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@Mar 22 2005, 04:05 PM
Is it true that Hitler thrown into fire by his own men after he killed himself
| His body was cremated on-site. There are several books on the subject, with details varying. The witnesses present were under the highest level of stress, but the convergence is the same: the body was taken up the stairs to the bomb-blasted yard near the Fuhrerbunker, doused with gasoline, and burned. They didn't do a good job of it, as it was not incinerated thoroughly, and the Soviets found enough bones to make an indentification. There was even less fuel to eliminate the cadavers of Goebbels and his wife. Of all the descriptions I've read, Joseph O'Donnell's The Bunker has the best comment on the scene, quoting the Prophet Isaiah on the bizarre tableaux.
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I've read O'Donnells book and its a good read although I have read another book containing a rebuttal of facts in "The Berlin Bunker" which I shall dig out and make reference to tomorrow (head like a sieve). The cremations were botched up, I believe the Driver Kempka and Hitler's valet Linge were the ones to do it and in order to set the bodies on fire, they threw lighted paper from the entrance to the bunker as it was dangerous to be out in the garden where the bodies were. I assume that snipers were around.
What I find ironic about Hitler's Death in Berlin is that the City had no recognised wehrmacht or German SS formations defending the leader of the 3rd Reich at the end. There was a contigent of Frenchmen under General Krukenberg and elements of SS Nordland but other than that the rest were disorganised units and patched formations of second line troops and volksturm. The Army that had taken Hitler to the shores of the Atlantic and the Volga was noticeably absent at the end.