Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) leader of Nazism The grander the lie, the easier it is to believe it. * * * No one will ask the winner whether he spoke the truth or not. * * * The intelligentsia are the dregs of the nation. * * * As long as I lead the party, it will not be a debating club for the rootless.

Argentine researcher Abel BASTI believes that Hitler died quietly in the arms of his wife and children in Paraguay in 1964...
Argentine writer Abel Basti, a researcher of the life of the head of the Third Reich, is seriously sure: on April 30, 1945, Hitler did not put a bullet in his head at all, but calmly folded things for a safe departure from Berlin. Taking Eva Braun with him, he moved to Argentina to a friendly regime, and died only in 1965.

The writer did not find evidence that Frau Hitler also died. In addition, Brown had many centenarians in the family. Her mother died at 96. This suggests that Hitler's wife is still alive. Perhaps the three children of Adolf and Eve are also in full health. Abel Basti knows for sure that they had children! Two were born while the Fuhrer and his wife lived in Germany. Then, when they moved to Argentina, another child was born.

After repeated examinations and interrogations of witnesses in Moscow, they decided that it was really Hitler. Several times his remains were buried, dug up, and buried again. The last refuge of the Fuhrer was the Soviet military unit in Magdeburg. In 1970, before the transfer of this territory to the Germans, on the secret orders of Leonid Brezhnev, the remains of Hitler, Eva Braun and the Goebbels family were burned, and the ashes were poured from the bridge into the river Biederitz.

However, not everyone agrees with the official version to this day. Hundreds of studies have been carried out in search of the “escaped Hitler”, many books have been written. He was searched in Spain, Latin America and even in Antarctica. Recently, the Argentine writer Abel BASTI published his version of how the bloodiest dictator in Europe ended his days.

Escape from Berlin

The leaders of the Third Reich began looking for safer shelter as early as 1943, writes Basti. Preparations for the evacuation were kept in the strictest confidence - Muller and Bormann, looking after each other, did not allow a single leak.

In Argentina, bank deposits were registered for nominees, small companies were created, and farms were purchased. Nazi emissaries settled in hotels and inns - "transit points" for their leaders. In parallel, there were secret negotiations with the allies. For gold and technology of the Third Reich, they allegedly agreed to leave Hitler and his henchmen alone.

At the end of April 1945, Operation Seraglio began. From the burning Berlin, which was occupied by Soviet troops with battles, several planes escaped - the top Nazi Germany transported to Spain, under the wing of "friend Franco". From there, the submarines headed for Caleta de los Loros in Argentina.

The author claims that in the area where Hitler came ashore, at a depth of 30 meters under a layer of sand and silt, three submarines were found, about which there is not a word in the archival documents of the Argentine military. This is how it started new life Nazi leader in Latin America.

He lived until 1964

The fugitives followed a long-established route. They were received in the homes of people known for their links with the Nazis and close to the Argentine dictator Juan Peron. With some of them, such as the Eickhorn family, Hitler maintained relations until his death. Basti cites the testimony of a servant girl from their estate, who herself saw "cousin", as her masters called the Nazi leader.

More and more documentary evidence is emerging, shedding light on one of the mysterious riddles XX century

The gardener of the Eichhorns, who worked for the FBI, also reported about the stay of the leader of the Third Reich in Argentina. His recently declassified report was found by the author of the book in the archives of this organization.

According to Basti, Hitler not only survived until 1964, but also acquired offspring. Allegedly, there are photographs of him, Eva Braun and their children, which, according to the official version, the German Fuhrer did not have and could not have. However, the owners of unique shots "are not yet ready to publish them."

Last days the dictator was already living in Paraguay, the head of which did not particularly hide his sympathies for the Third Reich. He died in the arms of his wife, surrounded by children, without answering for his atrocities. But the author speaks very vaguely about the place of Hitler's burial and where his family lives. Apparently, this is the material for a new sensational book.

AiF cites an interview with writer Abel Basti:

On April 30, 1945, at 4:30 p.m. (that is, an hour after the alleged suicide), Hitler was seen next to his personal Ju-52 aircraft.

Bestseller "Hitler in Argentina"
After conducting research, interviewing dozens of witnesses, publishing documents declassified by the FBI, Basti wants to prove that Hitler could hide in South America and live there to old age. How well he did it - let the readers judge.
- SENIOR Basti, in your book you claim that on April 30, 1945, Hitler managed to escape from Berlin by plane. How could he do this, if by that time the airfields were destroyed, and the Allies controlled the sky?

My book contains previously classified evidence from the FBI archives that on April 30 at 16:30 (that is, one hour after the alleged suicide), Hitler was seen next to his personal Ju-52 aircraft.

At night, throughout the last week of April, the air transport of the Fuhrer's confidants landed on Unter den Linden Avenue, where street lighting poles were preserved. For example, Reichsminister Speer left the Fuhrerbunker on the 20th, and three days later he calmly returned on the Fieseler-Storch plane.

As you can see, the allied air defense did not interfere with him. On April 25, a secret meeting was held in the Führerbunker to evacuate Hitler, in which the female pilot Hanna Reitsch, the famous pilot Hans Ulrich Rudel and Hitler's personal pilot Hans Baur participated. secret plan the safe movement of the Fuhrer from the besieged capital of the Third Reich received the code name "Operation Seraglio".

And who, in your opinion, carried out the evacuation of Hitler?

Two days later, five Storch aircraft arrived in Berlin (each with seats for ten passengers), on April 28 the same Ju-52, piloted by the pilot Bosser, flew in - this was officially confirmed by Allied intelligence.

A day later, on the orders of General Adolf Galland, the last forces of the German Air Force were unexpectedly raised into the air over the capital of the Reich - a whole hundred Me-262 jet fighters. They covered the plane of Hanna Reitsch: she managed to break through the fire of Soviet anti-aircraft guns and fly away from Berlin - it was an experimental flight, and the fact of its conduct by none of the historians is disputed.

Perhaps, having put on make-up, Hitler managed to leave the burning Berlin (the photomontage was made by the FBI in 1945).

The next day, according to the scenario already tested by Frau Reitsch, Adolf Hitler also left Berlin - he was heading to Spain, from where at the end of summer he sailed on a submarine to Argentina. He was accompanied by Eva Braun, Müller and Bormann.

Okay, but what about fragments of Hitler's jaw, which are stored in Moscow in the archives of the FSB? Studies by both Soviet and independent experts unanimously confirmed that it belonged to the Fuhrer. What then happens - Hitler was torn off part of his jaw, but he still fled?

Experts had only the opportunity to compare this charred jaw with X-rays of that era, which were of terrible quality, and with the testimony of Hitler's personal dentist - and he could say anything.

If you know, no DNA testing has ever been done: Russia systematically refuses to allow such testing. Meanwhile, this is the only way to find out the truth: one should compare DNA samples that can be obtained from the remains of Adolf Hitler's sister, Paula, who died in 1960 and was buried in the Bergfriedhof cemetery.

The grave of the Fuhrer's sister - Paula Hitler

I officially apply to Russian authorities requesting that I be allowed to examine this jaw in order to obtain definitive proof that I am telling the truth.

You know, people love conspiracy theories. So many years talking about mysterious disappearance"Nazi number two" - Martin Bormann, who disappeared from Berlin on May 1, 1945. A lot of people swore that they saw him in South America with their own eyes and could not be mistaken. But in 1972, when digging a pit in Berlin, a skeleton was found, and a double DNA study showed that these were Bormann's bones ...

What's funny is that both are right here. Martin Bormann really escaped, lived in Argentina and Paraguay: I found a lot of evidence of this, including documentary ones - especially a photo of Bormann taken in the fifties. Therefore, it is quite possible that when Bormann died of natural causes, his remains were secretly transported to Berlin, after which they played a show with their "find".

AGAIN: in your book you write that Hitler and Eva Braun, along with an extensive retinue and guards, arrived in Argentina in three submarines, which were then flooded in the bay for the purpose of conspiracy. Indeed, in the place you indicated, at a depth of about 30 meters under water, with the help of special equipment, teams of divers discovered large objects covered with sand. But where is the evidence that these are Nazi submarines?

I relied on the testimony of witnesses who, after the war, observed the arrival of three submarines with a swastika in the tiny bay of Caleta de los Loros, located in the Argentine province of Rio Negro. You will say: Argentina has been formally at war with Germany since March 27, 1945 - maybe these are traces of past naval battles?

However, in the archives of the Argentine Ministry of Defense there is not a single word about the sinking of any German submarines. Then where did these sunken ships lying on the ground come from? I submitted a request that the submarines be brought to the surface and thoroughly examined.

Passenger list approved on 20 April 1945 from Berlin to Barcelona. The first is Hitler, the name of Goebbels, his wife and children is crossed out.

German submarines sailed to Argentina several times after the war - for example, the submarine U-977 arrived in the country on August 17, 1945: it is assumed that its commander, Heinz Schaeffer, was transporting gold and other valuables of the Third Reich.

You have released a US FBI document that casts serious doubt on the official version of Adolf Hitler's death. This paper, dated November 13, 1945, contains a report from an American agent in Argentina who works as a gardener for the wealthy German colonists, the Eickhorns. The agent reports that the couple, who live in the village of La Falda, have been preparing the estate since June for the arrival of Hitler, which will take place in the very near future. Is this document real?

This is a very strange question, because I legally obtained this document after it was declassified from the FBI archive: dossier number 65-53615. And it's far from the only one. documentary evidence Hitler's flight.

There are several more secret reports from the FBI, CIA and MI5 about the living Fuhrer - but, unfortunately, the United States, Britain and Russia have not yet fully declassified all materials related to this topic. For example, there are three verbatim records of a conversation between Joseph Stalin (one of them with US Secretary of State Byrnes) - where the leader of the USSR openly says that the Fuhrer managed to escape.

In fifteen years I have conducted hundreds of interviews with direct witnesses to Hitler's presence in Argentina. Most of them began to speak only now - many Nazis in Argentina have died, they have nothing to fear, although not everyone is still making contact. A letter from the Nazi General Seydlitz, dated 1956, has also been preserved - he reports that he is going to attend a meeting in Argentina between Hitler and the Croatian "Fuhrer" Pavelić.

You often refer to the testimony of witnesses. But how, in this case, to treat the words of other witnesses - who saw Hitler dead and buried his corpse?

There is not a single person who would have seen with his own eyes how Hitler bit through an ampoule of poison and shot himself in the head. The story of the Fuhrer's suicide was invented from beginning to end by people from his inner circle - it was a special plan to confuse everyone.

But even at first glance, there are several contradictions in the testimony of eyewitnesses to Hitler's death, if you study archival documents. First said - he was poisoned. Then - no, shot in the temple. After - sorry, first he poisoned himself, and then he shot himself.

Potassium cyanide causes instant death and convulsions: how then did a person pull the trigger of a gun?
"Hitler died in ... 1964," claims the author of the scandalous bestseller

The writer is sure that the Reich Chancellor and his wife fled from Berlin on the day when they announced his suicide.

On March 19, 1945, Hitler issued an order called "Plan Nero". It meant the destruction on the territory of the Reich of strategic objects, food depots, cultural values. The continued existence of the German nation was called into question.

Death sentence of the nation

On March 15, 1945, the Reich Minister Steer handed Hitler a report entitled "The economic situation in March-April 1945 and its consequences", in which he succinctly described what actions must be taken to ensure, "albeit in a primitive form", the life base for the people. On March 19, the "answer" to Steer's note was the Fuhrer's order, codenamed "Nero", which would later go down in history as Hitler's most unpopular plan among his compatriots. "Nero" signed the death sentence to the people: "All military installations, transport, communications, industry and supplies, food depots, as well as material values ​​​​in the territory of the Reich must be destroyed." The failed plan that Hitler at the beginning of the war was going to implement in Moscow and Leningrad (the so-called "scorched earth" tactics), he decided to apply to Germany. His biographers say that at that time he himself had already decided his fate and no longer saw the point in supporting the German people: “If the war is lost, the nation will also perish. This is her inevitable fate. There is no need to deal with the basis that a people will need to continue the most primitive existence. These words of the Fuhrer were recorded from the words of Steer during the trial of the Nazis.

In the footsteps of Nero

The name of the plan was not chosen by chance. In it, Hitler likened himself to the famous Roman theater tyrant Nero, who in 64 ordered Rome to be set on fire. By the way, not because of strategic motives, but to make his debut as a tragic actor. Suetonius in his writings said that Nero, who was watching the conflagration in the capital, was dressed in a theatrical costume, played the lyre and recited a poem about the fall of Troy of his own composition. The fact that Hitler had a special passion for sonorous names is not a secret, but why did he take the image of Nero as a basis? Arson in Germany, which Soviet soldiers are accused of, also raises questions. As you know, the main version of the fire of Rome in 64 says that the arson was committed by order of the emperor, who was going to rebuild the eternal city according to his idea of ​​the "artist". Christians were blamed for the arson. The parallel suggests itself. But let's leave behind personal parallels and recall the famous work of Erich Fromm: "Adolf Hitler: a clinical case of necrophilia", where the sociologist gives an example of individuals with special character traits and psychological problems that give rise to tyrants. According to this work, the traits of Hitler and Nero are identical in almost every detail.

Destruction of the people

At the Nuremberg trials, Albert Speer noted that if all the other orders of Hitler and Bormann had been carried out, the millions of Germans who had survived by that time would certainly have died. Indeed, all the last orders of Hitler and his associates were aimed at the destruction of the nation. An addition to the Nero plan was the decree of Martin Bormann of March 23, which ordered the entire population from the West and East of Germany, including foreign workers and prisoners of war, to concentrate in the center of the Reich. At first glance, under the conditions of Nero, the decree seems quite logical - to destroy all food in the border and front-line areas, and to provide its own population in a single territory, concentrating all supplies there. However, the "Wanderers" were not provided with food or necessities. The resettlement itself was arranged in such a way that it did not allow you to take anything with you. “The result of all this could be a terrible famine, the consequences of which are hard to imagine,” Speer reported.

Speer party

The execution of the Nero plan and the scorched earth tactics was entrusted to the Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production, Albert Speer, Hitler's personal architect, who, according to the plans of 1941, was supposed to create the new kind Germany. By the end of the war, he had become disillusioned with the Fuhrer's policies and, in fact, led his own policy aimed at saving the cities and inhabitants of Germany as much as possible. He showed this with his already mentioned "economic situation", in which he proposed concrete ways to raise the life of the people to a low, but sufficient level.
It is not surprising that the Führer's order to organize the destruction of Germany irrevocably drove Speer away from Hitler. In his response letter, he wrote to the Fuhrer: “I am an artist, and therefore the task assigned to me turned out to be completely alien and difficult for me. I have done a lot for Germany. However, in the evening you turned to me with words, from which, if I understood you correctly, it clearly and unequivocally followed: if the war is lost, let the people die too! This fate, you said, is inevitable. There is nothing to reckon with those foundations that the people need for their most primitive future life. On the contrary, they say, it is better to destroy them ourselves. After all, the people have shown themselves to be weaker, and therefore the future belongs exclusively to the stronger people of the East. I can no longer believe in the success of our good deed if, at the same time, at this decisive moment, we are systematically destroying the foundation of our people's life.
Albert Speer was one of the few close associates of Hitler who got to the Nuremberg trials alive and voluntarily admitted his guilt. Information about the "plan of Nero" was received from him.

forged document

The Nero plan and the scorched earth doctrine came to the public thanks to Albert Speer. He spoke about many details of the latest directives of the Reichstag in his “Memoirs” and the work “The Third Reich from the inside. Memoirs of the Reich Minister of War Industry”, where he portrayed himself as an apolitical intellectual who knew almost nothing about the crimes of the regime and only “did his duty.” A similar position of Albert, which manifested itself even at the Nuremberg trials, became one of the reasons that gave rise to the theory that the Nero plan was a fiction, an invention of Speer for his own justification, his hope of avoiding the death penalty. By the way, highest degree Speer's sentence was commuted to twenty years' imprisonment. However, the question of the forgery of the document is debatable, since the analysis of the source, which this moment stored in the archives of the Nuremberg Trials, no falsification was revealed.

This beautiful Paris

The Nero plan was not Hitler's first attempt to destroy what belonged to him, and most importantly, what he loved. Shortly after the liberation of Paris from the German occupation, he ordered to mine most of the strategic and symbolic objects of Paris, including the Eiffel Tower.
Adolf Hitler's first trip to Paris took place on June 23, 1940 after the occupation: “To see Paris was the dream of my whole life. I can’t express how happy I am that this dream came true today! The Louvre, Versailles and, finally, the Les Invalides, where Napoleon, who was so revered by Hitler, was buried - all this should have been destroyed according to the principle "So don't get you to anyone." “The city must not fall to the enemy, except perhaps in ruins,” Hitler declared on August 9, 1944.
Nevertheless, Paris was lucky. Dietrich von Scholtz, who had been the head of Paris since August 7, 1944, refused to obey Hitler's order and capitulated, for which he went down in history as a kind of "savior of Paris."

Treasure hunters

Nero's plan also meant the destruction of all cultural property in the territory of the Reich, including numerous stolen art collections taken from all occupied territories. This decree logically gave rise to a whole movement of "treasure hunters" (Monuments Men), who, unlike looters, were representatives of the cultural intelligentsia - museum workers, art historians, historians, archivists. The group was formed at the initiative of Roosevelt and General american army David Eisenhower. They were not only engaged in the restoration and return of valuables to the owner countries, but also worked in the military-diplomatic field, negotiating with bombers (mostly allied) on the preservation of cultural sites.