It would seem that the answer is obvious and unambiguous: the possessed Fuhrer and his newly-minted wife Eva Braun committed suicide on April 30, 1945 at 15:30 in Berlin, in an underground bunker equipped in the courtyard of the Imperial Chancellery. This was confirmed by people from Hitler's inner circle, as well as by the results of the identification and examination of his exhumed corpse. However, there is another version: Hitler did not commit suicide at all, but together with Eva Braun and his associates fled from besieged Berlin to South America and died there in 1964 at the age of 75. And this version is supported by a number of documents and evidence.
The first inconsistencies
The American historian and writer William Shearer, in his seminal study, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, published in 1960, argues that the bodies or bones of Hitler and Eve were never found as they were scattered and destroyed by the explosions of Russian shells.
And almost half a century later, the Argentine historian and documentary writer Abel Basti began to find out the true fate of Hitler, Eva Braun and all the top Nazi leaders. The results of his research are presented in the book "Hitler in Argentina", published in 2006.
The author bases his conclusions and conclusions on numerous documents and testimonies of witnesses, on the basis of which he claims that the suicide and subsequent burning of the corpses of Hitler and Eva Braun were falsified. Hitler and his wife managed to hide in South America and live there to old age.
Facts and eyewitness accounts
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What are these documents and testimonies? For example, aeronautical engineer Hans Bauer informs; On April 30, 1945 at 16:30 (that is, an hour after the announced suicide), he saw Adolf Hitler, dressed in a light gray suit, in the center of Berlin near the Junkers-52 aircraft.
According to another document, on April 25, a secret meeting was held in the Fuehrerbunker on the evacuation of Hitler, which was attended by the famous "pilot" Hanna Reitsch, pilot ace Hans-Ulrich Rudel and Hitler's personal pilot Hans Bauer. The Fuhrer's secret evacuation plan was codenamed Operation Seraglio.
And five days earlier, on April 20, the list of passengers flying from Berlin to Barcelona was approved. Hitler was listed first, but the names of Goebbels, his wife and children were deleted from the list.
So Adolf Hitler and, apparently, the entire "payroll" on April 30, 1945 flew from Berlin to Spain, and from there the Fuhrer, Eva Braun and their extensive retinue and security at the end of the summer arrived in Argentina on three submarines, which later, in conspiracy purposes were flooded.
The reality of such an underwater voyage is confirmed by the fact that off the coast of Argentina, at a depth of about 30 meters, divers discovered large objects covered with sand. The same objects are visible in the image taken by the Americans from space.
The testimony of witnesses who observed the arrival of three submarines with a swastika in the bay of Caleta de los Loros, located in the Argentine province of Rio Negro, also speaks of the fact that these are the submarines of the Nazis.
The US FBI archive contains a report from an American agent in Argentina - a gardener of wealthy German colonists, the Eichhorn spouses from the village of La Falda. The agent reports that the owners have been preparing the estate since June for the arrival of Hitler, which will take place in the very near future.
A letter from Nazi General Seydlitz, dated 1956, has also survived - he says that he is going to be present in Argentina at a meeting between Hitler and the "Fuhrer" of the Croatian nationalist Ustasha Ante Pavelic.
A poorly played performance?
As for the testimony of witnesses who allegedly buried Hitler's corpse, it turns out that there is not a single person who would see with his own eyes how the Fuhrer bit through an ampoule of poison and shot himself in the head. Most likely, the story of the suicide of the head of the Third Reich from beginning to end was invented by people from his inner circle in order to confuse everyone.
And if you carefully study the archival documents, you can find in the testimony of "eyewitnesses" of Hitler's death a number of contradictions. First it is said - he was poisoned. Then - no, he shot himself in the temple. After - sorry, first he was poisoned, and then shot himself. Potassium cyanide causes convulsions and instant death: how then could a person pull the trigger of a pistol?
Hitler and Eva Braun are photographed with children. Such pictures always evoke emotion.
In general, all witnesses to Hitler's death are confused in the testimony. For example, SS officer Heinz Linge claims that Hitler shot himself in the left temple with a Walter pistol and blew off half his skull, while another SS officer Otto Günsche (carrying out the Fuhrer's body) shows: "Adolf hit his right temple, but his face was not injured at all." … Ten years later, for some reason, he changed his testimony - Hitler's shot in the temple again became left.
In 1950, Günsche recalls: when he entered the room, the corpses were lying side by side on the sofa. And ten years later, he changed his mind and said that they were lying at different ends of the sofa.
But the most interesting thing is that a Soviet physician, Lieutenant Colonel Shkaravsky, who took part in the autopsy of the bodies, indicated that there were no traces of bullet wounds anywhere on them, only the remains of ampoules with cyanide in the teeth.
From all this, the conclusion suggests itself: the SS themselves never saw the dead Hitler, and hence such a discrepancy in the picture of his death. They were ordered in advance to categorically assert that the Fuhrer is dead, but they did not learn their roles.
Stalin and Zhukov also doubted
It is not surprising that reading the babble of such "witnesses", Stalin did not believe in Hitler's death. It is known that the Soviet intelligence was looking for the Fuhrer in several countries of South America at once, which is confirmed by the declassified archival documents of the KGB.
And on June 9, 1945, at a press conference for foreign journalists, Marshal Georgy Zhukov said. that the Fuhrer and Eva Braun secretly flew by plane to Hamburg, from where they sailed in a submarine.
It is also known about the existence of three shorthand recordings of Stalin's conversations (one of them with US Secretary of State Byrnes), in which the head of the USSR openly says that the Fuhrer managed to escape.
Fuhrer "covered" double?
After the official date of his death, Hitler lived in Argentina for another twenty years. This does not fit with the large number of testimonies about the miserable state of the Fuhrer in March-April 1945: a physically exhausted person who has lost the idea of the reality of what is happening, half-blind, sitting on tranquilizers.
However, there is no contradiction here - it must be borne in mind that in the spring of 1945 one of the Fuehrer's doubles appeared before the public, who looked older than his years. This man, who portrayed Hitler, remained in the bunker until the end - there he died as a result.
Living in hospitable Argentina
All witnesses in Argentina describe the appearance of "late" Hitler as a healthy man, although he moved with some difficulty, relying on a cane - apparently, the consequences of the shell shock after the 1944 assassination attempt affected. He never learned Spanish and spoke very poorly. He no longer wore the famous mustache, and his hair was cut short, almost like a beaver, and became gray.
Upon arrival in Argentina, the Fuhrer lived for a long time in a hotel owned by the Eichhorn spouses (they were mentioned in the report by an American agent). He repeatedly visited the luxurious villa of a prominent businessman Jorge Antonio (friend of the country's president Juan Peron) and visited the mountain resort of Bariloche, where his favorite pilot Hans-Ulrich Rudel, SS Hauptsturmführer Erich Priebke and the fanatical doctor from Auschwitz Joseph Mengele settled. He especially liked Bariloche, the Fuhrer and Eva Braun lived there for several years in a two-story wooden mansion.
It is worth mentioning especially about Eva Braun. She was born in 1912 and was 23 years younger than Hitler. It is possible that Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler had children in Argentina.
Good luck for the country
In one of the documents of the US FBI archives, declassified in 1997 and dated September 21, 1945, the informant states his readiness to provide evidence that three Argentine ministers met a submarine, on board which Hitler was.
It should be added to what has been said that Hitler and his henchmen sent huge financial resources to Argentina. The submarines U-235 and U-977 in August 45 unloaded more than four kilograms of diamonds, tons of gold and platinum in Argentine bays.
Declassified in 1996, a CIA report indicates that Argentine President Juan Peron received $ 7 million from SS-controlled secret accounts in Switzerland after the collapse of the Third Reich - this was a payment for silence.
Peron's statement on this is well known; “This is good luck for us. The Germans have invested huge amounts of money in our economy, built factories and plants, put billions of gold in our banks. Isn't that a bargain?"
