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Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 17:05:43 EDT
From: Will Wheeler <WJW2@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: AFU Book Review: Hoaxes!

In article <DDKyJ5.4vp@crash.cts.com>, het3@crash.cts.com (Harry MF Teasley) says:

[excellent book review]

>This section stuck with me because of one thing the authors said that
>made me wish more than anything that a bibliography was provided. The
>authors describe how, discovered in a Russian text by intelligence
>officer Lev Bezymensky, the Russians captured a German guard who had
>witnessed the bodies of Hitler and Braun being taken from the bunker to
>the garden, where they were burned and buried.

>SMERSH apparently did not believe that the two bodies they dug up along
>with Goebbels and his wife were Adolf and Eva, but they didn't find their
>bodies anywhere else in the bunker. They examined the bodies in detail.

The book is _The Death of Adolf Hitler: Unknown Documents from Soviet Archives_, by Lev Bezymenski, New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, Inc., 1968 (trans. by Christian Wegner Verlag).

>"The autopsy report: The teeth tell all. The autopsy report of the two
>bodies buried in the garden said that both had died after they had bitten
>into cyanide capsules: Glass fragments had been found in the mouths of
>both corpses. The male body had also been shot in the head- after he had
>taken the poison. And, like Hitler, the man had only one testicle."

>This last remark is of course the one I would appreciate further citation
>on, but the authors treat it as a given and do not elaborate upon it.
>This struck me as unusual on the authors' part, to assume certain
>knowledge to be true, and it stuck out like a sore thumb from just about
>everything else they examined.

The copy of the autopsy report presented in Bezymenksi's book states that the burned body identified as Hitler's had one testicle. Later (pp.57-58) he notes that this had not been mentioned in the literature, and that one of Hitler's doctors commented that the Fuhrer refused to have medical check-ups (which Bezymenski guesses may have been due to Hitler's abnormality).

I had meant to do some voracity-checking of this book, and I promise to get right on it. I also have the _New Yorker_ article that came out the last time I was working on this question.

Will "no songs, please" Wheeler