Hitler Adolf (Adolf Hitler)

Hitler Adolf (Adolf Hitler)

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Main article: World War II

1945: 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 investigation 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.

Hitler examines the ruins of Berlin hours before his death. The last lifetime photograph. April 30, 1945

As Baur told during interrogation by the Soviet special services, until the very end of April 1945, Hitler's close entourage, 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, sank and practically did not leave his room, the ex-pilot said.

Only on April 30 [1945] in the afternoon did he call me along 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 present a beloved painting to the former pilot - a portrait of King Frederick the Great by the artist Rembrandt, which hung in his room. Hans Baur tried to dissuade Adolf Hitler from suicide, "for then everything will fall apart in a few hours."

My soldiers can't and don't want to hold on anymore. I can't take it anymore, "the Führer replied.

FSB released new archival documents on Hitler's suicide

According to the FSB, from the testimony of eyewitnesses it followed that Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, who had married him the day before, committed suicide on April 30, 1945, 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 Braun, the authenticity of which was confirmed during numerous examinations, according to materials released by the FSB.^[1]

One of the first photos taken in Hitler's bunker in 1945.

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