on his dog Blondi, who died as a result. Hitler and Braun lived together as husband and wife in the bunker for less than 40 hours. By 01: 00 on 30th April, it was reported that all of the forces on which Hitler had been depending to rescue Berlin had either been encircled or forced onto the defensive. At around 02: 30, Hitler appeared in the corridor where about 20 people, mostly women, were assembled to give their farewells. He walked the line and shook hands with each of them before retiring to his quarters late in the morning, with the Soviets less than 500 metres from the bunker.
Hitler, two secretaries, and his cook then had lunch, after which Hitler and Braun said farewell to members of staff and fellow occupants, including Bormann, Goebbels and his family, the secretaries, and several military officers. At around 14: 30 Adolf and Eva Hitler went into Hitler's study. Several witnesses later reported that they heard a loud gunshot at approximately 15: 30. After waiting a few minutes, Hitler's valet, Heinz Linge, opened the study door with Bormann at his side. Linge later stated that he immediately noted a scent of burnt almonds, which is a common observation in the presence of cyanide.
Hitler's adjutant entered the study and found the two lifeless bodies on the sofa. Eva, with her legs drawn up, was to Hitler's left and slumped away from him. Hitler was bent over, with blood dripping out of his right temple. He had shot himself with his pistol. The gun lay at his feet and Hitler's head was lying on the table in front of him. Blood dripping from Hitler's right temple and chin had made a large stain on the right arm of the sofa and was pooling on the carpet. According to Linge, Eva's body had no visible physical wounds, she had died by cyanide.
Following Hitler's prior written and verbal instructions, the two bodies were carried up the stairs and through the bunker's emergency exit to the garden behind the Reich Chancellery, where they were to be burned with petrol.
The Soviets shelled the area in and around the Reich Chancellery on and off during the afternoon. SS guards brought over additional cans of petrol to further burn the corpses.
The first inkling to the outside world that Hitler was dead came from the Germans themselves. On 1st May, a Hamburg radio station interrupted their normal program to announce that Hitler had died that afternoon, and introduced his successor, President Karl Dönitz. Dönitz called upon the German people to mourn their Führer, who he stated had died a hero defending the capital of the Reich. Hoping to save the army and the nation by negotiating a partial surrender to the British and Americans, Dönitz authorised a fighting withdrawal to the west. His tactic was somewhat successful, it enabled about 1.8 million German soldiers to avoid capture by the Soviets, but it came at a high cost in bloodshed, as troops continued to fight until 8th May.
On 4th May, the thoroughly burned remains of Hitler, Braun, and two dogs were discovered in a shell crater by SMERSH commander Ivan Klimenko. They were exhumed the next day and secretly delivered to the SMERSH Counter-Espionage Section of the 3rd Assault Army. Stalin was wary of believing Hitler was dead and restricted the release of information to the public. By 11th May, part of a lower jaw with dental work was identified as Hitler's. Details of the Soviet autopsy were made public in 1968 and used to confirm the remains as Hitler's in 1972.
In early June 1945, the bodies of Hitler, Braun, Joseph and Magda Goebbels, the six Goebbels children, Krebs, Blondi and another dog were moved from Buch to Finow, where the SS guard who buried Hitler re-identified his remains. The bodies were reburied in a forest in Brandenburg on 3rd June, and finally exhumed and moved to the SMERSH unit's new facility in Magdeburg, where they were buried in five wooden boxes on 21st February 1946. By 1970, the facility was under the control of the KGB but was scheduled to be returned to East Germany. Concerned that a known Hitler burial site might become a neo-Nazi shrine, KGB director Yuri Andropov authorised an operation to destroy the remains that were buried there in 1946. A KGB team was given detailed burial charts and on 4th April 1970 secretly exhumed the remains of 10 or 11 bodies. The remains were thoroughly burned and crushed, and the ashes were thrown into the Biederitz river, a tributary of the nearby Elbe.
For politically motivated reasons, the Soviet Union presented various versions of Hitler's fate. When asked in July 1945 how Hitler had died, Stalin said he was living "in Spain or Argentina". In November 1945, Dick White, the head of counter-intelligence in the British sector of Berlin, had their agent Hugh Trevor-Roper investigate the matter to counter the Soviet claims. His report was published in 1947 as The Last Days of Hitler. In the years immediately after the war, the Soviets maintained that Hitler was not dead, but had escaped and was being shielded by the former Western Allies.
On 30th May 1946, MVD (Ministry of Internal Affairs) agents recovered two fragments of a skull from the crater where Hitler was buried. The left parietal bone had gunshot damage. This piece remained uncatalogued until 1975 and was rediscovered in the Russian State Archives in 1993. In 2009, DNA and forensic tests were performed on a small piece detached from the skull fragment, which Soviet officials had long believed to be Hitler's. According to the American researchers, their tests revealed that it belonged to a woman and the examination of the skull sutures placed her at less than 40 years old. Throughout the late 1940’s and 1950’s, the FBI and CIA documented many possible leads that Hitler might still be alive.
In 1968, Soviet journalist Lev Bezymenski published his book. The purported Soviet forensic examination led by Faust Shkaravsky concluded that Hitler had died by cyanide poisoning, while Bezymenski theorizes that Hitler requested a coup de gras to ensure his quick death. Bezymenski later admitted that his work included "deliberate lies", as to the manner of Hitler's death.
That is the official story. Now you make up your mind if you think that is the truth. To me, there are several contradictions. Read on . . . .
Operation Paperclip and Overcast
To understand why we have been and continue to be lied to, I thought it was necessary to figure who was in on this secret, the documents we were finding led me to believe the British were complicit, along with the USA, so why? Operation Paperclip and Operation Overcast contained what I thought was the answer.
… A deal …
It was an open secret of the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA), in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians, such as Wernher von Braun and his V-2 rocket team, were taken from Germany to America for U.S. government employment, primarily between 1945 and 1959. Many were former members and some were former leaders of the Nazi Party. This story has been well publicised in many books and other publications.
The primary purpose for Operation Paperclip was U.S. military advantage in the Soviet–American Cold War and the Space Race. The Soviet Union was more aggressive in forcibly recruiting more than 2,200 German specialists, a total of more than 6,000 people including family members, with Operation Osoaviakhim during one night on 22nd October 1946. This Soviet operation was to forcibly remove scientists to continue their work in Russia. Probably this alone caused many of the German scientist to want to live in the USA.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) established the first secret recruitment program, called Operation Overcast, on 20th July 1945, initially "to assist in shortening the Japanese war and to aid our post-war military research". The term "Overcast" was the name first given by the German scientists' family members for the housing camp where they were held in Bavaria. Operation Overcast was renamed Operation Paperclip by Ordnance Corps (United States Army) officers, who would attach a paperclip to the folders of those rocket experts whom they wished to employ in America.
In a secret directive circulated on 3rd September 1946, President Truman officially approved Operation Paperclip and expanded it to include one thousand German scientists under "temporary, limited military custody".
The Osenberg List.
In the later part of World War II, Nazi Germany found itself
