Evening star., 1945-06-10
Hitler Wed Eva Braun
And May Have Fled
by Air, nukov Says
BY the Associated Press.


two days before Berlin's fall an,
the two might have escaped from
the German capital by plane, Mar
shall Gregory K. Zhukov, Russian
conqueror of the city, said today.
I'VE have found no corpses which
could be Hitler's" Marshal Zhuko'
said in the first authoritative repor
on the Hitler mystery.
Marshal Zhukov said the German
fuehrer and his bride had good op
portunities to get away from Berlin
after one of history's most macabr,
marriages.
He could have taken off at tn,
very last moment, for there was al
airfleld at his disposal" said th'
head of the Red Army's occupation
forces in Germany.
Body Not Yet Found.
The Soviet commandant OF Berlin
Col. Gen. Nikolai E. Bezarin, alst
said that Russian soldiers had no
yet found Hitler's body.
my personal opinion is that hi
has disappeared somewhere into
Europe" Gen. Bezarin said. Per.
haps he is in Spain with Franco
He had the possibility of taking of
and getting away"
In Madrid, Spanish govern
ment spokesmen denied Adolf
Hitler was in Spain. There are,
however, at least 10000 and pos
sibly as many as $4,000 Germans
in Spain now. and Allied au-
thorities here are just beginning
to delve into the Identities and
whereabouts of officially protect
ed German NaZis In this coun-
try.
,Some foreigners in Madrid
think Hitler might be in Spain.
but on the other hand no ports
ever have reached Mao that
the German Fuehrer h been
seen.
(NBC Broadcaster Robert Mag
idoff attributed to Marshal Zhu-
kov the statement that Hitler
might be hiding in Europe and
said that he added: Now it is up
to you British and Americans to
find him.
Gen. BeZarin said that the Rus
SLAMS had found several bodies. II
Hitler's Reichschancellery with tn,
Fuehrer's name on their clothes.
Hitler's last-minute marriage IL
the ruins Of Berlin with the las
vestiges of his empire tumblin,
about him was disclosed by Marsha
Zhukov to group of American
British, French and Russian CORE,
spondents.
1 was in this first group OF Alliee
newsmen to spend more than 2.
hours in the German capital. W.
had every facility to 60 where ",
wished and to talk freely to as man,
Germans as wished. We were al.
lowed TO roam the city, do our OWL
and form our own con.
clusions.
Hitler MArries.
Eva Braun - the only woman
whom Hitler is said TO have loved
besides his mother-was said ir
the capital to have fiown to Berlir
In the last days of the battle to bt
by, Hitler's side.
Marshal zhukov said "it Is vel
known that two days before Berlir
9An IJtt1Ar rrtaI II
added that the Russians had foune
references to the marriage In tn,
diaries Of Hitler's personal adju.
tants.
"a dispatch from Berlin We'd
nesday by Joseph w. Grigg. jr.,
representing the combined Amer
ican press at the first meeting OF
the Allied Control Council, re-
ported that q high Russian mill
tary source said that a body in
Berlin had been identified with
fair certainty" as that of HitlerD
Giving strength to theories tina
Hitler might have fed Berlin wa
Marshal Zhukov's statement tina
we do not know the fate or where
abouts" of Martin Bormann, deput
leader of the Nazi Party and Hitler
personal adjutant.
Goebbels Believed Dead.
Propaganda Minister Josepl
Goebbels, on the other hand, was be
lieyed dead. Marshal Zhukov SAT-
nothing about Goebbels' fate, bu
Gen. Bezarin said "he evidentl.
killed himself with gun and so dit
his wife. They poisoned their fiv
children beforehand"
The commandant of Berlin sait
that bodies believed to be those O.
Goebbels and his family were dis
covered beneath the propaganda
ministry, but added: "Of course,
cannot positively confirm that w
have found their bodies"
Gen. Bezarin, turning to the
question OF whether or not Hitler
died in Berlin, said:
There are all sorts of people
who we're close to him who sa,
that he killed himself Still other.
say he was killed by an exploding
shell. My own troops who took hi!
ministry found bodies.
In Hitlers chancellery We found
in fact, too many bodies with hi!
names on. 1t got to be a joke
Everytime ! would find a pair Of
pants. would say These are Hit.
ler's.'"
Commission Investigates.
Gen. Bezarin said a special Rus
sian commission had been investi.
eating the case of what had hap
pened to Hitler.
The German burgomeister of Ber-
lin, 68-year-old Arthur Werner, a
non Nazi who has taken over the
tough job of heading the capitals
city council, could throw no light
on what has become of Hitler.
"Hitler-we just don't know" HI
said. There are many German.
who said he has found refuge ir
country"
Around Berlin, the people said thai
Eva Braun, variously described q.
a dark brunette and a blond from
Munich. was not particularly pretty
e y