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How the woman who identified Hitler’s dental remains ended up in prison
New York Post ^ | 7/14/2018 | Mary Kay Linge

Posted on 07/14/2018 6:07:09 PM PDT by simpson96

Berlin’s ruins still smoldered as three Soviet military intelligence officers questioned a tall, lithe blonde in 1945. A Red Army lieutenant, the group’s translator, opened the burgundy satin cover of a cheap jewelry box and showed her its contents.

Nestled inside were charred human teeth, gold dental crowns and a complete lower jaw.

“I took the dental bridge in my hand,” Käthe Heusermann wrote decades later. “I looked for an unmistakable sign. I found it immediately, took a deep breath and blurted out, ‘These are the teeth of Adolf Hitler.’ I was showered with expressions of gratitude.”

Within weeks, Heusermann was in solitary confinement in a notorious Moscow prison — her reward for telling Josef Stalin an irksome truth.

When Berlin fell on May 2, 1945, front-line Allied troops were desperate to find Hitler. Years of fighting Nazis convinced them that nothing less than Hitler’s death would vanquish the Third Reich.

The Führer had spent the war’s final weeks in a fortified bunker beneath the Reich Chancellery building. Interpreter Elena Rzhevskaya, then 25, helped comb through the warren of underground rooms, interrogating survivors and seeking clues to his fate.

Rzhevskaya’s “Memoirs of a Wartime Interpreter” (Greenhill Books), out now for the first time in English, tells their detective story.

Medical examiners suspected that a burned corpse found in the chancellery’s enclosed courtyard — so damaged that it could not be positively identified — was Hitler’s. They wrenched the teeth and their extensive bridgework from the mouth, placed them in the secondhand jewelry box and entrusted the macabre package to Rzhevskaya.(snip)

She led them to the dentistry room, still stocked with its tools, reclining chair — and Hitler’s dental X-rays, “irrefutable evidence that Hitler was dead,” Rzhevskaya wrote.

The facts were reported directly to Soviet dictator Stalin. Yet he refused to

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To: GreyFriar
Over all I agree with your assessment.

My comment was intended as being sarcastic. Taken individually some of the possibilities presented were plausible (i.e. Underground to Templehof), but taken in their entirety reached the point of absurdity rather quickly.

21 posted on 07/14/2018 11:09:04 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (California: drive illegally, you lose your license, here illegally, they give you one.)
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To: wideminded

Yeah, my bad. I meant ‘Hunting Hitler’, not ‘In Search of Hitler’. I guess the error was reflective of the credibility of the show.


22 posted on 07/14/2018 11:13:23 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (California: drive illegally, you lose your license, here illegally, they give you one.)
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To: simpson96

Käthe Heusermann : tall, lithe blonde ... twenty-five. But not pretty?

(more seriously, thanks for the post).


23 posted on 07/15/2018 12:24:38 AM PDT by Mr Radical (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: Rurudyne

“... A million ordinary Germans dying or ten million ordinary Soviets dying meant nothing, they were all things to be cast aside ...”


Joe cast aside 69 odd million ordinary Soviets to death ....


24 posted on 07/15/2018 1:23:39 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

Yep. And the useful idiots of today still want socialism or, more laughingly, want to say the avowed socialist aren’t real socialist because, presumably, they aren’t bucking for full socialism yet.


25 posted on 07/15/2018 1:28:28 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: GreyFriar

https://historyatkingston.wordpress.com/2018/02/08/history-as-hoax-why-the-tv-series-hunting-hitler-is-fiction-not-fact/


26 posted on 07/15/2018 1:31:04 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.)
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To: simpson96

Scores of TV shows about Hitler:

https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=TV+shows%3A+Hitler&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8


27 posted on 07/15/2018 1:32:28 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.)
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To: bray
1. Obviously a person's body does not have to be readily accessible for there to be convincing proof that they are dead.

2. Multiple Germans who were in Hitler's bunker and even those who saw his dead body and participated in his partial cremation survived the war and lived for years afterwards. Their testimony sounds credible.

3. An enormous amount of detail is known about Hitler's dental work, especially as complete X-rays of Hitler's head and teeth have been found. This information matches the drawings of Hitler's teeth that were in the Soviet autopsy.

4. Käthe Heusermann, the dental assistant who was asked by the Russians to identify Hitler's teeth and dental work, lived in west Germany until 1995. She had all that time to deny that she had been shown Hitler's real teeth, but she didn't do that.

5. Some of Hitler's teeth were put on display in Moscow in 2000 and were examined more recently by Western experts. They concluded that there is absolutely no doubt that these are Hitler's teeth. - link

6. Russians have sometimes been known for distorting the facts, but the personal testimony of those who worked on finding Hitler's body and on the autopsy sounds credible. Here is a show that has a lot of interesting interviews with people who were involved with Hitler's death: link

7. Hitler's last will and testament, which is undoubtedly authentic, stated that he wanted to die in Berlin. It is entirely inconsistent with his known state of mind and with logic, that he would have risked being captured.

8. And another major reason for being skeptical about the thesis of the Hunting Hitler show is the author of the book it was based on: Jerome Corsi. In 2011 he published a book that was supposed to show that Obama was not born in the United States. If Corsi had managed to nail that down, Obama would not have been president for another 5 years.

28 posted on 07/15/2018 3:22:43 AM PDT by wideminded
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To: simpson96

bookmark


29 posted on 07/15/2018 4:44:04 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: wideminded

Exactly correct.

Too many fall for the lies and distortions and fail to realize the most important thing:

Hitler was SUCH a megalomaniac that he thought at the end, since the Germans lost, they rejected HIM, and he would go down with the ship (of state) taking all of them with him.

He ordered Albert Speer, his Economic Minister, to destroy the country (thankfully, Speer did not).

Hitler believed his death would lead to Gotterdamerung, the entire fall of the universe as we know it.

He had absolutely NO desire to sneak off and be forgotten.

Seriously, imagine he did so. And then remain silent for the rest of his days? NO attempt to recreate a new Third Reich in South America? Just abandon all his wild dreams of “Heute Europa; Morgen, die Welt!”???

The PRIMARY evidence of his death was all of his so-called will and fomenting trouble was gone from the world.


30 posted on 07/15/2018 5:28:55 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (MAGAMarchOnWashington.com)
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To: bray

Hitler’s body, along with those of Eva Braun, Goebbels, and the other bodies found in the bunker (including Goebbels’ family, and Generals Krebs and Burgdorf) were moved to various locations after the war, finally being buried at a SMERSH facility at Magdeburg in 1946. Circa 1970 the KGB undertook a mission to dig up all the remains, cremate them, and dump the ashes in a tributary of the Elbe River.


31 posted on 07/15/2018 8:42:08 AM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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To: Rurudyne

No I didn’t expect it to be about history, but a lot of ‘Hitler escaped’ conspiracy folks did.


32 posted on 07/15/2018 9:37:28 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: carriage_hill; Michael.SF.; Glad2bnuts

Thank you for posting the link to Dr. Woodbridge’s article. I totally concur with it.


33 posted on 07/15/2018 10:02:36 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: GreyFriar

well...you could always “take the tour”..

http://sharkhunters.com/2018Argentina1.htm


34 posted on 07/15/2018 10:11:00 AM PDT by mo
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To: GreyFriar

Watching History Channel should be approached like watching a movie: suspend disbelief, don’t be too critical up front and enjoy the show. Otherwise you’ll not be able to enjoy effervescence of the superficial flaws for the fundamental ones.

Consider this bit of my own historical theory: George Lucas made Howard the Duck to prove and advance the technologies needed to make episodes 1 to 3 which were going to need more sophisticated aliens than Yoda or Ewoks, not to mention all the droids.

But Howard the Duck flopped so badly that he had to sell off part of his company and this basically is why the prequels took so long to make.

Had they been made sooner without the benefit of the computer animation they were made with Lucas would have been forced to make different choices as a director about the one alien, Jar Jar Binks, and it would have likely resulted in him being not half the annoying clown that he was. It may have even made it possible to pull off Jar Jar as the big bad using Drunken Fist style where Lucas had to abanon that and pull Dooku out of his arse.

So if Howard had been better received it’s possible a younger Lucas could have completed his series and Disney subsequently not gone all SJW on it.


35 posted on 07/15/2018 10:41:25 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: GreyFriar

Read “The Berkut” Jul 12, 1987
by Joseph Heywood


36 posted on 07/15/2018 11:06:31 AM PDT by OregonRancher (Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints)
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To: M1903A1

The evidence was contaminated when the Russians arrived and nobody really knows where the bodies went. There is no hard evidence he died in the bunker.


37 posted on 07/15/2018 11:35:27 AM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: bray; M1903A1; simpson96
There is no hard evidence he died in the bunker.

Experts on forensic dentistry say that these are Hitler's teeth. They match X-rays of Hitler's teeth and head that were taken after the 1944 assassination attempt:

So what would be your explanation for why this is not hard evidence?

38 posted on 07/16/2018 9:55:24 PM PDT by wideminded
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To: wideminded

There are questions to the dental records of Hitler. If you are convinced then good, if there is a question why shouldn’t it be explored.


39 posted on 07/16/2018 10:03:49 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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