How did Adolf Hitler live his last days? What was he doing and what was he thinking about in his Berlin bunker on the eve of the defeat of the Reich?
New revelations come from the FSB, the Russian secret services, which have published new archival documents concerning the circumstances of the Fuhrer's suicide and the destruction of his body by his subordinates at the end of April 1945.
Ria Novosti reports it, which also publishes some excerpts from the desecrated papers, with the testimony, among other things, of Hitler's personal aide, who confirmed to the Russians, during the interrogations after the capture of Berlin, that, with the advance of the Soviet troops, the mental equilibrium of the founder of the Nazi Party "seemed definitively broken".
After the capture of Berlin, all Hitler's accomplices, arrested in May 1945 by the Soviet military counterintelligence Smersh, were taken to Moscow, to the prisons of the then Soviet Union. Among them was Hitler's personal adjutant, Otto Günsche , who was held in the same cell as the former commander of the mortar regiment, Colonel Artur Schwartz, who was captured in January 1943. And Günsche told his cellmate about the events that took place in the bunker in the last days of the Third Reich, accounts of which Schwartz noted in now revealed documents. «Until 1 pm Hitler slept, then he ate breakfast and made phone calls, held meetings on the situation at the front. At 21:00-22:00 he had dinner, then rested until midnight, while at 2 in the morning discussions on the situation at the front resumed, which lasted until four in the morning. Then Hitler drank tea and worked until seven,” reports Schwartz. According to Günsche's memoirs, recorded by Schwartz, "of recent times Hitler behaved in such a way as to suggest that his sanity was completely broken, and furthermore the news that it was not possible to break through the siege around Berlin had a great influence on him. On April 28, 1945, Hitler learned that Himmler had offered the Western Allied forces to surrender. The Fuhrer considered it a betrayal and ordered his arrest."
"Hitler said that under no circumstances did he want to be captured, dead or alive, so he intended to commit suicide, but only a few of the people close to him knew about it," writes Schwartz. And according to Günsche's story, Hitler had married Eva Braun at the last moment with the very idea of committing suicide with her. Before the corpses were taken away and burned, Günsche saw the face of Hitler's wife; not the face of the Fuhrer, covered by a veil, but his legs "hanging from the stretcher, with boots, socks and trousers" that he knew well.
(Unioneonline/lf)
