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Whatever Happened to Hitler's Body?
mentalfloss ^ | Matt Soniak

Posted on 05/02/2014 8:19:23 AM PDT by virgil283

"With the remains in their possession, the team disguised themselves as fishermen and drove into the mountains, stopping at a cliff along a small stream. There, in a spot screened by trees, they lit two campfires. One was to make soup. The other, to further burn the remains.

Gumenyuk has called the second cremation a waste of a can of gasoline, but the remains were finally burned to ashes. They collected these in a rucksack, which Gumenyuk took onto the cliff and opened up into the wind. With that, one of history’s greatest monsters disappeared, a brown cloud of dust in the wind.

Today, Gumenyuk is 73-years-old and retired from the KGB. He is the only surviving member of the team that disposed of Hitler’s remains and the only living person who knows where the ashes were spread. Still afraid the peaceful woods would become a pilgrimage site, he has vowed to take his secret to his grave. Despite the large amounts of money he’s been offered to reveal the location and the attention he’s gotten for what he did, Gumenyuk doesn’t seem to think his task was all that special. “Twenty seconds—and job was done,” he told The Sun last year. “It was just the last flight of the Führer.” [H/T American Digest]

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; History; Military/Veterans; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: gumenyuk; hitler; kgb; wwii
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I haven't seen this story given in this detail before. I know it is several years old but you may find it interesting.
1 posted on 05/02/2014 8:19:23 AM PDT by virgil283
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To: virgil283

“It was just the last flight of the Führer.”

And good riddance.


2 posted on 05/02/2014 8:26:38 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: virgil283
hitler shorts photo: Adolf Hitler 14ue0ec-1.jpg
3 posted on 05/02/2014 8:28:26 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: virgil283

Sounds like a crock to me. How does a 3 or 4 year old remember this stuff?


4 posted on 05/02/2014 8:28:55 AM PDT by deweyfrank
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To: virgil283

So, Hitler died about 70 years ago, this guy is 73 so he was 3 when when he did this? Or is this article an old one.


5 posted on 05/02/2014 8:28:56 AM PDT by bubbacluck (America 180)
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To: liege; deweyfrank

Read closer, you two.


6 posted on 05/02/2014 8:31:38 AM PDT by The KG9 Kid
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To: virgil283
I never knew Hitler's body was recovered by a British Air Raid Warden...


7 posted on 05/02/2014 8:32:11 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: liege

if you read the article you’ll see that the events described were in 1970.


8 posted on 05/02/2014 8:32:34 AM PDT by RitchieAprile
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9 posted on 05/02/2014 8:33:44 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: RitchieAprile

Thanks for the update. I, as a certified Freeper, did not read the article before posting. The math now makes sense.


10 posted on 05/02/2014 8:34:47 AM PDT by bubbacluck (America 180)
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To: liege

reassuring that I’m not the only one who comments before reading the articles..


11 posted on 05/02/2014 8:36:07 AM PDT by RitchieAprile
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To: virgil283

From what I remember, the French burned it and buried it, then the Russians dug it up, and burned it again! Haha


12 posted on 05/02/2014 8:39:01 AM PDT by cotton1706 (ThisRepublic.net)
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To: The KG9 Kid

Ah! this happened in 1970. That adds up. Some time I am guilty of not clicking onto the site. My bad. But it would have been nice if the post was started with the words “In 1970”


13 posted on 05/02/2014 8:44:47 AM PDT by deweyfrank
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To: virgil283

I didn’t know that you could burn a human body to ash with a can of gasoline.

Heck, sometimes I have had a problem getting wet wood to finally ignite.


14 posted on 05/02/2014 8:45:53 AM PDT by rlmorel ("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
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To: cotton1706

“...then the King dug him up, then burned him, he fell over and THEN sank into the swamp...but the fourth time...he stayed burned up! And THAT’S the Hitler corpse you are going to get, boy!”


15 posted on 05/02/2014 8:48:53 AM PDT by rlmorel ("A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
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To: virgil283

In the photo it shows Eva Braun & Hitler and their dogs.
Dang shame about the dogs dying.


16 posted on 05/02/2014 8:59:10 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: rlmorel

Without the aid of an incinerator, burning a body to ashes would be next to impossible. An open air fire without a large amount of fuel just does not get hot enough to burn flesh to ashes over a short period of time.


17 posted on 05/02/2014 9:02:53 AM PDT by eastforker (Cruz for steam in 2016)
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To: virgil283

I hope someone took a leak on the smoldering ashes, no matter which burning event was Hitler’s last.


18 posted on 05/02/2014 9:07:58 AM PDT by pallis
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To: virgil283
Hitler Lives--Rosalie Allen (1947)
19 posted on 05/02/2014 9:19:39 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: virgil283

Hitler is still very much with us in the hearts of some 2 billion islamists.


20 posted on 05/02/2014 9:22:13 AM PDT by onedoug
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