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Hitler's jaw
2025-05-01
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Text taken from a news article which appeared in rg.ru

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.

[ColonelCassad] Yesterday, the FSB published declassified documents about the last days of Hitler.

According to the documents, the control shot to Hitler's head was fired by his valet Linge.



From the testimony of SS-Gruppenführer Rattenhuber:

"At 16:00 on 30.4.1945, after I had checked the posts, I came to the Führer's concrete shelter. Sturmbannführer Linge informed me that the Führer was no longer alive and that today he, Linge, had carried out the most difficult order in his life...

Linge informed me that Hitler had ordered him to leave the room today and if he heard nothing within 10 minutes, to re-enter the room and carry out his order. Since at that time he had placed Hitler's pistol on the table in the hallway, it became clear to me what he meant by the Führer's most difficult order and where the blood stain on the carpet came from. Based on the above, I came to the conclusion that ten minutes after poisoning Hitler, Linge shot him...".

Linge himself denied this during interrogation.

From the testimony of Sturmbannführer Linge:

"On the afternoon of April 30, at a quarter to four, Hitler came to Goebbels' office to say goodbye to him. I was just in the reception room. Goebbels wanted to invite Hitler into his room to dissuade the Fuhrer from committing suicide, but Hitler refused, remarking that his decision was immutable. He said goodbye to Mrs. Goebbels and Dr. Goebbels and went back to his office.

Hauptscharführer Krueger and I followed him. Hitler said that we must try to break through to the West in order to fall into the hands of the Allies. He again drew my attention to the obligatory burning of his corpse, since he was afraid that his corpse might be dragged to Moscow for display. After this, Krueger and I said goodbye to him.

I remained in the small living room, while Krueger went out. Eva Braun entered Hitler's room. After a short time I heard a shot. I immediately informed Bormann, who was in hallway. Together we entered Hitler's study... Hitler was sitting on the sofa with a bullet through his right temple. His two pistols were lying on the carpet. His wife, who had no gunshot wound, was sitting next to him...

We wrapped the body in a blanket so that it was not visible. I took the body by the legs, and Bormann by the head, and we carried it out through the back entrance to the bomb shelter in the park. There we laid it by the entrance. After us, the guards carried out the body of Hitler's wife, which was also wrapped in a blanket and was not visible... In the park near the pillbox, the bodies were doused with gasoline and burned. The bodies were in no way charred, but only took on a dark brown appearance..."

Well, it has long been known that the bloody tyrant Stalin drove the Austrian artist Schickelgruber to suicide.

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The Mystery of the Cigarette Box. Revealed FSB Archives Bury Myths About Hitler

by Pavel Kiselev

On April 30, 1945, between 15:26 and 15:30 local time, a 56-year-old man committed suicide in a basement at Berlin, Wilhelmstrasse 77. The suicide's name was Adolf Hitler.

It is common knowledge at what point the “Führer and Reich Chancellor of the Greater German Reich” decided to take his own life. It is known where exactly it happened – behind the closed door of the office in the Führerbunker, 8.5 meters below the garden of the Imperial Chancellery. But how exactly it happened – was debated until the very last moment.

Soviet historiography mentioned a shameful death - from poison, while Western and post-Soviet sources prefer the version of "death in an officer's style." The fact that the dictator shot himself was, in particular, written by the British military historian Ian Kershaw, the author of a detailed biography of Hitler. This is without taking into account the conspiracy theories according to which he and his mistress (and from April 29, 1945, legal wife) Eva Braun fled to South America.

As recently revealed by the New York Post, the “Hitler is hiding in Argentina” version was studied not only by conspiracy theorists but also by CIA analysts until the end of the 1950s, as follows from declassified documents of American intelligence.

But on the 80th anniversary of Hitler's suicide, these myths were finally laid to rest. On April 30, 2025, the Federal Security Service (FSB) released archival documents that shed light on the circumstances of the death of the 20th century's greatest war criminal. The FSB's official website reported: "The Nazi Fuhrer and his wife committed suicide by poisoning themselves with potassium cyanide."

This is confirmed by the SMERSH counterintelligence protocols with the testimony of those who were with the dictator in his last hours, and most importantly, the results of the forensic examination.

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE TEETH
In the FSB archives, in a nondescript box of "Gvardeyskie" cigarettes, lie four fragments of a jaw. The largest is a dental bridge with nine teeth.

The box was accompanied by a medical expert report dated 05/08/1945, which states:

“The presence in the oral cavity of the remains of a crushed glass ampoule… a distinct smell of bitter almonds… and the results of a forensic chemical examination of the entrails with the discovery of cyanide compounds… allow the commission to conclude that in this case death occurred as a result of poisoning with cyanide compounds.”

A jaw is all that remains of a man's burned body. But how can we be sure that the poisoned man is Hitler? Another document sheds light on this: interrogation protocols from May 10, 1945. The interrogated are Käthe Goisermann, assistant to Professor of Medicine Hugo Blaschke, Hitler's personal dentist.

At the same time and independently of Frau Goiserman, Fritz Echtmann, the dental technician who made the crowns for Hitler, was interrogated. When both were shown fragments of a jaw, both Echtmann and Goiserman testified that it belonged to the Fuhrer.

Thus, we can forget about the “romantic” death and the fantastic stories about “Senor Adolf Schrittelmoyer”, who supposedly lived out his last days peacefully in an Argentine spa hotel.

The prevailing opinion after the war that the person responsible for the deaths of millions of people (including 26.6 million Soviet citizens) “died like a rat in a basement from poison” turned out to be essentially correct.

The documents confirm the conclusions made in 2017 by French anthropologist Philippe Charlier based on a study of fragments of Hitler's jaw stored in the Central Archive of the FSB of Russia and a comparison of them with X-rays of the skull from the Fuhrer's medical record, which was obtained by the Americans and is now stored in one of the US archives. The teeth are 100% consistent with the X-rays of Hitler during his lifetime, Charlier concluded.

"HITLER WAS SHOT BY LINGE"
A shot actually rang out in Hitler's office, but it was a "finishing shot."

This follows from another document now made public from the archive of the Counterintelligence Directorate (UKR) "SMERSH" of the 1st Belorussian Front. This is testimony from May 11, 1945, given to the SMERSH men by SS Gruppenführer Hans Rattenhuber, the head of the Reich Security Service, the department responsible for the personal protection of the top leaders of the NSDAP and the Reich.

On April 30, Rattenhuber was in the bunker and was one of the first to learn of Hitler's death.

“At 16:00 on 30.4.1945, after I had checked the posts, I came to the Fuhrer’s concrete shelter,” the arrested chief guard testified.

According to him, the dictator's personal valet, SS Sturmbannführer Heinz Linge, reported that "the Fuhrer is no more." And it was he, Linge, who "carried out the most difficult order in his life."

Rattenhuber went on to say:

"Linge told me that Hitler had ordered him to leave the room today and, if he heard nothing within 10 minutes, to re-enter the room and carry out his order. Since at that time he had placed Hitler's pistol on the table in the hallway, it became clear to me what he meant by the Fuhrer's most severe order and where the blood stain on the carpet came from. Based on the above, I came to the conclusion that ten minutes after Hitler was poisoned, Linge shot him."

Rattenhuber's testimony was confirmed by the most important witness - Linge himself. However, this happened only 7 months later. For a reason still unknown, Hitler's valet, who was arrested in the bunker, was first sent to a prisoner of war camp in Poznan, Poland (where all those detained in the Führerbunker were taken), then to a camp in Kohtla-Järve (Estonian SSR), and only in December 1945 was Heinz Linge interrogated in Moscow's Butyrka prison.

He insisted for a long time that he had heard a pistol shot from behind the door of Hitler's office. But in February 1946, Linge admitted that he had not heard the sound of a shot.

At the same time, the valet-Sturmbannführer did not hide what the motives for suicide were. There were three: the senselessness of continuing the fight, fear of attempts to break out of encircled Berlin (that is, there were no thoughts about "Argentina") and poor physical condition coupled with megalomania, which did not allow "to bow before the winner and enter into negotiations with him."

"THE ONLY GOOD DEED"
The interrogation protocols also clarify the details of what happened after the double suicide of Hitler and Eva Braun.

The bodies of the Fuhrer and his "wife for a day" were taken to the garden of the Reich Chancellery. Linge and Hitler's personal adjutant, SS-Sturmbannführer Otto Günsche, described: the Fuhrer was wrapped in a blanket, Eva was left uncovered. An attempt to burn the bodies was made immediately, but due to a lack of fuel and bombing, it was not entirely successful.

This is what allowed Soviet counterintelligence agents to discover charred remains in a shell crater on May 5 and begin painstaking identification work.

FSB documents, including Linge's interrogation protocols at Butyrka Prison (December 1945), detail the scene. Linge specified: Hitler was wearing a gray jacket and black trousers, Braun a silk dress. And Rattenhuber described how Hitler planned to burn his body.

These details, recorded in the difficult post-war days of 1945, add up to a story about the end of Nazism. SMERSH not only established the fact of the Nazi tyrant’s suicide – counterintelligence agents created a database that remains irrefutable 80 years later.

The inglorious death of the "leader and chancellor of the Greater German Reich" became the logical end in the 12-year history of the state built by Hitler. The suicide of the Fuhrer's successor, Joseph Goebbels, in the same Fuhrerbunker, the arrests of Nazi bigwigs, the suppression of pockets of resistance by the Wehrmacht and SS, and, finally, the act of unconditional surrender of Germany - all this was already a postscript.

And a preface to the Nuremberg Trials. Yes, "Nazi number one" was able to avoid responsibility, but one can say that he passed his own death sentence. So the phrase "Hitler did one good thing in his life - he poisoned Hitler" is not far from the truth.

Posted by:badanov

#3  If they have any tangible part of the dude, time to run a full DNA ancestry check. It could be interesting.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2025-05-01 16:44  

#2  ...Read The Bunker by James O'Donnell - likely the ultimate and final word on those last few days in Berlin.

When you do read it, you'll find that the Russians have been trying to say since then that Hitler did not kill himself and that Linge gave him the coup d'grace. This has also popped up in the last few days from Dr Mark Felton on YouTube. Felton makes a not-unreasonable argument that Der Fuhrer might now repose beneath a parking lot in Berlin, but I respectfully disagree.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski   2025-05-01 16:41  

#1  
On the flip side
Walter Frankenstein, a Jewish Holocaust Survivor and long time 1st person history educator of the actual Hitler genocide results, dies at 100.
Posted by: NN2N1   2025-05-01 08:28  

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