The Death of Hitler: The Final Word - читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги автора Jean-Christophe Brisard (PHOTO ADDENDUM) #8

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^{Photo 1: The two main pieces from the Hitler file kept at GARF (State Archives of the Russian Federation) in Moscow. According to the Russians, on the left are parts of the sofa on which Hitler committed suicide and on the right, in a computer diskette box, is a piece of Hitler’s skull.}

^{Photo 2: A close-up of the fragment of the top of the cranium stored at GARF in Moscow. It is said to have been discovered outside the emergency exit of the Führerbunker in Berlin in May 1946 during the Soviet counter-inquiry into Hitler’s death. The impact of the bullet as well as signs of cremation and traces of earth are perfectly visible.}

^{Photo 3: These photographs were taken by the Soviet investigators in May 1946 in the Führerbunker in Berlin. It is said to be the sofa on which Hitler committed suicide. On the right side of the headrests are dark trickles—could this be the dictator’s blood?}

^{Photo 4: Detail of the pieces of the sofa kept at GARF in Moscow. The traces of dark trickles (just beside the piece of fabric) remain visible seventy years later.}

^{Photo 5: Pieces of Hitler’s jaw stored at the archives of the Russian secrets services (TsA FSB). The Soviet investigators were said to have removed them from the corpse discovered on 4 May 1945 in the gardens of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin.}

^{Photo 6: Detail of part of Hitler’s teeth. The traces of carbonisation on the remains of the jaw prove that cremation was intense, but not prolonged enough to damage either teeth or prostheses.}

^{Photo 7: Blue stains that appear on one side of the jaw (in white circle) are a surprisingly bright blue and raised the question if it was possibly a trace left by cyanide.}

^{Photo 8: At the end of his life, Hitler only had four good teeth with no prostheses. In order to save one of those he asked his dentist to make this prosthesis in the shape of a gutter. Its unique and recognisable shape made it easier to identify these as his teeth.}

^{Photo 9: An x-ray taken of Hitler’s face in Autumn 1944 (stored in the U.S. National Archives in College Park, Maryland, No. 27500765). The metallic prostheses of the teeth appear in the form of white patches, particularly the one with the gutter, bottom left.}