Body of Hitler reported hidden
Frick, high Nazi, seized in Bavaria
LONDON (UP) – Adolf Hitler’s body has been hidden so well that it never will be found, Nazi Propagandist Hans Fritzsche told his Russian captors today.
Radio Moscow said Fritzsche, deputy German propaganda minister taken prisoner in Berlin, asserted that the Fuehrer’s corpse had been concealed in an “undiscoverable place.”
Neither Hitler’s body nor that of Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels had been found in Berlin, Moscow said. Red Army troops who attempted to search the ruined Chancellery in Berlin were driven back by fires.
Frick captured
But two other prize Nazis have fallen into American hands:
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Dr. Wilhelm Frick, German minister without portfolio, Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia and Heinrich Himmler’s predecessor as interior minister.
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Max Amann, deputy to Himmler, chief of the Nazi Party publishing department and publisher of Mein Kampf.
Taken in Bavaria
Frick, 68, probably the highest Nazi Party and German government official yet imprisoned by the Allies, was captured Wednesday at his Bavarian country estate by U.S. troops.
Amann was captured by the American Seventh Army not far from Hitler’s home at Berchtesgaden, a BBC broadcast said.
The London Daily Express said today that “latest unconfirmed and unofficial reports” were that Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler, Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering, Nazi Party Chief Martin Bormann and other Nazi bigwigs “may be on their way to Japan by U-boat.”