Real History and the search for Hitler’s papers your Gutierrez dossier your Adolf Hitler index Alphabetical index (text) You won’t have any difficulty finding him. He lives in New Mexico. He had an unusual name. It was Gutierrez. — Former SS officer’s wife, helping Mr Irving to locate the American who made off with Eva Braun’s diaries. July 8, 2002 (Monday) Key West (Florida) I SHALL start unveiling the speakers for Cincinnati 2002 soon.
Last year I invited Traudl Junge , private secretary of Adolf Hitler ; she wrote apologizing that she was too old now, which she proved by dying earlier this year.
Earlier this year I sent a diffident invitation to Johannes Göhler , who was Hermann Fegelein’s adjutant; he was with Hitler until a week before the end — Hitler had ordered Fegelein shot for desertion — and was then flown out of Berlin with the secret orders, entrusted to him by the Führer in person, to destroy all Hitler’s and Eva Braun’s papers.
But Göhler has replied a few days ago regretting that he would normally have accepted with alacrity, but he is now in his 80s and experience with his comrades shows that he is at risk of being declined entry by the US Immigration and Naturalisation Service: and not just that — they would hold him in a detention center for a few days first, before sending him back.
I just wanted the younger Americans (and our international guests as well) to have a chance, as I did over the years, to meet with these people at first hand and get first hand real-history accounts of how things were on what Basil Liddell Hart once called “the other side of the hill”. HITLER ordered Göhler to destroy all his and Eva’s private papers in Bavaria.
It turns out that Göhler did not carry out Hitler’s orders personally, and the junior SS officer whom he detailed to do so did not destroy the papers either. That officer was Franz Konrad , about whom more shortly.
Göhler’s wife Ursula — now long dead, I believe — told me the whole story nearly thirty years ago, in November 1973: some parts of it I can’t reveal here, but she read all Eva’s diaries and all the other priceless papers and then packed them into the suitcase of a US Army Counter-Intelligence Corps officer, for whom she was working after 1945, and he took them