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Eva, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, his wife Magda, the by Marchetti et al. as the only way out of the present impasse. The Goebbels's six children and General Hans Krebs—and buried in the —_ Russians' unwillingness to subject the fragments to mtDNA testing grounds of a KGB installation in Magdeburg, East Germany. This implies that they already know that the result will only be negative. was done ostensibly to preclude the possibility of a burial site The next most reliable kind of evidence—documentary developing into a Nazi pilgrimage centre. evidence—also sheds no light on Hitler's fate. Strikingly, no films This story is an obvious deception, however. The Soviets hardly or photographs exist that would corroborate any aspect of the lacked the space to store the remains in the USSR, where there was official narrative of the Third Reich's last days, least of all the claim no danger of a Hitler cult emerging. Its function can only have that Hitler committed suicide. Given his towering importance in been to relieve them of the obligation to ever make the alleged the Third Reich, it is hard to believe that, if Hitler had remained in Hitler corpse available for scientific testing. Today, all the Berlin until the regime fell, a comprehensive photographic record Russians admit to possessing are fragments of what they claim to would not have been made of his final stand. Yet there are no be Hitler's jawbone and two small pieces of skull. known photos or films of Hitler that can securely be dated to April The skull fragments, one of which is distinguished by a large 1945. bullet hole, are sometimes stated to have been found in the bomb As for written sources, all we have is an obscure entry dated 30 crater together with the other remains initially April 1945 in a document that is purported to assumed to be those of Adolf Hitler; however, it be a diary kept by Reichsleiter Martin is more usually maintained that they had been Bormann from | January to 1 May 1945: found in Hitler's study inside the Reich 30.4.45 Chancellery building (Reichskanzelei). Adolf Hitler D. Eva H. (Hitler) * Not only is it hard to believe that even in Unfortunately, there is no proof that the fragments were found in the Chancellery, let Strikingly, no films afone that they am ron Hitler. No or photographs ine most cursory entry Bormann would not at otographs were taken of the fragments in situ, . east have recorded the precise time of the While none of the documents included in exist that would Fuehrer's demise, but we possess unique Huler’s Death sheds any light on their corroborate any Gatimony that Proves the any to be a fake. jiscovery. ar ortly after the war, pilot Hanna Reitsch, In matters concerning the authentication of aspect of the official who was in the Fuehrerbunker for three days the alleged Hitler remains, the Russians have narrative of (26-29 April), told American interrogator behaved as inscrutably as their Soviet predecessors. In 1999, a foreign researcher, Michel Perrier of the Institute of Forensic Science at Lausanne University, was denied permission to inspect the remains.’ It is hard to see a plausible reason why the Russians would do this unless there were a chance of a negative identification. This opens up the possibility that the skull fragments are fake. We may be looking at a hoax similar to that of the Piltdown man—a notorious whom he had just given an audience. He case in which a jawbone discovered in also meticulously wrote down everything 1912 was subjected to rigorous testing 40 years later by a research that took place with the others in the bunker. This document was Robert E. Work that during this period Bormann had been writing an extremely detailed document which he intended to preserve for posterity. Work recorded: "Bormann rarely moved from his writing- desk. He was ‘putting down events for future generations’. Every word, every action was recorded on paper. Often, he would approach someone and gloomily ask about the exact contents of the Fuehrer's conversation with a person to the Third Reich's last days, least of all the claim that Hitler committed suicide. team at the British Museum. The researchers found that the supposed to be removed from the bunker at the last moment so that, jawbone was that of a modern ape and had been artificially stained according to the modest Bormann, it could ‘take its place among the with potassium dichromate to make it appear ancient.‘ greatest chapters of German history'."” More than 60 years after Hitler disappeared from history, However, the Bormann diary which the Russians subsequently therefore, the Russians are obstructing research that would provide _ presented to the world is a paltry affair containing entries that are a definitive answer to the question of whether the fragments typically only between one and three short lines long. The most belonged to the Fuehrer. As D. Marchetti et al. wrote in 2005: substantial entry, that for 27 April, runs to a mere eight lines. "The available literature concerning Hitler's cause of death is Clearly, the diary does not provide a complete narrative of the death incomplete...because the skull bone fragment with a gunshot throes of the Third Reich. Although most historians (including wound possibly from Hitler's corpse has not been properly David Irving, the self-described apostle of "real history") accept its examined."* Since the Russians clearly do not regard Hitler's skull authenticity without demur, it can only be a fake. In sum, there is fragments with religious reverence—we are not talking about the no physical evidence nor evidence of a visual or written kind that Shroud of Turin here—no other conclusion can be drawn than that would shed any light whatsoever on Hitler's fate. the Russians are afraid of what will be found once the fragments are subjected to scientific testing. Eyewitness testimony The best explanation for such fears is that the Russians already The case for the conventional view that Hitler committed suicide know that the fragments did not come from Hitler. So far they have —_ and was cremated on the afternoon of 30 April 1945 therefore made no effort to have mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) extracted depends entirely upon the verbal and written statements furnished from the skull fragments for comparison with mtDNA extracted immediately after the war by a small group of captured Nazis, most from the corpse of either Hitler's half-sister Paula or his mother of whom were members of the Schutzstaffel (SS), who claimed to Klara or from any of their living relatives—the process suggested have observed these important historical events with their own Strikingly, no films or photographs exist that would corroborate any aspect of the official een = eee narrative of last days, least of all the claim that Hitler Eyewitness testimony The case for the conventional view that Hitler committed suicide and was cremated on the afternoon of 30 April 1945 therefore depends entirely upon the verbal and written statements furnished immediately after the war by a small group of captured Nazis, most of whom were members of the Schutzstaffel (SS), who claimed to have observed these important historical events with their own 38 * NEXUS the Third Reich's — committed suicide. www.nexusmagazine.com OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 2007