In the spring of 2000, an exhibition of exhibits related to the last days of the Third Reich was held in the building of the State Archives of the Russian Federation (GARF). Particular attention of visitors was attracted by the remains of Adolf Hitler and artifacts associated with his death: the pistol from which he is said to have shot himself, the surviving household items of the Fuehrer of Germany.
The interior of the small room, where this "nail of the exhibition" was located, was furnished with the appropriate occult symbols. On the ceiling is a pentagram, probably intended to serve as a talisman against the magical power of Hitler's charred skull, placed under a bulletproof glass dome just under the center of this pentagram. The mysterious reddish twilight of the room was supposed to tune visitors to the idea that all these measures of spiritual security were taken for a reason, and before us are indeed the remains of the Nazi Fuhrer.
Hitler escaped to South America
For the eighth decade, publications do not stop appearing, the authors of which claim that they have attacked the post-war trail of Hitler, who secretly hid from Berlin before his fall in the last days of April 1945. Instead, his double was allegedly killed and buried. Many books and films are devoted to this plot. After the war, Hitler is said to have happily lived out his life either in Brazil, or in Paraguay, or in Chile, or even at a secret Nazi base in Antarctica.
In January 2017, a message appeared in the British Daily Mail that the secret of Hitler's fate had finally been revealed. In the last days of the war, he was smuggled out of Berlin and taken to a secret Nazi camp in Argentina, near the border with Brazil and Paraguay. The secret was revealed through documents by former CIA staffer Bob Beyer (Baer) and special forces officer Tim Kennedy, who participated in the assassination of Osama bin Laden. It was argued that the remains of Hitler presented in Russia belonged to some other person. The argument was that the USSR had not yet carried out a genetic examination of these remains and did not allow anyone to do this.
Expertise of French scientists
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The Russian media promptly responded to this message. MK correspondent Eva Merkacheva met with the leadership of the Central Archive of the FSB of Russia and got access to classified documents. From them, according to her, as well as from the statements of the FSB officers, it is irrefutably clear that the charred remains found on the site of the former Reich Chancellery really belong to Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun.
In March 2017, the FSB of Russia, in order to put an end to all tales of the miraculous rescue of Hitler from besieged Berlin, allowed a group of French scientists, led by Professor Philippe Charlier, to conduct a dentological analysis of Hitler's preserved jaw. The work was carried out until July of the same year. The results of the study were published on May 18, 2018 in # 54 of the European Journal of Internal Medicine.
Scientists argue that there is no doubt that this jaw really belonged to Adolf Hitler. On what basis did they come to this conclusion? They compared the jaw with the surviving X-rays of the Fuhrer's teeth and with documents on the dentures and implants made to him, and made sure that the object was fully consistent with the description.
Why is there no genetic examination
It seems that the latest research can only generate new questions instead of solving old ones. The judgment about the complete identity of the fragment of the charred jaw to the original sought, based only on the description of this original, can hardly be recognized as 100% objective. It is alarming that the genetic examination was never carried out.
Explanations of the employees of the Russian archives about the uselessness of such an examination can arouse even more suspicions. "There can be no doubt that in this case we are talking about the remains of Hitler," - told the correspondents of "MK" scientific director of the GARF, Doctor of Historical Sciences Sergei Mironenko. "There really was no DNA examination," confirms Nikolai Ivanov, deputy head of the FSB Central Archives, "but … we are ready to show Hitler's jaw and other material evidence confirming his death."
This, of course, is good, but what is such a confidence based on that this is Hitler's jaw and things? An argument at the level “whose else?”, Obviously, cannot be any proof. And why not carry out an examination in this case?
“From the point of view of the FSB of Russia, there is no need for these examinations,” says historian Oleg Matveev, “everything has been proven long ago, and we have no doubts.” As you might guess, statements of this kind do not dispel suspicion. And the thesis that the Russian authorities deliberately hinder the DNA examination of the alleged remains of Hitler, this only confirms.
The jaw and skull belong to different people
The situation is further confused by the demonstration of Hitler's supposedly skull cap with a bullet outlet, but without an inlet. According to the first official Soviet version, Hitler committed suicide by taking an ampoule of poison, and after that, for greater fidelity, shot himself in the mouth. The version is doubtful already because if the poison was fast-acting, it is unlikely that the Fuhrer would have had time to shoot himself. Moreover, the examination of the jaw showed no signs of a shot in the mouth.
So if the jaw is really Hitler's jaw, then the skull does not belong to him, but to another person? Quite possible. This is precisely what could, first of all, establish or refute the genetic examination, if it were carried out. That the skull (and it was found only in 1946, and not in the building of the Reich Chancellery, but in the courtyard) could belong to some other person, has already been written earlier. But then, then, that crown exhibit of the exhibition, which was mentioned at the beginning of the article, was a deliberate fake, what is it called now?
So, in solving the mystery of Hitler's death, there are still more questions than answers.
Yaroslav Butakov