WILL THE REAL ADOLF HITLER PLEASE DIE?

The most recent issue of NEXUS magazine (March-April 200 concludes a captivating and thought-provoking three-part series of articles by independent Australian historian and researcher Giordan Smith questioning the whole accepted version of Hitler’s last days in Berlin and his suicide. The question assumes some importance, in the light of the evidence and arguments that Mr. Smith presents, since I have argued in my two previous books on Nazi secret weapons, REICH OF THE BLACK SUN and THE SS BROTHERHOOD OF THE BELL, that the malevolent outlines of some sort of “Nazi International” may clearly be detected in the post-war West and Latin America. Moreover, in my new book due out in a few weeks, SECRETS OF THE UNIFIED FIELD: THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT, THE NAZI BELL, AND THE DISCARDED THEORY, I flesh out the outlines of a powerful triumverate at the top of this International consisting of SS Obergruppenfuehrers Heinrich “Gestapo” Mueller and Dr. Ing Hans Kammler, and Nazi Party Reichsleiter Martin Bormann. This triumverate, moreover, was the perfect combination to administer any ongoing Nazi International’s continuing and independent post-war development of the exotic technologies the Nazi Regime had begun to investigate prior to and during the war, since the three represented a combination of security, administrative, and financial capabilities.

More recently, Richard C. Hoagland has provided yet another approach to the possibility of the continuance of the Nazi ideological and technological agenda with his book DARK MISSION: THE SECRET HISTORY OF NASA. And as I observed in my own first two books on Nazi secret weapons, the presence and power of this post-war Nazi International does provide a way to speculatively rationalize the degeneration of American culture and politics into increasingly Fascist avenues and mores. Similarly, it provides a method, as I outline in SS BROTHERHOOD OF THE BELL, of explaining and interpreting many of the odd events - otherwise inexplicable - towards the end of World War Two, up to, and beyond, the JFK assassination.

But as I also made clear in REICH OF THE BLACK SUN, I did not, at the time of writing that book, subscribe to the possibility of Adolf Hitler’s survival and escape from Berlin. But Giordan Smith’s NEXUS series, and particularly the final part, raises the stakes significantly enough that I now begin to entertain the idea, and ponder its broader implications. What if, after all, the chief himself DID survive? And if he did, what does it mean in terms of the Nazi International theory and its covert post-war power and influence?

Giordan’s article in the current NEXUS begins by poiting out the one major sticking point in the post-war Allied standard history of Hitler’s suicide, the version concocted largely by British intelligence and under the aegis of Hugh Trevor-Roper. The sticking point, quite bluntly, is the consistent post-war Soviet attitude of skepticism toward the whole “death of Hitler in Berlin” scenario. Noting that an American war correspondent in Berlin, one Joseph W. Grigg, announced on May 8, 1945, that Hitler’s body had been found. But on May 10 the same Grigg reported that a further FOUR bodies, “blackened and charred, that seem to answer to Hitler’s general appearance” were drug out of the ruins of the Reichschancellery(NEXUS, March-April 2008, p. 35). Ironically, this sounds remarkably similar to the four different versions of SS General Hans Kammler’s death as I recounted in REICH OF THE BLACK SUN. Within another five days, Grigg reported that the number of possible Hitler corpses had risen to six, forcing Grigg to admit that the Soviets were beginning to despair of making any definite identification of a body, and thus to have any definite or conclusive evidence of the fact that Adolf Hitler had indeed died.

The Soviets, notes Smith, continued to insist that they were skeptical. None other than Marshal Zhukov himself admitted, in a press conference on June 9, 1945 attended by representatives of the British, French, and American press, that the Russians “had found no corpses which could be Hitler’s.” The marshal added that he considered it a definite possibility that Hitler had escaped Berlin by air. (NEXUS, p. 35) Adding to the Allies’ problems were the fact that Stalin, as is well known, confided to various American delegates at the Potsdam Conference that he believed Hitler had escaped.

Compounding the difficulties represented by the Soviets, Smith also points out that, once they HAD decided on a set of corpses to identify as Adolf and Eva Hitler’s, these were in turn buried and unburied no less than three times, once at an undisclosed location in Berlin, then moved to Finov in the Soviet Union, and then once again moved back to Germany and reburied in Rathenau. Even then the travelling corpses were not done, for they were exhumed once more and moved to Friedrichshafen. As Smith observes, “It would be hard to account for this macabre travelling show if the Soviets were sure that the bodiues they had found were really those of the Hitler couple.” (NEXUS, p. 35)

The ultimate origins of the suicide interpretation, as Smith points out, were Hitler’s chauffeur Erich Kempka, and Dr. Joseph Goebbels’ second in command at the Propaganda Ministry, Dr. Fritzsche. As Smith notes, this places the whole suicide legend in yet another problematical light, for London and Washington, which had maintained throughout the war the view “that the Nazis were unconscionable liars” there was, as regards the suicide story - even when one of the sources was Goebbels’ second in command! - a “dramatic shift away from scepticism”. In other words, “any Nazi who claimed to know that Hitler had committed suicide never rished having his or her veracity impugned. Clearly, all Nazis were liars - except those who told the Allies what they wanted to hear.” (p, 37)

As Smith points out, there are other significant problems with the suicide version as well, not the least of which is its most famous expositor: Hugh Trevor-Roper, the same Trevor-Roper who was taken in by the spurious Hitler diaries fraud in the 1980s (and really, does it seem REASONABLE that Adolf Hitler, busily running “his” war from his various headquarters with a micro-management style worthy of a modern globalist corporation towards its employees, would have time to keep a DIARY!?). In other words, Trevor-Roper’s investigative skills do not, Smith implies, seem quite adequate to the task, the more so since he did not have access to any Fuehrerbunker survivors in Soviet capitivity, and was dependent on American summaries of interviews of detainees in their possesion. Here, observes Smith, Trevor-Roper seems to have been taken entirely by American fabrications of an interview with Hitler’s famous test pilot, Hannah Reitsch. Indeed, Reitsch herself REPUDIATED the interview as reported in Trevor-Roper’s book in no uncertain terms: “When I was released by the Americans, I read Trevor-Roper’s book, THE LAST DAYS OF HITLER. Throughout the book, like a red line, runs an eyewitness report by Hanna Reitsch about the final days in the bunker. I never said it. I never wrote it. I never signed it. It was something they invented. Hitler died with total dignity.”(p. 3

The mention of Hanna Reitsch and her repudiation of the report as recorded by Trevor-Roper, raises what is perhaps the most glaring anomaly of them all in the suicide version: hers and General Robert Ritter von Greim’s desperate and dangerous flight in a Fiesler Storch to Berlin in late April of 1945, and Rietsch’s skillful landing of the small two seater reconnaissance aircraft on Unter den Linden Strasse during a Russian artillery barrage. Many of us know the Trevor-Roper version of the story from the famous film, HITLER’S LAST TEN DAYS, starring Sir Alec Guinness as an increasingly deranged and insane Hitler, totally out of touch with military realities and living out his last desperate fantasies in the bunker, and clinging doggedly to his power, even at that late date, to make people serve his slightest whim, no matter how looney. In this case, the story is that Hitler had Reitsch fly General Von Greim to Berlin to appoint him head of the Luftwaffe in the wake of Georing’s attempt to seize the government, and Hitler’s denunciation of the Reichsmarschal for treason. In the movie, a bewildered Reitsch and Von Greim are - quite reasonably - dumbfounded that they risked their lives for something so trivial. The point is made: Hitler was nuts, and the flight itself was foolhardy.

But, at this point, there is a serious discrepancy, and it has all the hallmarks of a cover story being put out. Notes Smith: “Why would Hitler, who was anxious for everyone else to leave Berlin, want someone to come to him? Why would he have been so keen to talk to the head of an almost non-existent entity? The official story fails to justify Greim and Reitsche’s extremely dangerous flight. It also does not explain why the pair’s flight from the Luftwaffe airbase at Rechlin near Berlin to Gatow airport on Berlin’s periphery was accompanied by AN ESCORT OF 30-40 FIGHTER JETS - in other words, the extant Luftwaffe virtually in its entirety. Clearly the flight had a more serious purpose than we have been led to believe.” (p. 41, emphasis added) Smith even observes that it is Carter Hydrick’s thesis that the flight was in fact to smuggle Martin Bormann out of Berlin.

Smith even presents eyewitness evidence of a Hitler Youth soldier who happened upon an SS radio post in Berlin, and of hearing a radio report that Hitler had received his birthday present and had been successfully flown out of Berlin by Hanna Reitsch in the very same Fiesler Storch. From there, the rest of the flight is recounted by Hanna Reitsch: she flew back to Rechlin, where Von Greim “attended a conference.” From there she and Von Greim flew to Ploen, headquarters of Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, then to Dobbin, headquarters of Field Marshal Keitel, then to Luebeck, and once again back to Ploen, this time to see Doenitz. From there, in the strangest oddesy of all, she and Von Greim flew to the unlikely place of Koeniggraetz, in Bohemian Czechoslovakia! And we all know, by now, whose secret weapons think tank was headquartered in Bohemian Czechoslovakia!

And here Smith’s three part series ends, and the real questions begin, for if one assumes that Hitler DID survive, and moreover, escaped Berlin and Germany successfully, where did he go? And what did he do once he arrived there? It would simply be unreasonable in the extreme to assume that he went elsewhere in Europe. After all, as history’s most notorious criminal, and having just savaged Europe for five and a half years, there would have been no safe haven for him there. Only Franco’s Naionalist Spain would have been relatively welcoming, and even then, Hitler would have been with easy reach of Allied or Soviet “special operations teams.” The only other possibility of a relatively secure and welcoming refuge would have been Latin America. There the situation would have been a little more secure, but it would have been more or less the same story. The last two possibilities are disturbing, but must be mentioned. One place, of course, for the ex-Fuehrer of the totally eclipsed Greater German Reich to go would have been the alleged “secret base” in Antarctica. One cannot, though, imagine Hitler, who had by this time become accustomed to living in some luxury, managing to be happy in a spartan and doubtless small living quarters surrounded by miles of cold and ice, and surviving on walrus! Which leaves a final possibility…that Hitler’s escape had been coordinated, not only with Nazis, but with other outside parties, who decided to take him in and screen him in thanks for a job well done. On this view, Hitler, in effect, went to ground with the very people who had put him into power. It would seem to take, at some point, the knowledge and connivance of a great power with the intelligence and security resources to keep a secret of that magnitude secret for that long, and to maintain for decades a cover story that looks increasingly to be as shaky as a pristine bullet on a stretcher in Dallas, Texas, in 1963.

Of these possibities, then, we end with two as being the most likely, if the escape scenario is true, and both of them end with “America.”