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Lord Finnish

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I was wondering, where are buried all the Nazis. Where are those who were executed in the Nürnberg trials? Are they buried in the Prison (was it Spandau?) where they were kept? Talking about the most major Nazis, like Keitel or v. Rippentrop.

And, For example Hitler, was he ever found? I heard that he was found by couple of Soviets soon after his death. Then, from what i have heard his (and Eva Hitler's) bodies were transferred to Russia and thrown to unknown grave or burnt again.

Then, what happened to Goebbels family?


P.S. Please this is just a question not a nazi-related discussion. Let's not get banned
 
i know that soviet soldiers found Joseph and Magda Goebbels's half burnt bodies. also their six children, dead in the bedrooms of the Führerbunker. those are facts, but the fate of the bodies of Hitler and Braun are open to speculation, as there are many theories.
 
And, For example Hitler, was he ever found? I heard that he was found by couple of Soviets soon after his death. Then, from what i have heard his (and Eva Hitler's) bodies were transferred to Russia and thrown to unknown grave or burnt again.

We don't know, and we probably never will. I imagine that Hitler would have ordered his body destroyed, given how much he knew the world hated him. That's what I would have done.

Then, what happened to Goebbels family?

Believed to have been burned by German soldiers on his orders.

Also, Goring was cremated, Borrmann went missing (presumed dead), and Hess is still apparently buried in Bavaria. He almost survived the Cold War, and committed suicide in his 90s.
 
Regarding Nuremberg IIRC after execution all the bodies were cremated and the ashes thrown to a nearby river at night. The place was kept secret and as far as I know it is still so.

What happened to the bodies of Hitler, Eva Braun and the Goebbels is not at all clear, at least to me. Supposedly they were somehow disposed of in the 70s.
 
Yes, the bodies of the Nuremberg executed were cremated (I thought I read somewhere that they were cremated in the Dachau ovens) and tossed into a river. I believe Hitler's remains were also thrown into a river in 1973 by the KGB.
 
Thistletooth said:
Borrmann went missing (presumed dead)

I heard that Bormann survived everything and he lived a normal life in Berlin until he (I assume naturally) died and his family made DNA test in 1998 and confirmed the body found in 1970's to be Martin.
 
Lord Finnish said:
I heard that Bormann survived everything and he lived a normal life in Berlin until he (I assume naturally) died and his family made DNA test in 1998 and confirmed the body found in 1970's to be Martin.

Never heard about that. There was a program on discovery though about some bone specialist recently getting access to Stains old file on Hitler and actually found fragments of skull in there that he DNA tested and proved to be Hitler. Dont know if it would hold up in court, just wonder if anybody else saw it?
 
The Nuremberg guilty were cremated and their ashes scattered; Himmler's body was buried anonymously by the British on Lüneburg Heath.

Bormann's remains were found on a building site in 1972 and were later idenitified as being his through DNA tests, with indications that Bormann had killed himself through the use of a Cyanide capsule. The conspiracy talk of him living in Argentina and all that nonsense has been pretty thoroughly laid to rest now.

The Soviets in all likelihood didn't find much of Hitler left when they arrived at the bunker; his body and Eva's had been pretty thoroughly incinerated. (Add to that the fact that the area was open to the air and had been under shelling for quite some time and you can draw your own conclusions.) The bodies of the Goebbels were seemingly largely recovered, however. (They were burned after Hitler, hence there seems to have been less petrol to douse on their remains.)
 
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Lord Finnish said:
I heard that Bormann survived everything and he lived a normal life in Berlin until he (I assume naturally) died and his family made DNA test in 1998 and confirmed the body found in 1970's to be Martin.
Dr. Joseph Mangal did that and died of a heart attack in Brazil I think.
 
Mengele drowned in a river in Argentina, wasn't someone, maybe Goebbels, dumped in the Elbe during some rioting?
Edit: From Wiki: The remains of the Goebbels family were secretly buried, along with those of Hitler, near Rathenow in Brandenburg. In 1970, they were disinterred and cremated, and the ashes thrown in the Elbe. Not sure how reliable this is however.
 
Adolf Hitlers remain are yet to be found

Rudolf hess was buried at Spandau Prison when he died in 1987.

Heinrich Himmlers grave remains unknown

Joseph Goebbels ashes wher presumably thrown into the Elbe river

Martin Bormanns remains location are still a mystery, about 4 different rumours

Adolf Eichmann was executed in Israel and his remains scattered in the Mediterranean sea

Reinhard Heydrich was buried in Berlin

Albert speer was buried in London

Hermann Goring's remains where cattered in the Conwentzbach river in Munich along with other executed at the Nuremberg trials(including Joachim von Ribbentrop)
 
Arthulian said:
Mengele drowned in a river in Argentina, wasn't someone, maybe Goebbels, dumped in the Elbe during some rioting?
Edit: From Wiki: The remains of the Goebbels family were secretly buried, along with those of Hitler, near Rathenow in Brandenburg. In 1970, they were disinterred and cremated, and the ashes thrown in the Elbe. Not sure how reliable this is however.

Wrong.

Menguele died in Brazil, and in the sea.