One of the most widespread debates in recent years is the alleged flight of Hitler to Argentina. Dozens of reports by so-called professional investigators show the places where kind old Argentine women confirm the presence of the dictator after World War II.
Nazi Germany and its implications for the world is one of the topics that arouses the most interest not only in serious researchers but also in the general public. Due to the high number of investigations carried out, it is difficult to find new data that can make one investigation stand out from the rest. This is the reason why in recent times it is falling into sensationalism and lack of rigor.
Here we want to shed some light on what really happened to Hitler and his henchmen in the last days of Nazi Germany. The information we offer here is nothing more than a summary of information that is already available to the general public.
Hitler and the end of Nazism
At the beginning of 1945 Hitler made the decision to move to Berlin. The Russian advance on the eastern front had made it unfeasible to hold the Wolf's Lair any longer, so he moved his command center to the chancellery bunker on Wilhelmstrasse from Berlin.
From there he directed his last troop movements and from there made his last political decisions.
On April 20, 1945, Hitler saw the light of day for the last time. That day, coinciding with his 56th birthday, he went out to the courtyard of the chancellery where in a public act he awarded several medals for courage to children of the Hitler Youth who defended the city. After the act he went into the bunker and never came out again.
Hitler's death
After losing all hope of victory, finally on April 29 he decided to abandon his goals. To represent that he was finally abandoning the cause, he proceeded to marry his partner of the last few years, Eva Braun, who had faithfully followed him to the bunker.
Finally, on April 30, both committed suicide inside the bunker. Eva Braun took a cyanide capsule. Hitler put another capsule in her mouth, and after biting it, he shot himself in the temple.
Adolf Hitler did not want to become a trophy for the Russian invaders, so he ordered that his body and that of his wife should be destroyed. To do this, several SS officers took both bodies out of the bunker and dumped them along with 189 liters of gasoline into the crater left by a bomb. They set fire to them and left the remains there.
The first Russian troops were unable to find Hitler's body in the chaos of the moment and the large number of bodies found nearby. However, the military secret service managed, after several interrogations, to find the two charred bodies.
The mortal remains were transferred to a hospital on the outskirts of Berlin, where they were identified. It was determined that one was a woman, who we do not know to this day. The second body was confirmed as that of Adolf Hitler.
The German dictator was terrified of dentists, so in the 1920s he ordered gold bridges placed all over his jaw so he never had to go to a dentist again. Hitler's dental chart allowed the Soviets to identify him in May 1945.
Where is Hitler buried
The Soviets buried the bodies of Hitler and all of his henchmen found in the bunker in different places in the following months. The final resting place was found in the KGB headquarters in Magdeburg, where they remained until 1970.
In that year, the head of the KGB, Yuri Andropov ordered the regional head of the organization in East Germany, Sergey Kondrashov, to destroy all the bodies buried there. Following the orders, the mortal remains of Hitler and the other members of the Nazi leadership buried there were unearthed. They were all burned and their remains ended up in the Elbe River.
From each of the bodies they kept a proof of life to be able to demonstrate that they had been in their possession. Today, the jawbone of Hitler's body is preserved, from which DNA samples were extracted in 2017 and an extensive forensic report was prepared for its final identification. The tests came back positive, definitively settling the matter of the death of Adolf Hitler.