What happened to Hitler’s body? When did he die? What really happened in the last 48 hours of his life? In this extraordinary episode of ‘As It Happened’, historian Emma Craigie and Dan Snow discuss the final moments of the Fuhrer’s life in the bunker beneath the Reich Chancellery in Berlin.
Emma Craigie is the author of four books including the critically acclaimed novel ‘Chocolate Cake with Hitler’, and co-author of the Sunday Times best-seller ‘Hitler’s Last Day: Minute by Minute’
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00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:17 Battle of Berlin (April 1945)
00:09:19 00:00 (29th April) | Hitler sets out his plan
00:12:17 00:15 (29th April) | Goebbels’ family
00:17:19 01:00 (29th April) | Hitler and Eva marry
00:20:52 04:15 (29th April) | Goebbels’ Plea
00:22:24 07:00 (29th April) | Allies Advance
00:24:56 10:50 (29th April) | Hitler Wakes Up
00:28:41 12:00 (29th April) | Dachau Discovered
00:30:20 14:30 (29th April) | Hitler has lunch
00:32:39 14:45 (29th April) | Hitler’s Dog is K*lled
00:33:27 15:00 (29th April) | Hitler Youth Party in Reich Chancellery
00:34:31 18:00 – 22:00 (29th April) | Russians close in and German Army in Italy surrenders
00:37:07 01:30 (30th April) | Oath of Loyalty and Hitler’s Drug Problem
00:38:42 03:00 (30th April) | Hitler orders Himmler’s Execution
00:40:22 03:50 – 06:00 (30th April) | S*x Parties and the Dentist Chair
00:42:02 06:00 (30th April) | Hitler has “24 hours left”
00:42:53 07:30 (30th April) | Eva Braun and Hitler want to see the sun
00:44:19 08:30 (30th April) | Magda Goebbels Breaks Down
00:44:58 10:00 (30th April) | Churchill sets himself on fire
00:47:10 12:00 (30th April) | Hitler allows breakout and Eva gets dressed
00:49:07 12:45 (30th April) | Hitler’s Last Meal
00:50:03 14:30 (30th April) | Dönitz vs Himmler
00:51:14 14:45 (30th April) | Final Goodbyes
00:53:38 15:15 (30th April) | Gunshot is heard
00:54:37 15:30 (30th April) | Hitler and Eva’s S*icide
00:57:58 15:50 (30th April) | Removing Evidence
00:58:57 17:00 (30th April) | Generals’ Meeting and Dönitz Appointed Hitler’s Successor
01:01:24 19:30 (30th April) | Goebbels’ Children’s Last Sleep
01:03:05 20:00 – 23:55 (30th April) | General Krebs meets Zhukov and Russians plant flag on the Reichstag
01:05:06 23:55 (30th April) | Dönitz and Himmler’s Final Meeting
01:09:11 What Happened to Hitler’s Body?
Hitler went to South America via the rat lines along with 30,000 Nazis
Fascinating
Unfortunately he had already left for Argentina, amazed by pictures of the Bariloche paradise, province of Rio Negro.
The escape plan was well organized. They picked the Spanish Galicia route. Dressed up as monks at the Samos monastry and stayed for some nights.
More than 2 doubles were sacrificed at the Berlin bunker. Two burnt corpses were never identified. Another dead corpse looked similar to Hitler, but clearly was not.
Hitler's chief dentist' s wife and assistant was possitive one of the sculls seemed to wear Hitler's teeth. She had never worked at a forensic departament. Later the Russians allowed a US team to revise the scull. It turned out to be a scull from a female individual.
Hitler's chief dentist was never found. He must have gone off on some fast submarine "lobos grises". I don't think he ever reunited with his dental assistant wife.
Bariloche became a lovely hide out. There was no road access to Hitler's lake house. You could only access from the waterside by boat or helicopter to Villa Angostura at lake Inalco in those days.
Yet the air entrances to the bunkers below the facilities can still be observed. It had typical "Walthaus" features, so similar to Berghof. German architecture, exotic to the locals. But after 5 years the couple was escorted further off to Paraguay. Strössner had a safer nazi haven to offer after Argentina got a bit unsafe when Peron got exiled in Spain.
Martin Bormann stayed with his Führer until the very end.
Hotel Eden, the Rodolfo Funcke association, Tornquist there were so many established German communities linked to the European war industry where a warm welcoming was waiting. Ángel of death and mc ultra mind control programmer Mengele died on a gorgeous beach outside Sao Paolo and buried at a Brasilian jesuit graveyard. Eichman was taken out of Argentina by some Sionists. Priebke lived happily ever after arrival.
Hidden History and Happy End for hide out seekers.
The industrial elite operates through secret procedures and the promotion of their own Bloodlines. Hitler's grandmother got pregnant with Hitler's father when she served as a maid at Baron Rothschild 's house in Viena. The Rothschilds later became the owners of 50 % of the industrial plant of Auschwitz through their ownership of the company IG Farben. They also founded the State of Israel. Later on they financed Jeffrey Epstein and they still own his island. Epstein did not kill himself. Also Hitler did not kill himself. When the Führer bombed Döllersheim, his dad's home town to pieces after Anschluss he did not only wish to eliminate clues about his Grandfather 's identity, but also intimidate anyone who would possibilty try to disclose the secret. His nephew William Patrick blackmailed Hitler about the Family industrial elite blood running through their veins. Patrick got his money and moved to the US.
Hitler's paternal family groomed him for his sionist project in Viena between 1907-1913. These years Hitler refered to as his "Lernjahre" years of lessons.
Hitler was deeply into eugenics and he had offsprings. His ability to keep secrets was in his blood , in his Bloodline so to speak.
Then, Abraham Lincoln swung by to play a few games of blackjack.
I’ve watched this at least 4 times in the last month, I don’t know why. History is so interesting!
In 2025 I don't know how you could listen to this and find it anything other than an absolute tragedy.
Lot of orgies going on
Emma is so good! Very interesting.
Eva shd have spared herself. She cld have had an extremely successful writing career after the war was over. Give it a cpl years and find a new mate and move on with her life .