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CHINA MAIL SATURDAY FINE 18,

Is this Hitler's body?

Who

THE RUSSIANS SAY YES... BUT THE CHINA MAIL CALLS IN AN EXPERT

a fake. The evidence is conclusive that Hitler's body was burned for several hours after death

says: I think this is

Казахстанская правда

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WHAT WE FOUND

IN THE BUNKER...

by a Russian soldier

by

ANTHONY

LEJEUNE

ERE a very strange

Hpicture. It was publish-

ed on May 15 in the Pravda and ABOVE in reproduced the title ine of the Kazakhstan Prayda, Kazakhstan the Russian local paper which printed the picture on the right purports to show the body The Kazakhelan Pravda was adamant that this was an of Adolf Hitler as he lay authentie picture of the dead Hiller. Below is a translation of an dead in the bunker at Ber- accompanying interview with former machine-run company com.lin. mander Ilya Slanov.

It is probably a still from

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The Flag

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My company, forming part of Neustroyer's Battalion what is described were in Himmler's house, just captured from the Fascists. Soviet documentary film called On the morning of the 30th April I was summoned to "They Faised the regimental staff H.Q. The order I received was as Victory," brief as could be-take the Reichstag by storm.

And soon, high up above the Reichstag appeared the Red Flag-the Flag of Victory.

The picture is Hitler's body. The hysterical maniac shot himself at the very last moment. I saw his body. The pitiful, poor-spirited monster lay there with a hole in his forehead.

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His servants, who only until recently sang the praises of their Fuhrer, ran away like rats from a sink- ing ship. They had not even burned Hitler's corpse as he had ordered. Jerrycans full of petrol stood by the body..

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I took the photograph Lo Oxford and showed it to Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper, whose book, "The Last Days of Hiller, is the leading authority on the subject.

"I think this a fake" he told me. The evidence is con-

clusive that Hitler's body was

Bullet hole in forehead. Is this the real dead Hitler or a fake live actor clutching what is presumably a portrait of Eva Braun?

Stalin later denied it, officials on Zhukov's maff admitted on June 5 that they had the body and had identified it with fair cer- tainty, and that it was badly charred.""

deep-lald policy, and I simply wouldn't like to guess their molives,"

"Only if he shot himself buried the body, a soldier called timidity, not necessarily through through the top of the fore- Harry Mengershausen. head," said Trevor-Roper. "It scems a very awkward place to

"They disagree about minor sum of their shoot oneself and the available details, but the evidence is opposed.

evidence persuades me he shkol himself, probably through the "I have personally interro- mouth or possibly through the but certainly not gated two men who saw the temple,

after the through the forehead." immediately In which case the Russians body "Hitler died on April 30, 1945. could never have taken a picture suicide Artur Axman, head of "I note that Slanov

and Eric I'm certain the body was dug of Hitler's body unburned. Could the Hider Youth, up by the Russians and identified it conceivably have been taken Kempka,"

transport man who before May 9, 1945. Although by the Germans?

burned for several hours after

death.

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So the mystery remains. If the picture and Sianov's story are genuine, they add up to a very important new piece of his torical evidence.

Hitler's body was unburied..

It seems more, probable that From my interrogation of Men Siknov is simply a Kazakhstan gershausen, I am satisfied this is local boy telling a highly colour untrue and I'm not therefore ed "I was there" story: and that much disposed to belleve any am reconstruction which is the photograph comes from a thing else from Slanov."

notably careless of the truth.

Shattering

Could the mark on the fore- head be an exit wound? Hardly, "Hitler used a Walther 7.65"- Trevor-Roper told me,

A Walther is quite a small gun. but it's powerful, A shot from close quarters through the mouth or the temple might shatter the other side of the head; it certain- Fly 'wouldn't leave such, a neat

hole.

I asked Trevor-Roper what he made of the belated appearance of this picture.

"Who knows the motives of the Soviet Press?" he said. "It shows that In Russia It is no longer an unpublishable heresy 10 say that Hitler shot himself.

"For many years they pre- served secrecy about Hitler's end, probably to prevent the rise of a Hitler myth in Germany. In 1950 they released that m The Fall of Berlin obviously with Stalin's approval. It showed Hitler committing suicide by taking poison."

The Russians might try to reponcile their two film versions by saying that Hiller took polson and then shot himself because he thought that was the gorrect milliary way to die.

Banned

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But, major historical document or elaborate fake, this is certain ly a fascinating puzzle-picture.

Historian Trevor-Roper

Know Your Dog

By HM. HOWELL

AMERICAN COCKER SPANIEL

32

THE Spaniel family is a large one of considerable antiquity. As far back as 1386 we find mention

But the polson Eva Braun took of the "Spanyell,” which came to be divided into two was cyanide, which kills within 15 seconds. If Hitler used the groups, the land spaniel and the water spaniel. A further. same polson, as he presumably division separated the land spaniels on a basis of size, would, he could never have had when the Cockers" and the very small spaniels were time to shoot himself afterwards,

separated from spaniels of larger dimensions, sure he didn't take poison, which simply shows that no reliance can be placed on any official Russian version," sald Trevor-Roper,

Then, as the Cookers and the toys were used for markedly different purposes, these two were once more divided. The toys eventually became the English Toy Spaniels which were maintained principally a lap dog type while the Cockers retained their early classification as sporting dogs. That is why the Oocker, is called, "Khrushchev, in his famous the smallest member of the sporting-dog family. anti-Stalin speech, condemned W "The Fall of Berlin as a piece As a valued helpmeet to the huntsman, this dog was known in them "Cocker, “Cooking of vulgar Stalin-worship. It his early days by various names, among makes you sick, was his phrase, Spaniel, and finally Cocker Spaniel, the name deriving, accordin Perhaps after that It was to some authorities, from especial proficiency on woodbook dangerous for a while to say. The American Cocker has evolved somewhat differently anything about Hiller's death, type, Mas, and colouring from the English Cocker Spaniel... Ha Ye smaller, more likely to have a long wavy coat and leather, fuller rye, higher domed forehead and is generally more toy like, vje They came on the map in Hongkong with a bang, and under Aubrey, Ireland of the KO London who judged here in 1954)*

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of Hitler has always been banned in all Communist countries. In 1818 the officla Russian Foreign Literature Pub 11hing Houze sized permission to publish a trandation but within a few months changed their minds on Ar parently false grounds.

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