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On 29 April 1945, Hitler and his lover Eva Braun reportedly killed themselves in a Berlin bunker. Now, 66 years on, the FBI files reveal that the US agency had maintained a detailed dossier on the Fuhrer and closely inves tigated any report that indicated he still was alive.
Now, declassified documents of the FBI show how agents variously thought he was hiding out on a ranch in Argentina, living in a hotel in Denmark and in New York City. Extracts from them were published in Germany's Bild newspaper.
"He was bearded, cleanshaven, suffered from asthma and stomach ulcers," according to informants who wrote their sightings in to the then FBI director, J Edgar Hoover.
The FBI office in Los An geles noted on 21 September, 1945: "Hitler and 50 of his closest family landed approximately 10 days after the fall of Berlin in two submarines in southern Argentina. Hitler has grown a beard and is hiding on a ranch."
One theory Hoover ordered his agents to pursue was an extensive 11-year probe into the possibility that Hitler faked his own death with a bogus suicide in 1945.
One sighting came from a doctor in 1954 who claimed to have treated Hitler for an intestinal disorder in St Louis. Others told tales of Hitler dining in a Washington restaurant in 1946, The Scotsman reported.
Years later, reports of Hitler aides, discovered in the files of SMERSH -Russia's elite intelligence service -suggested Hitler shot himself in his bunker. His ashes and bones, were reportedly buried and uprooted several times in what was former East Germany before being disinterred one last time from a military base near Magdeburg in 1970s and flung into a river.
courtesy- The New Indian Express
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HISTORY For 30 yrs, FBI tracked Hitler who `faked death'
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA LONDON, APRIL 10
T HE FBI believed that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler faked his suicide in 1945, and tried to track him down for nearly 30 years after his death, according to declassified files.On 29 April 1945, Hitler and his lover Eva Braun reportedly killed themselves in a Berlin bunker. Now, 66 years on, the FBI files reveal that the US agency had maintained a detailed dossier on the Fuhrer and closely inves tigated any report that indicated he still was alive.
Now, declassified documents of the FBI show how agents variously thought he was hiding out on a ranch in Argentina, living in a hotel in Denmark and in New York City. Extracts from them were published in Germany's Bild newspaper.
"He was bearded, cleanshaven, suffered from asthma and stomach ulcers," according to informants who wrote their sightings in to the then FBI director, J Edgar Hoover.
The FBI office in Los An geles noted on 21 September, 1945: "Hitler and 50 of his closest family landed approximately 10 days after the fall of Berlin in two submarines in southern Argentina. Hitler has grown a beard and is hiding on a ranch."
One theory Hoover ordered his agents to pursue was an extensive 11-year probe into the possibility that Hitler faked his own death with a bogus suicide in 1945.
One sighting came from a doctor in 1954 who claimed to have treated Hitler for an intestinal disorder in St Louis. Others told tales of Hitler dining in a Washington restaurant in 1946, The Scotsman reported.
Years later, reports of Hitler aides, discovered in the files of SMERSH -Russia's elite intelligence service -suggested Hitler shot himself in his bunker. His ashes and bones, were reportedly buried and uprooted several times in what was former East Germany before being disinterred one last time from a military base near Magdeburg in 1970s and flung into a river.
courtesy- The New Indian Express
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