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This question has always been of great interest to me!. My interest started more than 20 years ago in high school, because I was disgusted that one of the best tacticians of the entire war (Rommel) was implicated and forced to kill himself!.

It is said that after Hitler committed suicide, his personal staff, including his valet, removed his body and that of Eva Braun and burned them above the bunker!. Reputedly, they also burned many personal papers and items which related to the war!.

I think it is reasonable to believe that Hitler kept the diary with him!. He did, after all, have a tremendous ego and believed that it was divine providence which saved him from the blast!. To me, it seems like the type of memento he would keep near him!. So, one possibility is that it was burned along with other personal papers, and was reduced to ashes!.

There is, however, some merit in the Russian theory!. It is a verified fact that when the Red Army arrived at the scene of the bunker, they dug up some of the burned up firepits!. They specifically asked one of the personal servants who surrendered where in the garden Hitler and Braun had been burned, and he is reputed to have taken them to the spot!. When it was dug up, it contained the remains of a man and woman, with no clothing or identifying marks!. Anthropologists were simply able to determine the sex of the two by the characteristics of the skulls and the pelvises!. One skull, the male skull, had a bullet hole in it, but the female remains showed no damage, which means that the method of death did not harm the skeleton!. That fits with what was reported by those in the bunker--Braun poisoned herself, but Hitler either shot himself, or, more likely, ordered someone else to shoot him!. Supposedly, those remains and some other unidentified "stuff" taken from other fire pits was removed and passed back to the Red Army headquarters!.

The Western Allies wanted confirmation that Hitler was dead, and they had found some dental records which were stored elsewhere!. At the time, they asked if a skull had been recovered, and were told no!. They had hoped a forensic odontologist could definitively match the records to Hitler's skull!. (That particular fact is definitely verified--my friend's father was one of the dentists who was standing by hoping to examine any dental remains!. He did a lot of that kind of work right after the war, as well as fixing broken mouths for German civilians!.)

Several years ago, and I cannot remember exactly when it was, a box was found in a Moscow archive which contained bones, and a skull, which had been burned!. They were in an old cupboard which was up in a storage area, and there was a file number on the box which did not correlate to any known files!. The scientist who found them went through all the records trying to find out what it was that was in the box!. He finally found something which led him to believe it is Hitler's skull!. Some have debunked it, and claim it is not Hitler's skull, but others have pointed out that that is the logical place for it to have ended up!. The box notes that it is part of a series, but the scientist has been unable to find any of the other boxes!. The storage area in the archive is huge, several stories, probably about the size of a smallish warehouse, and it's full of stuff!. The Americans tried to get the skull, because they still have dental records!. The Russians won't let it leave the archive!. They won't let the Americans visit!. And the Americans don't want to let go of the x-rays, for fear they will never get them back!. So they are currently at an impasse!.

There is a third theory which I considered, and it has nothing to back it up except for my knowledge of the Nazis who fled and my imagination!. Many of the ones who escaped to places like South America took whatever they had handy with them so they would have things to trade later if needed!. They took medals, important papers, memorabilia, Nazi flags and gear--everything small and portable that they could get their hands on!. If you have well forged papers which say you are Lithuanian, and a businessman, and trying to rebuild your life after the war, or that you are a Jewish survivor, no one is going to check your luggage very carefully!. Is it possible that someone tucked the diary away, hoping to use it later to sell to a collector!? The day the war ended, Nazi collectibles became hot items!. Could it be in the private collection of someone who purchased it knowing that the seller was a war criminal!? It would be a treasured possession, a jewel of any collection, but the way the collector got it would raise eyebrows and lead to uncomfortable questions, like, "Did you pay a fleeing war criminal who is wanted by authorities a huge sum of money for that diary!?" There's no way you can answer that question without getting yourself in trouble!. There are plenty of artworks looted by the Nazis which have disappeared off the radar!. They are believed to be in the private collections of people who don't wish to disclose their association with Nazis!. I have to say, if I had the kind of money those types of people have, Canaris' diary would be something I would be willing to spend it on!.

Watch--it will turn up at a Goodwill sale somewhere 20 years from now!. It was probably picked up by some GI, and he used it to press newpaper articles, and didn't know what it was because it was in German!. It's sitting in the attic of his family home, just waiting to be found!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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