This article is about the book. For the event, see Death of Adolf Hitler. For the television episode, see The Death of Adolf Hitler (ITV Sunday Night Theatre).
The Death of Adolf Hitler: Unknown Documents from Soviet Archives
Cover of the first edition
Author
Lev Bezymenski
Original title
Der Tod des Adolf Hitler: Unbekannte Dokumente aus Moskauer Archiven[a]
Country
Germany
Language
German
Publisher
Wegner
Publication date
1968
Published in English
1968
Media type
Print (paperback)
Pages
c. 134
The Death of Adolf Hitler: Unknown Documents from Soviet Archives[a] is a 1968 book by Soviet journalist Lev Bezymenski, who served as an interpreter in the Battle of Berlin. The book gives details of the purported Soviet autopsies of Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun, Joseph and Magda Goebbels, their children, and General Hans Krebs. Each of these individuals are recorded as having been subjected to cyanide poisoning; contrary to the Western conclusion (and the accepted view of historians) that Hitler died by a suicide gunshot.
The book's release was preceded by various contradictory reports about Hitler's death, including from eyewitnesses. Under Joseph Stalin, the Soviets both claimed that Hitler died from cyanide and that he escaped Berlin. Much of the information presented in the book about how Hitler died (namely by poisoning or a coup de grâce) has been discredited, including by the author, as propaganda. Hitler's body was reputedly burned almost completely to ashes, leaving nothing to conduct an autopsy upon.[b] Only the Soviet description of Hitler's dental remains, consisting of a golden bridge and a mandibular fragment with teeth, is regarded as reliable. The book includes previously unreleased photographs.
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^Jaeger, Stephan (2009). "The Atmosphere in the 'Führerbunker.' How to Represent the Last Days of World War II". Monatshefte. 101 (2): 229–244 (242). doi:10.1353/mon.0.0115. ISSN 0026-9271. JSTOR 20622190. S2CID 162188389.
^Musmanno 1950, p. 233.
^Benecke, Mark (12 December 2022) [2003]. "The Hunt for Hitler's Teeth". Bizarre. Retrieved 4 March 2024 – via Dr. Mark Benecke.
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