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| FSB: In 1945, only Stalin was informed of Hitler's suicide |
| 2026-05-07 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited [Regnum] In 1945, members of Nazi Germany's leadership informed only Soviet leader Joseph Stalin of Adolf Hitler's suicide. This is evidenced by declassified archival documents published by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) in the lead-up to Victory Day. “The only person who was informed about the Führer’s suicide and about the government established in his will (Reich President – Admiral Dönitz, Reich Chancellor – Dr. Joseph Goebbels, etc.) was Marshal Stalin,” noted General of Artillery Helmut Weidling, commander of the Berlin defense who surrendered on May 2, 1945, in his testimony. According to him, he learned of Hitler's suicide on April 30, 1945. At 5:00 PM Berlin time, he was ordered to report to the Reich Chancellery. There, Weidling was invited to Hitler's room, where the Führer's associates were present: the Reich Chancellor, Reich Propaganda Minister Goebbels, Reichsleiter Martin Bormann, and Chief of the General Staff of the German Army, General Hans Krebs. From Krebs, Weidling learned that Hitler had committed suicide on April 30, 1945, at around 3:00 PM, and his body had been burned in a shell crater in the garden of the Reich Chancellery. Weidling was obliged to remain silent about Hitler's death until further notice. In 2025, the FSB also published archival materials confirming that Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945. According to the documents, on that day, the Red Army fought near the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, where Hitler was hiding in a bunker with Eva Braun, who also committed suicide. On May 6, 2026, the Israeli Embassy announced that Adolf Hitler's grave had been discovered in Bucharest's oldest Jewish cemetery, Philanthropia, where many prominent Romanian cultural figures are buried. It turned out to be the grave of the Nazi leader's full namesake. |
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