An associate of Hitler described his painful state before his suicide

In the last week of his life, the leader of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, amazed his closest associates with exhaustion and sickly appearance. This information is provided on November 20 in unique documents published by the Russian Ministry of Defense on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials.

So, according to them, on April 24, 1945, General Helmut Weidling, commander of the Berlin defense, visited the Fuhrer on the day when the troops of the 1st Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian fronts broke through the German defenses in the vicinity of Berlin and was surprised by his condition.

"There was a ruin in front of me, the ruin of a man. His head was swinging, his hands were shaking, and his voice was slurred and shaky. His appearance got worse and worse every day," the materials say.

Some time later, on April 29, Weidling visited Hitler again and presented him with the latest report. The military commander noted that the Fuhrer was almost unable to have conversations, instead he preferred to fantasize about future victories. Moreover, Hitler refused to leave Berlin, arguing that getting out was "pointless" and that his orders "were not being obeyed anyway."

Weidling believed that the Nazi leader really could not escape, and did not believe in the possibility of faking his death, since this, in his opinion, would be "the most vile and stupid act of National Socialism."

The Nuremberg Trials opened on November 20, 1945. The International Military Tribunal consisted of eight judges and deputies representing the victorious countries: the USSR, the USA, Great Britain and France.

24 former leaders of Nazi Germany appeared at the trial, among whom the most famous was Hermann Göring, the Reich marshal and the second person after Hitler in the NSDAP. Also in the dock were Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Jodl and others.

On April 30, Izvestia obtained archival documents about Hitler's suicide, which were published by the Office of the Federal Security Service of Russia in the Ivanovo Region. According to them, on May 5, 1945, the badly burned corpses of a man and a woman were found in an aerial bomb crater 3 m from the entrance to the bomb shelter. The experts, establishing their identity, carefully examined "the jaws with a large number of artificial bridges, crowns and fillings and, after testimony from the assistant to Hitler's personal dentist, Kete Goizerman, and dental technician Fritz Echtmann, confirmed that the corpse belonged to the Fuhrer.

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