Incredible Images From The First Western Photographer To Step Foot Inside Hitler’s Hidden Bunker

Where Hitler Was Cremated

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Here, Time Correspondent Percy Knuth is crouching next to a ditch where the bodies of Hitler and Eva were burned after their suicide. What used to be the beautiful garden of the Reich Chancellery, is now nothing more than another battleground. The Chancellery has been destroyed yet the ditches where the bodies were put remains.

According to British Historian Sor Antony James Beevor, the Soviets kept Hitler’s remains after the war and disposed of them in 1970 in secrecy. However, not knowing where the body lies has given birth to conspiracy theories about Hitler’s survival.