The German high command burned his body after he committed suicide per his instructions so that it would not be recovered by the Russians that where at the doorstep of Berlin.
2007-08-24 20:31:49
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answered by Justin K 3
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His body was burned with Eva Braun's in a garden near his bunker.
The Red Army took the remains and interred (and then dug up and reinterred) them several times as the unit responsible for them moved around, until they were eventually interred in a town called Magdeburg where they rested until 1970. When building development works around the Magdeburg area were about to take place, the remains were dug up again and burned to ashes, which were scattered (I believe in the river).
Crucially a piece of the skull (showing the bullet entry wound) and a piece of jawbone (which allowed the Soviets to identify the remains as Hitler's by the dental work) remain in the Kremlin.
2007-08-24 23:33:52
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answered by the_lipsiot 7
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There are conflicting stories. The two main theories are:
1) It was taken by the Soviets when they captured Hitler's bunker. They autopsied it, identified it according to dental records, and then cremated it. But since the Soviets made conflicting reports at different times, and in any case were never known for their openness or their devotion to truth, any such reports have to be evaluated with great skepticism.
(2) It was thoroughly destroyed at Hitler's orders by his own troops after his suicide, and was never found.
After the war, there were many "sightings" of Hitler alive and well and in hiding in ____ (fill in the blank), but none of those reports were ever substantiated.
As one might imagine, this was a topic of intense interest after the war and over the subsequent years. Multiple conflicting theories have proliferated, and it will probably never be possible to know the truth for sure.
In the end, the mystery endures.
2007-08-24 21:27:27
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answered by Erik 2
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On April 29, 1945, he married his mistress Eva Braun and dictated his final political testament, concluding with the same monotonous, obsessive fixation that had guided his career from the beginning:
"Above all I charge the leaders of the nation and those under them to scrupulous observance of the laws of race and to merciless opposition to the universal poisoner of all peoples, international Jewry."
The following day Hitler committed suicide, shooting himself through the mouth with a pistol.
His body was carried into the garden of the Reich Chancellery by aides, covered with petrol and burned along with that of Eva Braun.
2007-08-24 21:30:04
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answered by Anonymous
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Greetings! Hitler's body was transported back to the Soviet Union. His skull was handled by Stalin himself. His skullcap ended up at the KGB headquarters, and the remainder of his body was interred, and disinterred several times before what was left was destroyed and scattered.
2007-08-24 21:38:03
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answered by TeacherGrant 5
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It is a shame we do not have his body, or even his skull, today. It would make a good exhibit of a human who claimed to be of a superior race, but in fact never was "the master race." "Where is dash_meri's punctuation?"
2007-08-24 23:52:17
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answered by WMD 7
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Cinders
2007-08-24 20:42:05
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answered by LadyRebecca 6
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The Soviets took it and burned it.
No one really knows where the bones are now.
2007-08-24 20:31:19
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answered by Keith 6
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Burnt to ashes.
2007-08-26 10:13:59
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answered by Gary 5
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deep in the Kremlin vaults, along with Lenin and other world renown figures...
2007-08-25 05:07:06
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answered by Its not me Its u 7
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