Hitler’s Aides Deny Red Army Found His Body

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29227, 10 June 1960, Page 22

Hitler’s Aides Deny Red Army Found His Body

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright)

BERLIN, June 7.

Hitler’s former aides, with him when he died, today denied reports appearing in Russia that the Russians had found and photographed his body when they took Berlin in 1945, British United Press reported.

Hitler’s personal pilot. General Hans Baur, said today: “Hitler’s body was burned. We know because we saw it burn.” The new Russian version appeared in a remote Soviet newspaper “Kazakhstan Pravda,” and quoted a former Russian officer as saying that Hitler’s body was found intact in a bunker. General Baur said that both Hitler and his wife of 24 hours, Eva Braun, were burned after they committed suicide.

“Nobody could have found Hit-

let’s corpse intact because he was burned,” he said.

Henry Shapiro, now a correspondent in Moscow, who was with the Russian armies as they advanced on Berlin, said today that early in May, 1945, he interviewed the commander of the Russian troops, Marshal Zhukov. The marshal had said that Hitler and Goebbels and his family, had committed suicide and before doing so had ordered that their bodies should be burned, Shapiro reported today.

Marshal Zhukov said that several charred remains had been found in the Bunker, but there were no remains that could definitely be identified as those of Hitler.

"For all we knoiy he may be in Spain or South America,” Shapiro quoted Marshal Zhukov as saying at the time.

British United Press said, however, that there was one person who had identified both Hitlsr and Eva Braun by their teeth. She was Mrs Heuserman, an assistant for 20 years to Hitlers personal dentist.

She said she was taken by the Russians to have a look at « man’s jaw. She recognised it Instantly as Hitler's. A Russian officer also toM Allied correspondents at the time that they had dental evidence that made it certain one of the burned bodies was Hitler’s.

Another showed British intelligence officers what was claimed to be the remains of Hitler *od Eva Braun.

A description by a British officer who saw them said: ‘They were the bones of an adult man and woman. There were not two complete skeletons there, and none of the main bones was intact ' In fact, they looked more like a heap of old soupbones which had got mixed up in a fire. “The Russians kept the bones in a sack and the last I saw pt them was when a Red soldier unceremoniously shoved then back into the sack again after |p had finished examining them,**