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  Soon after this the curtain rose on the tragedy of the second World War. The little Nazi pennants dropped in the icy wastes of the South Pole were generally forgotten.

  But the Nazis had not forgotten.

  During the first phases of the World War, their submarines prowled the North Atlantic, inflicting terrible damage on Allied shipping. Yet they refrained from any hostile acts throughout the South Atlantic, where commentators thought these bases were along the extreme southeastern coast of South America.

  Actually, the Nazi sub lairs were located much farther south, most probably on the very shores of the Antarctic Continent. These bases were destined to play a double role. When, toward the middle of 1940, Nazi subs suddenly ceased to operate, these bases changed into depots for accumulating the vast stores of material required for the subsequent setting up of Hitler’s refuge. Clothes, food, fuel and every other conceivable item necessary for survival and for comfort were stored here. For the transportation of these stores, submarines were used exclusively. Undoubtedly, Doenitz’ cryptic remark about the “paradise on land” referred to that phase of submarine operations.

  Then, in August, 1940, Dr. Wohlwill, Director of the Reich Institute for Metals, launched an appeal to German technicians for construction of nonferrous metal which could be safely exposed to temperatures below 60°. We know that iron, when subjected to temperatures of less than 60°, becomes extremely brittle because its inner structure is subjected to fundamental changes.

  But where did the Nazis have any use for nonferrous constructions designed to resist low temperatures?

  Previously, some observers suggested Spitzbergen. Actually, it was the South Polar region where, since the middle of 1940, the Nazis had started to amass planes, tractors, sledges, gliders and all sorts of machinery and materials. Here, then, was to rise the Fuehrer’s new Berchtesgaden.

  For the next four years, Nazi technicians and workers built here the Fuehrer’s Shangri-La. They scooped out an entire mountain and constructed a facsimile of the hollow mountain of ­Berchtesgaden, Hitler’s ill-famed Eagle’s Roost in the mountains of the South Bavarian Alps. The new refuge was practically impregnable and completely camouflaged.

  With the ingenuity of modern construction science, the Nazi engineers built a number of shelters completely protected against cold. Inside his magic mountain Hitler and his staff were able to grow their own vegetables and fruits in artificially-heated beds of black soil, also imported from the Reich. They could raise their own poultry and cattle. No doubt the Nazis had stored here thousands of tons of oil, naphtha, clothing, linen, medicines, canned foods, vitamin tablets, distillation apparatus, planes, tractors, arms, radio station equipment and all other things—in brief, everything so as to make it possible for Hitler and his aides to live here, if necessary, dozens of years.

  HITLER IS ALIVE!

  New Exclusive Evidence

  Many top American and foreign military officials agree with the Police Gazette’s contention that Hitler’s death was faked. Signing of German peace treaty will pave way for his return—legally a free man!

  “No human being can say conclusively that Hitler is dead.”

  This was the statement on Oct. 12, 1945 of Lt. General Bedell Smith, World War II Chief of Staff to General Eisenhower and today Director of the top secret American Central Intelligence Agency. General Smith, postwar American Ambassador to Moscow, is now chief of all secret service agencies connected with foreign affairs in the United States.

  There is no man in the United States today whose word carries more authority on the explosive subject of Adolf Hitler being alive, yet it was not until the recent Police Gazette series of exposes, indicating that the Fuehrer was not dead, that the following facts emerged:

  (1) Hitler, for strange and mysterious reasons, has never been tried in absentia by the Allied governments.

  (2) A peace treaty will soon be signed with the Bonn Government of Western Germany—such a treaty will automatically end legal prosecution of war criminals.

  (3) The Allies are now rearming Western Germany, and, after the signing of the Peace Treaty, there is nothing, literally nothing, to prevent the triumphant return of Adolf Hitler to assume his fanatical leadership again.

  This would be more electrifying and dramatic than the historic “Hundred Days” following Napoleon’s return from Elba; it would upset the calculations of both the Western World and Stalin, because the appearance of Hitler might once again unite both Eastern and Western Germany. There is no doubt that it would throw confusion into Central Europe, and the Police Gazette is the first periodical on either side of the Iron Curtain to present this astonishing truth:

  Although both the Russians and the Western Allies are about to conclude a peace treaty with their areas of Germany, neither has tried Hitler in absentia, neither has offered evidence that the Fuehrer is dead, and both admit there is no proof of such assumption.

  Why?

  There are several plausible explanations: first of all, President Truman declared at his press conference on May 2, 1945, that he was certain Hitler was dead. It now emerges positively that he had no proof of this when he made the statement. This line was considered politically advisable at the time in order to hasten the submission of the German people. That it had no basis in fact was admitted by the staff officers of the American army in Germany.

  As far back as October 12, 1945, six months after Hitler’s supposed death and following numerous investigations, no less a military leader than General Dwight D. Eisenhower reported:

  “There is every presumption that Hitler is dead, but there is not a bit of positive proof. The Russians (who occupied Berlin before American forces) have been unable to unearth one single bit of tangible evidence of Hitler’s death.”

  Thomas J. Dodd, Chief of the US Trial Council at Nuremburg, declares today, “No one can say he is dead.”

  Major General Floyd Parks, who led the first airborne division into Berlin on July 1, 1945, and became Commanding General of the United States sector in Berlin, also told the Police Gazette that in the light of all available evidence he had received, Hitler may very well be alive.

  “I remember being present on several occasions when Marshal Zhukov, the Russian Commander told how he had entered Berlin two months before, and conducted the on-the-spot investigation at the Reichchancellery bunker into the report of Hitler’s death. Zhukov was strongly of the opinion that Hitler might have escaped. There was no conclusive evidence that Hitler had died.”

  The world first heard Hitler was dead when Grand Admiral Doenitz announced over the Hamburg radio on May 1, 1945 that the Fuehrer had died a “hero’s death,” leading his troops in defense of Berlin, and that Hitler had appointed him as his successor to the Supreme Command.

  This announcement surprised the Allied world. The British Foreign Office obviously did not believe Doenitz and immediately reported they would demand that the Germans produce Hitler’s body. But this demand was never pressed.

  On the heels of the promised demand for Hitler’s body, the Russians revealed that they had information contradicting Doenitz’ account of the Fuehrer’s death. They knew that Hitler did not die a “hero’s death.”

  How did the Russians know?

  On April 30, 1945, when all of Berlin’s defenses had practically collapsed, a vital conference was held in the Reichchancellery bunker attended by Martin Bormann, Joseph Goebbels, General Hans Krebs, and General Wilhelm Burgdorf. A letter was drafted to Soviet General Gregory Zhukov asking for peace negotiations. Wireless communications were established from the bunker with the Russian officer. General Krebs was dispatched with a detailed letter outlining the peace terms. The letter informed the Russians of Hitler’s alleged death and the appointment of Grand Admiral Doenitz as Commander in Chief.

  General Krebs returned to the bunker the following noon with the news that Zhukov demanded unconditional surrender and custody of everyone remaining at Nazi headquarters. Negotiations with the Russians
were then cut off and a secret telegram was rushed to Admiral Doenitz advising him to announce Hitler’s death and assume command.

  On May 2, the day after Doenitz’ announcement, President Truman declared at his press Conference that he was certain Hitler was dead and that he had this information on the best authority possible. Identity of the “authority” has never been disclosed. Later events conclusively prove that it was impossible to make any authoritative statement regarding Hitler’s death at the time of the Truman announcement.

  In fact, while Truman was declaring Hitler dead, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, at his European Headquarters, issued a communique that deepened the Hitler death mystery.

  Eisenhower revealed the Allies had received authoritative information from Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte. Henrich Himmler had told him a short time before, the Count reported, that Hitler was ill and dying. Bernadotte also declared that Nazi General Walter Schellenberg had confided that Hitler was suffering from a brain hemorrhage. Both of these allegations were subsequently found to be baseless.

  Winston Churchill followed President Truman’s lead in giving credence to the report of Hitler’s death by telling the House of Commons on May 15 that he was “of the opinion” that Hitler was dead. The Prime Minister, however, carefully avoided making such a definite and conclusive statement as that made by President Truman.

  That the British Government had no evidence on which to base such an opinion is established by Richard White, Brigadier commanding the British intelligence bureau, who in September, 1945, five months after Hitler’s reported death, conceded that it was still officially a mystery.

  Why then did Truman and Churchill immediately give credence to the report of Hitler’s death—especially at a time when every report on the mystery contradicted the other and indicated without a doubt the possibility that Hitler had escaped and invented the death myth?

  One responsible American intelligence officer told the Police Gazette that the Truman and Churchill announcements at that time were important for the psychological impact on the Germans. Convincing the Germans that Hitler was dead created complete defeatism inside the Reich.

  And it was because of these announcements by the Allies that Hitler was never tried in absentia.

  A fragmentary report concerning the dramatic happenings in the Reichchancellery bunker first came from the Russians on May 4, when they announced the capture of Hans Fritzsche, Goebbels’ deputy, who reported the suicide of Goebbels and his family. Fritzsche also declared that he had heard rumors that Hitler had committed suicide, and that his body was set on fire in the Reichchancellery garden.

  The Russians discovered and identified the body of Goebbels and his family, but when it came to checking the rumors of Hitler’s suicide they ran into an impregnable wall of mystery.

  When the Reds entered Berlin, they set up a special guard around the Chancellery and assigned a unit of experts to search through the ruins of the building, bunker, underground passages and garden for the Fuehrer’s body.

  Furthermore, the Russians took into custody many of Hitler’s servants and minor officials who were with the Fuehrer in the bunker.

  From their testimony the following facts were determined concerning the events on the fateful day of April 30, 1945—the day Hitler disappeared: All persons in the bunker were ordered to remain out of sight and not appear in the corridors. The guards were dismissed and the supervision of all activity was taken over by Reichleiter Martin Bormann. He was assisted by Otto Guensche, Hitler’s S.S. Adjutant; Joseph Goebbels, General Wilhelm Burgdorf and Heinz Linge, Hitler’s personal servant.

  In the evening, the occupants were permitted free movement in the bunker and were told by Bormann, Linge and Guensche that Hitler had committed suicide and his body burned in the Chancellery Garden.

  It wasn’t until Erich Kempka, Hitler’s chauffeur, was captured by the United States 101st Airborne Division at Berchtesgaden, that an “eyewitness” account of Hitler’s alleged death and cremation was obtained. Many newspapers throughout the world published Kempka’s statements as an authoritative report, thereby deceiving the public into assuming his account was official. The truth is—Kempka’s statements were subsequently discredited.

  According to Kempka, Otto Guensche telephoned him at 2:40 p.m., April 30, and ordered him to bring a large supply of gasoline to the Chancellery garden. When he arrived at the bunker he saw Bormann carrying the body of a woman whom he believed to be Eva Braun. Bormann gave the body to Kempka to deliver to Guensche who took it into the Chancellery garden.

  Kempka also testified that he saw Linge and some other S.S. officers carry the corpse of a man, the upper half of whose body was wrapped in a gray blanket. Kempka said it was Hitler’s body. The two bodies were placed in a ditch, drenched with gasoline, and set on fire. The mourners, who included Bormann, Burgdorf, Goeb­bels, Linge and Guensche, then returned to the bunker.

  Kempka had no definite knowledge that the dead man was Adolf Hitler and this was conclusively established through his own words. Crossed examined by Thomas J. Dodd, chief United States trial counsel at the Nuremberg trials, here’s what Kempka stated:

  MR. DODD: You are the only man who has been able to testify that Hitler is dead and the only one who has been able to testify that Bormann is dead. Is that so, so far as you know?

  KEMPKA: I can state that Hitler is dead and that he died on April 30 in the afternoon between 2 and 3 o’clock.

  MR. DODD: I know, but you did not see him die either, did you?

  KEMPKA: No, I did not see him die.

  MR. DODD: And you told the interrogators that you believe you carried his body out of the bunker and set it on fire. Are you not the man who said that?

  KEMPKA: I carried out Adolf Hitler’s wife, and I saw Adolf Hitler himself wrapped in a blanket.

  MR. DODD: Did you actually see Hitler?

  KEMPKA: I did not see all of him. The blanket in which he was wrapped was rather short, and I only saw his legs hanging out.

  The body Kempka thought was Hitler’s definitely was not that of Der Fuehrer. The Russians dug up a number of bodies in the Chancellery garden, all wearing clothes with Der Fuehrer’s name sewed in the lining. The important fact, conceded by every allied intelligence officer, is that Adolf Hitler’s body was never found—only corpses dressed in Hitler’s clothes!

  The British eventually discovered another witness to this macabre scene. His statements, upon investigation by American intelligence, exploded conclusively the myth of Hitler’s suicide.

  The witness was Artur Axmann, head of the Hitler Youth Movement, who arrived at the bunker after the alleged suicide of Hitler and Eva Braun. Axmann declared he saw Hitler’s body lying on the sofa of his room, his face shattered and bloodstained.

  Axmann later changed his story, Col. William F. Heimlich, ex-chief of the American Intelligence unit at Berlin, told the Police Gazette. Axmann later admitted that the body he thought was Hitler’s was covered with a blanket and that he did not see the face.

  “We checked every angle of Axmann’s story,” Col. Heimlich stated, “Remember, Axmann said he saw the body on the sofa. Well, we found blood stains on that sofa and the best technicians of our laboratory made tests of that blood. It was not Hitler’s blood type. That’s definite.”

  Since Col. Heimlich, who was in charge of the American Intelligence unit’s investigation into Hitler’s death, is the most qualified to discuss the strange case, the Police Gazette asked him his conclusions.

  “You can state there isn’t a single iota of proof that Hitler is dead. All the stories and reports of Hitler’s death and suicide in the Reichchancellery are definitely untrue.”

  Significantly, one of the guards who was grief-stricken at hearing the news of Hitler’s death, revealed that he was particularly shocked by Guensche’s utter lack of concern. Strangely enough, none of the Nazis who allegedly participated in the arrangements of the suicide and funeral have ever been captured and questioned: Martin Bo
rmann, Otto Guensche, Heinz Linge, and General Burgdorf all escaped. Their fate or whereabouts remain a mystery to this day. Only Goebbels is known to have committed suicide.

  After many weeks of thorough investigation, Soviet Marshall Gregory Zhukov flatly announced in Berlin: “We have found no corpse that could be Hitler’s. Hitler had good opportunities of getting away. He could have taken off at the very last moment for there was an airfield at his disposal.”

  Colonel General Nikolai E. Berzarin, the Soviet Berlin Commander, declared, “My personal opinion is that Hitler disappeared into Europe.”

  Berzarin was the Russian official who revealed that several bodies with Hitler’s name sewed in the clothes were found in the Reichchancellery, but not one was that of the Fuehrer. The Russians carefully examined every body uncovered in the vicinity of the Reichchancellery. They even accounted for disjointed bones! The Soviets had conclusive means of determining Hitler’s identity from intelligence data concerning him physically, including X-rays of every portion of his body—even the gold in his teeth. Thus, the burning of the body would not have been an obstacle to identifying the corpse.

  Investigation by the Police Gazette has established that even total cremation at the highest temperatures will not destroy bones. The burning of the bodies would have charred the corpses, but couldn’t have destroyed the bones. Even a British officer who wrote a report to establish Hitler’s death conceded that the bodies could only have been charred and admitted that neither the body nor bones have ever been found.

  Plans for Hitler’s last minute escape were also uncovered by the Western Allies. At Travemuende airport, a large four-engine plane carrying 30,000 gallons of gasoline was found and the German crew captured. They admitted they were ordered, during the last weeks of the war, to keep the plane in readiness for Hitler. While at the airport, however, the plane was damaged by an R.A.F. fighter, and the crew was unable to repair it in time.