On may the 1st 945 the battle for belin had been raging for 2 weeks the capital of the 3rd reich lay in ruins while the nazi leadership still refused to sign an Unconditional Surrender soviet troops continued to fight their way towards the furious bunker and house to house back. Using news their all to make goal was to capture the leader of the 3rd of. The global sea level. Hitler was the symbol of the war and of fascism shoes were so he was a trophy that everybody would want to show some priest where the mortgagors could. But when walls hitler soviet soldiers found 6 childrens corpses in the garden of the rocks chancery to charred bodies as well as skull fragments and teeth. And what did these 2 young women have to do with a search one was. A red army interpreter the other a german kid to highs among the assistant to hitlers dentist both played a decisive role in the identification of hitlers remains. There is that in most of the witness states i clearly recognize the gold teeth and the dentures i was shows with the style and was immediately informed about the remains and their identification. And you know he now knew that hitler was destiny to get him off. Yet 7 weeks later at the popstar conference stalin told his western allies that the dictator was in good health and had probably defected. But you must tell him why didnt stalin tell his allies probably because keeping it a secret could prove useful for those that are sure that. The settlers in the story of hitlers death shows how suspicious stalin was of the west. Stalins lie about hitlers death was held for almost 50 years old proof of hitlers death was kept under wraps until the soviet union became history only them was the truth finally tell 1st. Year if you will nothing can be hidden gullible young. Earth everything comes out in the end. For the Serviette Union world war 2 began in june 1941 after a surprise invasion by hitler within a few months the enemy was outside moscow stalin ordered the Mass Mobilization of the population the poorly equipped to read. Once that marched across red square was sent directly to the front. Yard i was just 22 and the mother of a 2 year old son but the red army needed interpreters and yelena who spoke german volunteered 4 years later she was part of the soviet union it involved in that was trying to track down nazi leaders. Nobody knew where hitler was there were rumors of him line dead or dying a victim of a brain hemorrhage or that he had taken his own life. But according to soviet radio hitler was alive and well and in hiding in the alps it was said that a double was fighting in his place on the streets of dublin and nazi propaganda was only waiting for his death to present the allies with appropriate photos another rumor claimed that hitler was hiding in the ruins of the rock stock. Capturing the reichstag was a historical moment raising the red flag above the Parliament Building symbolize the victory over the 3rd reich. And it was our units that led the attack on the high start. We were lucky it was a great honor for us. They stormed the reichstag thinking hitler was hiding there but really nobody knew where he was enough to get close but hitler wasnt in the right stock it had burned down in 1933. The red Army Frontline headed to the chancery. The former heart of nazi power told the civil instead it was exciting to imagine hitler could still be there we were on the edge but where was hitler was he alive or dead. Roofed. German radio announced the death of a few who fell in his heroic battle against bolshevism shortly afterwards german chief of staff hans skypes went to soviet headquarters he wanted to begin surrender negotiations and told Marshall Georg about hitlers death. So while bitter fighting continued on the streets of berlin the small soviet advance units with yelena the interpreter reached the chancery. Close by was the bunker where hitler had possibly been hiding for several months. They found a chaotic scene the ground powered by shells and corpses lying everywhere they quickly recognised one body josef goebbels then those of his wife and their 6 children. It was body hadnt yet been found but the next day the news of his death made the headlines wild wife except in the soviet union. The official communist Party Newspaper and voice of the kremlin wrote that the claim hitler was damned was a ruse to enable him to escape. Similarly in paris humanity. A question the reporter. Meanwhile in the grounds of the chancery to search for a headless body continued among the rubble and corpses one of them closely resembled the dictator especially because of the typical mustache excitement and restlessness spread experts were holden but despite the resemblance and the mustache it was clear that it was not hitler. Nevertheless the legend of a double was born all soviet troops marching into berlin wall order to keep an eye out for hitler but the real search was done in secret and carried out by only 3 people. Major. Major bistrot and bad interpreter yelena she was needed to help question german soldiers and officers the 2 officers were part of smash the soviet military intelligence during world war 2. Children was full of dirt in here on may 4th i spoke to the bankers heating engineer. And he had installed the ventilation system in the rooms hitler lived in watching you pull him about issues. All movie you he saw the bodies of hitler and brown being taken out of the bunker is who could get together after questioning the 1st german prisoners investigators were convinced that hitler had held out in the bunker until the end and that he had taken his own life shortly before the 1st soviet troops arrived it was also known that on the afternoon of april the 30th the day of his supposed suicide all the gasoline kept in the chancery for an urgency as had been here stop had hitler disappeared without a trace or had he ordered his body to be. Could his remains still be found and if so where. Im not although the bodies of hitler and eva braun were discovered completely by chance. Water in the garden of the chancellery a soldier saw the tip of a bull still in Good Condition sticking out of a hole in the ground he decided to take it and found 2 dead bodies. Floating for was nuclear they didnt know if it was really hitler they were able to identify gerbils because less petrol had been used to burn his corpse but these remains were burnt to a cinder with you. The corpses of the gerbils family several officers and the still unidentified remains smashed now had to identify around a dozen bodies chant of varying degrees vice admiral hans airforce confessed he was among the last to see gobbles and hitler aligned. Like denton find gravels wasnt a problem for a while since really the corpse of hitler. The autopsy proved inconclusive the doctors could not unlike with gravel say with absolute certainty whether the remains were really thousands of the dictator. The last time where his teeth. Literally consequently upper jaw was well preserved the lower jaw to the still had 15000. On may 8th my superior officer major gore bush told me to go and see him. He gave me a burgundy colored box and said those are hitlers teeth is your responsible for the. All night the 8 the guns fell silent as the Unconditional Surrender of the van marked came into Effect People celebrated the end of a war that had claimed millions of victims but yelena stayed away from the victory celebrations instead she carefully guarded a box lined with red satin. It probably contained hitlers final remix. In berlin cards horst representatives of the allies and german field marshal general vilhelm keitel mattered soviet headquarters overseen by Marshall Zhukov they signed the surrender document of the german of our mosques on the night of may nights the war in europe was now officially over. The following morning yelena and the 2 officers set off to track down hitlers dentist maybe he could say for certain if these were hitlers teeth but they knew neither the dentists name nor his address or even if he was still alive finally they found out his name and that he had left the city 2 weeks earlier. But they also learned that his assistant had stayed in berlin hoping for her soldier husband to return from the front. A few hours later yelena met. A cheerful young woman who for almost 10 years had assisted at every one of hitlers dentist faces so the fear of teeth held no secrets for her. She became the main witness the is the teeth meant nothing if you could not find the person to identify them but its not a hunch when you go you know. The questioning of kids some of them the witness states i clearly recognize the gold teeth and the dentures i was shown. And you going to do that because they belong to chancellor hitler. The witness makes the same statement for abel brawn. Is to this testimony is very important. Now it is proven that the teeth truly belong to him for the 1st time to begin to show him in then you. Know we asked her to make a sketch of hitlers teachers without showing her the teeth we had found. Her hadnt forgotten about hitlers terrible dental health her scans corresponded exactly to the jaw found by the soviets it removed all doubt about corpse found in a hole in the chancery garden was it less. So hitler was dead but how would stalin handle this information. Still for the soviet leadership in berlin it was clear that there was dead and stalin was informed immediately to not give stalin an accurate report on the subject was out of the question. Hitler was a symbol of huge political importance like the taking of the right stuff and the conquest of berlin took. Stalin hardly amounts from the kremlin but he had informers everywhere. Every day new documents about hitlers death and the identification arrived. They were precise and definite after kate oyster mans testimony it was clear that hitler was dead and stalin knew it. However a few days later a soviet general arrived in bonn then to verify the facts. General started questioning people again and for the 1st time jelena as the interpreter was warned she would be held responsible in the case of a translation error but these also thought everyone was given strict instructions and put under a real pressure. The general sent the trio to find kate to hoist a man again she was told to pack a suitcase for a week long absence then they took her with some. Official report of the 2nd questioning of kids who has among it says that it started at 115 and ended at 0650 the questions were always the same they made her repeat what she knew about hitlers teeth and after she said everything they asked the same question do you still think that the teeth and dentures shown to you belong to. The bridge she said yes i can confirm that. Dial to. The document is only 5 pages long but we know the interview lasted 5 hours she won yes so we can imagine how many times they forced her to get the same answers if that its a pretty and he said butte. The mysterious general. Didnt sign any official reports after the 2nd questioning which confirmed the 1st he left as suddenly as he had arrived the investigators were certain hitler was dead thanks to the formal identification of his teeth by cato always a month but this information remained top secret and the soviet high command in berlin officially continued the search for hitler dead or alive a medal was even promised to the person who succeeded in capturing him. Although of a smash investigation was undertaken in upmost secrecy rumors were circulating outside the soviet zone which made their way into the International Media that the russians found and identified the nazi leaders body everyone waited for soviet confirmation. The kremlin remained silent at the end of may 945. 00 Harry Hopkins an advisor to us president harry truman went to moscow for a series of talks with stalin to prepare the 1st postwar conference between the big 3. And. When hopkins asked stalin about hitlers whereabouts and replied he thought hitler was alive had successfully escapes and had maybe gone to japan in a submarine it was the 1st official lie about hitlers death told by stalin himself. 10 days later zuckoff organized a press conference in berlin for foreign journalists they expected confirmation of the discovery and identification of his. Remains but to then surprise announced the opposite that hitler had not been found he was certainly alive and had managed to flee perhaps to spain or argentina. Zuko his claim can only be explained as follows as he obeyed stalins orders to the letter discovered as he hadnt received an order to say the bodies had been found and identified he lied on sure he knew it. But you must tell him you search it so you see why didnt stalin tell the allies bush the answer is not simple it has psychological reasons for my little dog. Knowing something the others dont know is always advantageous. Keeping a secret can always be useful sure. The story of hitlers death shows how much stalin distrusted the west. It was important to him not to give them too much information or evidence. Maybe one day it would be useful to have left his allies in the dark. So the line had been bought and it was general consternation because nobody could imagine that just a month after the joint victory the soviets would lying to their allies about such a subject why if so what was the aim it seemed upset no said hitler hadnt been found it was true. In mid july Stalin Truman and churchill met in pakistan for their 1st postwar summit the talks were to determine the future of germany and large parts of the. Eastern europe. Miracle or so is going to use them in the tensions between the soviets and the western allies were aggravated by the soviet claims of Eastern Europe and the soviet policies in the areas occupied by the red army due to his own if it will be a computer on the coast. With so much at stake the question of hitlers fate was rather secondary the truman advisor record later that during dinner with the us president stand in reaffirm that hitler is alive and is either in spain or argentina. In pakistan the leaders also had to decide which nazi leaders would go on trial in a few months time in your im back stalin again said hitler is alive so he should have been at the top of the list of war criminals but oddly nobody wanted him not the americans not the english. Not even stalin himself. Solution was everything was kept secret in case one day we could use it. That is how the soviet union operated it was all controlled by the Intelligence Services which observed suresh and and spread fear everywhere. That. Stalins decision to withhold information that concerned all of the allies was the soviets 1st step towards the cold war not financial hole new a new. For yelena the time had come to take off her uniform and put on a nice dress and elegant shoes. She posed for some souvenir photos. And paid her last visit to kato the main witness to hitlers death who was still being held at soviet h. Q. The 2 young ladies got on well. And they both shared an important secret. Dossier well theyre plotting exchange was very friendly catches said i will soon be free well then we can meet up in berlin and ill take you to my head dresses but that never happened. Meanwhile the british and the americans continue to seek the truth about hitlers mysterious disappearance and they still counted on soviet cooperation. To post. Here is a request from the british and the americans to the soviet leadership in berlin. Our generals passed on the request to Foreign Affairs minister Vyacheslav Molotov and started asking for instructions. What information were they authorized to give them should they cooperate with the british and the americans to clarify the details of hitlers death. Doing there. Are crimes hold a request from intelligence chief frente beriah to molotov to pass on the information to the allies but it seems that kremlin decided not to allow its ally went around the world and kept the press on alert. People everywhere reported having seen hitler. Nazi sympathizers seize the opportunity to spread the math hitler was still alive and would return to save the right. One of the rumors was particularly annoying for the british the soviets accused them of helping hitler escape and that they were hiding him somewhere in the british Occupied Zone to use him as a bargaining chip against them at the appropriate time. In order to put an end to such accusations the british commissioned a young historian hugh travel ropa to investigate the question of hitlers whereabouts the russians denied him their support and any access to the chancery located in the soviet sanctum but travel roper found several witnesses in british and american prison camps who had experienced the. Last moments in a field as banker. The historian was soon certain that hitler had committed suicide on april the 30th shortly afterwards his body was burned by his bodyguards but travel ropers report was based solely on testimony from witnesses what he lacked was evidence most importantly the body. That is why he was unable to put a stop to the rumors which were becoming more and more lurid at that time the f. B. I. Received thousands of reports from all over the world about sightings of hitler which were checked and categorized. The end. Of. This is. In march 953. 00 the news spread like wildfire around the world stalin was dead. The unscrupulous dictator victor of the 2nd world war merciless tyrant glorified and hated ruler had died and nobody knew what would follow the regime of terror he had maintained for almost 30 years in the soviet union. And the honorable task of delivering the eulogy on red square. The head of soviet state intelligence had hoped to seize power but soon afterwards he was arrested put on trial and executed. Kilometer long shelves contain to carefully documented secrets of the stunning regime 80 years after hitlers death the truth about his death remained locked away in secret archives only a few remaining eyewitnesses knew the details. In 1955 gallon i was finally free to say and write in moscow that hitler had committed suicide but nothing more nothing about the investigation the identification of his remains and even less about stalins lies anyway who would believe her where was the proof among the numerous versions of hitlers disappearance it was now the suicide theory that those in power preferred. But not just any suicide. The idea that hitler poisoned himself was much more interesting for propaganda than if he shot himself in the head for. Suicide by shooting his scene is an act of courage. Who says while taking poison is a sign of cowardliness its. The 1st line told by stalin himself was that hitler was alive and had succeeded in escaping his successors opted for another version that hitler had poisoned himself like a coward. Thanks. To the new world of that persian was spread and repeated until everyone had heard it as he was much. The brash never era began in 19641 year later the soviet leader decided to commemorate the end of war by making victory day a public holiday. In the 20 years had. Since the end of the war. Maybe set. In 1965 yelena decided to write about what had happened and what the Intelligence Services had done justice to. Yell and sky was now a respected writer but she was obsessed by the lines about hitlers death and she wanted to publicize one she knew and dispel the myths but to make it credible it needed to be based on the proof hidden in the archives. After multiple requests she finally gained access to some of the documents. She was given little time to carry out her research she frantically copied all of the documents given to. The. Field 5 large no she could not choose the documents and didnt know what was in the archives but what she had no catalog which she had to stay sitting in a chair and an official gave her one dossier after another. Near. The importance and interest of the documents varied hugely sign and as much in the matter of the people just one day she opened it does say with a list of different trophies sent from berlin to moscow hitlers coat a Paper Shredder found in the bank and the name said k. To her is the man and several other germans with the key to it at that point that should put them up there thats how my grandmother learned to have been sent to moscow. So like an object. It was a huge shock yelena was suddenly transported 20 years into the past to the. Interrogation room and. She remembered kate ahoy hitlers dentists or sister and the main witness or write enabled the identification of hitlers remains. Jelena had got on well with us now she knew she had never been released. The 930 florida on the morning of june 29th 1985 at 6 oclock i was transported in a van with 7 other prisoners to a berlin airfield and put on a cargo plane to moscow on arrival we were immediately taken in a police van to lubyanka prison and put in solitary confinement my cell was very small just 7 paces long with water running down the black painted walls. When you can you myatt new school she didnt know how long they would keep her there or what she was accused of and it is all new when you mining but she did understand why she was there so what is after all. A decent thing i spent 6 years in solitary confinement in august 1051 they charged me with helping a boy who was state prolonging the war by participating in hitlers dental health care that they said i should have killed hitler for example by breaking a bottle over his head during treatment that way i would have saved the world hours i. Guess in fact. After 6 years in a secret k. G. B. Prison there followed an absurd indictment and a sentence with no try. A month earlier stalins protege victor apo kumar a former head of smash and minister for state security had fallen into disgrace and been dismissed from office. 1951 when i will come off was arrested and it was discovered that a number of germans who had witnessed hitlers death were still being held without a warrant. And you proved to the list was drawn up and sent to stalin for further instructions its a nice piece a good look at those started so he decided they should be sententiously. Everyone on the list was given a long sentence for imaginary political crimes was there that way nobody could speak about what they had seen social. You believe me if. I was sentenced to 10 years in a forced labor camp in siberia with the 6 and a half year solitary i had already served taken into account i signed everything i was happy to go to a camp with fellow sufferers and escape my stone tool in moscow in the sky a false call. In december 1951 caterer left moscow for a sign and a cattle wagon. She was given her little suitcase of some addresses packed in berlin 6 and a half years previous when she thought shed be away for a week. The journey lasted 14 days and katie recalled that when one of the prisoners dined but danced through the body out into the snow. She wrote that she had to do an extreme amount of labor i couldnt keep up at the time i weighed under 40 kiddo. By 50 because i didnt work enough my food ration was cut no breakfast no food in the evening just at midday that if a fellow prisoner hadnt helped me i would have certainly starved to death. Because of his i was a man was sentenced because she could testify that hitler was the day she was imprisoned in the soviet union so that nobody would find out those in power had falsified historical facts she suffered because of his services to history. Faster secret prison than sentenced for a made up crime kato was 1st released after 10 years and 955. 00. 106. Had changed completely. I guess here he come here we arrived in moscow on june 1st and they took us around the city by bus to come they showed us the kremlin the university and the underground stations that were each individual a decorated with mosaics paintings and colorful marble buns for. K. To return to germany and an express train with sleeping cars white curtains and lamp chance in the soviet union tourists had to spend all their roubles before leaving the country a man often invested their little money in crimean champagne all vodka from the dining cars and gave the rest those temps. 80 years kate his family had known nothing of what had become of us until a recently released prisoner said she was alive and in a prison camp in siberia it is husbands who had returned from the front but had her declared dead and remarried. Others she had to so fight to fight but my aunt immediately adapted to her new existence before and and i the huge ash started surprisingly she said that chapter of my life is over just as fast as now im starting a new life i get furnish a nice living im not a woman with an absent husband am a at 1st and i have no idea who i am. And what are you when you have been declared dead dead and i dont know what to call that thats how it was. Because after. 20 years after the. End of world war 2 yellen his book was finally published in moscow but 1st it had to pass 2 censors the 1st was the normal one that every book in the soviet union was subject to the 2nd check was carried out by the k. G. B. It for bait her from saying she had access to that secret archives so from an historical point of view the blank was basically worthless the author was not allowed to base her writing on actual findings all concrete saw since she was also banned from mentioning official lines on divulging state secrets. She would have to wait another 25 years to do that. In 1991 the soviet union collapsed outside the lubyanka building the k. G. B. Headquarters the statue of felix jesuit ski the founder of the k. G. B. Predisaster was removed was it now finally possible to tell the whole story. Youre going to want to hear when i became director of the state archives in 1992 there was a kind of handover of power to the us will my predecessor handed me a box that contained parts of hitlers skull and documents on the investigation into his death a phone call me tew for you clearly it was only after the fall of the soviet union that we could launch what is known as the archives revolution which was the. Millions of documents were declassified so that researchers could access them. Loosely of. The findings material evidence as well as parts of hitlers skull had been kept in the state. While the archives of the k. G. B. Now the f. S. B. Had kept parts of the witness reports including that of kate hudson on as well as the main proof it lists teeth until now. But where were the bodies the charred remains of hitler and eva bomb. The remains were handed over to the chief of staff of the 3rd army stationed in east germany. Every time the army was relocated they took them with them but they had to dig them up and bury them in a new secret hiding place for. A 970 the then k. G. B. Chief Yuri Andropov advised me on it brezhnev to get rid of the charred remains that had followed the 3rd army for 25 years the secret document about the destruction of the nazi leaders remains was discovered in the archives in 1992 when the case was closed. 47 years later all the evidence of hitlers cumshots suicide in his bunker on april 30th 945 was finally made public. Nothing stays secret. Everything comes out in the end of. The history teachers that im sure even the best kept secrets come out in the end youre screwed if you go because all of usenet is a just list the governments that followed never felt it necessary to explain themselves to the people. In the 90s russian leaders said ok there were secrets but it was the work of the soviet union or science because so you screw up. Should have issued a. General indictment on the soviet era and the soviet regime as an instrument of power based on violence that violated its own laws which as oaks is being assumed on the butt that critical appraisal of the past and soviet crimes never occurred he says the. Illusions of influence perception. Thinking. Action. Where bush unwilling to change attractive appearances and moves to easily find a route to see the danger of. What happens when the bomb proof. Its time for clashes made in germany. 30 minutes on dont leap into the conflict zone in these extraordinary times we decided to take the opportunity to focus on the impact that the coronavirus pandemic is having on human rights around the world there are reports of invasive surveillance authoritarian power grabs my guest is the head of Human Rights Watch kind of problem of how many limitations are people willing to accept in order to fight a threat like coronavirus conflict. In 90 minutes on d w. Nato is for me. Is for you. 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