BODY FOUND WAS NOT HITLER’S
Unsuccessful Russian Search LONDON, July 4. The charred body found by Russian officers in the shelter under the Reich Chancellery was not that of Hitler, a member of Marshal Gregory Zhukov’s staff today told the Berlin correspondent of The Daily Mail as he showed him round the Chancellery. “It was the body of a double and rather a poor one at that,” said the Russian officer. “We were so convinced (jthat it was not Hitler’s body that the experts who examined it immediately ordered its reinterment in the garden.” The officer added that there was no trace of a body resembling that of Eva Braum, who is reported to have died with Hitler.
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Southland Times, Issue 25717, 6 July 1945, Page 5
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