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The Commission consisting of Chief Expert, Forensic Medi-

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Anatomical Pathologist, 1st Byelorussian Front, Medical Ser-

vice, Major A. Y. Marants; Anny Expert, Forensic Medicine, 1

3rd Shock Army, Medical Service, Major Y. I. Boguslavski;

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the Mflitary Council 1st Byelorussian Front, Lieutenant Gen-

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livered in a wooden box (Length 163 cm., Width 55

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jersey,25 x 8 cm., charred around the edges, resembling a

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between 50 and 60 years. The dead man’s height is 165
cm.
(the measurements are approximate since the tissue
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charred), the right shinbone measures» 39 cm. The corpse is
severely charred andsmells of burned flesh. 1

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lower cheekbones, the nasal bones, and the upper and lower I

jaws are preserved. The burns are more pronounced on the

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right side of the cranium than on the left. In the brain

cavity
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small cracks in the nasal bone and the upper jawbones. The
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the first left bicuspid ( lg. ), and the first and second ‘right __q

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black spot in the porcelain (enamel) at the bottom. This I

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the right, are the usual porcelain (enamel) dental o

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is ‘vertically sawed ofi behind the second left

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The lower jawbone lies loose in the singed oral cavity. The
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are scorched. On the front surface the charred prongs of

dental roots are recognizable. The lower jaw consists of fif- 1

teen teeth, ten of which are artificial. The incisors

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they disintegrate into separate fibers when touched. The rem- I

nants of the burned part (-about two thirds) of the left "upper
arm are preserved. The exposed end of the bone of the upper
arm is charred and protrudes from the dry tissue. Both legs,
too, are charred. The soft tissue has in many places disap-

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autopsy report that had been written on May 8. He explained that the
report had originally been written by hand; only later was it decided to
add the statements of I-leusermann. As was mentioned above, the delay
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describe the features of the dead man. But the following could
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a) Stature: about 165 cm. (one hundred sixty-five)

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bodies (Documents Nos. 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11), and the
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other corpses—Documents Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
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lished the account of an M.D., Dr. Arnaudow, a native of Bul-
garia, who became a citizen of the West German Republic. He"
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tells in was the person.who had been able to

great detail that he
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identify the corpses of Hitler and Frau Braun.

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identification process, they responded with ironical smiles. Of

course they remembered a young Bulgarian student whom they
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of Blaschlre, but not Blaschke himself, who had fled. This ended
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Shock Army, andphis deputy, Vasili Ivanovich Gorbushin, two
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Cheka(Mirozhnichenlzo since 1930, Gorbushin since 1938),

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devoting their Lives to combating the enemies of the Soviet State.

At this point in the identification process, Vasili Gorbushin <

was entrusted with the search for witnesses, assisted by Major 2

Bystrov,_an experienced ofiicer with a knowledge of German.

Gorbushin was irom Leningrad. In the history of wars, the
on as one of the most cruel and
siege of Leningrad will live
ruthlessly destructive operations. Today, there are voices who
wish to excuse it as “military necessity.” But at the time no one
in Berlin was looking for an excuse for this crime. It was a fore-
gone conclusion that the city bearing Lenin’s name would be
razed and its population doomed to starvation. ‘

However, the citizens of Leningrad thwarted Hitler’s calcula-

tions. Vasili Gorbushin, forrnerAChief Foreman of the 2nd Me-
chanical Division of the famous industrial complex “Krasny
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Putilovets,” survived the worst times of the siege, the winter

months of 1941/42. His mission at the time -was to counteract
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the German agents infiltrating the city. From March 1942 he

worked in the Yolkhov and from 1943 he was detailed
Sector, v-_vs

to the Staff of the 3rd Shock Army. On May 9, 1945, Gor- -r

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bushin’s mission was to ascertain whether the corpses found in 0

the garden of the Chancellery were really those of Adolf Hitler

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mendations of the medical investigators. The dissecting doctors rv

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had taken into custody jawbones with many artificial bridges,

crowns, and fillings. All that was needed for an irrefutable iden-
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tists. In Professor Blaschke’s clinic we were received by a Dr.

Bruck. When Bruck learned that we wanted to see his chief

on a matter of importance to the Soviet Army Command, he
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told us that the Professor himseLf was not

home. and as!-zed
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whether an assistant of the Professor, Kathe Heusermann,
might represent him. .

I sunirnoned her to an interrogation and had her fetched by

the Bulgarian student.
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is on Adolf Hitler’s teeth?” I
asked Kiithe I-leusermann. I A

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“Here, in the files,” she answered.
Frau I-Ieuserrnann quickly searched in the file box and
pulled out a card which proved to be the medical history of
Adolf Hitler. The entries ‘gave evidence that the Fiihrer had
had very poor teeth in need of frequent repair. l

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they were not at the clinic. When I asked where they might
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kept in Professor B1aschke’s office in the Chancellery. .

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cellery, taking Kathe Heusermann along. Here we went down ll

to the bsement, found Professor Blaschke’s dental oflice, and

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for Hitler and Eva Braun had been prepared by a dental
technician named Fritz Echtmann, whose address she knew.
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Frau Heusermann and Echtrnann were interrogated by me
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\ separately. I was assisted by Major Bystrov.

In answer to my questions, Kathe Heusermann and Fritz
Echtmann described Hitler’s teeth from memory in minute
detail. Their information about bridges, crowns, and fillings
corresponded precisely with the entries in the medical history
and with the X-ray pictures that we had found, Next we asked l

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Braun. Fritz
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no dental prosthetist had used a similar method of attachment.

Next, our medical experts met again. After examination
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teeth of the charred male corpse which
had been found on
May 4 in the garden of the Chancellery, the experts came to
the definite conclusion that these were Adolf Hitler’s
teeth.

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firmation: the subsequently drawn up records of the
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1Yelena Rshevskaya, who in 1965 published a report on the search for
the leaders of the Third Reich, was interpreter
during this interrogation.
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Mythos (Berlin, 1967), pp.

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fourth tooth, exhibits a distinct trace
which occurred when
the gold bridge was sawed by the dental
drill, at the time of
the extraction of the sixth tooth. This
extraction was per-
formed by Professor Blaschlze with
my assistance in the
autumn. . . .

All further evidence that these bridges are

Adolf. Hitler’s
tallies with those named by me before from
memory, with the
exception of the fourth lower which I believed to
right tooth,
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thesame day, Frau

Heusermann was interrogated by Dr. Faust Shkaravski.
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On May 11, 1945, Hitler’s medical history was sent to me
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helped to prosthesize Hitler’s teeth in her
capacity as spe-
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very clearly how frightened
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she was during the interrogation. However,
the interrogation
proceeded very smoothly, really__1il~:e an ordinary
conversation
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between doctors. I, a Soviet physician, was ‘speaking

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with a
German doctor. In the course of our conversation, which
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lasted between two and three hours, Frau

Heusermann gladly
ate some of our candy. Her fear soon
evaporated. She de-

‘Later, as a Soviet prisoner, Echtrnann produced

sketches and descrip-
tions of the jaws of Eva Braun, whose dental
prostheses were made by
him, and of those of Hitler, on whose dental prosthesis
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argue with her, because I had overlooked one detail when
examining the teeth and had miscounted the steel pins. She
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After the interrogation of Frau Heusermann and Echtmann
the forensic experts no longer doubted the identity of the corpses.
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I asked Professor Krayevski which detail of this memorable ex-
perts’ report heremembered most clearly.
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“Probably the smell of bitter almonds, which we all noticed. 9'

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For an anatomical pathologist ora forensic physician this smell
says unmistakably: Poisoning by cyanide compounds.”
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internal organs: the missing second testicle. In medical parlance

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monorchism is a fairly frequent phenomenon and as a rule is

congenital: such a defect did not exclude a normal sexual life.
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I asked whether this might be the consequence of an illness.

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years had contracted syphilis. According to Professor Krayeyski,
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Hitler died in the nrm

conviction that all traces of, his physical
existence had been destroyed. But Soviet shells and the unbear-
able smell of burning corpses kept his subordinates from follow-
ing through in the execution of the Fiihrer’s last commands.
Thus it became possible that the last (forensic-medical) opinion
on Hitler was pronounced by Dr. Shkaravski, by Dr. Faust. Once
upon a time Germany’s greatest poet raised the name of Faust
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to a symbol of the triumph of human reason. Once again reason

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triumphed over madness.

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Shkaravski submitted its findings to the Military Council of the
1st Byelorussian Front.“
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only fourteen years old. Among the victims of Babi Yar, of
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the murder of the six Goebbels children. Six, it may be said,

are not six hundred thousand. But murder is always murder.
And even those historians who appraise thelife of the former ‘V
Reich Minister for Propaganda and National Enlightenment It
with an unprejudiced eye will not‘ dare to affirm that Helga
(born September 1,1932), Hilde (April 13, 1934), Helmut i

(October 2, 1935), Holde (Febmary 2, 1937), Hedda (May 5,

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1938), and Heide (October 29, 1940) willingly chose their
death.
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chi?-;ir;-:1 cs;:;:ped
proper attention. But the example
of the
Goebbels family thro‘.=.‘s an light on the abyss to which
horror propaganda can lead even its
perpetrators. Did Goebbels
and his wife, seriously believe that the
Allies would wreal: their
vengeance on six children? The postwar
period has refuted such
conjectures. Not a hair was harmed
onthe heads of the children
of Bormann, Himmler, G6ring,,and many other
Party bigwig.
Not everything can be explained by a fanaticism
which knows
no bounds. But a regime which welcomes
A murder as the means
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of self-assertion must in the long run

damage its own soul. Who-
ever ceases to respect his neighbor as
a human being will in the
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end cease to be a human being himself,
His biographer Helmut
Heiber believesthat Goebbek wanted to-put
himself in the
spotlight through the death of his
children, to create for himself
an aura, a legend, ‘conducive to
immortality, to surround his
end with the “awe~inspiiing grandeur of a‘ antiquity and sense
of fateful doom.” 1 '

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were Goebbels’ children murdered?
Opinions difier.
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Some, among them Goebbels’ erstwhile Secretary

of State Wer-
ner Naumann, assert that Magda Goebbels
herself. did the deed.
Another version has’it that their mother
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lieve that we shall never know
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documents throwa
on the events. But they have one advantage: -they
full light
were
drawn up immediately after these events. The
reader will notice
that the eyewitness Dr. Helmut Kunz
did not at first come out
with the “full truth. Then the Soviet Court
of Inquiry subjected
him
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Counter
Intelligence, 4th Section, ssoexsn, 1st
Byelorussian Front, has
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1965), p. 370.

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