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dated May 1, 1956: Cremation of Hitler's body

Otto Guensche, Adolf Hitler's Personal Adjutant, said in Friendland (West Germany) on April 29 that he had ordered Hitler's body to be burnt in the park of the Berlin Reich's Chancellery after the dictator had shot himself in 1945. Guensche, who arrived in West Germany after being released from a detention camp in East Germany, said he himself carried the body of Eva Braun, Hitler's last minute bride, who committed suicide by taking poison. The two bodies were then hurriedly soaked with petrol and set alight as Hitler had ordered. But they did not burn well as the cremation was hurriedly carried out. He then ordered the charred remains to be buried in the park.

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