The Death of Himmler - The Complete Series

By early 1945, with the failure of the Arden Offensive in the west and the massive Soviet offensive in the east, time was clearly running out for Nazi Germany, a fact that was becoming obvious to many of its leaders, Hitler He remained convinced that the war could still end favorably. for Germany, but he was becoming an increasingly isolated and physically degenerate figure who believed in his own propaganda that it was true that the German army and the SS vafan were performing miracles in trying to hold the Western and Eastern fronts, not to mention also Italy, but with the German economy collapsing under the weight of intense Allied bombing and with too few well-trained soldiers and enough armored vehicles but, most importantly, fuel, the attrition was unsustainable.

Hinrich Himler, head of the SS and police, was in 1945 without a doubt the second most powerful man in Germany. After Hitler, the SS he had created was all-powerful and controlled an army of 900,000, the SS Vafan and a huge system of concentration camps and work camps in many industrial companies, making the SS a state within a state. Himler had benefited greatly after the July War. The 1944 bomb plot against Hitler allowed him to extend his influence over the regular army, whose generals were now suspected by the Fura, and Himler used the raids that followed the bomb to eliminate many of his remaining opponents, but Himler had been stupidly Promoted to field command. by Hitler, leading first to his incompetent handling of the situation in the Vog Mountains against us and French troops in the winter of 1944-1945 and then to his command of Army Group Vistula to maintain the Soviet offensive in Pomerania at In early 1945, Himler was finally relieved of his position. command on March 20 and these failures drove a wedge between Himler and Hitler to such an extent that Himler decided to take steps to end the war without recourse to Hitler.

His intention was to negotiate a peace agreement with the Western powers, that is, the United States. Britain and France allowed Germany to concentrate all its forces on stopping the Soviets and in the process making Himler Germany's leader. Himler had access to Germany's best secret intelligence organizations and information, but he chose his beloved and trusted Mur Felix ksten as his peace envoy. a Baltic German physiotherapist whom Himler had come to trust to cure his stomach cramps caused by stress and anxiety a society figure with a list of influential European patients ksten had already acted as his special envoy before in August 1942 Kaston would have helped organize his visit to Finland and was fully confident that Himler began the peace negotiations knowing full well that he could not inform Hitler of what he was doing.

Hitler was firmly determined to fight to the bitter end and some historians have suggested that Himler may have been seeking to eventually supplant Hitler as leader as Furer continued to deteriorate physically and if any man could have overthrown Hitler from within the Inner Circle, Himler was probably in the best position with the men and resources at his disposal, Himmler's first step was to approach the allies, shoot neutral Sweden ksten. He was already in Stockholm and approached Count Vulka Bernardo, an aristocrat and head of the Swedish Red Cross. Bernardo had organized prison exchanges in 1943 and '44, whereby 11,000 Allied PS were taken out of Germany through Sweden.

He had a good working relationship with both parties. Himler entered into correspondence with Bardot and Himler sent his spy, SS Brigadier Master Fura Valter Shellenberg, to Stockholm so that he could face the meetings. Himler realized that he had some influence with the Nordic nations and could possibly gain some goodwill from the Western Allies by using some of the concentration camp prisoners as pornos in this game now Himler was playing a dangerous game on April 20 1945 was duly presented at the celebration of Hitler's last birthday in the Reich Chancellery in Berlin a disaster with heavy bombs on this stage on the same day Soviet spearheads reached the eastern suburbs of the city and opened artillery fire against Hitler's face.

Himler swore full allegiance before leaving Berlin as soon as he could and headed north for a meeting the next day at Kon's estate in Hars Falder, 70 km north of the capital, the previous day. On the day that Norbert Mazur, the Swedish representative of the World Jewish Congress, was flown from Stockholm to Templehof Airport in Berlin, the trip organized by Ksten Maur was driven to Hars Valer to await the arrival of Himler and Shellenberg. Himler arrived at the farm at 2:30 in the morning. on April 21 and had a rather strange two-and-a-half-hour meeting with Mazure, an extraordinary meeting between two formidable enemies.

Himler tried to justify the Holocaust to Mazure and even told him: I want to bury the hatchet between us and the Jews if I had my way, many things would have been done differently. Himler also told Mure who would inform Bernot and the allies waiting and watching behind him that he was the Nazi leader the Western Allies should be talking to. He even wanted the allies to put aside the Final Solution and move on to us today. Himler seems

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ly deluded, but his statements demonstrate both his cruelty and his lack of empathy for the victims of his policies and his self-confidence that he was the only man capable of saving Germany at this stage of the war. .

As an act of what Himler perceived as goodwill, he ordered the release of 20,000 concentration camp prisoners, many of them Scandinavian, and allowed their safe transportation in so-called white buses to Sweden on April 23. Himler had the first face to face with him. meeting with count bernadat when he went to the swedish consulate in lubec in northern germany, this meeting was critical. Himler believed that he had demonstrated his good faith by allowing the white bus operation to go ahead and now he told Bernard to do that to Hitler in a fire. Berlin, being surrounded by powerful Soviet armies, would probably be dead within 2 or 3 days.

Himler claimed that he was basically the leader in Waiting officially according to the 1941 succession law drawn up after Rudolph Hess's escape to Britain. Hitler's successor was Reich Marshal Herman. As a burly adult drug addict and now marginalized and disgraced Air Force chief, it seemed unlikely that someone with Himmler's power would have agreed to serve as a rager, so Himler asked Bernard to contact the Supreme Allied Commander. , General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and tell him that Germany was prepared under his leadership and with his SS and police maintaining order to surrender to the Western Allies, but only the Western Allies could not surrender to the Soviet Union.

Bernard Do suggested that Himler write a letter to Eisenhower setting out these proposals, of course. Himler was now putting his betrayal into writing. The problem was that the Allies had agreed among themselves that no nation could accept German surrender or partial surrender. Germany had to surrender unconditionally to all allies, so if Roosevelt and Churchill had accepted his proposal, he never did and accepted a ceasefire and the surrender of Germany's western armies, it would have led to an immediate crisis with Stalin and perhaps even to a war between the allies. Himler knew from long experience that the Western Allies did not trust Stalin and were worried about how much Europe would be swallowed up before Germany's final capitulation, but Roosevelt and Churchill remained firm on the point of Germany's unconditional surrender.

Himler was also deluding himself if he thought the Western Allies wanted to deal with him or allow him to become Germany's deao leader during the Holocaust. and German occupation policies across Europe, largely derived from the SS and Gestapo, ensured that Himler was labeled a major criminal who was to be found and punished once Germany surrendered, but things were happening outside. of his control on the same day that Himler met Bernard Do in Lubec Herman. Guring precipitated a leadership crisis in Berlin Guring had also left Berlin on April 20 after Hitler's birthday and a military conference in the Fura bunker.

He had arranged for a train packed with art and antiques, many of them looted from private collections, to be shipped south from his enormous estate near Berlin to the relative safety of Orz Alburg near Beus Garden in southern Bavaria. , where Guring also kept a house next to Hitler's building in Berlin Hitler suffered a nervous breakdown during a conference on the military situation in the bunker and after calming down announced that the war was lost. Luft Faffer officers at the meeting reported that Hitler had broken and renounced all responsibility towards the army and the state. Gur was encouraged to send a telegram to Hitler asking permission to assume leadership of the Reich, but Hitler recovered from his momentary lapse and his sinister private secretary and minister without portfolio, Martin Borman, intercepted the cable and spun it to him.

Hitler as an attempt to seize power, in effect a coup d'état. Hitler ordered Ging's arrest and stripped him of all his positions, removing him from the line of succession. However, although Ging's misfortune had left him out of the way of succession to what would probably have been Hitler's natural choice, under the circumstances, his overtures to Eisenhower were rejected on April 26. Count Liven informed General Shellenberg that he expected that the Swedish relationship at Lubec his offer to hand over troops in Western Europe to the Allies had not been well received, specifically because Himler was unacceptable to the Western powers as a person with whom talks could be held. .

Shellenberg did not inform him of this fact. Himler had already sent a US army plane. The force general the Germans had captured earlier in the war named Vanaman on April 24 to Switzerland with a formal offer of German capitulation from Himler to Eisenhower. On 27 April Himler breakfasted with Shellenberg and Count Bernot at Aren Roa and again expressed his desire for some limited agreement with the Allies in which he could still play a role, but his secret plan was now leaked to the press and the Western power. very publicly dismissed his peace offer, effectively ending his ambition to hold on to any high office after Hitler's

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On the same day, Himler's SS liaison in the Gr Fura bunker, Herman Fager Line, went AWOL and was discovered naked, drunk and in the company of his mistress in his Berlin apartment with a suitcase full of civilian clothes. . Hitler's bodyguards hustled him back to the bunker where Borman pressured Hitler to take the proverbial blow to the fan on the night of April 28, when BBC Radio broadcast a Reuters news report on the secret peace negotiations. of Himmler, who was picked up in the bunker by a cheerful Boran when Hitler was presented with evidence of the Reich's disloyalty he went mad himler was declared a traitor relieved of all his officers and ordered arrested Fager's hapless line was taken outside and shot when Hitler gave these orders Soviet troops were only 300 meters from the bunker the next day Hitler confirmed Guring and Himmler's expulsion from the Nazi party and the dismissal of all officers and appointed his successor as Grand Admiral Carl Dernitz then had his headquarters in Flansburg in northern Germany Himler however was not arrested despite Hitler's order he moved with Shellenberg to his personal staff of adjutants and bodyguard battalion Hitler committed suicide on April 30 and Derit was successful as planned.

Some of his subordinates pressured him to use his remaining men to take charge of Duritz's new government, but Himler was uncertain and hesitant. He decided to use Shellenberg to continue negotiations with the allies through Sweden and also through Grand Admiral Dernitz. Himler wanted to be appointed minister in the new government and had some influence over Dernitz. It was Himler who convinced Dernitz to replace Yakim Von Ribbon Trop. When Nazi Foreign Minister Fon ended his career and, fearing capture, escaped to Hurg and went into hiding, he was eventually apprehended by a British Army capture squad some weeks after the town was captured. . the young naked himler remained an important figure in dut's new headquarters the impression given of himler as a meek, confused and cowardly individual who begs durit for a new role and is then rejected is inaccurate, in fact duritz He actually appointed Himler commander of all remaining German armed forces in Northern Germany, Denmark and Norway when Dernitz received Borman's message from the Fura bunker ordering him to arresthimler as a traitor, durit had actually been in a meeting with the furer reiches discussing the imminent fall of Hamburg to the British instead of arresting him, durit continued the meeting the next day, Himla went to Dut's headquarters and had lunch with him great admiral, according to her lover, Hedvig Poast, Himler rented rooms in Lubec for her and Himler came to stay with her, this despite the accepted story that Himler was preparing to move out.

South, but at some point the claim that Himler could obtain a position in Dern's government became apparent on May 6, 1945, just hours before the end of the war in Europe. Derit informed him that, according to Hitler's last will and testament, a copy of Himler was dismissed from all state positions. After he was no longer the Reich furer SS, head of the German police or commander-in-chief of the reserve army, he was finished, Himler was apparently punished by the new Nazi minister of the Interior Count Shin Von Croig when he bluntly told him that he should drive directly to Montgomery's headquarters and say that he is Henrich Himler and that he wants to take full responsibility for everything the SS has done up to this point after having exhausted all possible avenues as a peacemaker and laterally as a possible minister in the new government, Himler was left with two viable options: surrender to the Allies and face trial as a major war criminal and, of course, inevitable execution, or go into hiding.

He chose the latter path when Count von Cik told him to drive to Montgomery HQ and take responsibility for the crimes of His SS. Himler apparently turned white, said nothing in response, and left Dut HQ, never to return. . He evidently realized on May 6, 1945 that his power had come to an end, but he did not flee into hiding, at least not yet, although the SS state was functioning. Until the end of the war, Himler did not have his personal planes ready to take him to Sweden, Spain, Antarctica or the Moon, but instead he moved to a requisitioned farm in Zatr.

At this time, Himler released his Guard unit, which became sparse and was left with a handful of trusted officers and men from his personal staff who were all in the same position as their leader with himla in zrop there were five main officers. of the SS, his personal administrative officer, Dr. Rudolph, his personal physician, Dr. KL Gart SS. briard fura Oto smell a major war criminal his personal help Schuman fura Yusef Kaya and his two assistants Oban fur V grman andan fura hin MAA Also present were 10 other SS men, seven of whom were ncos this group of perhaps 16 men , including Himler still had four large fuel wagons at his disposal and many weapons according to established stories.

Himler is now determined to go to Bavaria according to Count Croig. Himler had previously told him in early May the following regarding the allies who will never discover me. Political events are going to be in my favor I will hide to wait for them, we will deal with his movements on the run in a future video, but it certainly seems that Himler was still looking for some future role in Germany and his stated goal was to remain hidden. and then re-emerge once the political situation was favorable did not seem interested in escaping Germany was close to neutral Sweden but rallied his loyalists to go south through all of Germany under Allied military control to Bavaria when he could still had fled with relative ease to the North to a neutral Nation.

Himler The Peacemaker was now Himler The Fugitive but Himler remained in the game and a wise and resourceful opponent. At this stage many of the Reichs fura SS were in a difficult situation, he had exhausted the Avenues with both Allies who wanted nothing to do with with him and the new Nazi government of Grand Admiral Carl der in northern Germany, which finally removed him from his state positions on May 6, 1945, following Hitler's earlier instructions. Himler had drastically reduced his entourage of several hundred officers and men. to only 14 faithful officers and non-commissioned officers since May 6 himla and this group were staying on a farm in zup and himler announced his intention to go south to Bavaria the obvious question is why in the previous video we saw that himler had many opportunities Fleeing to neutral Sweden but not traveling south along Germany was extremely risky, although the country was in uproar with millions of displaced civilians and demobilized German soldiers roaming around.

British and American troops were beginning to exert control over their territories and Allied patrols. and the dots were everywhere one of their purposes was the identification and capture of persons of interest to the new occupiers and himler was at the top of that long list while in zatr himler and his remaining followers mainly changed their appearance, this meant remove all insignia from their uniforms and obtain false documentation all of them, including himler, would pose as a recently demobilized german secret police gahima fuel Fel pitzi himler himself carried papers that identified him as sergeant hin hitzinger lately of an armored company special assigned to the secret field police demobilized on the 3rd In May 1945, the collective story was that the group was sick and that another 15 German soldiers were returning home among the millions who traveled the highways and byways of the newly surrendered Germany.

Himler also altered his physical appearance, as he was the most recognizable among the group. Due to the many hours of wartime news, royal appearances, thousands of photographs and public speeches, he shaved his mustache and wore a black patch over his left eye, the election of a secret field police unit was on the surface Actually quite good, such units were often composed of middle-aged soldiers, many of them unfit due to war wounds or illnesses. Himler was 44 years old at the time and several others in the group were also middle-aged. Any allied troop should have dismissed such a chaotic group as unimportant after a cursory glance. in their documents, but the group had made a mistake, they did not know that members of the secret field police were subject to immediate arrest by the allies, including the NC, this was because the secret field police were part of Zika, he highstein, the SD, the SS.

Security Police The cover name of Hines, the successful singer, was not invented. The successful singer was a real person. A rural policeman tried and sentenced to

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for defeatism a few months before his documents had apparently been in possession of Gusto and the appropriator for his use as a successful singer. he acquired a strong resemblance to the Reichs, but all this suggests that Himler had been making preparations for such an eventuality for some weeks or months. Himler moved south on May 10, 1945, two days after the German surrender, the 15 men were certainly well armed. With guns and machine guns four large Vander W11 fuel wagons were used, much preferred by Himler during his previous visits to the front.

The next day the group reached the small town of Delver, a few miles southeast of Friedstat on the Ida River, The next day the convoy arrived in Mana due to confusion on the roads caused by refugees, German troops and destroyed vehicles. 2 days to travel by plane 60 miles south. They were now stuck on the north bank of the Elbe River, with no way to move the cars. instead, the four large fuel wagons were abandoned and the group walked to the riverbank at Bbil after some searching and negotiations. Hima's group paid a fisherman 500 Reichsmarks to transport them across the river to the city of No House, the mouth of the OA River.

From now on his group would be on foot, it is not known what plan the men had. Reichs for any other party members, but they continued south for another 5 days. Hima's group trudged along country roads, sleeping in farm barns or even on the side of the increasingly dirtier road. and foot disheveled, sore and exhausted, on May 18 the group arrived at Brem Verda, a small town on the USTA River. The plan was to walk through open countryside to avoid getting tangled up in the towns and villages between Hurg and Brem which were under full British occupation. On 18 May the group moved to a farm in Val Straza in Brda.

The owners had no idea at the time. of the men's identification SS Schuman fura Kaya hima's personal aid went forward to investigate the osta river bridge which was guarded by British troops for two days Kia Maya attempted to obtain special movement passes from the local mayor the landrat who had been appointed for a new administration under British authority wanted pieces of paper that would allow the group to pass through the checkpoint for some fabricated reason like like a group of sick German troops returning to Munich by the landrat, they probably realized that kiah represented some group of Nazi fugitives and were probably not interested in antagonizing their new Masters and rejected all pleas.

Himler's group was at The Farmhouse from May 18th to 21st, before the decision was made to attempt to pass the checkpoint and continue their journey, Himler and his two assistants, Grman and Maka, would hold off while the rest of the group was trying to cross the bridge at 300 p.m. Kia and his personal doctor, Gart, went to the bridge, apparently unaware that there was an unattended Ford some distance downstream where everyone could have crossed without any problem. Kaya and Gart intended to cross the bridge, and if there were no problems, they would go back and search. the others at 400 p.m.

The two Germans were detained on the bridge by Sergeant Ken Bas Brown of the 103rd Field Security Reserve Detachment of the British Army Intelligence Corps. He examined the men's demobilization passes and knew immediately that, as secret field police, they were to be arrested, but he kept this to himself. Baz Brown quickly learned from Dr. Gart that he was merely the vanguard of a much larger group of X-sick secret field police. Baz Brown quickly organized two army trucks and an escort to bring in the rest. of Gart's comrades. Baz Brown used Loa's mill on the river as his office.

He informed his commander, Sergeant John Hog, that a group of secret field police would arrive shortly and the trucks would duly return with Gard and the rest of the group, but minus three men: Himler and his assistants, another non-commissioned officer Sergeant Arthur Brit, who was actually born in Holland. He examined the German documents: they all bore secret fuel police stamps dated May 1 or 3, 1945 with blurred SD stamps. Some of the Germans now denied being members of the group. The younger German was taken to the factory and interrogated by Britain and Baz Brown. He quickly confesses that the secret field police seal was from the SD headquarters and that they all belonged to a group at 6: p.m.

They were all arrested and taken by trucks to the civilian internment camp at Vesta Timka, near Saen. However, Sergeant Hog held Dr. Gart back and together they headed to the farm to pick up the three remaining men, but upon arrival, Himler and his cohorts had vanished. British intelligence was alerted to three secret fuel police Suspects fleeing in the area their small group assumed that K meire and the Gard group had successfully crossed the bridge checkpoint they waited and then tested on May 22 the trio walked On the streets of Brda Grman and Maka he wore long SS officer's raincoats without Insignia and walked on either side of the much shorter Himler, who was wearing scraps of the German army uniform, a blue raincoat and an eye patch.

Before reaching the bridge, a British patrol stopped them and escorted them to the mill to question the sergeant. Britain met them and reported their arrival by telephone to Sergeant Major Hog. Heinrich Himler was now in the hands of the Allies, but for the moment they did not know his true identity; He was just another low-ranking German soldier who would be processed in a detention camp because About his unit's role in World War II, Himler spent his first night in British captivity with Grman and Maka sleeping on the mill floor using grain sacks as mattresses. The important point was that if Hima's false identity continued to hold, he could expect to be released. after a few weeks or months, perhaps sooner, of allowing him to proceed with his plan, as he had told Duritz's Foreign Minister Kin V cig in early May 1945, during which he said that the Allies would never They would find him, that he would remain discreet and wait for political events when They questioned Himler and his companions, all claiming to be sergeants of the secret field police, but smeared the SD seals on their documents.

They became suspicious when the British examined his luggage. They confiscated a large magnifying glass with Nazi eagle wings engraved on it, but apparently they didn't give it much thoughtto the rest. of his personal belongings, some of them with his HH monogram or even his rfss title had been hidden in the farm and would be found much later by the Intelligence Corps at 7:00 a.m. m. On May 23, Himler and his companions were taken to Tima. The headquarters of Camp VI Tav, the 45th Field Security Station of the British Army, arrived around 9:00 a.m. m. after processing Himler and his assistants.

They were then driven 45 miles southeast to Kagen, a special interrogation camp near the town of Baret, arriving after several stops around 6:30 p.m. m. Himler was immediately recognized by some of the prisoners who were standing along the wire watching the new arrivals despite his shaved mustache and black eye patch, particularly by prisoner Carl Kman, the former GA Hurg lighter who had met Himler on multiple occasions. Calman said that Himler did not recognize him or at least pretended not to and soon after removed his eye patch, before long most of the prisoners knew that Himler was in the Residence.

It seems that Himler now knew that the game was up, sooner or later the British would be informed by a prisoner regarding his identity, but Himler still had a few things up his sleeve; After all, he was the highest-ranking Nazi captive and ally and was privy to a lot of secret information that he could use to his advantage, including information embarrassing to the British, perhaps Himler thought. He might still be able to reach some kind of deal, in any case he could expect months or even years of interrogation by Allied intelligence and war crimes investigators before being brought to trial and what he knew about the bank accounts Secrets of Hidden Treasures Even More Soviet secret deals and intelligence operations, in addition to the vast SS spy networks that still existed, were surely of immense value to their captors, who at the time were combing Germany for useful men to them in the new cold war that was in its initial stages with their own allies.

With preservation in mind, Himler now demanded to see the camp commander, Captain Thomas Sylvester, and after some discussions with the British non-commissioned officers he was granted an interview at 7:00 p.m. Himler led the trio to Sylvester's office. The British officer described him as a small, ill-looking, ragged man. His companions looked different, obviously military, due to their tall, upright bearing and their severe haircuts. Sylvester ordered Grman and Mara removed from his office and kept them under close surveillance. Now put on a pair of glasses, Sylvester asked his name, to which the prisoner replied in a low voice.

Hinrich Himler Sylvester immediately called the British Army's second headquarters in Lünberg and spoke to Major Rice, an intelligence officer who initially did not believe him, but after a somewhat confusing conversation. Mayor Rice announced that he was leaving for Karen immediately while Sylvester waited for help, he ordered her to undress and NC carefully examined her clothes. A brass capsule container was found containing a glass vial, evidently a cyanide capsule. Sylvester asked Himler what it was, he replied that it is. my medicine cures stomach cramps a second brass container was found, this one was empty Sylvester ordered a full body search but did not search his mouth for fear that Himler had the glass vial of cyanide in his mouth ready to commit suicide here Things became they put a bit Himler dressed strangely and Sylvester ordered tea and thick British Army sandwiches and Himler got into both if, as it was later claimed, Himler had hidden a glass vial of cyanide in his mouth that measured 35 by 9 mm, how could he have eaten thick sandwiches and drank tea?

Clearly nothing. was in his mouth at the time and the missing vial was not on his person or clothing, which had been thoroughly searched, either because of that or in the afternoon, the scenario was invented by Sylvester for some reason, although Sylvester later claimed it. denied, it appears that Himler was allowed to shave and freshen up due to the stubble growth that was reported on his corpse a short time later expressly against the regulations regarding war crimes suspects, Major Rice and his team of Intelligence officers arrived in Kagen around 7:30 p.m. Rice carried with her a photograph of Himler in his black Algam Miner SS uniform as well as a brief biography that included his date of birth, his Nazi and SS membership numbers, and a copy of his signature;

However, Rice did not have any details about Himmler's weight. height or any other personal information such as this or a set of fingerprints Rice's task was simple to establish his identity Beyond a reasonable doubt, Himler gave a vague answer when asked for his NSDAP membership number and an equally vague number , although reasonably accurate, gave his correct days of birth to provide a signature, Himler agreed to the strange condition that it be destroyed immediately afterwards, the signature matched the specimen Rice had brought with him, and Himler was formally identified as the furer of the Reich. SS Himler was very talkative and mentioned a letter he had written. sent Marshal Sard Montgomery on May 8 and even told Rice that his intention had been to remain discreet for a few weeks until things in Germany calmed down and as he said the circumstances were more favorable for an interview, he told Rice that the Soviet Union army was the biggest enemy that predicted war between the allies.

Very soon, in general, Himler tried to cultivate cooperative behavior with his captors, exactly the opposite of a man preparing to commit suicide. Rice telephoned Lunab and spoke to his boss, Colonel Michael Murphy, head of British intelligence. Murphy's second army now set out to take charge of Himler, the prize prisoner Murphy was at this time in a rather bad mood suffering the effects of a

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of Victory parties. He was taken to Kulken in the car of Colonel MAAC Osborne staff officer gso1 1 The 2nd Military Intelligence Operations Army arrived at the camp at 9:45 p.m. Rice and Murphy conferred, then Murphy ordered Himler to undress a second time, which he refused to do.

Murphy threatened to forcibly strip him and Himler reluctantly complied after Himler refused to dawn. Dressed in British battle dress and wearing only a gray German army shirt, his underpants and socks, the British retained his original uniform. He was given an army blanket instead of a coat. Murphy, according to his later statements, was concerned about the missing cyanide, he decided. that a doctor would carry out a body cavity search not in the countryside but in a requisitioned house in Lünberg ominously called the special purpose house located at 31a oler stasa a doctor would meet them at the house this again is quite strange why he didn't do it Murphy ordered the camp doctor to simply perform the body cavity search and allow him a nice drive, of course giving him the opportunity once again to commit suicide at 10:40 p.m.

Himla got into a car sitting in the back between Murphy's second in command and a guard. Murphy in the front passenger seat. Himler even offered directions when Murphy got lost on the way to Lunar. It would prove to be their last voyage, as we will see in the next episode when we examine what exactly happened at 31st oasa that resulted in the death of the Reich fur arriving at 31st olner straser Murphy and himler were greeted by Captain Clem Wells of the Royal Army Medical Corps, a 55-year-old officer and in civilian life. a general practitioner, was considerably older than Colonel Murphy, who of course was a senior to him.

The other person who received them was Company Sergeant Major Edwin Tin of the Headquarters Defense Company. Murphy ordered Wells to examine him for poison, to which the annoyed Dr. Wells replied: I'm a "Doctor, not a detective", Murphy, a rather arrogant young man, snapped: "you'll do what you're told", With this tension between the Allied officers involved, the examination now went ahead. Himler was not the first high-ranking Nazi to pass through the hands of the staff. in 31st ol sweeps SS gr furer Hans Adolf pman High SS and police leader for Russia North and UK Ukraine had been appointed by himler to establish the verwolf stay behind the Nazi partisan forces in Germany captured on May 21, 1945 the 43 years old - Old Putman had committed suicide inside number 31a, apparently having swallowed poison despite having been thoroughly searched several times.

Colonel Murphy was apparently keen that such an event never occur again under his watch, Al, so he later said to note that when Himler entered the entrance hall of 31st Street Lunberg on May 23, 1945, two days after General Pman died in the same room, he had been subjected to two exhaustive strip searches, his mouth had certainly not been searched, but he had been fed hot tea and the British Army. delivery sandwiches in Kagen's camp somehow managed to chew and swallow despite the later claim that he was hiding a glass cyanide capsule in his mouth that measured 35 by 9 mm.

This seems very unlikely. The army's subsequent report on his death is riddled with inconsistencies due to witnesses. testimony that conflicts with the official line and, frankly, suggests that a clean version of the truth was offered to protect Colonel Murphy's reputation and that of his men through a botched search or, for some more nefarious reason, by main hall did not like the official report and the illustrations. At the time it was unfurnished and very cold, the windows were wide open. Himler, according to the report, stripped naked for the third time. Murphy left the room, probably to use the bathroom, since he was still hanging over the only other person in the room besides Dr.

Wells. Company Sergeant Major Austin, in his search for poison, Wells decided to examine Hima's mouth first and not examine his rectum. The only other hiding place. Wells examined him all over, lulling him into a false sense of security, and then asked him to open his mouth. Himler did this. Wells then claimed to have seen the tip of a small object protruding between his left cheek and teeth. At that moment, Himler bit down hard on the object and Well's fingers crushed a glass vial of cyanide. His face contorted in pain and turned bright red. His veins stood on end.

His eyes glazed over and he collapsed on the floor, screaming, My God, it's in his mouth, he did it to me. According to one historian, the latter does not seem to be the statements of a well-educated middle-class rural doctor, several other people rushed in. in the room and he also tried to clean her mouth with a wet tissue and also tried to give her artificial respiration. At one point, Himler was lifted by the ankles in an attempt to force the poison out. Himler breathed heavily for 30 seconds and his pulse continued for another minute and then he died, that's it.

Hinrich Himler the question is why Himler would have committed suicide at the point alleged by the official British report on the matter. This was the third physical search they had done on him that night and they had treated him well, giving him food and drink, offering him clean clothes and not mistreating him in any way. It should be remembered that Himler had voluntarily revealed his identity to the Allies, which seemed strange; if he planned to commit suicide, he had had many opportunities to commit suicide before his death. arrival at 31a Olen rampages when he was first arrested on the bridge the night he spent at the mill sleeping on sacks of grain when he arrived at Camp Kagen during his interview with Major Sylvester on the car trip to Lunberg with Colonel Murphy no ago In some ways it has been suggested that the man who died at The Parlor at o asraa was a double, but I find it difficult to believe that all the personnel closest to him would have willingly accompanied a double into British captivity rather than escaping with his boss, especially since two of them, General Otto Olendorf and Dr.

Gard were wanted war criminals who would, in due time, be tried and hanged for their crimes. Various theories are currently circulating about what exactly happened to Himler in that house in Lünberg, given that he was the most prominent Nazi. prisoner that the British had captured Herman thinking he had surrendered to the Americans Theory one is that Himler committed suicide as the official report says by using a cyanide capsule hidden in his mouth during Dr. Well's medical examination Theory two is that The man who committed suicide was not Himler but a double and I have explained the reasons why I believe this theory does not hold up.

Theory three. Himler was forcibly given a cyanide capsule during the course of theexamination so that the British could claim that he had committed suicide. Why perhaps protect certain important British politicians, perhaps also Prime Minister Churchill, from public humiliation if Himler was allowed to testify publicly at the Newberg trials, since, as head of several police and intelligence services , were you aware of secret negotiations supposedly held between the British and Germans? governments of 1940 to 1941 to end the war and also many other very shameful things involving the British and even American intelligence services and the Nazis, it is very difficult to determine what is true in all this because certain sources of file are still classified or inaccessible.

For historians, Himler certainly knew everyone's dirty secrets, as he had spent years accumulating information through his spy networks and also his control over Abair's German military intelligence following the dismissal of master spy Admiral Vilhelm Canaris following the plot. July, cannot be ruled out as a theory for several reasons, the main one being the British government's refusal to release all of its files on Himmler's capture and death until 2045, 100 years after his death, indicating intelligence interest in the whole case and something that had to be covered up. Theory number four is a new one, but it's also not beyond the realm of possibility.

Several investigators suggest that Company Sergeant Major Austin beat Himler to death and the suicide story was invented to cover up this event. Austin would only have done such a thing if he had been ordered to do so. I managed to get a full copy of the post mortem examination report on him and in it the pathologist notices some abrasions on his heels. Himmler's nose was slightly bent to the right and some facial asymmetry was noted on the corpse that was not seen in photos of a living Himler, but there are no injuries. consistent with being beaten to death, I'm inclined to rule out the latter theory, since such a complicated method of execution would make it very difficult to look like cyanide suicide, and in case you're wondering, according to the report, Himler was 5 '82 tall had fine brown hair with a striking 3x 2 and 1/4 inch patch on the crown had most of his teeth in excellent condition and gray eyes had a hairy chest was slightly overweight and had a weak chin 23 May 1945 Reich furer SS died at the age of 44 lying on the floor of the front hall of 31st Lunberg Germany, but that was by no means the end of the story about Hinrich Himler in many ways, it was just the beginning of some kind of research.

At the time of his death, Himler was in the custody of Colonel Michael Murphy, head of intelligence for the British Second Army, but witnesses corroborate that the most It is likely that Murphy had left the room before his death. to run to the bathroom because he was hungover and had an upset stomach, the only people in the room before Himler officially died, at least, were medic Clement Wells and company sergeant major Edwin Austin of the barracks defense company general, however, during the commotion that followed Himmler's supposed death. biting into a cyanide capsule when Dr. Wells examined his mouth, other intelligence officers in the house rushed into the room, particularly Major Norman Whitaker, assisting with efforts to remove the poison from him.

One of Whitaker's friends was visiting him when the drama occurred. Captain Norman Rimmer. shortly after hima's death he went to the father's dining room and on his own initiative asked the army priests who were involved in a game of whiskey bridge at the time if they would give himler a proper christian burial among the officers playing cards. letters was Brigadier Hugh Glen Hughes Sr. The medical officer of the British Second Army, the impatient and irritable Glen Hughes, telephoned Colonel Murphy and asked him to send a doctor who could determine the cause of his death. He also told Murphy that a post-mortem examination would be carried out in due course and the report would act as identification.

Meanwhile, Hima's corpse remained on the floor of the naked hall covered by a single army blanket and would remain under guard all night. The next morning, May 24, a group of army parents arrived at 9:30 to view the body followed by a group of British Auxiliary Territorial Service soldiers, the guards entertained them by lifting the blanket and showing them Himler's genitals with Many Ribble comments and laughter, but at the highest levels of the chain of command no one was laughing, the other Allied nations would be extremely dismayed when they discovered that the prize prisoner, Himler, had died in British captivity, some damage control was necessary and With this in mind, Colonel Murphy, still hungover, called a conference at 1:30 p.m.

To decide on the party line, Dr. Wells was summoned to appear before the committee and was warned by Murphy in no uncertain terms that he should not discuss what had occurred in the room with anyone who was also present; Murphy was his second in command, Lieutenant Colonel Joe Art and another intelligence officer, Lieutenant Colonel Stapleton, and two officers whose identities have never been revealed, but I must assume that Hazard were from MI6. The Murphy committee decided to suspend the exhibition and bury Himmler's body as quickly as possible. However, at 1:40 p.m. Murphy excused himself from the meeting, apparently too ill to continue, remaining in charge of the body was Intelligence Officer Major Norman Whitaker and Company Major Austin, it was decided to photograph the body in situ and three men were involved in this Sergeant Carl Sutton of the Army photo unit and Path News' Sgt.

Mandle and Ken Gordon, who will make a film of the scene, the room has now been renovated to make it look more homely rather than an interrogation center, just as filming wrapped at 2 p.m. An American liaison officer arrived to view the body. They followed him at 4:00 p.m. by three Soviet officers Captain Kuchin demanded to speak to Colonel Murphy, who remained conveniently unavailable due to his surprisingly long-lasting hangover. He thwarted Soviet attempts to discover what had happened to Himler in British custody. Instead, Major Whitaker showed the Soviets the body. He did not agree that the body was Himler, upon returning to Flansburg Captain Kuchin fell Berlin asked the senior Soviet intelligence officer Colonel Vasili Gorbushin to come to Lunberg immediately the circus continued into the night with the famous Australian war correspondent Chester Wilmart and three other reporters watching Wilm Mod's body broadcast about his death was broadcast on BBC Radio at 8:00 p.m.

Before any medical examination was performed or the body was properly identified, Himler spent another night lying on the floor of the front parlor, Drew, at which point two soldiers burst into the room, propped up his body, and photographed it again. At 9:30 a.m. on 25 May Brigadier Glenn Hughes called Colonel Brown from the Royal Army Dental Course and asked him to come and take medical and dental records to help identify the body. Brown quickly gathered his equipment and some rubber and plaster of Paris and headed to Ulen Arrasa with his Assistant Senior George Atkins Waiting for them at the house was Army Pathologist Captain MC Bond, 74th British General Hospital Lunberg.

Dr. Bon began his postmortem examination of Himler at 11:00 a.m. m. Also present were Major Atkins and Colonel Brown Mory, a white private assistant and a laboratory assistant. Sergeant Glenn, the examination was not performed under ideal conditions, it was performed on the floor under natural light coming in through the large windows. The report, as I noted in the previous episode, was, however, exceptionally thorough. Army dentists examined his teeth, although the report seen here does not do so. Not noticing any glass fragments in the mouth that would have been present if Himler had bitten into a glass vial containing cyanide.

This is a strange omission and perhaps evidence that the cyanide story was not yet entirely correct or at least had not been resolved by Intelligence officers Brown and Atkins then made two latex death masks of Himler, one would be sent to General Eisenhower's headquarters and the other was held by Brown. Colonel Murphy probably not realizing that Brown had done this. This mask was later donated to the Army Medical Services. Brown museum which provides interesting evidence about the condition of Hima's face at the time of his death compared to films and photographs of him alive. Many have suggested that the face on the mask shows signs of damage that do not match the official report of cyanide poisoning.

Finally we have evidence of a procedure being carried out on the corpse one of the guards outside the door Corporal Bill Carratt was called in to assist at this point Dr Bond removed the brain this fact was widely reported in 1945 He Discovered references to this removal in several contemporary newspapers and magazines, the May 26, 1945 edition of The Daily News of Perth, Australia, picked up this story in an article titled Quotation of Himler Buried Before Burial, Doctors and Detectives Took Fingerprints fingerprints, examined his nails and teeth and measured each limb, they also took his death mask and a mold of his ears, removed his brain and part of his skeleton the next day's edition of the troops of the Second Army News Journal, a newspaper army for soldiers serving in Germany, published a story titled "Unmarked Grave for Himler" which quoted British Army surgeons taking a mold of his features and removing the brain and parts of the skull.

End quote Time magazine also claimed that the brain was removed, noting in a June 4, 1945 article that medical authorities removed the brain and took a plaster cast of the skull. Thereafter, the story of brain removal remained incredibly silent for 40 years, until The Mirror, a famous British newspaper, published a

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of articles on May 6, 1985, close to the anniversary of the end of the Second World War. World in Europe, in a parallel article titled enigma of the missing brain reported quote Bill Carrot helped the pathologist who carried out the post mortem examination said they told me to hold his head the doctor cut off the top with a knife and I looked at another Later the doctor put a container containing a solution on his brain and the mirror reported that the brain was sent to London for scientists to examine so that they could discover the source of his illness, but since then its location remains the DEA. , a mystery.

End of quote: the extraction of the brains of the World War. II leaders for the study were not limited to Himlet after the execution of the Italian dictator Bonito Melini, probably by Italian partisans and the public display and abuse of his corpse in Milan, the US Army moved him to a local Mory for a post-mortem examination. Melini's brain was removed and shipped. to the US for medical studies in the hope of finding the root cause of Du's behavior, as they suspected he was suffering from syphilis, in case syphilis was not discovered, but the brain subsequently disappeared, only in 1966 the most Part of the brain returned to Melini's widow, but the US government retained some slices of incredibly rare parts of Melini's brain and some blood samples ended up for sale on eBay in the 2000s at a price of 115,000 euros. .

They were quietly withdrawn from sale following protests from the granddaughter of Melini, another Axis leader whose brain was harvested. post mortem was the leader of the German Labor Front Robert Li Li on trial in Nunberg managed to hang himself in his cell on October 25, 1945 he was supposed to be mentally ill and his brain was removed and sectioned this only came to light in 2007 when A glass photographic transparencies of Li's brain were found among the effects of Newberg's trial. Psychiatrist Dr. Douglas Kelly, who had committed suicide about a decade after the war, returned to the problem of Himler's corpse.

Colonel Murphy decided to get rid of him and quickly in the first few hours. On 26 May 1945, after its third night on the front hall floor, a British Army truck from the Headquarters Defense Company backed up to the rear of the 31st Ol Raza. His body had been prepared for burial by Major Whitaker and Company, Sergeant Major Austin and his men had been wrapped in a piece of camouflage material tied with wire loaded aboard the truck driven by Sergeant Weston. . The body was escorted to the rear by Sergeant Ken Ottery. The truck was followed by Major Whitaker driving a jeep with Austin in thepassenger. seat after driving for hours Whitaker settled on a burial site in Lunberg Heath Weston and oty dug a grave Hima's body was dumped unceremoniously and then he covered the site disguised with branches and leaves and Whitaker wrote down its coordinates on a map and The group then drove back to Lunberg and Whitaker reported to Murphy, although the Allies were upset at not being able to identify the body themselves, any questions about the manner of his death were now conveniently and carefully restricted by the hasty burial of the evidence. most importantly: his corpse later.

On May 26, Murphy decided once again not to meet with a delegation of Soviet officers led by Colonel Gorbushin. However, the Soviets demanded that Himla be exhumed, a request that was ignored. It is interesting to know that Gushin carried with him a set of real teeth from Himler. Records captured in Berlin that could have been used to positively identify the body Even more incredibly, Gorbushin was denied a copy of the dental chart of Colonel Brown seen here drawn by him and Major Atkins during the autopsy. We have to wonder why Colonel Brown also claimed that Himes' fingerprints were not taken in disagreement with established history.

The next to arrive were two Americans at 300 p.m. They told Murphy that they were holding his brother, Gepard, and his lover, Hedvig Poast, who could be brought in to identify the body, but were not very impressed to learn that the body had already been buried. Colonel Murphy was forced to talk to them. A heated fight ensued between the British. managed to resist exhuming the body at least for now everything was quiet until early 1946, at that time most of the actors in the events of May 23, 1945 in Zen Arrasa had moved on to jobs in civilian life, but quite outside of the Blues, several They were suddenly contacted by the London War Office and told to be prepared to appear before a board of inquiry to be held in German, including Dr Wells, who had been examining their mouth when he allegedly bit into the cyanide capsule of a prominent target he had buried. the body on lunberg heath it appears that some doubts had crept into the identification of Henrich Himler in May 1945 doubts which led to the decision to exhume hima's body and carry out a second examination the man chosen to carry out this examination was the highly experienced Dr.

Ian Morris of Unit Number Two The War Crimes Commission was then collecting evidence of Nazi atrocities in the British occupation zone of Germany. Hima's body was exumated a second time after being relocated by Major Whitaker and taken by truck to the British military hospital in Hanover, apart from Dr. Morris. two unidentified British civilians were present along with Corporal DW Williams of the Royal Army Medical Corps. Morris reported that the body was in reasonable condition, its slimy, swollen skin incredibly moris not receiving Dr. Bon's original postmortem report or Colonel Brown's dental report. Instead, he had some German Sometime between then and his burial, most of them had been removed.

What was discovered was this deliberate destruction of dental evidence to prevent identification of the body, particularly when the Soviets showed up with his actual dental chart for comparison. Dr. Morris could not really come to any conclusion about the identity of the body due to its state of preservation and disappearance. teeth, which means that the identification of the man who died on the 31st srasa front remains controversial today, so what about the missing brain? I've spent the better part of a year trying to track it down and I believe it still exists, frustratingly Dr. Bond did. There is no record left as to where the brain was sent.

By deductive reasoning, we can assume that such a significant object was sent to one of the world's leading neuropathologists in London for study. The files on Himler held in the Museum of Military Medicine only cover the autopsy. examination and dental chart created by Colonel Brown, as well as the aforementioned press clippings regarding the removal of his brain; However, a little research reveals that the most important brain study center in Britain in 1945 was the London Institute of Neurology, now integrated into University College London. From this primary research it is shown that the leading neuropathologist in the post-war period was Professor John Corelis, who maintained a brain bank, a collection of film brains at Runwell Hospital.

An architect at UCL noted that after Corel's death, the brain bank remained in operation until Runwell Hospital was closed. In the 1990s, the famous brain bank and all its samples were sold to Sinaps, the Scientific Initiative for Neuropsychiatric and Psychopharmacological Studies in Belgium. This collection is currently housed in the Duel Psychiatric Hospital in Belgium. I recently received a response to my query that said that an exhaustive search of his records reveals nothing about Himler. Another name I was given in connection with the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London was Professor Joseph Godwin Greenfield, sometimes described as the father of neuropathology and who at the time of Hima's death had the brain.

An exhaustive search of his personal papers held in the library of University College London was sent to him; no reference to Himler was found. Another avenue that could shed light on where the brain was sent was an examination of Brigadier Hugh Glen's private papers. Hughes, the commander of the British Second Army's medical services in May 1945 and the man who actually ordered Dr. Bond to perform Himler's post-mortem examination. His papers are at the Welcome Institute in London. I did an exhaustive search of his extensive documents and found nothing related to his brain. Curiously, I also found no mention of Himler, which, considering the high-profile nature of the prisoner and the controversy surrounding his death, seems strange.

Glen Hugh's papers certainly contain many references to the events before and after his death, but he does not mention anything related to himself, we can deduce from this that Glenn Hughes was careful not to highlight his involvement or he had been told to remain in silence on the issue, so another dead end ensued regarding the Search for the Missing Brain, casting my net more widely, I contacted a handful of brain banks that still exist in the UK in the hope to get a clue. More rejections, although some were friendly, others almost legal in their responses, for example the Cambridge Brain Bank gave me the following, very non-committal response citation under the Human Tissue Act, the post mortem material stored in our brain bank is anonymous for researcher inquiries and requests, final quote in other words, if we have it, we won't tell you, if we don't have it, we will.

I want to tell you that the conclusion I should draw from my research is that his brain may still exist, but the likelihood of any institution admitting that it actually has it is remote, no doubt because of the negative publicity such an admission would generate, particularly in the press. I open a terrible can of worms about what to do with such an object; however, I would like to ask anyone with information to please come forward and contact me at hello markf Felton. co.uk, as I'm sure someone knows something, several people have already contacted me regarding the previous videos of his capture and death, providing fascinating information that is credible but contradicts the official British story that the smell of conspiracy still persists in the death of the SS reiche furer as to what happened to his body after the second post mortem examination in 1946, authorities took an x-ray of his head apparently for identification purposes, but these x-rays have never been done As reported in most history books, he was not reburied in his grave on Lünberg Heath, but was instead ordered to Corporal DW Williams, an assistant to Mory at the Military Hospital. from Hanover, to take him to the hospital crematorium where he was cremated, so that if his brain could be found, DNA tests would be carried out.

At least resolve one major question that has lingered over his death was the man who died in the front room of the 31st Heinrich Himler or a deliberate double destruction of forensic evidence while the body was in British hands, including the removal of teeth before The first burial and the withholding of important identification evidence by pathologists, primarily Himmler's actual dental x-rays and several other points I have raised, have certainly contributed to the conspiracy that Himler actually escaped justice in 1945. My Personal opinion based on everything I know. What is known so far about the case is that the man who died in Lünberg in May 1945 was Hinrich Himler, but I am not satisfied with the official story of his death and feel that the British authorities concealed or suppressed the truth of what happened. in that room.

Either Himler dies due to the incompetence of his captors or due to malice and, realistically, we will probably never know the truth when the records about his death are finally released 23 years from now, maybe the truth will finally come to light in the city of Beus Garden. which is located at the foot of the mountain oraz alberg and which contained Hitler's private house and other famous buildings such as the Eagle's Nest, was captured on the afternoon of May 4, 1945 by troops of the 7th Infantry Regiment of the third division Not everyone was officially assigned to them and his brother wanted to climb the steep road to Hitler's private village to Aalburg and capture the heavily damaged complex of buildings, bombed by the US infantry.

British on April 27 and abandoned by the SS garrison when American forces entered Beus. Garden below I have already made a video about the race for the eagle's nest which is outside the scope of this program Link in the final screen beus The garden was very important because it was the Nazi administrative capital of this picturesque region of Bavaria on the border with Austria. and contains many important Nazi buildings, including the mini Reich Chancellery complex, a collection of wooden buildings containing ministries evacuated from the Berlin bomb that continue to control government functions and military command throughout southern Germany shortly after to capture Beus Garden without a single shot and clear the city of German troops.

A reconnaissance patrol advanced along the road toward Shau, a small village on the northern shore of the kerig, a stunning alpine lake surrounded by rugged, snow-capped mountains. As they approached the town, the gigs checked the buildings again, including a large alpine chalet being used as a Luft. The Americans had captured several trains loaded with treasure. These were trains evacuated south by Reich Marshal Herman, calculating a week earlier from his Karhal estate on the outskirts of Berlin, locals had looted many of the carriages in search of food, drink and other useful items unknown to the troops. Americans approaching Sher, now more extras, loot, much of the gold was hidden in a secret bunker in a cave near the city, this would eventually be found and recovered on May 25, 1945 in one of the houses.

US troops entered and cleared a large alpine chalet with no buildings located at the end of a quiet road about 1 kilometer from Kernig called Shinkon, the owner having left in a hurry leaving most of his belongings behind. A rudimentary search revealed that this was the house. of Henrich Himler Reich fur SS and after Hitler, the most wanted man in Germany. If you have seen the previous episodes of this series, you will know that on May 4, 1945, Himler was nowhere near Bavaria; in fact, he was in northern Germany having established his final headquarters and still hopes to play some useful role in Germany's final days in World War II by opening closets and cupboards, soldiers found their uniforms, photographs and other items personal items, including a set of his medals, naturally a large amount of this material would be pocketed as souvenirs. starving Americans over the next few days the house was evidently a family home it had a woman's touch and women's clothes hanging in the closets there were also two children's rooms for a boy and a girl what the soldiers had actually captured was theirlove nest the house he had bought in 1943 for his lover from one of his personal assistants named hedvig poast poast, who was a young secretary, had caught the attention of the Reich in the late 1930s.

Himler was unhappily married to his wife Margaretta, but he did it with his daughter Goodan and she discovered their relationship. With Poast in 1941, Himler and his wife had separated, although they never divorced. Himler already owned a house in Gund, far south of Munich, which he had bought in 1933 and had remodeled and extended in 1936. Himler, although extremely powerful, never had a house high above Borman; he did in Orber Zburg and so did Guring and also Albert Shar further down the mountain, but Borman, who was actually an enemy of Himler, managed to keep him in line and away from the center of power when Himler visited Berhoff, along with many other senior officials. and the generals stayed in the grand Hotel Platoff or in a special VIP guesthouse in the Alburg or in one of the several luxury mountain hotels in Beus Garden.

This was a rather unsatisfactory arrangement, since Himmler's separation from his wife in 1941 no longer happened. Every year he lived for a few months in Gund's house, but the property remained his property, but only his wife and his daughter, along with the household staff and SS guards, housed in a special barracks building, there was also a bunker in the garden in case of Air Attack built on his order to protect his family and built by 20 special prisoners sent from the Daaka concentration camp, one of whom died during construction, meanwhile, Hedvig Poast had given birth to an illegitimate child with Himler, a son they named Helga in February 1942 Parents of the Past They disapproved of their daughter's relationship with Himler, but Himler decided to provide a suitable home for his lover and their new son.

Incredibly, Himler, although the owner of a huge industrial empire based on slave labor, did not have much personal wealth and it showed. who was one of the few high-ranking Nazis who had no hand in the matter until, instead, he went cap in hand to Borman to ask for a loan from Nazi party funds and Borman advanced Himler 80,000 marks of the Reich in 1943 Himler used the money to buy schne vinko Lan, a nice alpine chalet, it was located on a large plot of land about a kilometer from Kernig. Ironically, this house had been the vacation home of none other than the famous Jewish psychoanalyst Dr.

Zigman Freud. The funds were used to modernize the property and provide surveillance facilities. and an anti-aircraft bunker, what Hitler's armaments minister, Albert Spar, disparagingly called his bomb-proof love nest. Himler would live in Atolan every time he visited the Beus garden and the Orz Alburg on July 20, 1944, when Colonel Count Von Stenberg attempted to kill Hitler with a bomb in his Eastern Front headquarters, the Wolf's Lair, Hedvig Poas gave birth to her second illegitimate son and her second daughter, Nanet Doreta, at the Beus Garden hospital. As the war situation continued to deteriorate, his command responsibilities kept him further and further away from the Beus Garden area, and eventually Hitler moved out as well.

Far from Beov never to return with the rapid approach of US forces to the region. All senior Nazis and their families living around Beus Garden were under threat. Himler last saw Poast in person in mid-March 1945, when he visited her special apartment at the Henen sanatorium in northern Germany, but he stayed in touch with her and also with her daughter Goodrun in Gund. via daily telephone calls until April 19, 1945. The next day, Himler went to the bomb-scarred Reich in Berlin to wish Hitler happy birthday one last time and later that day he went North to continue his secret efforts to make a separate peace with the Western allies, efforts that would eventually lead to his unmasking and his downfall on the same day Gund fell to American forces.

Margaretta Himler and her daughter Goodan were nowhere to be found when American forces entered their home in Gund, having moved to German-occupied northern Italy some time earlier, Himler's residence was thoroughly searched for information of intelligence and then stripped by souvenir hunters. The last word Podast received from Himler was a Letter personally delivered by an SS officer to a house on April 19, 1945. In it, Himla mentioned the difficulties she was facing and the hope that God would protect her, the children and Germany at the beginning of May. American forces were also approaching Berku's garden and Poas took her two children and moved to Austria Shira's house was captured on May 4, in addition to capturing L's love nest, they also captured her car, this limousine grossa Mercedes w150 770k built in 1943 and belonging to the motor group of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, this was his official car when he visited the area and he kept it at his house and used it to pick him up at the airfield at Iron Ring or to transport him between his house in Shau and the Alburg.

Now it is exhibited in Alto. and Technical Museum zenim Germany a fascinating survivor of the end of the war in beus Garden his wife Margaretta and daughter goodan were arrested by American forces in Bolzano Italy at the end of the war held in a succession of camps in Italy France and Germany margareta was carefully interrogated but evidently knew little of her ex-husband's political life mother and daughter were released after the Nberg trials in November 1946 densified in 1948 as a category 3 petty criminal after a legal challenge she was reclassified as a sympathizer or category 4 without However, a new series of procedures against her by the State of Bavaria led to her being reclassified as a militant activist and speculator of category 2 and she was sentenced to 30 days of punitive labor, she lost her pension rights and the right to vote spent her last years living in a modest apartment in Munich with her daughter and died in August 1967 at age 7.

Goodin's daughter was deeply affected by her family's experiences and she remained a strong supporter of her father's memory and she also believed that he had not committed suicide but had been murdered by the British. She died in May 2018 at the age of 88. Hedvig Poas learned of her death in British custody in Lunberg on May 23, 1945 through a radio announcement. Potas went into hiding living with Leonora Paul, wife of General SS Oswald. Paul in Rosenheim in Bavaria Paul had been head of the main economic and administrative office of the SS and chief administrator of the concentration camp system.

In due course he would be arrested in May 1946 by British troops near Brayman disguised as a farm worker and hanged in 1951 after a trial before the US Army. she finally identified and arrested Poast in July 1945, interestingly the officer who interrogated her was one we already know if you've seen my video about Herman guessing the missing medals, Major Paul Kubala Kubala, a high ranking interrogator for the 7th. º US Army and who appears to free Ging. The famous Grand Cross of the Iron Cross and the Pul Merit of the First World War after Reich Marshall's surrender to American forces dispute the issue, but it was clear that she did not know Hima's plans or much of the intelligence. of great interest to us.

She was allowed to go. She was free and she lived in Teisendorf, keeping in close contact with the family of Hima's older brother, Gard, and also with SS General Carl Wulf, the chief of Hima's personal staff. Her son Helga, who suffered from health problems all her life, lived with her and married, changing her last name. His daughter Nanet Dorota became a doctor and is now retired Hedvig Poas died in Bon Bon in September 1994 at the age of 82 in connection with what happened to the houses of his wife and lover, both still exist today. Margaret's house in Gund is today a company headquarters, while Hedvig Past's house in Shau in Kig A has been divided into self-catering holidays.

For the area's important tourism sector, one aspect of the story is Heinrich's death It has bothered me for years; It has probably already occurred to many of you who have seen my series so far or read more about the subject and that is why Himler Goes South is never given an answer in the history books one explanation I have found is that Himler and his group plan to wander around for a few weeks until things calm down immediately after the war and then the Furer reiches would re-emerge in some form on the political scene, one aspect that many commentators have not recognized at this time is the fact of their intelligence and cunning.

Do you think an idiot could have become as powerful as Himler became? The man was careful, secretive, calculating and extremely ruthless. He would have had a plan before abandoning his last headquarters in northern Germany to attack the south and I think I found it that way. The situation in early May 1945 for Hinrich Himler was simple enough that he could have escaped with relative ease to neutral Sweden from the Nazi rearguard. territory still under German control for about 3 weeks after the surrender, he opted to drive south along Allied-occupied Germany through the American and British zones, as many historians have alleged, to reach Bavaria and then, under the American occupation, the reasons for such a risky trip are I never said it, I just assumed it, however, there was something in Germany that would have been of great interest to Himler and his cohorts.

His plan was apparently outlined by none other than one of his closest friends who followed him into British captivity, SS Oban Fura or the leftist Colonel Vera. grman grman told his interrogators that the plan was for his group to reach the hars mountains, where it was felt that himler could hide until the human cry of the initial occupation had subsided and, instead of re-emerging in some kind of political sphere , made its way. Until the Alps Grman never explained what would happen once they crossed the Alps, but I think he explains himself where this story is going.

One of the most important things Himler and his group needed for such a movement to succeed was money. mobile cash or bullion and valuables, so what did Himler have in May 1945 that he could have taken with him? It is evident that Himler was making plans for some type of move even on April 19, 1945, as he had two safes stored in the house of SS Schuman Fura. or Major Henrich Springer, senior staff officer of Army Group Vistula, his last military command on the Eastern Front, according to Springer's wife, a box contained gold jewelry and personal items, including a valuable pearl necklace and some diamond-encrusted watches, the other box contained a large amount of bank money. banknotes in various foreign currencies the safes were collected from Friar Springer by a member of his staff unknown to her on the night of May 12 to 13, 1945 and never seen.

Again on that date Himler was already on the road and was gone In the area, did the officer who picked up the two safes have orders to take them to the Hars Mountains to this supposed hideout that Grman was talking about? It's a possibility or perhaps the officer was simply helped by knowing that Himler had already left the area, Himla and his group did not appear to be traveling with boxes of bullion or cash in the cars. The only mention of money comes when the group abandoned their cars and bribed the fisherman with 500 Reichsmarks to transport them across a river.

The British never reported finding Himler and his 14 traveling companions with pockets full of gold, diamonds or cash and his aides never said the British stole valuables from them in interviews they gave after the war, so It seems likely that Himler Rondevu with his mobile wealth later on his planned Journey to the South. The idea of ​​hiding out in the Hars Mountains for a few weeks or months was

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ly sensible, and in fact ties into something else we know about him: the location of an extremely large cache of gold. The Hars Mountains are located in Saxony. and toia an area of ​​859 square miles of rugged, forested uplands, the highest point being just over 3,000 feet in elevation.

My research has led me to find another compelling reason why, according to a high-ranking agitator, Himler had decided to hide in the mountains in the heart of all places. Near Saxy is the city of Plen. In 2015, a researcher discovered a document in the US National Archives. It was from Himler ordering gold and also currency weighing about 900 kg to be deposited in the vault of a post office in the city in plen a clandestine vault, in fact, the city of plen, which was heavily bombed, fell to the advancing American forces on April 16, 1945, a fact of which Himler would have been fully aware and of which he would have been informedwhile he was still Reichs fur SS.

Himler would also have known that Plen was intended to be part of the post-war Soviet occupation zone of Germany, as a map showing the post-war division of Germany had been captured by Germ during the Arden Offensive during the previous winter, which had caused quite a stir in the German high command. The Americans did not discover this cache until April 26, 1945, 11 days after occupying the city, and as far as Himla knew, they had not found it when they began their advance toward the Hars Mountains in the second week of May 1945. . All the information. about the plow no longer flowing into the German countryside because all communications had been cut off by the American occupation.

This secret bank account was opened by Hinrich Himler's personal order and in his name in April 1944, again showing that Himler was preparing for some kind of escape from Germany. It could also have been one of several hiding places placed by Hinrich Himler from which he simply We have no information about the information buried somewhere in the archives yet to be examined, but it sounds like part of a plan, so perhaps Himler was going to move as Gro Man first alleged with his small group of subordinates totaling 15 men up Hars mountains and hide for a few weeks or months until all the commotion of the initial occupation had died down, at the same time perhaps one of his loyal subordinates would go in civilian clothes to the city of Plen, contact the local Nazi organizations there, particularly with the officials who look after the gold, and then they would get some or all of this gold, move it back to the hearts, the mountains and then.

Properly disguised and carrying the correct fake identification documents, his group would move to the Alps and cross into Italy or Switzerland. This is, of course, speculation on my part, but we have two important pieces of evidence. First of all, we have Lieutenant Colonel Grman, who gave us The first part of the plan is quite clear. Secondly, we have the gold in a vault. Clearly, this is some kind of emergency stash and it's on its way to the Alps, which is pretty convenient now that there's a special 75-man US Army unit searching for gold. The task force codenamed FER, commanded by US Coast Guard Lieutenant Commander Joel Fischer, who was a Washington DC lawyer at the US Treasury Department, had been following American units as they advanced through Central Germany.

Gathering gold and Nazi currency along the way. Officials of the Reich Bank. admitted that there were bags of gold inside a safe in the basement of the post office, but said that they did not have the key, that the key was with an official who had been killed in a bombing and his body along with the key was buried under tons of debris, Fisher task force. He received help from a company of combat engineers who used explosives to open the secret vault and his men discovered the following at 1945 prices: They found 250,000 US dollars in gold coins, 1 million Swiss francs again in gold coins, 98, 50 Dutch gilts in gold coins and 151,50 60 Norwegian gold crowns there were also fewer Yugoslav dinas and Hungarian currency in total the gold coins weighed 900 kg in 35 bags and at the current price of gold they are worth 41,900 thousand dollars or 49.6 million US dollars.

Gold coins, of course, are much easier. to move than boolean bars and they are also easily interchangeable anywhere if we believe Vera Grman and we have no reason not to. What she said makes sense. His plan clearly was to let Germany cross the Alps towards Italy or Switzerland. It is surprising in the history books to note that many Nazi war criminals headed to Italy, where there were rat lines running through Germany and Austria to the port of Genua, from there, having obtained Red Cross passports and perhaps visas. In Argentina, it was quite easy to board a ship and set sail. to South America with a few others also going to the Middle East, particularly Syria, this was his final plan, we will never know because of course Himler was captured by the British and died in very mysterious circumstances in their custody.

The meaning of the stash of gold in full. We will never know too, except that he definitely belonged personally to Hinrich Himler, but I think this theory goes some way to explaining what Himler was doing traveling south, why he was prepared to undertake such a risky journey. It has all the features. of the clever planning that Himla was famous for thanks for watching, subscribe and share and also visit my audiobook Channel War Stories with Mark Felon. You can also help support both of my channels on PayPal and Patreon details in the description box below.