Hunting Hitler by Jerome R. Corsi

Author:Jerome R. Corsi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2017-06-20T16:00:00+00:00

As noted in the previous chapter, Trevor-Roper’s investigation had to have been shortened when he realized the Russians would not allow him to question the Führerbunker eyewitnesses in prison in Moscow, and the Americans appeared willing to share with him only written transcripts of the interviews US military intelligence had conducted with the Führerbunker eyewitnesses in US captivity. Saxe acknowledged in his second point that Trevor-Roper’s investigation “as a whole is not yet considered to be complete, owing to the difficulties involved in locating all available witnesses.” Yet, in the next sentence, Saxe asserts that Trevor-Roper has carefully cross-examined several unnamed “material witnesses,” permitting him to have established “sufficiently” what were listed as the following facts. Among those facts were:

• That on the night of 29 April, Hitler decided to commit suicide on the following day. He took leave of his servants at 0230 hours on 30 April and preparations were made for the destruction of his body and that of Eva Braun on the morning of 30 April.

• That on 30 April at 1430 hours Hitler took leave of his personal staff in the bunker and almost immediately afterwards shot himself while in his private room. Eva Braun committed suicide at the same time, probably by poisoning.

• That the bodies were then carried out of the bunker and burned, as arranged, in the garden.

As a key eyewitness, Saxe cited Hitler’s chauffeur, Erich Kempka, whose testimony we previously discussed as being highly suspect. Saxe admits the stories Trevor-Roper was relying upon being accurate eyewitness testimony were “all fragmentary”. But Sax insists these fragmentary stories “form a consistent pattern which has been checked by detailed cross-examination.” Saxe does not consider the possibility that the witnesses were giving fragmentary accounts because they were relating a cover story made up by the witnesses to hide the truth that Hitler had escaped. In concluding, Saxe admitted the bodies of Hitler and Eva Braun “have not, of course, been identified.” Yet he asserted, “It is to be noted that certain alternative stories which have gained currency since the fall of Berlin have been examined and have been found to rest on no valid evidence.”

Evidently Trevor-Roper’s investigation was not sufficient to impress Eisenhower that Hitler was dead. The report in The Stars and Stripes that Eisenhower had changed his mind to think Hitler had escaped and was alive was published the day before Saxe sat down to type his report of Trevor-Roper’s conclusions to the contrary. Still, in the final analysis, the pressure to be politically correct weighed on Eisenhower as he was preparing to enter politics. In his 1948 book on World War II, Crusade in Europe, Eisenhower portrayed Hitler’s demise as a suicide, commenting: “Hitler had committed suicide and the tattered mantle of his authority had fallen to Admiral Doenitz.”93

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