On may the 1st 945 the battle for belin had been raging for 2 weeks the capital of the 3rd reich lay in ruins while the nazi leadership still refused to sign an Unconditional Surrender soviet troops continue to fight their way towards the furious bunker and a house to house back. There all to make goal was to capture the leader of the 3rd. Beautiful civil hitler was the symbol of the war and of fascism so he was a trophy that everybody wanted show some peace for the movie very scary. But when i was hitler soviet soldiers found 6 childrens corpses in the garden of the right chancery to charred bodies as well as skull fragments and teeth. And what did these 2 young women have to do with a search one was. A red army interpreter the other a german kit a high is among the assistant to hitlers dentist both played a decisive role in the identification of hitlers remains. Prisoner most of the witness states i clearly recognize the gold teeth and the dentures i was shown that. Darwin was immediately informed about the remains and their identification. He now knew that hitler was dead. To begin with. Yet 7 weeks later at the popstar conference stalin told his western allies that the dictator was in good health and had probably defected. But you must tell him why didnt stalin tell his allies probably because keeping it a secret could prove useful for the perfect. It was in the story of hitlers death shows how suspicious stalin was of the west. Stalins lie about hitlers death was up held for almost 50 years proof of hitlers death was kept under wraps until the soviet union became history only them was the truth finally told. Me nothing can be hidden. If everything comes out in the end. For the soviet Union World War 2 began in june 1941 after a surprise invasion by hitler within a few months the enemy was outside moscow stalin ordered the Mass Mobilization of the population the poorly equipped regiments that marched across red square were sent directly to the front i. Yell and i was just 22 and the mother of a 2 year old son but the red army needed interpreters and yellow who spoke german volunteered 4 years later she was part of the soviet unit in berlin that was trying to track down nazi leaders. Nobody knew where hitler was there were rumors of him lying dead or dying a victim of a brain hemorrhage or that he had taken his own life. But according to soviet radio hitler was alive and well and in hiding in the alps it was said that a double was fighting in his place on the streets of berlin in nazi. And there was only waiting for his death to present the allies with appropriate photos of radio hitler was alive and well and in hiding in the alps it was set that a double was fighting in his place on the streets of berlin and nazi propaganda was only waiting for his death to present the allies with appropriate photos another rumor claimed that hitler was hiding in the ruins of the reichstag. Capturing the right stark was a historical moment raising the red flag above the Parliament Building symbolized the victory over the 3rd reich. Well 1st of all. The it was our units that led the attack on the high start. We were lucky it was a great honor for us. All and they stormed the reichstag thinking hitler was hiding there but really nobody knew where he was you know whats a good clip but hitler wasnt in the right stock it had burned down in 1933. The Red Army Front line headed to the chancery before my heart of nazi power told the civil history it was exciting to imagine hitler could still be there we were on edge but where was hitler was he alive or dead. Roofed. German radio announced the death of a few of us who fell in his heroic battle against bolshevism shortly afterwards german chief of staff hunt skypes went to soviet headquarters he wanted to begin surrender negotiations and told Marshall Gheorghiu about hitlers death. So while bitter fighting continued on the streets. Balin the small soviet advance units with yelena the interpreter reached the chancery. Close by was the bunker where hitler had possibly been hiding for several months. They found a chaotic scene the ground powered by shells and corpses lying everywhere they quickly recognized one body josef goebbels then those of his wife and their 6 children. It was body hadnt yet been found but the next day the news of his death made the headlines well why except in the soviet union. The official communist Party Newspaper and voice of the kremlin wrote that the claim hitler was dancing was a ruse to enable him to escape. Similarly in paris manage a question the reporter. Meanwhile in the grounds of the chancery the search for hitlers body continued among the rubble and corpses one of them closely resembled the dictator especially because of the typical moustache excitement and restlessness spread experts were called in but despite the resemblance and the moustache it was clear that it was not. Nevertheless the legend of a double was born all soviet troops marching into berlin what water to keep an eye out for hitler but the real search was done in secret and carried out by only 3 people. Major Corporation Major bistro and bear interpreter yelena she was needed to help question german soldiers and officers the 2 officers were part of smash for soviet military intelligence during world war 2. Children my shoulder in here on may 4th i spoke to the bankers heating engineer. He had installed the ventilation system in the rooms hitler lived in watching you. All movie you he saw the bodies of hitler and brown being taken out of the bunker is. Each other after questioning the 1st german prisoners investigators were convinced that hitler had held out in the bunker until the end of it he had taken his own life shortly before the 1st soviet troops arrived it was also known that on the afternoon of a prophet 30th the day of his supposed suicide over gasoline kept in the chancery for an urgency as had been used up. That hitler disappeared without a trace or had he ordered his body to be completely burnt could his remains still be found and if so where. The bodies of hitler and eva braun were discovered completely by chance. In the garden of the chancellery a soldier saw the tip of a bull still in Good Condition sticking out of a hole in the ground he decided to take it and found 2 dead bodies. Floating for words knew they didnt know if it was really hitler they were able to identify gerbils because the last petrol had been used to burn his corpse but these remains were burnt to a cinder with you. The corpses of the girls. As family several officers and the still unidentified remains smashed now had to identify around a dozen bodies chant of bearing degrees vice admiral Hans Eric Foss confessed he was among the last to see goebbels and hitler a line. Like dented find gavels wasnt a problem but was this really the corpse of hitler. The autopsy proved inconclusive but doctors could not unlike with gravel say with absolute certainty whether the remains were really those of the dictator. The last hope for his teeth. Literally consequently upper jaw was well preserved the lower jaw to the still had 15000. On may 8th my superior officer major gore bush told me to go and see him. He gave me a burgundy colored box and said those are hitlers teeth is your responsible for the we get it. All 98 the guns fell silent as the Unconditional Surrender of the van marked came into Effect People celebrated the end of a war that had claimed millions of victims but yelena stayed away from the victory celebrations instead she carefully guarded a box lined with red satin. It probably contained hitlers final remains. In berlin columns horst representatives of the allies and german field marshal general vilhelm keitel mattered soviet headquarters overseen by Marshal Zhukov they signed the surrender document of the german of damage on the. Night of may nights the war in europe was now officially over. The following morning yelena and the 2 officers set off to track down hitlers dentist maybe he could say for certain if these were hitlers teeth but they knew neither the dentists name nor his address or even if he was still on life finally they found out his name and that he had left the city 2 weeks earlier. But they also learned that his assistant had stayed in belin hoping for her soldier husband to return from the front. And. A few hours later yelena met. A cheerful young woman who for almost 10 years had assisted at every one of hitlers dentist visits so the furious teeth held no secrets for ha. Ha. Ha she became the main witness is the teeth meant nothing if you could not find the person to identify that it is over but its not a nonissue in the day old. Good to the questioning of cater for some of them the witness states i clearly recognize the gold teeth of the dentures i was shown to be innocent can you can agree that they belong to chancellor hitler. The witness makes the same statement for abel brown. Thanks to you this testimony is very important as in the now it is proven that the teeth true. Belong to hit for the 1st time in the. We asked her to make a sketch of hitlers teacher without showing her the teeth we had found. Her hadnt forgotten about hitlers terrible dental health her scans corresponded exactly to the jaw found by the soviets it removed all doubt about corpse found in a hole in the chancery garden was it less. So hitler was dead but how would stalin handle this information. Stoli for the soviet leadership in berlin it was clear that there was dead and stalin was informed immediately to not give stalin and accurate report on the subject was out of the question was more it is crucial this book did you hitler was a symbol of huge political important story like the taking of the right study and the conquest of berlin took. A look at the city of. Stalin hardly emerged from the kremlin but he had informers everywhere. Every day new documents about hitlers death and the identification arrived. They were precise and definite after katowice a mans testimony it was clear that hitler was dead and stalin knew it. However a few days later the soviet general arrived in bonn then to a very fine fairfax. To general started questioning people again. And for the 1st time jelena as the interpreter was warned she would be held responsible in the case of a translation error but these also everyone was given strict instructions and put under real pressure. The general sent the trio to find kate a whole again she was told to pack a suitcase for a week long absence then they took away from. The official report of the 2nd questioning of. It says that it started at 115 and ended at 0650 questions were always the same they made her repeat what she knew about his teeth and after she said everything they asked the same question do you still think that the teeth and dentures shown to you belong to. But if she said yes i can confirm that. Dial to. The document is only 5 pages long but we know the interview lasted 5 hours one yes so we can imagine how many times they forced her to give the same answer is that its a pretty and he said buttes. The mysterious general didnt sign any official reports after the 2nd questioning which confirmed the 1st he left as suddenly as he had arrived the investigators were certain hitler was damned thanks to the formal identification of his teeth by kay toys a month but this information remained top secret and the soviet high command in berlin officially continued to search for hitler dead or alive a medal was even promised to the person who succeeded in capturing him. Although over a smash investigation was undertaken and up most secrecy rumors. It was circulating outside the soviet zone which made their way into the International Media but the russians found and identified the nazi leaders body everyone waited for soviet confirmation. The kremlin remained silent at the end of may 945. 00 Harry Hopkins and it finds are to us president harry truman went to moscow for a series of talks with stalin to prepare the 1st postwar conference between the big 3. When hopkins asked stalin about hitlers whereabouts stalin replied he thought hitler was alive had successfully escaped and had maybe gone to japan in a submarine it was the 1st official lie about hitlers death told by stalin himself. 10 days later zuckoff organized a press conference in berlin for foreign journalists they expected confirmation of the discovery and identification of hitlers remains but to then surprise drew cough announced the opposite that hitler had not been found he was certainly alive and had managed to flee perhaps to spain or argentina. Zuckoff claim can only be explained as follows as he obeyed stalins orders to the letter discovered as he hadnt received an order to say the bodies had been found and identified he lied on sure we knew who it is. But you must start a new search area so you see them why didnt stalin tell the allies bush at the end. Sure is not simple has psychological reasons for my little dog. Knowing something the others dont know is always advantageous i love that keeping a secret can always be useful. In. The story of hitlers death shows how much stalin distrusted the west. It was important to him not to give them too much information or evidence. Maybe one day it would be useful to have left his allies in the dark just. So the line had been born of his general consternation because nobody could imagine that just a month after the joint victory the soviets would lying to their allies about such a subject why and if so what was the aim it seemed absurd no if she said hitler hadnt been found it was true. In mid july Stalin Truman and churchill met in pakistan for their 1st postwar summit the talks were to determine the future of germany and large parts of Eastern Europe. The new musical. Series continues in the tensions between the soviets and the western allies were aggravated by the soviet claims of Eastern Europe and the soviet policies in the areas occupied by the red army has anything to do with your computer in the past there. With so much at stake the question of hitlers face was rather secondary the truman advisor record later that during dinner with the us president stalin reaffirmed that hitler is alive and designer in spain or argentina. In pakistan the leaders also had to decide which nazi leaders would go on trial in a few months time in nuremberg stalin again said hitler is alive so he should have been at the top of the list of war criminals but oddly nobody wanted him not the americans nor the english. Not even stalin himself. Everything was kept secret in case one day we could use it. That is how the soviet union operated it was all controlled by the Intelligence Service which observed suresh and and spread fear everywhere. That he was the focus here stalins decision to withhold information that concerned all of the allies was the soviets 1st step towards the cold war not finish a whole new way. For yelena the time had come to take off her uniform and put on a nice dress and elegant shoes. She posed for some souvenir photos. And paid her last visit to cater the main witness to hitlers death who are still being held at soviet h. Q. The 2 young ladies got on well. And they both shared an important secret. But see it well theyre Closing Exchange was very friendly kerry has said i will soon be free then we can meet up in bilin and ill take you to my hair dresses but that never happened. Meanwhile the british and the americans continue to seek the truth about hitlers mysterious disappearance and they still counted on soviet cooperation. Here is a request from the british and the americans to the soviet leadership in berlin. Our generals passed on the request to Foreign Affairs minister Vyacheslav Molotov and started asking for instructions. That you know. What information where they authorized to give that should they cooperate with the british and the americans to clarify the details of hitlers. Archives hold a request from intelligence chief frente beriah to molotov to pass on the information to the allies but it seems the kremlin decided not to allow it the line went around the world and kept the press on alert. People everywhere reported having seen hitler. Nazi sympathizers seize the opportunity to spread the meth hitler was still alive and would return to save the right. One of the rumors was particularly annoying for the british the soviets accuse them of helping hitler escape and that they were hiding him somewhere in the british Occupied Zone to use him as a bargaining chip against them at the appropriate time. In order to put an end to such accusations the british commissioned a young historian hugh travel ropa to investigate the question of hitlers whereabouts the russians denied him their support and any access to the chancery located in the soviet center but trevor roper found several witnesses in british and american prison camps who had experienced the law. Last moments in a few of us bunker. The historian was soon certain that hitler had committed suicide on april the 30th shortly afterwards his body was burned by his bodyguards but trevor ropers report was based solely on testimony from witnesses what he lacked was evidence most importantly the body. And. That is why he was unable to put a stop to the rumors which were becoming more and more lurid at that time the f. B. I. Received thousands of reports from all over the world about sightings of hitler which were checked and categorized. The end. Of this is. In march 953. 00 the news spread like wildfire around the world stalin was dead. The unscrupulous dictator victor of the 2nd world war merciless tyrant glorified and hated ruler had died and nobody knew what would follow the regime of terra he had maintained for almost 30 years in the soviet union. That the honorable task of delivering the eulogy on red square. The head of soviet state intelligence had hoped to seize power but soon afterwards he was arrested put on trial and executed. Kilometer long shelves contained carefully documented secrets of the stand in regime 18 years after hitlers death the truth about his death remained locked away in secret archives only a few remaining eyewitnesses knew the details. In 1955 gallon i was finally free to say and write in moscow that hitler had committed suicide but nothing more nothing about the investigation the identification of his remains and even less about stalins lies anyway who would believe her where was the proof among the numerous versions of hitlers disappearance it was now the suicide theory that those in power preferred. But not just any suicide. The idea that hitler poison to himself was much more interesting for propaganda than if he shot himself in the head for political suicide by shooting his scene is an act of courage that was pushed while taking poison is a sign of cowardliness its. The 1st line told by stalin himself was that hitler was alive and had succeeded in escaping his successors opted for another version that hitler had poisoned himself like a coward. Thanks. To the new world of that persian was spread and repeated until everyone had heard it as if he was bush. The brezhnev era began in 19641 year later the soviet leader decided to commemorate the end of war by making victory day a public holiday. In the 20 years had passed since the end of the war. And theyd be set. In 1965 yelena decided to write about what had happened and what the Intelligence Services had done just to see you. Send your script home to his ear dont. Yell another skier was now a respected writer but she was obsessed by the lies about hitlers death she wanted to Popular Science want she knew and dispel the myths but to make it credible it needed to be based on the proof hidden in the archives. After multiple requests she finally gained access to some of the documents. As she was given little time to carry out her research she frantically copied all of the documents given to. The. Chief told 5 large no she could not choose the documents and didnt know what was in the archives but what she had no catalog she had to stay sitting in a chair and an official gave her one dossier after another over the course of the new year and he said if you put the importance and interest of the documents very silent as much you know with that of the people thats the one day she opened it does say with a list of different trophies sent from berlin to moscow she declares coast a Paper Shredder found in the bank and the names that cater to her as a man and several other germans with the key to the gate at that point that should come up there thats how my grandmother learned to have been sent to moscow. Like an object. It was a huge shark yelena was suddenly transported 20 years into the past to the smash Interrogation Room and balance. She remembered kate ahoy hitlers dentist so sister and the main witness who had enabled the identification of hitlers remains. Jill and i had got on well with us now she knew she had never been released. From the only thing on the morning of june 29th 1045 at 6 oclock i was transported in a van with 7 other prisoners to a berlin airfield and put on a cargo plane to moscow on arrival we were immediately taken in a police van to lubyanka prison and put in solitary confinement my cell was very small just 7 paces long with water running down the black painted walls. When you can you my at school she didnt know how long they would keep well what she was accused of. All i knew when you mind me but she did understand why she was there so what is actually. Indecent thing this i spent 6 years in solitary confinement in august 1051 they charged me with helping abortion was state prolonging the war by participating in hitlers dental health care that they said i should have killed hitler for example by breaking a bottle over his head during treatment that way i would have saved the world dog. After 6 years in a secret k. G. B. Prison and there followed an absurd indictment and a sentence with no try. A month earlier stalins protege victor apple kumar the former head of smash and minister for state security had fallen into describes and been dismissed from office. Fees if you dont go over the borders or the 1951 when i will come off was arrested it was discovered that a number of germans who had witnessed hitlers death were still being held without a warrant. For them and you proved to see the list was drawn up and sent to stalin for further instructions and this piece of good will start and so forth and he decided they should be sententiously. Everyone on the list was given a long sentence for a magic merry political crimes that way nobody could speak about what they had seen or social or. Even if. I was sentenced to 10 years in a forced labor camp in siberia with the 6 and a half year solitary i had already served taken into account i signed everything i was happy to go to a camp with fellow sufferers and escape my stone tool in moscow in the sky house. In december 1951 caterer left moscow for a sign period and a cattle wagon. She was given her little suitcase of some addresses packed in berlin 6 and a half years previous when she thought shed be away for a week. The journey lasted 14 days and cater recalled that when one of the prisoners dined the guards through the body out into the snow. She wrote that she had to do an extreme amount of labor i couldnt keep up at the time i weighed under 40 kiddo. Again because i didnt work enough my food ration was cut no breakfast no food in the evening just at midday that if a fellow prisoner hadnt helped me i would have certainly starved to death. Because of my kids i was a man was sentenced because she could testify that hitler was a danger she was imprisoned in the soviet union so that nobody would find out those in power had falsified historical facts she suffered because of his services to history. Faster secret prison than sentenced for a made up crime kato was 1st released after 10 years 955. Had changed completely. I guess new york to come here must we arrived in moscow on june 1st and they took us around the city by bus to come they showed us the kremlin at the university and the underground stations that were each individual a decorated with mosaics paintings and colorful marble guns for them to. Pay to return to germany and an express train with sleeping cars white curtains and lamb shanks in the soviet union tourists had to spend all their roubles before leaving the country a man often invested their little money in crimean champagne all vodka from the dining top and gave the rest those temps. 80 years kate his family had known nothing of what had become of us until a recently released prisoners said she was alive and in a prison camp in siberia. Husband who had returned from the front and had her declared dead and remarried. Others she had she saw thought so far but my aunt immediately adapted to her new existence before and and i the huge rush started surprisingly she said think of that chapter of my life is over yes its fast now im starting a new life i get. A nice living im not a woman with an absent husband am a at 1st and i have no idea who i am. F. Us is my what are you when you have been declared dead dead and i dont know what to call that thats how it was. Because of. 20 years after the. End of world war 2 yellen his book was finally published in moscow but 1st it had to pass 2 senses the 1st was the normal one that every book in the soviet union was subject to the 2nd check was carried out by the k. G. B. It for bait her from saying she had access to that secret our kinds so from an historical point of view the blank was basically worthless the author was not allowed to base her writing on actual findings on concrete sources she was also banned from mentioning official lines or divulging state secrets. She would have to wait another 25 years to do that. In 1991 the soviet union collapsed outside the lubyanka building the k. G. B. Headquarters the statue of felix jesuit ski the founder of the k. G. B. Predisaster was removed was it now finally possible to tell the whole story. Youre going to want to hear when i became director of the state archives in 1992 there was a kind of handover of power. Tool my predecessor handed me a box that contained parts of hitlers skull and documents on the investigation into his death of me cheated for you clearly it was only after the fall of the soviet union that we could launch what is known as the archive revolution. Millions of documents were declassified so that researchers could access them. Slee of the. The findings material evidence as well as parts of hitlers skull had been kept in the state. While the archives of the k. G. B. Now the f. S. B. Had kept parts of the witness reports including that of. As well as the main proof it was teeth and. Where were the bodies the charred remains of hitler and eat up our. Own can you go through the remains were handed over to the chief of staff of the 3rd army stationed in east germany to me every time the army was relocated they took them with them but they had to dig them up and bury them in a new secret hiding place. In 1970 then k. G. B. Chief Yuri Andropov advised Leonid Brezhnev to get rid of the charred remains that had followed the 3rd army for 25 years the secret document about the destruction of the nazi leaders remains was discovered in the archives in 1992 and the case was closed. 47 years later all the evidence of hitlers cumshots suicide in his bunker on april 30th 945 was finally made public. Nothing stays secret. Everything comes out at the end of the pool and. Kind of the done your history teaches that im sure all and even the best kept secrets come out in the end youre screwed if you go because a lot of businesses have just lost the governments that followed never felt it necessary to explain themselves to the people. You know in the 90s russian leaders said ok there were secrets but it was the work of the soviet union a sense to say you screw. Up they should have issued a general indictment on the soviet era and the soviet regime as an instrument of power based on violence that violated its own laws well thats oaks as being a soldier but that critical appraisal of the past and soviet crimes never occurred and he says that you. Meet the artist today we speak. She can you can accuse a refugee when she was just a child today shes a lawyer author and show host successful and full of bright new ideas she talks about how canada became her someone pick me up and how do you know everybody was. Getting to know even today marks 21. And 30 minutes on d w. Its a deadly sin. And the whim of nature. Is motivates us. And france turismo sunt greed. Desire. Drives me nuts it is dangerous. Why are we greedy. We go in search of answers when a documentary film. Starts may 21st g. W. Cut. Cut. Cut. 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