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27th April, 1945

Stalin's red army shells rained down on the German capital on 27th april, 1945 - friday.

Hitler's plan to escape

Martin Bormann, Hitler's private secretary and Gestapo chief Heinrich Muller drawn plan for Hitler to escape. The plan was put into operation at 00:20 on 28th april, 1945.

To Hohenzollerdamm

Escape through the U - Bahn rapid transit rail system to Hohenzollerndamm, one of Berlin's main streets, where a Junkers Ju 52 transport plane waiting.

Denmark - Canary islands - Argentine

From there to Denmark, then on to Canary islands. From there they would board a submarine across Atlantic to Argentina.

"Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler"

The events are described in the 2011 book Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler by British author Simon Dunstan.

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Russian hunting down Hitler's remains:

On Monday, 30th April, the Fuhrer appointed Grand Admiral Donitz as his successor.
On Tuesday, 1st May, 1945, the german government announces the Fuhrer's death.
On 2nd May, German troops in the capital surrendered to the Red Army.

Hitler spent his last four months underground in the Fuhrerbunker

Timeline of events

16th Jan, 1945 - Hitler moves into the bunker with his inner circle
16th April - 2.5 million men of the Red army attacks from the Rive Oder's east bank to storm Berlin.
20th April - Hitler celebrates his 56th birthday.
24th April - Hitler orders work to transform the Nazi's triumphal avenue in Berlin into a runway.
28th April - The bunker is cut off from the outside world. Hitler learns through BBC that Himmer had negotiated a peace with the allies.
29th April - Soviet forces are just few streets from the bunker. Hitler writes his will, marries Eva Braun, and kills his dog, Blondi.
30th April - With Braun, Hitler leaves his staff at the bunker. At 15:30, the couple retire to their private rooms. Shortly afterwards, they commit suicide.
1st May - Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda, commit suicide in the bunker, after killing their 6 children.
2nd May - Soviet officers entered the bunker, found the bodies of Hitler and Eva. The same day, shelling finally ends in Berlin.

Confirmation of the Fuhrer's death

Kathe Heusermann, herself responsible for treating the Fuhrer's notoriously bad teeth, also recognised the other dental bridge as Braun's.

Commission of Inquiry's investigation

Stalin ordered the commission at the end of May, 1945 and took over the case personally.
Stalin spent the summer of 1945 planting the seeds of uncertainty.

Claim 1 - Hitler escaped to Japan

Hitler had escaped to Japan in a submarine was one such claim.

Claim 2 - Hitler escaped to Argentine

When asked in 1945 Potsdam conference, Stalin answered, "Hitler was obviously still alive and living in Spain or Argentina"
Proofs exists that a small plane left Tiergarten (in Berlin) at dawn on 30th April, 1945 flying in the direction of Hamburg, Three menn and women are known to be on board. A large submarine left Hamburg left before the arrival of British forces.

Claim 3 - Lived at Ireland & Italy

Some claim that Fuhrer disguised as a woman in the Irish capital Dublin, as a croupier in a casino in a French Holiday resort and as a recluse in a cave near Lake Garda in northern Italy.

Claim 4 - Baltic sea

Also seen as working as a fisherman in Baltic sea, as a shepherd in the Swiss Alps.

Claim 5 - Spain

Hiding under the name of Adi lupus in Spain in the presidential palace of Fascist dictator, General Francisco Franco.
In July, 1945, Hitler was living in a German owned hacienda approximately 800 kms from Buenos Aires.

Claim 6 - in Colombia

Former SS agent Philip Citroen, in 1954 contacted CIA, claiming that Fuhrer was living in the Colombian town of Tunja, 140 kms north east of the capital, Bogota. The former Nazi leader was now posing as one Adolf Schuttlemayer, but among the crowd of exiled Germans in the town, he was still called Der Fuhrer and greeted him with Nazi salutes. He even forwarded a photo of Adolf Schuttlemayer.

Top Nazi commanders escaped to South America

In fact, a large number of top Nazi commanders, including Nazi physician Josef Mengele and Adolf Eichmann, the main organisers of the Holocaust, were proved to have escaped to South America after the war.

Captain Peter Erich Baumgart

After the war, in December 1947, Captain Peter Erich Baumgart, a highly decorated Luftwafe pilot, testified that on 28th april, 1945, he flew Hitler and Eva to a German airbase in Tonder in Denmark.
According to the book the Grey Wolf, from Tonder, the couple flew to Spanish airbase near Barcelona, where the fascist dictator Franco, had prepared a long range aircraft for their next stage journey. This plane carried the pair to Fuerteventura in the Canary islands, from where they boarded a german submarine and headed to South America.

Suicide

30th April, 1945, Hitler commits suicide, making it clear that the earthly remains of himself and his wife under no circumstances fall into enemy hands.
Hitler took his last meal and broke out "The time has come; it's all over".
Several of those present in the bunker claimed to have heard the shot from the room at around 15:30.
The Third Reich's last supporters poured petrol over the dead bodies and set them alight, then lifted their arms in the Nazi salute as black smoke swirled up from the blazing corpses and the bodies shrank to charred, unidentifiable remains.

Doubts

In 1945, the Brits was tasked with investigating Soviet allegations that Hitler was still alive. Later concluded unequivocally that Fuhrer and Braun died by suicide.

Destroyed the remains

Except the dental and bone evidence, the supposed remains of Hitler's and Braun's body were destroyed forever in 1970 on the orders of Yuri Andropov, head of the Soviet state's security service, KGB.
He issued an directive to dig up the charred remnants in the ground of the Reich Chancellery from their unmarked grave in the barracks at Magdeburg. The military site was due to be handed over to the East Germany army and the Russians feared that the East germans might find the bone fragments.
Andropov launched a operation on the night of 4th and 5th April, 1970 to exhume and destroy any final remains. The unit dug up 10 or 11 bodies which were then burned, crushed. Then the ashed were thrown into Ehle river.
A French team of forensic scientists stated that in May 2018 that the dental pieces definitely belonged to Hitler.