Hitler photographs of death. Rare photos of Hitler. School years of Adolf Hitler

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School photography 1901

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"Friend of children"

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Hitler with Emmy and Edda Goering. 1940 Emmy Goering - German actress, second wife of Hermann Goering. Since the then Reich Chancellor and Reich President of Germany Adolf Hitler did not have a wife, Emmy Goering was tacitly considered the "first lady" of Germany and in this capacity, along with Magda Goebbels, who tried to play the same role, led various charity events.

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Hitler visits one of the officers, just like him, who suffered from a failed assassination attempt on July 20, 1944. After the assassination attempt, Hitler was unable to be on his feet all day, as more than 100 fragments were removed from his legs. In addition, he had a dislocation of his right arm, the hair on the back of his head was singed and the eardrums were damaged. The right ear was temporarily deaf. He ordered to turn the execution of the conspirators into humiliating torture, to film a film and photograph. Subsequently, he personally watched this film.

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Hitler presents Reichsmarschall Goering with Hans Makart's "Lady with a Falcon" (1880). Both Hitler and Goering were passionate collectors of works of art: by 1945, Hitler's collection numbered 6755 paintings, Goering's collection - 1375. Paintings were acquired (including at low prices through threats) by agents who worked for Hitler and Goering, and were donated by those close to him , were confiscated from the museums of the countries occupied by Germany. Disputes over the legal status of some of the paintings from the former collections of the leaders of Nazi Germany are still ongoing.

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According to the official version, Hitler, along with his wife Eva Braun, committed suicide on April 30, after having killed Blondie's beloved dog. In Russian historiography, the point of view was established that Hitler took poison (cyanide potassium, like most of the Nazis who committed suicide), however, according to eyewitnesses, he shot himself. There is also a version according to which Hitler, taking an ampoule of poison in his mouth and biting through, simultaneously shot himself from a pistol (thus using both instruments of death).

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According to witnesses from among the service personnel, the day before, Hitler gave the order to deliver canisters of gasoline from the garage (to destroy the bodies). On April 30, after lunch, Hitler said goodbye to those from his inner circle and, shaking hands with them, together with Eva Braun retired to his apartment, from where the sound of a shot was soon heard. Shortly after 15 hours 15 minutes, Hitler's servant Heinz Linge, accompanied by his adjutant Otto Günsche, Goebbels, Bormann and Axmann, entered the Fuehrer's apartment. Dead Hitler was sitting on the sofa; a bloody stain spread across his temple.

Eva Braun was lying nearby, without visible external damage. Gunsche and Linge wrapped Hitler's body in a soldier's blanket and carried it to the garden of the Reich Chancellery; Eve's body was carried out after him. The corpses were placed near the entrance to the bunker, doused with gasoline and burned. In the photo: Hitler's burnt corpse during the examination carried out by Soviet specialists.

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There are a number of conspiracy theories that claim that Hitler did not commit suicide, but fled. According to the most popular version, the Fuhrer and Eva Braun, leaving doubles in their place, fled to South America, where they lived safely under false names until a ripe old age. The photo allegedly captures 75-year-old Hitler on his deathbed.

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An FBI photomontage taken in 1945 in case Hitler tried to hide by changing his appearance.

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Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945 at his Führerbunker in Berlin. Later, the remains of the dictator were discovered by the Soviet military and taken to Moscow.

But the very fact of Hitler's death is still shrouded in all kinds of secrets and riddles. There are many theories, in addition to the official version, according to which the remains of Hitler were not genuine, he did not commit suicide or even survived.

26 April. Soviet troops occupied three quarters of Berlin. Not losing hope, Hitler is in a two-story bunker at a depth of 8 meters under the courtyard of the Imperial Chancellery.

Together with him in the bunker are his mistress Eva Braun, Goebbels with his family, chief of the general staff Krebs, secretaries, adjutants, guards.

According to the testimony of an officer of the General Staff, on that day Hitler presented a terrible picture: he moved with difficulty and awkwardly, throwing his upper body forward and dragging his legs ... The Fuhrer could hardly maintain his balance. The left hand did not obey him, and the right one constantly trembled ... Hitler's eyes were filled with blood ...

In the evening, one of the best female pilots in Germany, Hanna Reitsch, who was fanatically devoted to Hitler, arrived at the bunker. She later recalled that the Fuehrer invited her to his place and said: “Hannah, you belong to those who will die with me. Each of us has an ampoule of poison. "

He handed the ampoule to Hannah with the words: “I don’t want any of us to fall into the hands of the Russians, and I don’t want the Russians to get our bodies. Eve's bodies and mine will be burned. "

As Reitsch testified, during the conversation, Hitler presented an eerie picture: he almost blindly rushed from wall to wall with paper in trembling hands. "Completely disintegrated man", - stated the pilot.

April 29. The wedding of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun took place. The process took place in accordance with the law: a marriage contract was drawn up and a wedding ceremony was performed.

The witnesses, as well as Krebs, Goebbels' wife, Hitler's adjutants, General Burgdorf and Colonel Belov, the secretaries and the cook were invited to the wedding celebration. And after a small feast, Hitler retired to draw up a will.

April 30. The last day of the Fuhrer has come. After lunch, on the orders of Hitler, his personal chauffeur, SS Standartenfuehrer Kempka, delivers cans with 200 liters of gasoline to the garden of the Reich Chancellery.

This is the last lifetime photograph of Hitler taken on April 30. On the threshold of the bunker in the courtyard of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, the Fuehrer was captured by one of his personal security officers.

In the conference room, Hitler and Brown say goodbye to Bormann, Goebbels, Burgdorf, Krebs, Axmann, and the Fuhrer's secretaries Junge and Weichelt who have come here.

According to the first version, based on the testimony of Hitler's personal valet, Linge, the Fuhrer and Eva Braun shot themselves at 15.30. There is even a photo of Hitler's body with a bullet mark, the authenticity of which is in question.

When Linge and Bormann entered the room, Hitler was allegedly sitting on a sofa in the corner, a revolver was lying on the table in front of him, blood was flowing from his right temple. Dead Eva Braun, who was in another corner, dropped her revolver to the floor.

Another version (accepted by almost all historians) says: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were poisoned with potassium cyanide. In addition, before his death, the Fuhrer also poisoned two beloved shepherd dogs.

By order of Bormann, the bodies of the deceased were wrapped in blankets, carried out into the courtyard, and then doused with gasoline and burned in a shell crater. Since they burned badly, the SS men buried the half-burnt corpses in the ground.

The bodies of Hitler and Brown were discovered by the Red Army soldier Churakov on May 4, but for some reason they lay for 4 days without being examined: they were taken for examination and identification to one of the Berlin morgues on May 8.

An external examination gave reason to assume that the charred corpses of a man and a woman are the remains of the Fuhrer and his wife. But, as you know, Hitler and Brown had several doubles, so the Soviet military authorities intended to conduct a thorough investigation.

The question of whether the person taken to the morgue was really Hitler still worries researchers.

According to an eyewitness, the man's corpse was in a wooden box 163 cm long, 55 and 53 cm high and wide, respectively. A burnt piece of yellowish jersey, similar to a shirt, was found on the body.

During his lifetime, Hitler repeatedly consulted his dentist, as evidenced by the large number of fillings and gold crowns on the preserved areas of the jaws. They were seized and transferred to the SMERSH-3 department of the Shock Army.

On May 11, 1945, the dentist Gaiserman described in detail the anatomical data of Hitler's oral cavity, which coincided with the results of the May 8 study.

The fire-damaged body showed no visible signs of serious fatal injury or illness. But a crushed glass ampoule was found in the mouth. The corpse gave off a characteristic smell of bitter almonds.

The same ampoules were found during the autopsy of 10 more corpses of Hitler's close associates. It was found that death occurred as a result of poisoning with cyanide compounds.

On the same day, an autopsy was carried out on the corpse of a woman, presumably belonging to Eva Braun. Despite the fact that there was a broken glass ampoule in the mouth and the smell of bitter almonds also emanated from the corpse, traces of shrapnel wound and 6 small metal fragments were found in the chest.

Military intelligence officers packed the remains in wooden boxes and buried them in the ground near Berlin. However, soon the headquarters of the Chekists changed its location, and boxes followed after it.

They were buried in a new place, and then, at the next move, they were taken out of the ground.

She found a permanent refuge at a military base near the city of Magdeburg. Here, the boxes lay in the ground until 1970, when the territory of the base came under the jurisdiction of the GDR.

On March 13, 1970, the head of the KGB, Yuri Andropov, gave the order to destroy the remains. They were cremated, and the ashes were scattered from the helicopter through the air.

For history, only the jaws of the dictator and a fragment of his skull with a bullet hole were left.

This physical evidence of the death of Adolf Hitler was sent to Moscow and placed in the KGB archives.

Rumors that Adolf Hitler was alive appeared almost immediately after his death. The British, French, Americans doubted the death of the dictator. There was persistent talk about the amazing salvation of the Fuhrer.

It was rumored that he fled from Berlin abroad along the so-called "rat path". She was a "window" on the border with Switzerland. Through him, high-ranking officials of the Third Reich with forged documents made their way to a neutral country, and from there they were sent to fascist Spain or Latin America.

Regarding the flight of the dictator to South America, there are even a number of FBI "documents" regarding the investigation of this fact.

However, most historians continue to argue that Hitler had no chance of escaping Berlin.

In response, they put forward a version that Hitler might not have been at all in the bunker under the Reich Chancellery. On this issue, there is a version that all tactical issues were decided by the Fuehrer's double. It was he who was shot on April 30, 1945.

Together with him, Eva Braun was also killed to make the death of the country's main Nazi look more natural. Hitler himself, at this time, again sailed away in a submarine towards South America, changing his appearance.

Similar versions are being expressed at the present time.

Newspapers wrote about them, publishing allegedly the surviving clothes of the Fuhrer, in which he arrived in Peru or Paraguay.

There were even photos of the surviving Hitler, who calmly met old age incognito.

But historians argue in response that the Fuhrer was not a coward. His courage is evidenced by the fact that he volunteered for the front in the First World War and was awarded several iron crosses for bravery, and also had wounds received in battles.

After that, it is simply illogical to declare that at the most difficult moment for the nation the Fuhrer is running cowardly, leaving a double in his place.

The fact that Hitler was in the bunker is also supported by the fact that only after his death did the Germans put forward a proposal for an armistice. Refused, Goebbels committed suicide, poisoning his entire family. Bormann did the same a few hours later.

In 2009, Vasily Khristoforov, head of the Department of Registration and Archival Funds of the FSB of Russia, said that in 1946 a special commission carried out additional excavations at the site of the discovery of the corpses of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun. At the same time, "the left parietal part of the skull with a bullet outlet" was found.

In 1948, the "finds" from the Fuhrer's bunker (several burnt objects, as well as fragments of jaws and teeth, which were used to identify the corpses of Hitler, Eva Braun and Goebbels) were sent to Moscow, to the investigation department of the 2nd Main Directorate of the USSR Ministry of State Security.

Since 1954, by order of Serov, chairman of the KGB at the Council of Ministers of the USSR, all these items and materials were stored in a special order in a special room of the departmental archive.

Since 2009, Hitler's jaws have been kept in the FSB archives, and fragments of his skull have been kept in the State Archives.

However, DNA analysis carried out in 2009 by employees of the American University in Hartford, Connecticut, destroyed the entire evidence base regarding the death of the dictator. According to their version, the badly damaged skull bone did not belong to Adolf Hitler at all. She didn't belong to a man at all. It was a fragment of a woman's skull. Moreover, the woman at the time of her death was in the prime of life - 35-40 years.

This statement caused a big scandal. FSB officers completely refused to acknowledge his credibility. And later they also expressed a version about the mistake of Soviet soldiers collecting the remains.

It seems that the point in this matter will never be put. Although, at present, most often the "surviving" Hitler and his doubles become heroes of memes, rather than major scientific disputes.

The rampant Nazism in the 30-40s of the last century is one of the most terrible and bloody events in history. Take a look at rare photos of the one who was at the head of the criminal acts against humanity.

The main person involved, the founder and executor of the embodiment of the bloody Nazi dream was Adolf Hitler, whose portrait became the face of fascism and Nazism throughout the world.

In our article you will see a large selection of photographs from the life of this most terrible dictator. Many of the photographs are rare and have appeared in the public domain quite recently, when in the spring they were sold under the hammer at one of the auctions.

When you look into the face of this person, blood freezes and horror from the realization that all the most terrible events - millions of deaths, hellish experiments and abuse of people and children - happened on our Earth precisely because of him.

Root of evil

Hitler's parents, father - Alois (1837-1903) and mother - Klara (1860-1907) were formally relatives, so his father had to obtain permission for marriage. Alois was a very difficult man with a tough character, he often arranged drunken fights in the house and assaulted. The unhappy mother saw the light in the window only in her little son Adolf and completely gave him her love and hyper-care. He was her fourth child; the first three died at an early age from illness.

Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Austria in the small village of Ranshofen.

From an early age, the boy drew well, which his father was terribly unhappy with and forbade his son to do this. His mother, on the contrary, tried to develop these skills of the boy behind Alois's back and constantly inspired him that he was immensely talented and would become famous. When his father caught sight of his son's drawings, he was furious and asked two of them a spanking, to which his wife shouted to him in despair that he was mistaken, his son would still be famous all over the world. And she was right, but he became famous not for his artistic drawings.

School years of Adolf Hitler

During his school years, Hitler was distinguished by good studies, leadership qualities, and he also began to show the inclinations of nationalism and a desire to join the ranks of the Boer warriors. All this he colorfully demonstrated in drawings, showing them to peers. According to experts, such behavior could be caused by emotional protest in front of an oppressive father, who demanded unquestioning obedience from his son.

According to the memoirs of Alois Jr., Hitler's half-brother, Adolf was cruel and could get furious from insignificant reasons, he did not love anyone except his mother, and was a narcissist. He was also too spoiled - his mother indulged Adolf in everything, so everything got away with it.

The beginning of the dictator's path

Munich 08/02/1914 Hitler at a rally at Odeonplatz during the mobilization of the German army to participate in the First World War.

Growing up, Hitler tried to enter an art school and was completely sure that he would succeed without difficulty. But what a blow it was for him when he was not enrolled, saying that his drawings are good, but not sufficient for an art school, with such skills he was recommended to go to the architectural department. Adolf was furious, he believed that mediocrities worked at the school, who were not able to appreciate truly talented things.

For several years he tried to enter art schools, but he was refused everywhere. The feeling of an ideal artist raised by his mother haunted him, although in reality it turned out that he did not have the talent that was idealized by Klara, blinded by mother's love.

After unsuccessful attempts to become an artist, the death of his mother, impoverishment and wandering, Hitler volunteered for the German army, which then unleashed the First World War. According to the memoirs of fellow soldiers, Adolf was brave, quiet and executive, for which he quickly received the rank of corporal in the service, but Hitler was not given a leading rank, since he was considered an excellent performer who lacked leadership qualities. Fellow soldiers also noted his inexplicable luck: Hitler always returned from the battlefield safe and sound, even if his entire detachment was defeated, and when there were injuries, they were light and did not threaten the life of the future Fuhrer.

Frontal photos of Hitler during the First World War

During the First World War, nationalist sentiments and beliefs of Adolf only grew and strengthened, and by leaps and bounds. When Germany began to lose and surrender positions, then in the rear, in the meantime, due to poverty and hunger began to protest moods, which Hitler regarded as a betrayal.

What are the Jews to blame?

The beginning of Hitler's ascent to the political Olympus 1921

At the end of the war, Hitler left military service, which did not become his career, but allowed him to have like-minded people, of whom there were only 7 people. With these people, Hitler began his political career, and later the realization of his dreams. He wanted a little: "to become the sole leader of Germany and start a fight against the hated Jews, and enslave the whole world." Hatred of Jews fueled his sick imagination, Adolf believed that this nation wants to seize power over other nations and make them faceless.

Hitler was not always an anti-Semite; throughout his life he had Jewish friends who helped him to varying degrees. Anger and hatred began to grow after the death of the mother, who was sick with cancer, and her doctor was a Jew. Hitler repeatedly thanked this doctor for doing his best to cure his mother. But, most likely, Hitler had a subconscious resentment against the doctor because he did not save his mother, and she was the only person who was madly in love with the Fuhrer, and after her death he greatly grieved. Therefore, over time, the resentment grew into an obsessive hatred of the entire Jewish people.

First successes and the Beer Hall Putsch

Hitler's career grew rapidly in the political sphere, he was an excellent orator who could hold the attention of the crowd and draw into his ideas.

In his speeches, the future chancellor played on the patriotic sentiments of the population that reigned in Germany after the war and the failed surrender, which led the country to huge foreign debts and economic decline.

When the audience of listeners who came to his speeches grew to 2,000 people, Hitler began to suppress by force all who shouted discontent: they were dragged out and beaten by his stormtroopers.

Lacking significant obstacles from the authorities, Adolf became more aggressive and arranged whole battles with protesters against his actions and ideas with the help of the whole self-defense units he created, for which he once spent 5 weeks in prison.

Hitler enlisted the experience and support of Mussolini, the Italian dictator who successfully gained power in Italy in the 1920s through seizure and violent suppression of resistance.

Beerhouse "Bürgerbreukeller" (1923), where the Beer Hall putsch began. Photo from the German Federal Archives

The capture of the War Ministry building by Rem's fighters during the Beer Hall Putsch. With the banner - Himmler

In 1923, Hitler staged a coup in Germany to seize power, which was called "beer". The seizure of power failed due to the betrayal of some of his supporters, although it was initially successful. In the course of these events, 18 people died, including law enforcement officers and the Nazis.

The birth of the famous Mein Kampf

Hitler was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison as the organizer of the riots, but then in December 1924 he was released early. In prison, he wrote his famous two-volume memoir, consisting of an autobiography and a political campaign, which he called "Mein Kampf", translated from German "My struggle". Also, during the year of imprisonment, Hitler pondered over the mistakes for a long time and realized that Mussolini's scenario for the violent seizure of power was not suitable for Germany, and built a new plan of action.

At the trial of Ludendorff, from left to right: Attorney Holt, Weber, Roder, General Ludendorff and Adolf Hitler, 1923

After being released from the Landsberg prison in Landsberg an der Lech in Bavaria, December 1924.

In the federal archives of Germany, two documents of Adolf Hitler have been preserved: the first - a permit to carry weapons, the second - confirming his membership in the National Socialist German Workers' Party, as the first person under No. 1.

Hitler's campaign speeches

Meeting of the Nazis of Germany in Munich 1929

Hitler is an excellent speaker. Early 1930s, on the campaign trail.

Photo portrait 1932.

At the construction site of the new building of the Reichsbank (central bank of the German Empire) in May 1932.

When Hitler was released from prison, he made a new plan, political, to achieve the goal. His calculation was to play on the national sentiments of the population and the middle class, which at that time was experiencing difficult financial difficulties, as well as to put pressure on the authorities. Every now and then he arranged various kinds of provocations.

At the pinnacle of power

After 14 years of ups and downs in the political arena through violent and political action, several rounds of elections and pressure on the German government, Hitler came to power as chancellor on January 30, 1933. The celebration of this event resulted in the famous torchlight procession in Berlin.

No one then could have guessed which animal in human form was entrusted with power. After all, in recent years, in the pre-election race, Hitler concealed and restrained his anti-Semitic aspirations and desire to resort to radical measures to implement the idea of \u200b\u200bcleansing Germany and the world of the Jewish race.

Mass rally of the Nazis in Buckeburg, 1934

Visiting his prison cell at Landsberg Prison 10 years later, where Hitler wrote his 1934 book "Mein Kampf"

1936 Olympics, German top officials signing autographs

Berlin 1936, Hitler's farewell at the New Year's banquet with the guests present

Nazi elite wedding

All those in power who helped Hitler get such a high position in the government harbored illusions that this "Nazi upstart" would become in their hands a cornered puppet, but they soon paid sadly for this and already belatedly realized their irreparable mistake.

In pursuit of power, Hitler decided to take care of his health in order to have time to translate his nefarious ideas into reality and, as he believed, save Germany. Therefore, the Fuhrer became a true vegetarian, as a result of which he actively created laws for the protection of animals and toughened the punishment for their violations.

Communication with animals

The Fuhrer's favorite German Shepherd Blondie

Hitler with his scotch terriers

Communication with children

Also, Hitler always demonstratively showed concern for German children, as for the future of a pure nation.

Various events during the reign of Hitler

The first statement that Hitler voiced as chancellor was about re-equipping the army and restoring its full combat capability, after which it would be possible to conquer the lands in the East with their complete Germanization.

Buckeburg, 1937. Thanksgiving Day

Regular rallies

Reichstag, decided on the peaceful annexation of Austria in 1938.

Preparation for the performance of the Leopoldhall Munich 1938.

Visit to the town of Graslitz, the temporarily occupied Sudetenland, 1938.

Nazi rally in Czechoslovakia, Eger 1938

Hitler with Austrian female fans in 1939.

Events on the eve of the outbreak of World War II

Performance on May 1 at the stadium 1939.

After Hitler came to power, the holiday received official status in 1933 - National Labor Day.

Hitler at the Charlottenburg Theater, May 1939.

The maiden voyage of the ship Robert Ley, Hitler on board.

Tea drinking at his residence in Obersalzberg (Bavarian Alps) 1939.

The height of the second world war

Hitler dines on the front line in 1940.

France 40th year

Hitler with Emmy and Edda Göring 1940

Emmy is a German theater and film actress, the second wife of Hermann Göring, tacitly considered the first lady of Germany. Together with Magda Goebbels (wife of the German Minister of Education), she led various charity events. The godfather of Edda was Hitler himself.

Christmas celebration with German top military officials 1941.

Adolf Hitler greets German soldiers at the airfield in Uman.

In the photo, Hitler is in the Ukrainian city of Uman and greets his soldiers. Hitler flew here to inspect the German and Italian military in the summer of 1941.

A symbolic gift to Hitler on the occasion of the capture of Sarajevo.

This plaque, hanging on the wall near the Latin Bridge, the soldiers hastened to remove and hand over to the Fuhrer, almost immediately after the capture of Sarajevo, as a symbol of their victory and the spread of Hitler's power in these territories.

Hospital visits to wounded officers 1944.

Hitler with Goebbels at a press conference in Berlin

Hitler's present to Marshal Goering - "Lady with a Falcon" (1880).

Both figures were collectors of paintings and other works of famous authors. By 1945, Adolf's collection consisted of more than 6000 paintings, Goering's - more than 1000. Pictures were acquired or confiscated by personal agents of political figures. The rights to these canvases are disputed to this day.

Hitler with Eva Braun

Hitler discussing the Ardennes operation with Goering and Guderian in October 1944

Inspection of the destruction after the bombing of Soviet troops, spring 1945

The rarest last frames

These are rare shots of Hitler in the last days of his life, since after the massive offensives of the Soviet army on the Nazi detachments of German troops, Hitler preferred to sit out in his underground bunker.

Last photo in life

Photo from the FBI base, USA. Possible change in Hitler's appearance during his escape attempt.

According to the official version, on April 30, 1945, along with his wife Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler committed suicide. Eva died after taking a capsule of poison with no visible violent signs, and Hitler first shot his beloved German Shepherd, after which he sent himself a bullet in the head.

The death of Adolf Hitler

According to information from Hitler's employees, the day before they were ordered to prepare cans of gasoline in order to burn the corpses. On April 30, 1945, Hitler, after shaking hands with people from his inner circle, went with his wife to his room, and soon a shot rang out from her. After a while, the servants looked into their room, where they saw the body of the Fuhrer with a gunshot wound to the head and the body of Eva Braun without visible damage. Then they wrapped the bodies in army blankets, doused the previously prepared gasoline and burned them as ordered.

The photo shows a charred corpse being examined by Soviet specialists.

But there is a version that Hitler, together with Brown, fled to South America, where they met their old age, and instead of themselves left the corpses of doubles. Even Stalin once put forward a version that Hitler was alive and was hiding with the allies.

In the photo, allegedly seventy-five-year-old Hitler on his deathbed.

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Hitler at Landsberg Prison during a visit by party comrades, including Rudolf Hess. 1924 g.

Hitler's parents: Clara and Alois

Giler's birth certificate. 1989 Braunau, Austria

Little Hitler (third from the left in the bottom row) with classmates. Fischlham, Austria. 1895 g.

School photography 1901

Hitler in the crowd at Odeonplatz during the mobilization of the German army during the First World War. Munich, 2 August 1914

Volunteer Hitler (right) with the 2nd Bavarian Infantry Regiment of the Bavarian Army during the First World War. 1916 year

Hitler (back row, second from right) in a military hospital. 1918 g.

The rising star of German politics. 1921 year.

During the 1923 election campaign.

Hitler was released from Landsberg prison where he wrote "Mein Kampf". December 1924

Hitler in shorts, 1924 “In some of the photographs, Adolf Hitler looks like a jester, but they prove that he was experimenting with his own image. Those. Hitler was a very modern politician for his time, ”reads the foreword to Hitler Was My Friend by Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler’s personal photographer.

"Apocalyptic, forward-thinking, convincing." Staged photoset by Heinrich Hoffmann. 1925 g.

The face of Nazism.

Portrait of 1932

The new building of the Reichsbank was laid. May 1932

Trial at Leipzig 1933

Hitler on a visit to his prison cell at Landsberg Prison, where he wrote "Mein Kampf" ten years ago. 1934 g.

At a massive Nazi rally in Buckenburg, 1934

Hitler and Goebbels sign autographs at the 1936 Olympics

Hitler says goodbye to those present leaving the New Year's banquet. Berlin, 1936

At someone's wedding

At Thanksgiving in Buckeburg. 1937 year.

On the construction of the autobahn

Hitler receives a standing ovation in the Reichstag after the announcement of the "peaceful" annexation of Austria. 1938 g.

Hitler in brown Nazi clothing during an outdoor performance in Austria. 1938 g.

At a rehearsal of the Leopoldhall Orchestra in Munich. 1938 g.

Visiting the occupied Sudetenland in the town of Graslitz. 1938 g.

At a Nazi rally in Eger, Czechoslovakia. 1938 g.

With Austrian fans. 1939 g.

May Day rally at the stadium in 1939. With Hitler's coming to power on May 1, it received official status in 1933. The date was named National Labor Day. The day after the introduction, the Nazis broke into the premises of the trade unions and banned them.

At a Nazi rally

At the Charlottenburg Theater. May 1939

Aboard ship Robert Ley on her maiden voyage.

Hitler with guests at a table at his residence in Obersalzberg. 1939 g.

During lunch on the front line. 1940 g.

In Paris. 1940 g.

At the Christmas banquet with the German generals. 1941 g.

"Friend of Children".

Hitler with Emmy and Edda Goering. 1940 Emmy Goering - German actress, second wife of Hermann Goering. Since the then Reich Chancellor and Reich President of Germany Adolf Hitler did not have a wife, Emmy Goering was tacitly considered the "first lady" of Germany and in this capacity, along with Magda Goebbels, who tried to play the same role, led various charity events.

"Friend of Animals".

Hitler and Eva Braun with their Scottish Terriers.

Hitler also had a Blondie shepherd.

Reading the morning press.

Hitler and Eva Braun. 1943 g.

Hitler, Goering and Guderian discuss the Ardennes operation. October 1944

Hitler visits one of the officers, just like him, who suffered from a failed assassination attempt on July 20, 1944. After the assassination attempt, Hitler was unable to be on his feet all day, as more than 100 fragments were removed from his legs. In addition, he had a dislocation of his right arm, the hair on the back of his head was singed and the eardrums were damaged. The right ear was temporarily deaf. He ordered to turn the execution of the conspirators into humiliating torture, to film a film and photograph. Subsequently, he personally watched this film.

Hitler presents Reichsmarschall Goering with Hans Makart's "Lady with a Falcon" (1880). Both Hitler and Goering were passionate collectors of works of art: by 1945 Hitler's collection numbered 6,755 paintings, Goering's collection - 1,375. Paintings were acquired (including at reduced prices through threats) by agents who worked for Hitler and Goering, and were donated by those close to him , were confiscated from the museums of the countries occupied by Germany. Disputes over the legal status of some paintings from the former collections of the leaders of Nazi Germany are still ongoing.

One of the last photographs of Hitler. The Fuehrer in the garden of the Reich Chancellery awards the young members of the Hitler Youth brigade, mobilized to defend Berlin.

According to the official version, Hitler, along with his wife Eva Braun, committed suicide on April 30, after having killed Blondie's beloved dog. In Russian historiography, the point of view was established that Hitler took poison (cyanide potassium, like most of the Nazis who committed suicide), however, according to eyewitnesses, he shot himself. There is also a version according to which Hitler, taking an ampoule of poison in his mouth and biting through, simultaneously shot himself from a pistol (thus using both instruments of death).

According to witnesses from among the service personnel, even the day before, Hitler gave the order to deliver cans of gasoline from the garage (to destroy the bodies). On April 30, after lunch, Hitler said goodbye to those from his inner circle and, shaking hands with them, together with Eva Braun retired to his apartment, from where the sound of a shot was soon heard. Shortly after 15 hours 15 minutes, Hitler's servant Heinz Linge, accompanied by his adjutant Otto Günsche, Goebbels, Bormann and Axmann, entered the Fuehrer's apartment. Dead Hitler was sitting on the couch; a bloody stain was spreading across his temple. Eva Braun was lying next to her, no visible external damage. Gunsche and Linge wrapped Hitler's body in a soldier's blanket and carried it into the garden of the Reich Chancellery; Eve's body was carried out after him. The bodies were laid near the entrance to the bunker, doused with gasoline and burned. In the photo: Hitler's burnt corpse under examination by Soviet experts.

An FBI photomontage taken in 1945 in case Hitler tried to hide by changing his appearance.

There are a number of conspiracy theories claiming that Hitler did not commit suicide, but fled. According to the most popular version, the Fuhrer and Eva Braun, leaving doubles in their place, fled to South America, where they lived safely under false names until a ripe old age. The photo allegedly captures 75-year-old Hitler on his deathbed:

Walter Frentz is a German photographer, cinematographer, director. Personal photographer of Adolf Hitler. One of the key figures in the visual propaganda system of the Third Reich.

Received a specialty in electrical engineering. During his studies, he met Albert Speer, who later introduced and recommended him to Leni Riefenstahl. Before World War II, he worked as a cameraman at the Universum Film AG studio, in particular, was a cameraman for Leni Riefenstahl on the filming of the documentaries Triumph of the Will (1935) and Olympia (about the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin). In 1939, Franz took color photographs of Moscow. In 1938 he joined the Luftwaffe and, accompanying Hitler, filmed the Anschluss of Austria. V. Franz was not a member of the NSDAP, but in 1941 he was admitted to the ranks of the SS. It happened during V. Franz's visit to Minsk together with SS Reichsfuehrer Heinrich Himmler in the summer of 1941. On August 15, 1941, Walter Franz wrote in his diary:

"Breakfast with the Reichsfuehrer SS in Minsk, a prison camp, execution, lunch at the Government House, a psychiatric hospital, a collective farm. The Reichsfuehrer SS took two Belarusian boys with him (to be sent to Berlin). Admitted to the ranks of the SS by Lieutenant General Wolf."

He witnessed mass executions in Minsk.

As a newsreel operator (UFA-Wochenschau), he was sent by the Führer Headquarters (Führerhauptquartier) to film the invasion of Warsaw and Paris. In addition to his official duties, Franz played the role of a private photographer for Hitler and his inner circle. Along with Heinrich Hoffmann, he was the only photographer who had access to Adolf Hitler, who specialized in color photography. From 1939 to 1945 he was a regular correspondent for the propaganda newsreel German Weekly Review.

Among his color photography:

Numerous portraits of dignitaries of the Third Reich;
... occupied Minsk (1941) and Sevastopol (1942);
... special objects: Atlantic Wall (1943), a factory for the production of weapons of retaliation V-2 and V-4, Dora guns;
... destruction of the cities of Dresden, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Munich and others (1945).

He was interned by the Americans and spent several months in a camp in Hammelburg.

Former cameraman and photographer at Hitler's headquarters Walter Frentz (1907-2004) in a prison cell in Frankfurt am Main. 1945 - 1946 After his arrest (05/22/1945), Franz was sent to the American internment camp for Germans in Hammelburg (Lower Franconia) and remained there until 1946.

Martin Bormann (right) - "Hitler's shadow". Hitler's personal secretary, head of the Fuhrer's office. By the end of World War II, he had gained significant influence as a personal secretary, controlling the flow of information and access to Hitler.

Adolf Hitler and representatives of the Wehrmacht High Command at the Rügenwalde military training ground in Pomerania.

A. Hitler and SS Reichsfuehrer G. Himmler, accompanied by generals and officers of the CC for a walk at the Berghof residence.

Preparations for the launch of a German V-2 ballistic missile (V 2) at the Heidelager military training ground near Blizna in Poland.

The building of the Ministry of Public Education and Propaganda destroyed by British air bombs at Wilhelmplatz in Berlin. In the background is a surviving building, built for the ministry in 1938. The picture was supposedly taken from the window of the old "Imperial Chancellery".

The building of the old Imperial Chancellery "at 77 Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin, destroyed by an Allied raid. Presumably March 14, 1945.

Adolf Hitler in the basement of the "Imperial Chancellery" in front of the model of the rebuilding of the city of Linz. The model was brought from the studio of the architect Hermann Giesler (1898-1987) in Munich to Berlin in February 1945 and placed in the basement of the "Imperial Chancellery", where lighting devices were installed to simulate different times of day. At this time, Hitler often descended to the model to distract himself from the stalemate on the fronts.

On March 19, 1943, Adolf Hitler (center), Albert Speer (right) and other dignitaries arrived at the Rügenwald (now Darlowo, Poland) training ground, where they were presented with the super-heavy 800-mm Dora (80-cm- Kanone (E) and a prototype ACS Sd.Kfz.184 "Ferdinand".

Luftwaffe chief Goering played such toys

A Wehrmacht lieutenant and a German drafting engineer work on a blueprint at Hitler's headquarters, Wolfsschanze.

Adolf Hitler and German officers walk their dogs at the Rastenburg headquarters. Winter 1942-1943.

Blondie portrait

Personal secretary of A. Hitler Gertraud (Traudl) Humps (Gertraud "Traudl" Humps, 1920-2002) on the terrace of the Berghof residence in Obersalzberg. In June 1943, H. Humps married Hitler's valet, Hans Hermann Junge.

Adolf Hitler and General Jodl (Alfred Jodl) at the map of the war at the Wolfschanze headquarters.

Adolf Hitler and Air Minister Hermann Goering surrounded by officers. The picture was taken during the demonstration of the Hetzer self-propelled gun for Hitler's birthday.

Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler, SS Brigadeführer and Hitler's personal dentist Hugo Blaschke, SS Brigadeführer and German Foreign Ministry representative at Hitler’s main headquarters Walter Hevel and the head of the NSDAP Party Chancellery, Reichsleiter Martin Bormann on the terrace of the Görberg residence. Spring 1943

Adolf Hitler at the Berghof residence in early April 1944

Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini, 1883-1945) and Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel (Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel, 1882-1946) at the Feltre airfield.

German aircraft designers Ernst Heinkel (1888 - 1958) and Claude Honoré Desiré Dornier (1884 - 1969) at Hitler's Berghof residence.

Portrait of Adolf Hitler in the cabin during the flight. 1942 - 1943

Reichsfuehrer SS Heinrich Himmler speaks with a local boy during an inspection trip in Belarus. This boy and another were sent to an orphanage in Germany. Next to Himmler are the head of the personal staff of the Reichsfuehrer SS Karl Wolf and the head of the "Reichsfuehrer SS escort" and bodyguard Josef Kirmeier, on the right - most likely an interpreter from the "police of order".

Soviet children from the village of Novinki near Minsk. The picture was taken during the inspection of Minsk and its environs by the Reichsfuehrer SS Heinrich Himmler.

German gunners at the gunners' sights in the coastal turret mount of the 105-mm cannon (10.5 cm S.K.C / 32) of the Atlantic Wall.

The basement of the demolished monument to Lenin in front of the Government House in occupied Minsk.

Destroyed by an explosion on 03.11.1941, the Assumption Cathedral of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.

Barack (Lagebaracke), which held meetings on the situation on the fronts at Hitler's headquarters "Wolfschanze". On July 20, 1944, an attempt on Hitler's life took place there.

German gunners at the 75-mm field gun of the 1897 model (Canon de 75 mle 1897 Schneider) on the Atlantic Wall battery. The German designation for the gun is 75 mm FK 231 (f).

Fuel tanks for V-2 (V-2) rockets on the assembly line in Tunnel B of the Dora-Mittelbau underground plant.

The wreckage of a German V-2 (V 2) rocket near Blizna after a failed launch from the Heidelager test site in Poland.

Portrait of the commander-artilleryman of the Red Army in German captivity.

Portrait of a Red Army soldier in a POW camp in Belarus.

SS Obersturmbannfuehrer, commissioner for the euthanasia program and personal physician of A. Hitler Karl Brandt (Karl Brandt, 1904-1948) examines the jaw of a captured Red Army soldier in a POW camp in Belarus.

A portrait of Otto Günther, a chef at Hitler's headquarters, nicknamed Krümel ("Baby") at the headquarters.

A. Hitler before the layout of the restructuring of the city of Linz in the studio of the architect G. Giesler (Hermann Giesler, 1898-1987) in Munich.

The chief of staff of the operational leadership of the Wehrmacht High Command, Major General Alfred Jodl (foreground), Adolf Hitler and the Chief of Staff of the Wehrmacht High Command, Colonel General V. Keitel (Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel) discuss the course of the war with France at the map in the main headquarters of the Felsennest near Bad Münstereifel. Behind them is A. Jodl's adjutant Major Willy Deyhle.

Reichsfuehrer SS Heinrich Himmler inspects a psychiatric hospital in the village of Novinki near Minsk.

Gauleiter of Danzig-West Prussia Albert Forster (1902-1952) plays the guitar at the wedding of Hitler's personal secretary Gerda Daranovski (1913-1997) and Luftwaffe lieutenant colonel at the headquarters of Eckhard Christian (Eckhard Christian), 1907-1985.

Adolf Hitler and Berlin's Inspector General for Construction, Albert Speer, select stone samples for a new building in Berlin. The photo was taken in the courtyard of the new imperial chancellery.

Inspector General of Berlin for construction Albert Speer (1905-1981) in the cap of the SS troops during a car trip in Belgium. Speer was not a member of the SS, and the cap was not part of his casual attire and uniform.