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  “Thanks to the documents furnished by Lorenz, British intelligence agents were able to begin the search for the two other messengers. Willy Johann Meyer was found and arrested on December 29 at Iserlohn, but he refused to tell what had happened to his set of documents. Next the hunt concentrated on the last missing messenger, Zander. Information furnished by members of his family enabled the Allied authorities to trace him to the little Bavarian town of Tegernsee where he had lived under the name of Paustin with his girlfriend, Martin Bormann’s ex-private secretary.

  Arrested, Zander-Paustin immediately admitted that his set of documents, including Hitler’s marriage certificate, was secreted in a filing cabinet of the local elementary school, around the corner from the official headquarters of Gen. Lucien Turscott, in command of the 3rd US Army. The documents in question were located in the school on December 28, the day of Zander-Paustin’s arrest. They turned out to be faithful duplicates of the set found on Lorenz.”

  The documents were kept in the inimitable style of “Mein Kampf.” The last will was entitled “My Last Will and Testament” and consisted of two parts, both written on excellent paper and bearing the signature of Adolf Hitler at its characteristic angle. On the letterhead appeared the Swastika. The marriage certificate consisted of one paragraph only, typewritten on ordinary bond paper.

  The political part of the Last Will, which was made available to the press, contained the following significant information:

  “Inasmuch as our forces are already too weakened to resist the enemy’s concerted attack and since our own resistance is reduced gradually by leaders who are blind and incapable of initiative. I desire to share the fate of millions of citizens of this city who have decided to remain here.

  “I shall not fall into the hands of the enemy and furnish a spectacle for amusement of masses of hysterical Jews. Instead, I have decided to remain at Berlin and to commit suicide of my own free will as soon as I shall be convinced that I cannot any longer maintain my position as Fuehrer (Leader) and Chancellor. I die with a glad heart, thinking of the immemorial feats of my soldiers at the front, of the women of Germany, of our peasants and workers. And I also think of the historical role played in history by the German youth which bears my name (Hitler youth).

  “From the bottom of my heart I wish to thank them all. And I hope that they will not give up the fight but continue the struggle against the enemy of our Fatherland, in accordance with the principles of the great Clausewitz (military leader and strategist of the early 19th century). The sacrifice of my soldiers and my comradeship with them is the germ which one day will blossom into a glorious revival of National Socialism.

  “Prior to my death, I herewith expel from the Party Ex-­Marshall of the Reich Hermann Goering and I herewith strip him of all the rights and privileges conferred upon him by the Decree of June 20, 1941 and earlier by my Reichstag speech of September 1, 1939. In his place I herewith appoint Admiral Doenitz, President of the Reich and Supreme Commander of the Reich Forces.

  “In the desire to give the German people a Government composed of honest people as well as for the purpose of continuing the war by all means, I herewith designate the new German Cabinet as follows: President, Doenitz; Chancellor: Goebbels; Minister of the Party, Bormann; Minister for Foreign Affairs: Seyss-Inquart; Minister of the Interior: Gauleiter Giesler; Minister of War: Doenitz; Supreme Commander of the Army: Schoener; Supreme Commander of the Navy: Doenitz.

  “May they always be imbued with the conviction that our aim of bringing about the National Socialist State represents the crowning achievement of centuries and that this aim implies the obligation to serve the Fatherland before serving themselves. I herewith command all Germans, all National Socialists, men as well as women, all soldiers of the Armed Forces, to be loyal to these men and to obey the orders of the new German Government.

  “Furthermore, I command my people to hold on to the racial laws to the very end and to resist forever the poison which penetrates all nations. International Jewry.—Berlin, April 29, 1945 at 4 a.m. Signed: Adolf Hitler. Witnesses: Goebbels, Wilhelm Bargdorf, Martin Bormann, Hans Drebbs.”

  In an appendix to the political testament of Hitler, Joseph Goeb­bels, Minister of Nazi Propaganda and new Chancellor of the Reich, has laid down the reasons which forced him to go on living after Hitler’s death … these reasons being his obligation to Hitler to serve in the new German Cabinet.

  To the certificate of marriage was attached the photo of a little boy aged approximately 12 years and showing a remarkable likeness to Adolf Hitler. The Allied authorities were certainly surprised when they stumbled on this document.

  Despite the fact that the Chief of intelligence of the 3rd US Army termed those documents genuine, certain doubts cropped up and inquiries were made. Finally, however, it was stated officially that the last will and the marriage certificate were authentic.

  There is no doubt that the last will of Hitler was an authentic Nazi document. From the first line to the last, it breathes the spirit of “Mein Kampf.” It reverberates with the perennial intentions of Hitler concerning his love for peace and his hatred of the Jews—both themes representing the real thread in the strange career of the Nazi dictator. IT IS AUTHENTIC, INDEED, AND UNDOUBTEDLY WRITTEN BY HITLER SO AS TO CONVINCE THE ALLIES OF HIS DEATH AND TO CREATE A MYTH AROUND HIS PERSON IN GERMANY.

  Furthermore, Hitler’s last will and testament was written for the purpose of publication. As it turned out, this aim was fully achieved by the Nazis. The ease with which these papers were “discovered” hits the eye. Furthermore, the capture, or rather the surrender of Heinz Lorenz who carried “false papers” plus the duplicate set of the papers must evoke the strongest suspicions, THE LAST WILL OF HITLER AND ITS COMPANION DOCUMENTS WERE FOUND BECAUSE THEY HAD BEEN INTENDED TO BE FOUND AT THAT MOMENT. By whom had that been planned? By Martin Bormann perhaps?

  Adolf Hitler’s “last will and testament” is inescapable proof that the person who in the night from April 30 to May 1 took leave from the personnel in the Chancellory bunkers of Berlin, WAS NOT THE REAL FUEHRER. How could it otherwise be assumed that the semi-paralyzed person who “appeared doped and glassy-eyed” (as explained in a previous issue of Police Gazette) had had the necessary ability on the preceding day (the last will was dated April 29) to conceive as precise a document as the Fuehrer’s “last will”?

  No, that semi-paralyzed, doped person was not the Fuehrer, but a double. The real Fuehrer, after having issued and signed his message of hatred, cold revenge and pathetic appeal for a revival of the Nazi spirit, had abandoned the “mousetrap” which had become too dangerous for him. Instead, Hitler fled.

  Hitler took off in a fast plane either from the Gatow airport or directly from outside the Chancellory, using the wide Charlottenburg Highway as a runway. To Bormann, Goebbels and Stumpfegger he left the task of staging the funeral of his double, who had been assassinated. Their task achieved, these three also fled.

  Goebbels and Stumpfegger had various choices, among them that of joining Hitler and Eva and the rest of their entourage at a convenient rendezvous. Bormann, however, preferred for the time being to remain in the Reich in order to lead his secret underground movement and to direct the plans for staging the greatest hoax in all history: the disappearance of Hitler.

  On June 26, 1945, almost two months after the flight of the Nazi dictator, there came from the air the voice of a mysterious radio station which announced:

  “Attention, Germans. Hitler is alive and safe.”

  It was a clearly broadcast message lasting but one minute and impossible to trace. After opening with the above words, the mysterious announcer said:

  “The false friends who surrounded Hitler have been foiled. They are all either dead or in prison. And the power which induced them to carry on their cabal was but short lived. Now the Fuehrer has surrounded himself with but a few of his most tried aides and is beyond the reach of the enemy. And the message he sends to his German people is this:
“From the darkness the light will shine anew.”

  Martin Bormann had begun his work.

  MARTIN BORMANN was spotted in Chile in 1948 by a former acquaintance Deputy and for several years a refugee in South America.

  This man together with a party of friends was riding horseback in the vicinity of an Indo settlement when they met three other riders. These riders were dressed in the gaucho fashion and wore large-brimmed hats shading their faces. Pulling his gun the former friend approached the man in the center who seemed strangely familiar to him: it was Martin Bormann.

  Bormann recognized him, then turned to his party and cried: “at the gallop.”

  Thereupon the party cantered off at full speed toward the Argentine frontier.

  Several days later it was learned that Bormann was living in Chile under an assumed name.

  A Nazi refugee in Chile who made inquiries concerning Bormann reported:

  “In strict confidence, Bormann has returned to Europe. He is hiding in Spain until his hour should come. The conflict with Russia is inevitable and then Martin Bormann’s day will come, too. His friends here have spread the rumor that he had died in the course of his flight from the Reich Chancellory in Berlin!”

  Several days later, Paris-Presse published the following story:

  “Bayonne—The Police Bureau of Identification has photographed the complete set of paintings recently found near the frontier. The set will be forwarded shortly for exhibition in the National Museum. One of the canvases bears on its back the inscription: Martin Bormann, Reichleiter, Munich, and speaks for itself. There are rumors that Martin Bormann, allegedly a refugee staying in a secret hiding place in Spain, might have tried to retrieve some of his belongings and that the consignee in Madrid might well have been one of the members of the secret organization known as Free Germany with headquarters in Madrid.

  “Objects of art of this kind are now being smuggled constantly by elements operating in the Franco-Spanish border region. It may be supposed that some of the German ships which now are engaged in transporting lumber from the part of Bayonne, may have dropped some such cargo in the Bay of Ilbarritz where they could be fetched later on by some mysterious party.”

  Nevertheless, one thing seems to be certain:

  Martin Bormann was in Spain.

  A MEMBER of the French Intelligence Service, in an exclusive interview, declared:

  “In May, 1945, I happened to be at La Rochelle (a French naval base and port on the Bar of Biscay). I learned there that a mysterious submarine had entered La Pallice Naval Base on May 3, in order to refuel and to restock food. For reasons which were not explained to me, the entire personnel of the base had been given leave that day. Only the Admiral was on hand to receive the commandant of the sub.

  “Questioned by me on this mysterious vessel, the Admiral told me that he couldn’t tell me anything about the sub, except one detail: the ship was covered entirely with rubber as protection against magnetic mines …

  “My immediate impression was that on board the mystery sub were Hitler or Martin Bormann. Today I am convinced that on board this sub Hitler and Eva Braun sailed for South America …”

  HITLER IS ALIVE!

  Sixth of a Series

  Hitler’s Shangri-La is a refuge, which is both sufficiently immense and remote to make it impossible to conduct a search for him. Fantastic as it sounds, that land exists today!

  In his political “Last Will and Testament” (see previous installment) Hitler had bragged:

  “I was never beaten—I was betrayed.”

  And now he was thirsting for revenge.

  He was planning his comeback and the resumption of his work, just as he had done during the bleak days of 1923 when the failure of his illfated “putsch” had forced him to start all over again, using new methods and plans.

  In 1923 Hitler also had fled. But six months later he was captured, due to having taken insufficient precautions and was committed to the relative comfort of Landsberg jail.

  Had Hitler this time made preparations, better preparations for fleeing before the victorious Allies from whom he couldn’t expect mercy?

  The answer is: Yes. There is proof of that, both circumstantial and concrete.

  But first of all, there are the telling words uttered by Admiral Doenitz in 1943:

  “The German submarine fleet is proud of having built for the Fuehrer in another part of the world a Shangri-La on land, an impregnable fortress.”

  Strangely enough, Doenitz’s words were soon forgotten in the torrent of subsequent events. No mention was made of that utterance in the press commenting on Doenitz’s succession to Hitler as Reich Fuehrer on May 1, 1945.

  Only from time to time the matter cropped up, like sudden flashes in the dark. Thus when the Norwegian traitor Vidkun Quisling faced his judges he cried in a desperate plea for his life: “I believed I fought for a just cause and I refused to run away from my responsibilities when the Nazis, shortly before their final collapse, offered to convoy me aboard a German submarine to a safe refuge.”

  But there is no doubt that the submarine was the only means by which Hitler could have been able to flee the European Continent. The airplane was no longer a safe means of flight, in view of the superiority of the Allied air arm and also in view of the vast, invisible radar net which enmeshed the sky over Germany.

  In contrast, the submarine did not only enjoy an infinitely larger radius of action, but also, practically enjoyed immunity—if it refrained from warfare action. From the second year of the war on, a fairly large number of German submarines had operated in the vast reaches of the Pacific and in some cases had been away from their bases for over a year. They were capable of descending for a depth of more than 200 meters and could cruise in a submerged state for weeks without coming to the surface, according to information given out by the British Admiralty.

  It is silly to believe that Admiral Doenitz could have been unaware of such organized flight plans. A task of such nature involved a certain number of submarine units and could never have been accomplished without authorization of the supreme Commander of the Nazi submarine arm.

  Doenitz most certainly was fully aware of Hitler’s plans to escape. Witness his ominous words spoken towards the end of 1943 and cited above.

  Actually, Doenitz was far from being a “simple sailor at heart and good-natured”, as he had been pictured by friendly sources. On the contrary, he was one of the most formidable figures in the galaxy of the crumbling Third Reich. Implacable, fanatic, experienced and possessed with unbelievable energy, he was more Nazi than any of the other high officers of the Nazi war fleet.

  Furthermore, Doenitz enjoyed the fullest confidence of the Fuehrer and was at any time able to come and go as he saw fit at Hitler’s Headquarters.

  According to British commentators, Doenitz was one of the “mystery men” of the Nazi Hierarchy. In fact, he is said to have also operated under the pseudonym of “Admiral Canaris”, Chief of the Nazi Counter-intelligence, whose identity has never been revealed.

  There were sufficient grounds for such theories.

  During the first World War, Doenitz was one of the most clever submarine commanders of the German War Fleet which then was commanded by Admiral Tirpitz. Nevertheless, during a brave, but careless attack against Allied shipping. Doenitz’s vessel was torpedoed and sunk. He was taken prisoner on October 14, 1917 and sent to a prisoners’ camp near Manchester where he began to fake symptoms of incurable madness. Six months later he was returned to Germany with a group of disabled prisoners. Hardly had Doenitz touched German soil when his ‘madness’ vanished.

  It is strange that so little attention has been paid to the fact that at the crucial moment when the very existence of Nazi Germany seemed in the balance, the helm of the Third Reich was entrusted to a naval person, instead of to an army man, an aviator or to a ­politician-diplomat. The surrender talks were initiated not by Keitel of the Army or von Ribbentrop of the Foreign Office, but by Admiral
Doenitz of the Fleet.

  Why? Because it was necessary that in the critical days of Hitler’s flight, Doenitz should be in command of the overall situation.

  According to Hitler’s carefully drawn and long-prepared escape plans, the submarine convoy which was to transport Hitler and his entourage southward, was to meet at “some point along the Norwegian coast”. Here the embarkation of the Fuehrer and his aides was to occur sometime between April 22 and May 2, 1945.

  The above is not simply based on conjectures, but on indisputable facts. The submarine which surrendered at Leixoes, Portugal, on June 4, 1945 as well as the U-530 and the U-977 both of which surrendered at Mar del Plata, Argentina, came from Norway. All three had left Norwegian ports prior to undertaking their mystery trip to the South Atlantic.

  Then there is the testimony of the documents found on board the U-977 and corroborated by its Capt. Schaeffer and his officers and men. The U-977 had weighed anchor in the German port of Kiel on April 13th, 1945 and gone to Oslo. It left Oslo Fjord on the 22nd of that same month and went to the Norwegian base of Christiansund where it remained until May 2 when the sub got underway again, beginning its southward journey.

  All three subs, the one which gave up at Leixoes, the U-530 and the U-977, belonged to that “phantom convoy” whose task it was to convoy the Fuehrer southward to an already prepared refuge, the existence of which had been hinted at by Doenitz towards the end of 1943.