Does anyone know what happened to Hitler's pistol?
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Does anyone know what happened to Hitler's pistol?
The one he used to commit suicide...what happened to it?! Does anyone know?!
Re: Does anyone know what happened to Hitler's pistol?
i have been wondering the same thing
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Artur Axmann took the gun as a relics for Hitlerjugend, but during escape he throw it away......... at least this Axmann claimed....
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This website http://tst.greyfalcon.us/guns.html posted the following on Hitler's pistol:
"German author Ulrich Völklein, has perused the Soviet interrogation records of Otto Günsche, Hitler's adjutant, and Heinz Linge, his valet. Echoing what he exclusively related to British historian David Irving in 1967 -- who donated copies of the Soviet interrogation records to German archives later -- Günsche said that he, Linge, and Martin Bormann entered the Führer's private rooms in the Berlin bunker when they smelt gunpowder.
Braun was lying on a sofa. Hitler's body was slumped over the right side of a chair.
Irving first described this in his book Hitler's War (The Viking Press, 1977).
"Blood was dripping from his right temple, a pool of blood was already on the carpet," Günsche testified to the Soviets, "It was immediately apparent that he had shot himself from his own pistol, a PPK 7.65mm which eight days previously after an emotional conference [on April 22, 1945] he had taken out of his bedside table and carried with him constantly, loaded."
Linge confirmed that he saw the PPK 7.65 on the floor to the right of Hitler's body, and the 6.35 next to his left foot. Günsche sketched the guns' position also for David Irving in 1967.
After burning the bodies, as he also told the British writer, Günsche put both revolvers in his pocket and later gave them to a Lieutenant Hamann, the adjutant to Artur Axmann, head of the Hitler youth movement.
The lieutenant apparently wished to keep the guns as relics. Günsche retained Hitler's fountain pen (which he still has).
Hamann fell into Soviet hands. Stalin is claimed to have kept the 7.65 in his study.
The book Quest [Melchior & Brandenberg, 1990] quotes Axmann as stating that he buried Hitler's death gun under the Sandkrug bridge in Berlin."
"German author Ulrich Völklein, has perused the Soviet interrogation records of Otto Günsche, Hitler's adjutant, and Heinz Linge, his valet. Echoing what he exclusively related to British historian David Irving in 1967 -- who donated copies of the Soviet interrogation records to German archives later -- Günsche said that he, Linge, and Martin Bormann entered the Führer's private rooms in the Berlin bunker when they smelt gunpowder.
Braun was lying on a sofa. Hitler's body was slumped over the right side of a chair.
Irving first described this in his book Hitler's War (The Viking Press, 1977).
"Blood was dripping from his right temple, a pool of blood was already on the carpet," Günsche testified to the Soviets, "It was immediately apparent that he had shot himself from his own pistol, a PPK 7.65mm which eight days previously after an emotional conference [on April 22, 1945] he had taken out of his bedside table and carried with him constantly, loaded."
Linge confirmed that he saw the PPK 7.65 on the floor to the right of Hitler's body, and the 6.35 next to his left foot. Günsche sketched the guns' position also for David Irving in 1967.
After burning the bodies, as he also told the British writer, Günsche put both revolvers in his pocket and later gave them to a Lieutenant Hamann, the adjutant to Artur Axmann, head of the Hitler youth movement.
The lieutenant apparently wished to keep the guns as relics. Günsche retained Hitler's fountain pen (which he still has).
Hamann fell into Soviet hands. Stalin is claimed to have kept the 7.65 in his study.
The book Quest [Melchior & Brandenberg, 1990] quotes Axmann as stating that he buried Hitler's death gun under the Sandkrug bridge in Berlin."
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This previous thread may be of interest: http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=4015
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Re: Does anyone know what happened to Hitler's pistol?
I'm surprised that it hasn't surfaced at some point, although it would be pretty difficult to prove that it was THE gun that Hitler used. In the chaos of the final days of the war i'd believe that it was buried or lost somewhere, but there is the possibility that it still exists.
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Adam.
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Adam.