Hitler Adolf (Adolf Hitler)

Hitler Adolf (Adolf Hitler)

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1945: "I want to say goodbye to you." FSB publishes new archival documents on Hitler's suicide

At the end of April 2022, the FSB of Russia published an archive on the suicide at the end of April 1945 of the founder of Nazi Germany, the chairman of the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers Party) Adolf Hitler. We are talking about documents from the investigative case against Hitler's former personal pilot, SS gruppenführer, police lieutenant general Hans Baur, which is stored in the FSB department in the Novgorod region.

As Baur told the Soviet special services during the interrogation, until the very end of April 1945, Hitler's close circle, who was with him in the bunker of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, did not know the final intentions of the head of Nazi Germany. However, it was clear that Hitler was very old, settled down and practically did not leave his premises, the ex-pilot said.

FSB publishes new archival documents on Hitler's suicide

Only on April 30 [1945] in the afternoon he called me together with my adjutant Colonel Betz. Hitler met me in the front and led me to his room. He gave me a hand and said: "Baur, I want to say goodbye to you, I want to thank you for all the years of service," Baur recalls.

According to the FSB, Adolf Hitler wanted to give a favorite painting to the former pilot - a portrait of King Frederick the Great artist Rembrandt, which hung in his room. Hans Baur tried to dissuade Adolf Hitler from suicide, "for then everything would fall apart in a few hours."

My soldiers can't and don't want to stick around anymore. I can't bear it anymore, "the Fuhrer replied.

According to the FSB, it followed from the testimony of eyewitnesses that Adolf Hitler and Eva Brown, who had married him on the eve of April 30, 1945, committed suicide, and on May 1 they were followed by Joseph and Magda Goebbels, who had previously killed six of their children, whose corpses Soviet soldiers found in a bunker.

On May 13, 1945, employees of the Smersh counterintelligence department in the garden of the Reich Chancellery discovered the bodies of Adolf Hitler and his wife Eva Brown, the authenticity of which was confirmed during numerous examinations, according to materials released by the FSB.^[1]

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