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The events of spring 2022 echo those that took place almost eight decades ago. In April-May 1945, the Red Army finished off the Berlin grouping of the Wehrmacht, completing the history of the Third Reich. 

Information on the arrested G. Baur. December 13, 1945. Photo: FSB archive

Ace with NSDAP party card

The leaders of German Nazism were deciding their fate at that moment. Someone tried to escape, and someone decided to draw a line under their existence in order to avoid the dock.

The FSB of Russia has published new materials related to the death ofAdolf Hitler. According to RIA Novosti, these are documents from the investigation file of Hitler's former personal pilot, SS Gruppenfuehrer, Police Lieutenant General Hans Baur.

In May 1945, Baur was taken prisoner in Berlin by Soviet troops. A case was initiated against him in the USSR, the materials of which are now stored in the department of the FSB of the Russian Federation for the Novgorod region.

A native of Bavaria, a native of the family of a postal official, Hans Baur became a pilot during the First World War. He personally shot down nine enemy planes. After the defeat of the German Empire, the pilot joined the circles of the right, among which there were many military men who dreamed of revenge. Baur joined the NSDAP in 1926.

Handwritten testimony of the SS Gruppenfuehrer and Police Lieutenant General G. Baur. December 19-22, 1945. Translation from German. Page 2 Photo: FSB archive

Witness from the Fuhrerbunker

Even before Hitler came to power, Baur, on the recommendation of Himmlerand Hessbecame him personal pilot. In 1934 he took command of a government squadron. It was Baur who brought German Foreign MinisterJoachim von Ribbentrop to Moscow in 1939 to negotiate a non-aggression pact.

Until the last days of the life of the head of the Third Reich, the personal pilot enjoyed his full confidence. It was assumed that Baur could be entrusted with the mission of evacuating Hitler and other Nazi leaders from Berlin. For this reason, he was in the “Führerbunker” and witnessed the last days and hours of Nazi Germany.

During interrogations, Baur told Soviet investigators about what he had seen. According to him, as soon as it became known that the Red Army units were approaching Potsdamer Platz, the women in the “Fuhrerbunker” began to prepare for death. Magda Goebbels told the pilot that she carries a syringe and poison pills that kill instantly, and Eva Braun gave orders regarding her property.

Autobiography of SS Gruppenführer and Police Lieutenant General G. Baur. October 1, 1945 Original in German. Photo: FSB archive

“Everything will fall apart in a few hours”

At the same time, not all things were brought to Baur. According to his testimony, the news of the wedding of Hitler and Eva Braun came as a surprise to him. Everyone in the bunker agreed that the Fuhrer agreed to formalize the marriage in exchange for Eva Braun's willingness to die with him.

“Despite the seriousness of the situation, we did not yet know Hitler’s final intentions on April 28 and 29,” — stated in the testimony of the pilot. On April 30, Baur was summoned to the room of the leader of the Nazis. Hitler's personal pilot said that the Fuhrer had decided to say goodbye to him: “Baur, I want to say goodbye to you, I want to thank you for all the years of service.” The pilot's gift was a Rembrandt portrait of King Friedrich that hung in the bunker.

Baur tried to dissuade Hitler: “My Fuhrer, you cannot do this, because then everything will fall apart in a few hours.” Hitler replied: “I appointed Grand Admiral Doenitzhis successor. He will end the war. My soldiers don't want to and can't fight anymore. I can't take it anymore.

What will be written on the grave?

According to the pilot, Hitler was very afraid that the Soviet troops would capture him alive using sleeping gas. The Fuhrer ordered to burn his corpse and the corpse of Eva Braun, so as not to repeat the fate of Mussolini, whose dead body was hung upside down by the Italians by the feet. In parting, Hitler threw Bauru: “Someday I will have to write on my gravestone:” He fell victim to his generals. the answer to the question is it all over with Hitler and Eva Braun. Baur was told that the corpses were burned in the courtyard of the Reich Chancellery.

“On the evening of May 1, my adjutant Betz and I came to Goebbels to say goodbye to him, — Baur told Soviet investigators. — He told me: “Baur, it will be very difficult to get out of here… If you meet the grand admiral, then tell him that we were able not only to fight for life, but also managed to die. At the same time, Goebbels' wife stood completely depressed and pale.

The Minister of Propaganda of the Third Reich went with his wife to the other world, having previously killed his own children.

Wounded, amputated and 25 years in the camps

As for Baur, after the death of Hitler and Goebbels, he left the Fuhrerbunker; as part of one of the battle groups that tried to break out of Berlin. They took care of him, because they expected to get to the airfield, from where they planned to flee from Germany. But on May 2, 1945, in the area of ​​the Stettin railway station, he was wounded and a few hours later discovered by a group of Red Army soldiers.

Baur was considered one of the key witnesses in the case involving the death of Hitler and Goebbels. The Soviet leadership wanted to receive 100 percent confirmed information about their deaths. The Fuhrer's personal pilot had information and knowledge that others did not have. Baur lost his leg due to a wound, and in captivity he was treated, and then provided with a prosthesis. But a member of the NSDAP since 1926, he did not even think about revising his views. In May 1950, the military tribunal of the troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Moscow District sentenced him to 25 years in prison camps. But in 1955, the Kremlin extradited him along with other convicted war criminals of the FRG.

How fur boots for Hitler were searched in Mariupol

In Germany, Baur wrote memoirs in which he stressed that the main business of his life was aviation, and he had an indirect relationship with politics.

In the memoirs of Hitler's personal pilot, one can find such an episode that took place 80 years ago: “During one flight to Mariupol — on the coast of the Sea of ​​Azov — on board were Hitler, his adjutant Major General Schmundtand doctor. Departing from Rastenburg, we made an intermediate landing in Kyiv. From there, the general in charge of this section of the front was warned by telephone of our imminent arrival. Hitler sat for about forty-five minutes in the airport building. When he returned, he said: “Baur, it is very cold in your plane. My feet are turning into icicles!” Hitler was dressed lightly, not for the weather. I offered him flying boots. He refused for the reason that “they are not his privilege.”

In Mariupol, Hitler was met by Field Marshal Leeb and SS General Sepp Dietrich, head of his bodyguard. Accompanied by them, he went to Taganrog, where very serious problems arose. My crew and I stayed at the airfield in Mariupol, where several fighter squadrons were based. Here I started looking for fur-lined boots for Hitler. Before issuing them, the quartermaster of this base demanded a warrant signed by Hitler himself, and the Fuhrer complied with this demand. Field Marshal Leeb tried to object, but Hitler correctly assessed the situation and the importance of his signature. Subsequently, I often visited Mariupol and saw this paper with a signature hanging under glass in a place of honor in the officers' canteen.

It is interesting that Baur, despite complaining about the difficult conditions of imprisonment in the USSR and the amputated leg, lived a very long life — he died in 1993 at the age of 95.  

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The FSB declassified the investigation file of the personal pilot of the leader of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler— SS Gruppenfuehrer and Police Lieutenant General Hans Baur. The commander of the Fuhrer Squadron was detained and captured on May 2, 1945 in Berlin.

“Documents from the department of the FSB of Russia in Novgorod Region of the investigative file on G. Baura are published for the first time», — clarified in the FSB.

The following documents were made public: a certificate of the arrested Baur dated December 13, 1945 from the Butyrka prison, his autobiography and handwritten testimony translated into Russian. As well as a personal photo with Hitler seized during the arrest.

What did Hans Baur say during the interrogation?

Baur witnessed the last days of the Nazi leader spent in                       

In his testimony, it is said that until mid-April 1945, Hitler's inner circle unsuccessfully tried to persuade him to leave Berlin. At the same time, the Fuhrer's close associates, who were with him in the bunker, did not know until the last moment about his intentions to commit suicide.

How did Hitler behave during the war and before his death?

According to Baur, even before settling in the Führerbunker, Hitler began to suspect his inner circle (Goebels, Goering, Bormannand others) in & nbsp; treason. So, from the end of 1943, he refused lunches and dinners at the common table. By the end of 1944, a mood of mutual distrust prevailed in the leadership of the “Third Reich”.

“Hitler stopped eating at the common table, as there was a suspicion that there was a traitor among the inner circle, and individual statements at the table became public. It was established that the facts known to the closest circle of people became known to the enemy intelligence, — he said.

In 1945, Hitler became even more distant from the encirclement. He became withdrawn & nbsp; and spent all the time in his shelter. During the day, he went out into the garden for 1-2 hours to walk the dog. The rest of the time he worked.

“During his stay in Berlin, Hitler maintained an appearance of optimism and confidence in the victory of Germany,” — notes Baur.

He also adds that Hitler was reassured by talk not about the war, but also by the discussion of plans for the development of Germany. He spent hours looking at models of houses for Berlin, Munich and Hamburg. Such peace talks against the backdrop of the deteriorating position of Germany, according to Baur, he and others took as a positive sign that “things are not so bad now that Hitler is concerned with the future” <…> and that we cannot lose the war.

Baur noted that many then had the impression that Hitler had some secret weapon in reserve “like the atomic bomb or the death rays of heavenly power.” . It turned out later that it was all a bluff, Baur recalls. 

In addition, by the time the Russian troops entered the Oder River (January 1945 — ed. note) and the activation of the Western Front high-ranking SS men began to flee the country. However, Hitler himself did not want to leave Berlin, despite persuasion.  ;

April 29, Baur learned that Hitler forced Goebbelsto marry him to Eva Braun. And in the evening of April 30 In 1945, the Fuhrer summoned the pilot to his place and said that he wanted to say goodbye to him. Gave a portrait of King Frederick as a keepsake, written by Rembrandt. 

Information on the arrested G. Baur. December 13, 1945. Photo: FSB archive

Only then did the pilot understand Hitler's intentions. According to his testimony, he tried to dissuade him from committing suicide, but Hitler insisted that “the soldiers could not and would not hold out any longer,” he too could not “bear it any longer.” Hitler also said that the Russians could capture him alive by using sleep gas.

“He is very old and haggard. His hands were trembling, it was clear to me that he had made the final decision to commit suicide, — written by Baur.

After meeting with Hitler, Baur destroyed his papers and prepared to leave the office. About two hours after talking with Adolf Hitler, he returned to the bomb shelter to collect his gift. It was then that he learned that the leader of Nazi Germany was already dead. He committed suicide.

On the same day, Baur escaped from the Fuhrerbunker. Two days later, he was detained by a Russian patrol near the Stettin railway station, according to the pilot's testimony. From the certificate of the arrested person, it follows that Hans Baur was sent to one of the camps near Moscow in the status of a prisoner of war. 

Where were the bodies of Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler found?

From eyewitness testimonies, it followed that Adolf Hitler and combined with the day before marriage Eva Braun committed suicide April 30 1945 of the year, and May 1 they were followed by Joseph Goebbels with his family.

On May 2, 1945, as part of the advancing units of the 1st Belorussian Front, military counterintelligence officers stormed the Reichstag and the Reich Chancellery with a  Fuhrerbunker equipped in its yard. 

May 13, 1945 employees of the department of counterintelligence “Smersh” The burial place of the charred corpses of Hitler and Braun was discovered in the garden of the Reich Chancellery of the 79th Rifle Corps.

“Their authenticity was confirmed by numerous forensic medical examinations”, — FSB said.

Source of information: fsb.ru/fsb/history/archival_material/Baur.htm

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The human soul — darkness. One, who grew up in care and prosperity, turns into a scoundrel and a murderer, the other, who knows insults, humiliation, hunger and cold, shows selflessness, nobility and mercy.

“I can't” tell you how much I feel for the Fuhrer»

Women, rejecting the love of worthy men, sometimes devote their whole lives to those who treat them like soulless dolls. Others remain loyal to killers, poisoners, and other representatives of the underworld.

The name of Eva Braun has been preserved in the works of historians, novels, and feature films, not at all because she showed what – some outstanding qualities. It's just that her loyalty to the last breath was given to the one whom mankind rightly considers           Adolf Hitler.

On April 22, 1945, when the history of the Third Reich was counting down the last days, the Fuhrer's companion wrote in a letter to her friend: “My dear Gertha! We will fight to to the last, but I'm afraid our end is getting closer and closer. I don't know how it happened, but I don't trust God any more. I can't tell you how much I feel for the Fuhrer. I don't understand how we could have allowed all this to happen. Say hello to all my friends. I'm dying the way I lived. It's not difficult for me. You know».

Nobody really forced Eva to stay in besieged Berlin. On the contrary, she was more than once offered to evacuate. But she stubbornly refused, declaring that she would stay with Adolf until the end.

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Athlete, typist, photographer

She was born on February 6, 1912, in Munich, to the family of school teacher Friedrich Braun and Franziska Katharina Braun.

The three daughters of Friedrich were brought up in & nbsp; strictness: the father daily announced in & nbsp; at 22 hours     nobody had the right to be awake later. The girls were not allowed any liberties. Eva graduated from the monastery primary school, and then — Lyceum in Munich. Franziska, her mother, was a strong skier in her youth, and Eva also became interested in sports, choosing, however, athletics. After the lyceum, Eva studied at the  Institute of English ladies-in-waiting in Simbach, where she studied French, typing, accounting and home economics.

At 17 years, Eva became a saleswoman and delivery in photo studio photographer Heinrich Hoffmann. The work seemed boring to the girl, and on her own initiative she began to master photography, in which she achieved good success.

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Mistress of the “Mountain Yard”

In the autumn of 1929, she met a man who was introduced to her as “Herr Wolff.” The visitor was clearly interested in the girl, and Eva, who did not follow politics, at first did not even know that none other than the head of the NSDAP, Hitler, became her boyfriend.

Two years later, Eva turned into the main woman in the life of the chief Nazi. True, this novel was not carefree — twice the girl tried to lay hands on herself, like Hitler's previous passion Geli Raubal. Forer was not going to bear the second personal loss: he bought a house for his mistress and made her his personal secretary. This post was nominal, so as not to raise unnecessary questions.

In 1936, the reconstruction of Hitler's personal residence in the Bavarian Alps was completed. The residence was named Berghof (“Mountain Yard”), and Brown moved there, becoming the unofficial mistress of the house.

The next eight years of her life were carefree. The war thundered somewhere far away, and Eva in Berghof whiled away the time, doing color, film and photography. Hitler came to the residence to rest, and Eva didn get into political intrigues, indulging in entertainment.

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Only one wish

Fraulein Brown, of course, should not be considered a completely naive fool. The memoirs of contemporaries and surviving letters say that the Fuhrer's girlfriend understood — the end is drawing near. That's just it he, by and large, did not frighten       The only thing she stubbornly sought from Hitler — these are legal marriages.

At one time, the Nazi leader explained his official loneliness in this way: “Many women are attached to me because I am not married. It's like a movie actor: if he is married, then definitely loses something in the eyes of women who adore him, he is no longer their idol».

But in April 1945, there were no longer crowds of German women adoring Adolf. The man with the shaking head was now only needed by Brown. Hearing from  Hitler about the intention to end his life before the door of the "fuhrerbunker" beat out by the soldiers of the Red Army, Eva agreed to do the same. But in return, she asked me to realize my main dream — formalize the marriage.

On April 29, 1945, under the roar of Soviet artillery, Brown became Hitler's wife. The small banquet that followed was the last celebration in the history of Nazi Germany. Against the backdrop of the general depression of those present, only the newly-minted Eva Hitler stood out with a blooming look.

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Eve with her sisters. Photo: www.globallookpress.com/dpa

The name is like a curse

A few hours later, she calmly commits suicide. Everything Eva Braun wanted in this life, she got.

Eva's younger sister, Gretl, was married SS Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein. Gretl's husband, unlike Eva, did not want to die for the Fuhrer, and on April 28 he tried to escape from the bunker. However, he was caught and, according to one of Hitler's last orders, was shot. Fegelein was not saved even by the intercession of Eva, who did not want her not yet born niece to lose her father.

Gretl was in the last month of pregnancy. Already knowing about the death of her husband and sister, on May 5, 1945, she gave birth to a girl, whom she named Eva in honor of a relative. But, apparently, the given name in this family acted as as a curse — the youngest Eva also passed away on her own in 1971.

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