The death of Hitler and the secret Soviet mission to dump his ashes.

Описание: The death of Hitler occurred on 30 April 1945. Here I look at where his ashes were dumped.
The remains of the bodies of Adolf Hitler, his wife Eva Braun, the Goebbels family and possibly General Hans Krebs were dumped into a stream to the east of Magdeburg on 5 April 1970. This video explains how this happened.
Adolf Hitler committed suicide with his wife Eva Braun at around 15:30 on 30 April 1945. Hitler's adjutant, SS-Sturmbannführer Otto Günsche together with Hitler's valet, Heinz Linge were the first to enter Hitler’s room following the suicides, Günsche then informed Josef Goebbels, General Hans Krebs, and General Wilhelm Burgdorf that Hitler was dead. The bodies were carried up the stairs and through the bunker's emergency exit to the garden behind the Reich Chancellery, where they were burned with petrol in a shell crater. Having been left for a couple of hours to be burn, the remains were pushed into a hole, dug by two men from the Reich Security Service, Hitler's personal bodyguard, less than one metre away and covered with earth.
The corpses of the Goebbels family and the remains of Hitler and Eva Braun were packed in wooden boxes after the forensic medical examination and buried in the Berlin-Buch area. Possibly due to fears that someone had attempted to dig them up, they were exhumed again and moved with the Smersch unit that had found them to the Soviet garrison in Finow. However another inspection was required, so the remains were once more exhumed and this time buried in Rathenow and pine trees were planted on the grave for camouflage. The corpse was dug up for the sixth time in July 1945, brought to Stendal in a “half-rotten state” buried there in a wooded area. In December 1945 the body was exhumed again and taken to Magdeburg. It is suggested that the reason could have been that a Soviet general wanted to prevent a re-investigation by experts because he did not want to accept any evidence for the claim that Hitler shot himself “honorably” instead of taking “cowardly” poison.
Hitler's body was buried again in Magdeburg and dug up again in January 1946 to be examined again. Then Red Army soldiers buried the remains on a military site at Klausenerstraße 36 in Magdeburg-Sudenburg and paved over the grave. This is what Klausenerstraße looks like today.
However by 1970, this area of Magdeburg was due to be handed over to East Germany. This worried KGB boss Yuri Andropov. On 13 March 1970, Andropov wrote a top secret letter to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The letter was so sensitive that the typist, who had already had security clearance to the highest level, only typed part of the letter, missing out crucial words and leaving blank spaces so that Andropov could fill in by hand. The letter suggested the destruction of the remains of the bodies of the Hitlers and Goebbels family.
Brezhnev, Prime Minister Alexej Kosygin and the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet, Nikolai Podgorny, signed the note »Agreed«.
In the spring of 1970, a couple of Soviet soldiers pitched a tent on the property at Klausenerstraße 36 in Magdeburg, next to the garage. Secret service people took up camouflaged observation posts in the adjoining houses in which local Germans lived. On the night of 4-5 April 1970, five KGB officers climbed into the tent and dug up the earth. They located four ammunition boxes containing the remains. The final report noted that the ammunition boxes contained “Skulls, bones, ribs, vertebrae, etc. in boxes, these rotted to mud. Corpses were mixed with earth, the degree of destruction is great. ”In addition to the skeletal remains, there were“ a few golden teeth”.
The remains were brought in a Soviet off-road vehicle to the garrison of the 10th Soviet Armored Division in Schönebeck, eleven kilometers from Magdeburg. Twenty litres of petrol was poured onto the remains which were burned for an hour. To ensure complete destruction, these ashes were mixed with coal ash and crushed.
Although the Elbe flows very close to Schönebeck, the ashes were not scattered into the water here. Instead, three soldiers drove around 20 kilometers to Biederitz, to this bridge over the Ehle, a small tributary of the Elbe. The remains of the Hitler couple and the Goebbels family and possibly also Hans Krebs were dumped into the water from this bridge with the rather distinctive name Schweinbrücke.
Why at this bridge? I don’t know. Did the Red Army men or their officer know her name, did they want to send a last sign of contempt? The report, which was sent to Moscow that very day, did not mention it.