State Of Play 1983

Real History and the search for Hitler’s papers Posted Monday, July 8, 2002 your Gutierrez dossier your Adolf Hitler index Alphabetical index (text) DAVID IRVING June 15th, 1983 THE SEARCH FOR THE HITLER RELICS — THE PRESENT STATE OF PLAY

ON April 22 or 23, 1945 Adolf Hitler considered the war lost. He gave SS Sturmbannführer Johannes Göhler (since August 1944 attached to Führer’s headquarters as adjutant of SS Gruppenführer Hermann Fegelein , Hitler’s liaison officer to Heinrich Himmler ) a job: to fly out of Berlin to Bavaria, locate and destroy two Tropenkisten containing Eva Braun’s private effects: these contained what Göhler describes as bundles of hundreds of letters exchanged with Hitler, and her diaries, and other

personal relics. At first I believed this order had been complied with. After an interview with Göhler on March 27, 1971, I wrote: “He flew in Hitler’s Ju290 to Berchtesgaden (Salzburg) and arranged for the destruction among others of all of Hitler’s personal correspondence with Eva Braun. There were ‘several hundred’ handwritten letters exchanged between them, going