it is possible to release the safety catch and cock the hammer using one hand. After a shot is fired, the cartridge case is ejected to the right. Interestingly enough, no bullet was ever found in the Bunker, either lodged in a wall or the floor. According to experts, when a bullet from a 7.65mm Walther PPK is fired into the head, there is an almost 50/50 chance that it will become lodged into the skull. Since no bullet was ever found in the Bunker, if the members of Hitler's entourage were telling the truth that he had shot himself, the bullet probably became lodged in his skull. If the skull fragment is really Hitler's, the hole would have to be an entry wound.

According to Hitler's entourage, when they entered the room after he had shot himself, he was seated on the couch, his body leaning slightly forward and to the right. His arms were hanging loosely and his right arm was between his thigh and the armrest of the couch. His head was slightly leaning to the right and blood was dripping onto the armrest of the couch and onto the carpet. There were two pistols lying on the floor in front of him: both were Walther PPKs, a 7.65mm and a 6.35mm. Only the 7.65mm smelled of powder smoke and a single shot had been fired from it. The 6.35mm was fully loaded.

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