Did Hitler Come To The USSR Before The War - Alternative View

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Did Hitler Come To The USSR Before The War - Alternative View
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The history of relations between Germany and the Soviet Union in the period preceding the outbreak of the Second World War gave rise to many legends and rumors, providing abundant food for numerous conspiracy theories. Among the most shocking theories is Hitler's visit to the USSR, which allegedly took place in 1935 or 1939. What are the reports of these visits based on?

Visit # 1. April-May 1935

All information about this visit, all the photographs, films, newspapers that tell how Adolf Hitler came to Moscow, the theory goes, were destroyed by the NKVD. Those that were published in the USSR were destroyed even before the start of the war, those that came out in Germany were destroyed after the end of the war. The "cleansing" of everything that could have shed light on this visit was carried out with such thoroughness that at present no evidence of Hitler's arrival in the USSR has survived, except in the archives of the NKVD, where no one has access. Something can be found in Europe, and this theory is built on these nuggets of information.

According to these documents, it was like this. Stalin himself sent an invitation to visit the USSR to Hitler. After lengthy negotiations, the time was set for the start of the visit: April 1, 1935. The Fuhrer took von Neurath, Himmler, von Ribbentrop, Goering, Goebbels, personal translators and Eva Braun with him. A week before Hitler's arrival in Moscow, on March 27, a specialist was sent there. on the flight the personal guard of the Fuehrer - the 1st company of the 1st Division "Leibstandarte" SS.

The meeting of the two leaders in Moscow was accompanied by handshakes, exchange of friendly speeches and various solemn ceremonies. Stalin showed Hitler construction sites in Moscow, factories, took him to "Ivan Susanin" in the Bolshoi Theater, and it was noted that Hitler did not like the opera. On April 14, Stalin and Hitler went to Leningrad with their retinue. Then Stalin showed the guests Arkhangelsk, Volkhov, Murmansk, where he demonstrated shipbuilding and ship repair enterprises, the capabilities of the fleet, etc. Then everyone went to Moscow for the May 1 parade. Hitler stood with members of the Soviet government on the platform of the Mausoleum. After that, Stalin and his guests went to Kuibyshev, Stalingrad. Dnepropetrovsk and Kiev. Traveling along the Volga on the ship "Shchors" was accompanied by stops in the Volga cities,where an air show with the famous Chkalov was organized for the guests. On May 21, everyone went to Kiev and Dnepropetrovsk, where Hitler was shown the successes of Soviet industrialization. The visit to Moscow ended with the signing of an agreement called the Iron Pact. There are no documents confirming this story, except for photographs in which Hitler and Stalin are depicted together on the podium of the Mausoleum.

This whole story looks, to put it mildly, dubious. First, how can you hide the stay in the USSR for almost two months of Hitler and the entire "top" of the Third Reich? For example, in the USSR, a country “crushed by totalitarianism,” it would be possible to some extent and for a while. But what about Western countries? There, no one would make any secret from Hitler's visit to Stalin. On the contrary! Secondly, all diplomatic correspondence and all documents prior to the beginning of the Second World War have been repeatedly researched, they are published and widely available. There is no "Iron Pact" concluded in Moscow in May 1935 between Germany and the USSR. Finally, the circumstances of Eva Braun's life and her letters are well known. Just at this very time - April-May 1935 - she repeatedly writes to Adolf Hitler, complaining about loneliness, aboutthat he does not pay attention to her, etc. And not a word about traveling in Russia, about sailing along the Volga. But at this time, according to the memoirs of contemporaries, she even made a suicidal attempt. Probably it happened in the cabin of the ship "Schors"?

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Visit # 2. August 1939

This theory was published in the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets. It is based on the fact that the list of the German delegation headed by Ribbentrop contains the names of several people who were practically irreplaceable under Hitler. This is the Fuehrer's personal pilot, his personal photographer, adjutant, orderly officer, doctor, as well as "Fraulein Edith Kruger", under which name, according to the authors of the theory, Eva Braun herself was hiding. That is, in addition to Ribbentrop, Hitler himself secretly entered the delegation, who wished to personally participate in the signing of the document known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

This version, for all its amusingness, also does not seem convincing. The historian of the Memorial Society A. Roginsky considers the theory published in MK to be absurd. First, why would Hitler go to Moscow? Ribbentrop did just fine without him. Secondly, such facts cannot be concealed, especially for 70 years.