On d w. 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 continue to fight their way towards the furious bunker and a house to house back. There all to make goal was to capture the leader of the 3rd. Dribble symbol of hitler was the symbol of the war and of fascism is with so he was a trophy that everybody want to show some priests where the movie jerry skirted. But where was hitler soviet soldiers found 6 childrens corpses in the garden of the right 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 hoist them on the a system to hitlers dentist both played a decisive role in the identification of hitlers remains. President of. The witness states i clearly recognize the gold teeth and the dentures i was shows my. Style and was immediately informed about the remains in their identification. And you know he now knew that hitler was destiny to getting it. Yet 7 weeks later at the potsdam 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 feedback or. He said it was 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 proof of hitlers death was kept under wraps until the soviet union became history only them was the truth finally. Near if you will nothing can be hidden. If everything comes out in the end. For the soviet union well want to 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 regiments that marched across red square were sent directly to the front i. Yell and 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 in berlin that was trying to track down nazi leaders. Nobody knew where hitler was there were rumors of him lying 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 the nazi. And there 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 reichstag. Capturing the right stark was a historical moment raising the red flag above the Parliament Building symbolize the victory over the 3rd reich. And it was our unit 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. But hitler wasnt in the reichstag it had burned down in 1933. The Red Army Front line headed to the chancery before my heart of nazi power told the civil instead it was exciting to imagine hitler could still be there but we were on edge but where was hitler was he alive or dead. If you. German radio announced the death of a few of us who fell in his heroic battle against bolshevism shortly afterwards german chief of staff hun scraps 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 reach 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 recognized one body josef goebbels then those of his wife magda and their 6 children. It was body hadnt yet been found but the next day the news of his death made the headlines well why except in the soviet union. The official communist Party Newspaper and voice of the kremlin wrote that the claim hitler was downed was a ruse to enable him to escape. Similarly in paris mannatech questioned the reporter. Meanwhile in the grounds of the chancery the search for headless body continued among the rubble and corpses one of them closely resembled the dictator is specially because of the typical moustache excitement and restlessness spread experts were called in but despite the resemblance and the moustache it was clear that it was not. Nevertheless the legend of a double was born all soviet troops marching into berlin what order to keep an eye out for hitler but the real search was done in secret and carried out by only 3 people. In. A. Major top bhushan major bistro and bad interpreter yelena she was needed to help question german soldiers and officers the 2 officers were part of smash the soviet military into. Allergens during world war 2. And here it was on may 4th i spoke to the bankers heating engineer. Because he had installed the ventilation system in the rooms hitler lived in watching you. All movie you he saw the bodies of hitler and brown being taken out of the bunker is. After questioning the 1st german prisoners investigators were convinced that hitler had held out in the bunker and told the end of it he had taken his own life shortly before the 1st soviet troops arrived it was also known that on the afternoon of april 30th the day of his supposed suicide all the gasoline kept in the chancery for emergencies had been used up had hitler disappeared without a trace or had he ordered his body to be completely. Could his remains still be found and if so where. The bodies of hitler and eva braun were discovered completely by chance. In the garden of the chancellery a soldier saw the tip of a boot still in Good Condition sticking out of a hole in the ground he decided to take it and found 2 dead bodies. Floating forwards nuclear they didnt know if it was really hitler they were able to identify gerbils because the last petrol had been used to burn his corpse but these remains were burnt to a cinder with you. Since of the gerbils family several officers and are still unidentified remains smashed now had to identify around a dozen bodies charred to varying degrees vice admiral Hans Erik Foss confessed he was among the last to seek. Wells and hit a line. Identifying gerbils wasnt a problem but was this really the corpse of hitler. The autopsy proved inconclusive but doctors could not unlike with gravel say with absolute certainty whether the remains were really those of the dictator. Or the last hope what has changed. With the little consequently upper jaw was well preserved the lower jaw to the still had 15000. 00. 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 that we get to. All 98 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 columns horst representatives of the allies and german field marshall general vilhelm keitel mattered soviet headquarters overseen by Marshall Zhukov they signed the surrender document of the German Family on the night of may 9th 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 on life finally they found out his name and that he had left the city 2 weeks earlier. But they also know that his assistant had stayed in valinor 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 every one of hitlers dentist visits so the few teeth held no secrets for half. An. Hour not. She became the main witness is the teeth meant nothing if you could not find the person to identify that was not a nonissue in the day old. Good the questioning of. The witness states i clearly recognized the gold teeth and the dentures i was shown was real smooth like a can you can again because they belong to chancellor hitler. The witness makes the same statement for abel brawn. Just to know this testimony is very important as now it is proved that the teeth truly belong to him for the 1st time to him and then you. Know we asked her to make a sketch of hitlers teacher without showing her the teeth we had found. Kater hadnt forgotten about hitlers terrible dental health. Corresponded exactly to the joy 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 was more. Crucial this book did you know hitler was a symbol of huge political important story like the taking of the right study and the conquest berlin took. Stalin hardly emerged 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 very fine fairfax. General started questioning people again and for the 1st time the yelena as the interpreter was warned she would be held responsible in the case of a translation error but hes also still everyone was given strict instructions and put under real pressure. Enroll 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 away from. Official reports of the 2nd questioning of kids. 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 his 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 you. But if she said yes i can confirm that. Dial to. The document is only 5 pages long but we know the interview lasted 5 hours one yes so we can imagine how many times they forced to get the same on says so many perfect its a pretty and he said buttes. 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. 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. When hopkins asked stalin about hitlers whereabouts and replied he thought hitler was alive had successfully escapes and had maybe counted japan in a submarine it was the 1st official lie about hitlers death told by stalin himself. 10 days later to call for organized a press conference in berlin for foreign journalists they expected confirmation of the discovery and identification of hitlers remains but to their surprise drew cough announced the opposite. Had not been found he was certainly alive and had managed to flee perhaps to spain or argentina. Or business as you call this claim can only be explained as follows as he obeyed stalins orders to the letter through word as he hadnt received an order to say the bodies had been found and identified he lied when you give it. But you must tell him you search it so you see why didnt stalin tell the allies. 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. But as you will see 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 which. Maybe one day it would be useful to have left his allies in the dark. So the line had been born of his general consternation because nobody could imagine a 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 absurd no if zuckoff said hitler hadnt been found it was true. In mid july Stalin Truman and churchill met in potsdam for their 1st postwar summit the talks were to determine the future of germany and large parts of Eastern Europe. To new miracle of war the soldiers can say was in those tensions between the soviets and the western allies were aggravated by the soviet claims on Eastern Europe and the soviet policies in the areas occupied by the red army is only thought to be a computer on the coast there. 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 own back in 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. Thats. 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. Stalins decision to withhold information that concerned all of the allies was the soviets 1st step towards the cold war not financial hole a new way. 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 cater the main witness to hitlers death who is still being held at soviet h. Q. The 2 young ladies got on well. And they both shared an important secret. Dossier a layperson exchange was very friendly catches said i will soon be free then we can meet up in bilin 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. 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 on the chairs. And. What information where they authorized to give and should they cooperate with the british and the americans to clarify the details of hitlers death. Archives hold a request from intelligence chief tamala tough to pass on the information to the allies but it seems the kremlin decided not to allow it the line went around the world and kept the press on alert. People everywhere reported having seen hitler. Nazi sympathizers seize the opportunity to spread the message 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 center but trevor roper found several witnesses in british and american prison camps who had experience for law. Moments in a few of us bunker. The historian was soon certain that hitler had committed suicide on april the 30th shortly afterwards his body was burned by his bodyguards. Travel ropers report was based solely on testimony from witnesses what he lacked was evidence most importantly the body. And. 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. That 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 contained to carefully documented secrets of the stalin 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 lives 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 poison to himself was much more interesting for propaganda than if he shot himself in the head with. Suicide by shooting his scene is an act of courage to pursue 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. Thank goodness both of that version was spread and repeated until everyone had heard it as if he was bush. The brezhnev 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 passed since the end of the war. And theyd be set. In 1965 yelena decided to write about what had happened and what the Intelligence Services had done justice to those. Script containers yes get them to. Yell another skier was now a respected writer but she was obsessed by the lies about hitlers death she wanted to publicize want she knew and dispel the myths but to make it credible it needed to be based on the proof hidden in the archives. Half to 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. Chief told 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 larry signed on as much in the mouth 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 names that cater to her as a man and several other germans he is the key to it at that point that should come out there thats how my grandmother learned keisha had been sent to moscow. Like an object. It was a huge shock yelena was suddenly transported 20 years into the past to the smash Interrogation Room and balance. She remembered kate hitlers dentists or sister and the main witness or write enabled the identification of hitlers remains. Gail and i have got on well with us now she knew she had never been released. The 932000000 dollars and on the morning of june 29th 1045 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 loop younker 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 well what she was accused of. Well then you can remind me but she did understand why she was there so what is actually. Indecent the thing i spent 6 years in solitary confinement in august 1051 they charged me with helping abortion 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 as long as i. Dont get us in bed. 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 abo kumar the former head of smash and minister for state security had fallen into discrepancies and been dismissed from office. He said during the other words or the 19511 of a cooling off was arrested it was discovered that a number of germans who had witnessed hitlers death were still being held without a warrant. For them and you proved to see the list was drawn up and sent to stalin for further instructions and this piece of good will start and so he decided they should be sententiously. Even everyone on the list was given a long sentence for a magic merry political crimes was there that way nobody could speak about what they had seen for social or even to being able to say yes 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 that 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 house call. In december 1951 kato left moscow for a sign beria 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 recalls that when one of the prisoners dined the guards 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 of the sort of a kilometer. I thank you because i didnt work enough my food ration was cut no breakfast no food in the evening just at midday if a fellow prisoner hadnt helped me i would have certainly starved to death. Because of my kids 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 in 1955. Per situation had changed completely. Yes new york to come here we arrived in moscow in june 1st and they took us around the city by bus and come they showed us the kremlin the university and the underground stations that were each individual a decorated with mosaics paintings and colorful marble falls. Ok to return to germany and an express train with sleeping cars white curtains and lamb shanks 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 or vodka from the dining car and gave the rest those temps. 80 years kate has family had known nothing of what had become of her until a recently released prisoners said she was alone. And in a prison camp in siberia it is husband who had returned from the front but had her declared dead and remarried. Others she had to so thought so far but my aunt immediately adapted to her new existence before and and i enjoy a huge rush to our lives surprisingly she said thank god that chapter of my life is over as kathy is 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 of. 20 years after the end of world war 2 yellowness book was finally published in moscow but 1st it had to pass 2 sensors 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 paid her from saying she had access to their secret archives so from an historical point of view the one was basically worthless the author was not allowed to base her writing on actual findings all concrete sources she was also banned from mentioning official lives or 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 jesus the founder of the k. G. B. Predisaster. Was removed of was it now finally possible to tell the whole story of the day you know im doing a study on goggle style youre going to want to hear when i became director of the state archives in 1992 it was a kind of handover of power to be the best legal record my predecessor handed me a box that contained parts of hitlers skull and documents on the investigation into his death lost on Community Children 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 to. See who could truly millions of documents were declassified so that researchers could access them. You see each other stupidly slipped. The findings material evidence as well as parts of hitlers skull had been kept in the state archives while the archives of the k. G. B. Now the f. S. B. Had kept parts of the witness reports including that of k. To high as a man as well as the main proof hitlist teeth under lock and key. 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. In 1970 then k. G. B. Chief Yuri Andropov advised Leonid 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 and the case was closed. 47 years later all the evidence of hitlers cumshots suicide in his bunker on april the 30th 945 was finally made public. Nothing stays secret. Everything comes out in the end of. Kind of the done your history teaches data even the best kept secrets come out in the end you screwed it can go brazil abuse notes as a just list the governments that followed never felt it necessary to explain themselves to the people. You know in the ninetys the russian leader said ok there were secrets but it was the work of the soviet union the syrians to so you screw. Up they 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 well. But that critical appraisal of the past and soviet crimes never occurred he says that you know its. Illusions of influence. Perception. Thinking. Action. Winning teachings trying to appear influence and reform to easily find you know to feed the danger. What happens when the bubble. Keeps time for cash made in germany. 13 sponte w. Its a deadly sin. And the whim of nature. Motivates us. Mr. Coote greed. To see should. The tribes. Could change. Ive come to oppose capitalism because i see the harm it is done to the world. We run the risk of being the 1st. Especially. While. We go in search of answers. Starts may 21st on t w. 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