74 Years to His Suicide.. Hitler's Final Memo Unearthed

A recent evidence was unearthed, revealing that the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was keen to stay and perhaps die in Germany's Berlin by the time WWII was coming to an end.

74 years ago, and exactly on April 28th, 29th, Nazi leader Hitler was living his last days before he committed suicide along with his wife. This happened as Russian forces were already fighting in Berlin, approaching his shelter and perhaps about to execute him just as his Italian counterpart Benito Mussolini.

Over following decades, several stories circulated suggested that the Nazi Fuhrer escaped before the Russians reached his shelter; suggestions were typically about Latin America.

In 2017, the CIA released declassified documents that the intelligence agency investigated the possibility that Hitler was alive in South America as late as 1955 — nearly a decade after the war ended.

The document, which appears on the CIA's website, highlighted a former SS soldier who told spies he had regularly met with Hilter in Colombia. "CITROEN [a CIA source] claimed to have contacted Hitler about once a month in Colombia on his trip from Maracaibo to that country as/an employee of the KNSM (Royal Dutch) Shipping Co. in Maracaibo," the document read.

These assumptions were, by time, loosing their luster and suspense, as growing evidences proved that Hitler indeed died in Berlin on April 30th, 1945.

Perhaps the most important evidence appeared in the story told about the final days of the fuhrer via his last private secretary Gertraud "Traudl" Jung, in her memoire. Working for the Nazi leader 1953 -1945, Traudl's most significant role was to type the Führer's will - a political testament - shortly before he committed suicide in his Berlin bunker. She disclosed details about his personality, tempers and traits. Her memoire was the true story upon which the movie ‘Down fall’ was made.

But only days ago, another sweeping evidence was unearthed. A documentary claimed that Hitler’s greatest secrets might have been hidden in a safe discovered by US forces inside a Nazi castle.

During World War Two, the Nazi Party, under control of Hitler, ordered for the creation of the Schutzstaffel (SS) as the foremost agency of security and surveillance for Nazi Germany. Hitler then appointed Heinrich Himmler as the Reichsfuhrer, or leader, of SS who ordered it to be located in a Renaissance castle at Wewelsburg village.

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In the middle of the 1930s, Himmler had a private safe mounted in the basement of the west tower to store the Nazi’s deepest secrets.

Only the commandant of the castle knew about it and it is said to have contained only details Himmler discussed with Hitler himself.

It was revealed during Amazon Prime’s “Unsolved Mysteries of World War Two” how Mr Himmler attempted to destroy the castle and its contents when he knew the Red Army was closing in.

The 2004 series detailed: “To Heinrich Himmler, Operation Barbarossa – the invasion of the Soviet Union on June 1941 – promised the fulfilment of all his dreams.

By April 1945, Himmler’s Castle was a blackened shell, destroyed on Himmler’s own orders. At once, it was plundered by local villagers in search of valuables.

The documentary went on to detail how US forces uncovered the safe, but its contents have never come to light.

It continued: “The castle did contain one final secret, though”.

The only memo from Nazi leader Adolf Hitler rejecting an 11th hour rescue mission and pledging to remain in Berlin to the death has surfaced.

Dated six days before Hitler committed suicide on April 30, 1945, he was defiant in staying in Berlin to provide a “good example” for others left in the bombed out city as allied troops moved in.

“I shall remain in Berlin, so as to take part, in honorable fashion, in the decisive battle for Germany, and to set a good example to all those remaining. I believe that in this way I shall be rendering Germany the best service,” said the memo, a transcript read by a radio operator in a call to Field Marshal Ferdinand Schorner who offered to rescue the Fuhrer.

The German Fuhrer continued: "For the rest of you, every effort must be made to win the struggle for Berlin. You can there help decisively, by pushing northwards as early as possible..."

The letter was written a week before Hitler committed suicide, swallowing a cyanide pill and shooting himself in the head. Hitler's wife, Eva Braun, also committed suicide by swallowing a cyanide pill on April 30, 1945.

Maryland-based Alexander Historical Auctions is auctioning off the item and has set a minimum bid at $30,000. The pre-sale estimate is between $60,000 and $80,000.

The company's president, Bill Panagopulos, described it as a rare find and essentially Hitler's "suicide note."

“There is no other written evidence of Hitler declaring his intention to remain (and die) in Berlin that anyone has been able to locate," Panagopulos said in an interview with ‘The Sun’. “This is essentially Hitler’s ‘suicide note.’"