Jean-Christophe Brisard - The Death of Hitler - The Final Word

To the various authorities of the Russian archives:

Larisa Alexandrovna Rogovaya, GARF, State Archive of the Russian Federation

Vladimir Ivanovich Korotaev (RGVA, Russian State Military Archives)

Oleg Konstantinovich Matveev (COS, Press relations centre, FSB)

To the scientists who have brought us their skills and illumination throughout the investigation:

Raphaël Weil, Joël Poupon, Patrick Rainsard.

To Philippe Charlier and his constant enthusiasm, without whom we couldn’t have taken to its conclusion the scientific inquiry into the teeth attributed to Hitler.

Special thanks to :

Olivier Wlodarczyk and the whole Ego team who have always believed in this crazy investigation

Alexander Orlov (of Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs) for his valuable support.

To our inexhaustible translators:

Tatiana Shutova for Russian and Ulrike Zander and Aymeric Le Delliou for German.

Thanks from Lana Parshina:

To Lyudmila Vasilievna Dvoynikh and Natalia Petrovna Parshina.

Thanks from Jean-Christophe Brisard:

To Céline Lison for her pertinent rereadings.

To Claude Quétel who, thanks to his memories, made me want to throw myself into this adventure.

The FSB officials didn’t allow us to record the inventory numbers of the documents made available to us. So we are presenting the documents from the FSB archives and cited in this work under the term ‘TsA FSB.” TsA means Tsentral’nyi arkhiv, or Central Archives.

For the Russian State Military Archives (RGVA, Rossiiskii Gosudarstvenni Voennyi Arkhiv) the documents cited are taken from the individual files of the Nazi prisoners judged to be war criminals. We present them under the term “RGVA.”

The GARF archives are referenced according to the number listed on the file in question, along with the folio.

p. 39 : GARF 9401/2/552, f.8-9.

p. 40 : GARF 9401/2/551, f.225.

p. 42 : GARF 9401/2/552, f.191-193.

p. 43-44 : GARF 9401/2/552, f.280-284.

p. 83 : GARF 9401/2/552, f.83.

p. 85 : GARF 9401/2/552, f. 84.

p. 96-97 : GARF 9401/2/552, f. 93.

p. 107 : GARF 9401/2/550, f.68-69.

p. 126-127 : GARF 9401/2/556, f.175.

p. 127-128 : GARF 9401/2/556, f.177.

p. 136 : TsA FSB.

p. 145-146 : TsA FSB.

p. 153 : GARF 9401/2/556, f.178.

p. 156-158 et 189 : GARF 9401/2/556, f.179.

p. 159-160 : GARF 9401/2/556, f.182.

p. 169-173 : RGVA.

p. 174-178 : GARF 9401/2/551, f.49-61.

p. 193 : GARF 9401/2/552, f.113.

p. 194-195 : GARF 9401/2/552, f.2.

p. 195 : GARF 9401/2/552, f.2, 1.

p. 196 : GARF 9401/2/552, f.1 pour la photo, f.4 pour le texte.

p. 197-198 : GARF 9401/2/552, f.5.

p. 198-199 : GARF 9401/2/552, f. 12-13.

p. 205-206 : GARF 9401/2/553, f.97 et f.103.

p. 207 & 210 : GARF 9401/2/550, f.71.

p. 210 : GARF 9401/2/550, f.72.

p. 213 : GARF 9401/2/553, f.97.

p. 218 : GARF 9401/2/553, f.98 et 99.

p. 215 : GARF 9401/2/553, f.100.

p. 216 : GARF 9401/2/553, f.103.

p. 216 : GARF 9401/2/550, f.76.

p. 217 : GARF 9401/2/551, f.32.

p. 231-232 : GARF 9401/2/551, f.134-139.

p. 235 : GARF 9401/2/551, f.136.

p. 235 : GARF 9401/2/551, f.59.

p. 236-237 : GARF 9401/2/551, f.30.

p. 238-239 : TsA FSB.

p. 240 : GARF 9401/2/550, f.26.

p. 240-241 : TsA FSB.

p. 241-242 : TsA FSB.

p. 250-251 : GARF 9401/2/552, f.275, f.574 et f.363.

p. 252 : GARF 9401/2/552, f.263.

p. 253 : GARF 9401/2/551, f.47.

p. 254 : GARF 9401/2/552, f.268.

p. 255 : GARF 9401/2/552, f.276.

p. 255 : GARF 9401/2/552, f.276.

p. 255-256 : GARF 9401/2/552, f.197.

p. 256 (photo) : GARF 9401/2/552, f.199.

p. 259 : GARF 9401/2/551, f.55 et 138.

p. 260 : GARF 9401/2/552, f.140.

p. 260 : GARF 9401/2/552, f.58.

p. 261-262 : GARF 9401/2/552, f.140.

p. 262 : GARF 9401/2/552, f.141.

p. 263 : GARF 9401/2/552, f.207.

p. 266 : GARF 9401/2/556, f.197.

p. 267 : GARF 9401/2/552, f.198.

p. 293 : GARF 9401/2/551, f.137.

p. 303 : GARF 9401/2/552, f.114.

p. 303 : GARF 9401/2/552, f.116.

Abakumov, General Viktor Semenovich (head of SMERSH 1945) 175, 176–177, 178, 179, 197, 238, 239, 248, 250, 263

Andropov, Yuri (head of Soviet intelligence 1970s ) 240

Argentina, and harboring of Nazis 14–16

Axmann, Artur (head of Hitler Youth) 92, 178

Barbie, Klaus 16

Baur, Hans (Hitler’s personal pilot) 55, 65, 82, 92, 107, 110, 156, 183, 184, 193, 196, 203–205, 207–210, 212, 216–219, 248–255 passim , 296

Bellantoni, Nicholas “Nick” (US archaeologist / History Channel) 20–22, 228, 229, 285, 309

Below, Nicolaus von (Hitler’s Luftwaffe adjutant) 69, 94, 106–107

Berchtesgaden, Hitler’s headquarters at 56, 57–58

Berchtesgaden, Court of 16–17, 296–300

Beria, Lavrenti Pavlovich (head of Soviet NKVD 1945) 126, 153, 162, 175–177, 178, 179, 194–199, 212, 250

Berlin, battle of 6, 55–56, 63–64, 65–66, 68–69, 70, 75, 79, 81, 87, 90, 91–92, 94, 105, 108, 113–117

Bezymenski, Lev (Soviet German translator) 153–154, 160–162, 271–272, 292

Blaschke, Hugo Johannes (Hitler’s dentist) 141, 157–158, 269–271, 272, 277

Blondi (Hitler’s dog) 55, 77, 105, 290–291, 292

Bormann, Martin 18, 55, 57, 59, 65, 72, 73–74, 80, 99, 104–105, 111, 115, 116, 152, 187, 214, 251, 297

Braun (Hitler), Eva 14, 16, 18, 43–44, 55, 72, 79, 89, 94, 98–100, 109, 111–112, 138, 145, 146, 156, 157, 159, 194, 232, 238, 281–283, 292–293, 297–298

Braun, Gretl 60, 89

British intelligence service 191–194, 302–303

Burgdorf, General Wilhelm (Hitler’s chief adjutant) 59, 69, 105, 111

Butyrka prison (Moscow), interrogations at 203–219

Charlier, Dr. Philippe (forensic scientist) 37, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227–235, 246–247, 273–290 passim , 294, 300–301, 303–307, 309

Chernishov, Lt. General (Soviet) 240

Chkaravski, Lt. Colonel Faust (Soviet coroner) 159–160, 161

Chourakov, Private Ivan 136, 154

Christian, Gerda (Hitler secretary) 79, 173–174

Chuikov, General Vasily (Soviet) 114–115

Churchill, Winston 267–268, 269

Conrad, General B. (head of US intelligence 1945) 191, 194–195

cyanide, effects/use of 290–296

Department of the Secret Collection (USSR) 35

Deutscher Volkssturm 91–92

Dillon, Robert 15

Djugashvili, Josef Vissarionovich. See Stalin, Josef

Dönitz, Grand Admiral Karl 60, 94, 96, 104, 113, 115, 116

Echtmann, Fritz (Hitler’s dental prosthetist) 140–141, 145, 158

Eichmann, Adolf 16

Eisenhower, Dwight 189

European Journal of Internal Medicine , 310

Fegelein, SS General Hermann (Eva Braun’s brother–in–law) 59, 60, 88–89, 91

Foord, Brigadier Edward John (British/SHAEF) 57, 191, 194–195

Forscher, Joanna (History Channel) 22

FSB (Russian Secret Service), archives of ( aka Lubyanka) 45, 122–125, 129–131, 132–148, 164–165, 190, 224–225, 242–245, 275–283, 287

Führerbunker

bombing of 68, 77–78, 79, 87, 105

description/layout of 40, 53, 54–55, 253, 256

evacuation plans from 56–58, 65, 66, 92, 93–94

fall of 114–117, 126–129, 150, 153

final escapes from 105–106, 109, 110–112, 150–152, 173–174

Hitler’s arrival at 51, 53

Hitler’s birthday in 59–67