Cremated Remains Of Adolf Hitler And Eva Braun Were Scattered Over Elbe THE Federal Security Service [former KGB - translator] has concluded one of the greatest mysteries of the Twentieth Century. To mark the 90th anniversary of the Service, nine new and formerly classified documents have been presented in the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War, which revealed the ultimate fate of the charred remains of the Hitler's body.
After the second burial the remains of Adolf Hitler and his wife Eva Braun were scattered over the Elbe River.
Felix Dzerzhinsky set up the Security Service itself on the December 20, 1917 for the purpose of fighting counter-revolutionary activity, speculation, sabotage and bad management.
The highly classified story of the Hitler's death begins on May 2, 1945 when Colonel Klimenko, the counterintelligence chief of the 79th corps (counterintelligence departments carried the name of SMERSH, from the Russian abbreviation for "Death to Spies", "smert' shpionam") together with two Germans who could recognize Hitler (their names were Lange [Heinz Linge?] and Schneider), drew up a deed which that confirmed the fact of discovery of charred bodies of [Joseph] Goebbels and his wife at 17:00 of the same day.
For the two consecutive days they tried (unsuccessfully) to find the body of Hitler. On the fourth "in a bomb crater near the Führer's bunker there were discovered two more bodies, one belonged to a woman, and the other was male".
Both corpses were "much charred and this prevented identification in the absence of forensic tests".
The bodies were brought to a counterintelligence department (SMERSH) of the Third Army. After forensic tests they were buried in the vicinity of the town of Buch [phonetic spelling - translator: Berlin-Buch ].
The paperwork in the case of Adolf Hitler contains statements to the effect that, for the reason of relocation of the SMERSH department "the corpses were interred and moved first to the vicinity of the town of Fin [phonetic: Finow?], and then on June 3, 1945 to the vicinity of the town of Rathenow, where they were finally re-buried. The corpses are in wooden boxes and are buried at the depth of 1.7 meters".
The opened documents also reveal that the Hitler's grave was "325 meters away from a railway bridge along a forest lane [a lane cleared of trees usually for forestry needs - translator], fifty-five meters to the north-east from a (forestry) marking pole 111 .. towards the next marking pole, which was in fifty-five metres... and in twenty-six metres exactly east from it. [the directions are not unambiguous in Russian, and my translation does not clear the mess, as well - but it gives the idea of the description in the document - translator]. The grave filled with the corpses was leveled, and small pine trees were planted on the surface to form the number 111."
For a quarter of a century the USSR kept this information secret. (....) Moscow never answered any questions, reports Inopressa news agency
In 1970 [Yuri] Andropov [the KGB Chief at the time] with consent of the Politbureau, decided to "archive" the case for good. On March 20, 1970 the Council of Ministers of the USSR approved of the plan, which was assigned a code-name of "Archive"
The operation was to be top secret. Within fifteen days a group of five agents headed by Colonel Kovalenko arrived at Westendstrasse 36, Magdeburg. The remains of Hitler and Braun were transported to this location. Colonel Kovalenko drafted a handwritten document of re-exhumation.
The report said that "the remains were placed into a box during the excavation of the soil... the action was carried out during the night and morning hours of April 4, 1970"
The box with the remains stayed under the guard of the agents until the morning of April 5, 1970, when the remains were physically smashed.
On the following day the remains were cremated in the vicinity of Schönebeck eleven kilometers away from Magdeburg.
The ashes and cinders were "mixed together until they turned into uniform mass, and then they were collected and poured out into the water of the nearby river".
The documents do not state the name of the river, but the river that flows in that area is Elbe.
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