The German Historical Museum in Berlin is a place where literally the entire history of the country is gathered under one roof. It is located in an old building of the Zeichhaus on Unter den Linden, and this building itself is already impressive: one of the oldest on the street "under the linden trees". The museum appeared in 1987, on the occasion of the 750th anniversary of Berlin, and has been constantly developing since then. After the unification of Germany, huge collections were transferred here, including exhibits from the museum of the GDR. The result is a space where you can see the history of Germany in all its forms — from the Middle Ages to the present. It is especially interesting that the museum has two buildings: the old Museum building and the modern building built by the famous architect Bei Yuming. The first one hosts permanent exhibitions, and the second one hosts special projects. If you love history and want to understand Germany more deeply, this place is definitely worth a visit. You can spend a whole day here and still get the feeling that you've only seen a part of it.

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Патимат Тайпурова

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Beautiful building, located in the center. There are a lot of interesting things around

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Михаил Васильев

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The museum was founded on October 28, 1987 on the occasion of the celebration of the 750th anniversary of Berlin and at that time was housed in the Reichstag building in West Berlin. After the unification of Germany on October 3, 1990, the Federal Government transferred to the German Historical Museum the collection and the area of the Museum of German History, which operated in the GDR. Thus, the Zeichhaus, the oldest building on Unter den Linden, became home to the German Historical Museum. Among the expositions, one hall is dedicated to the Nazi past of Germany and personally to Adolf G., from the moment he came to power until his suicide. There are books and documents on a separate stand, allegedly testifying that the Fuhrer remained alive and fled to Latin America. I want to comment on this version briefly / as much as the size allows/. According to official information, on April 30, 1945, Adolf G. and his wife Eva Braun said goodbye to their immediate entourage and went to their apartments, where they drank cyanide. Hitler also shot himself with a pistol. The Fuhrer had given the order in advance about what to do next: he did not want to get the Russians either alive or dead. The guards blocked the exterior doors and brought about 180 liters of gasoline. According to the testimony of the secretaries, Goebbels, the head of the party chancellery Borm-n, adjutant Gunsche and Fuhrer Linge's personal bodyguard took the corpses of Adolf and his wife into the garden, doused with gasoline and set on fire. Then the burned bodies were placed in a shell crater. Subsequently, on May 5, they were found there by Red Army soldiers. The remains were transferred to the SMERSH counterintelligence department. Identification was carried out mainly by clothing. The photographs also seemed to confirm that the remains belonged to the Fuhrer. But the most significant argument should have been identification based on the characteristics of the teeth. Dentists, whose services Adolf used, assured that the data on the jaws of the man, whose burnt corpse was extracted from the funnel, coincided with the data of lifetime X-rays of Adolf, who had many false teeth. This settled the matter, and the report on the discovery of the dead Fuhrer was provided to Beria, and then personally to Stalin. However, Stalin did not believe in Adolf's death and ordered to continue his search.. The former head of the Main Directorate of International Military Cooperation of the Ministry of Defense, he is also one of our most outstanding intelligence officers, Colonel-General Leonid Ivashov / in my opinion the best and most competent military historian/ in the book "The Overturned World" proves that the body, What was found in the funnel did not belong to the Fuhrer at all. "On the 35th anniversary of the Victory, the head of the Museum of the Armed Forces of the USSR asked me, as the head of the secretariat of the Ministry of Defense, to contact Dmitry Ustinov with a request to allow the skulls of Eva Braun and Adolf, which were stored in the museum's basements, to be exhibited," he recalls. - I did not see anything unusual in this, and one evening I turned to Dmitry Fedorovich. He paused, lit a cigarette and said: “We will not expose. These are not their skulls." Subsequently, a number of secret documents from the archives of the KGB and the defense department fell into Ivashov's hands. It followed from them that the report on the suicide of Adolf and Eva Braun was prepared by Soviet intelligence in a hurry. No examinations of the remains were carried out. The scouts were in a hurry to tell Stalin the good news as soon as possible. But already in June, the foreign intelligence service concluded that an additional investigation was needed. . Is the Fuhrer still alive? But if Adolf and Eva Braun did not die, but were replaced by "doppelgangers", then where did they go? The most likely option is that they fled Germany. Ivashov believes that at first the Fuhrer could have been taken to Antarctica, where the Nazis allegedly built an underground base "New Swabia" in the area of Queen Maud Land before the war. The author of the book writes that in June 1945, SMERSH employees found pilotage maps for captains of submarines of the second group in the building of the General Headquarters of the German Navy. According to another version, it was necessary to look for the fugitive Fuhrer in Latin America. Perhaps he was transported there from the Antarctic continent. Some researchers believe that he died in one of the Latin American countries in the 60s. Ivashov refers to the memoirs of the illegal Soviet intelligence officer Yuri Drozdov, who was embedded in a group of Latin American Nazis. The latter describes how he had to take the oath of allegiance to Adolf in the early 1950s, and the intelligence officer's entourage clearly hinted that the Fuhrer was alive. In January 2017, a group of former British and American intelligence officials released the following statement: based on a study of 14,000 different documents, it can be concluded that Hitler still managed to survive and hide in a secret Nazi camp in Argentina. The final point in this story could be put by the examination of DNA fragments, which are now stored in the Central Archive of the FSB. But representatives of the Russian special services, apparently, do not see any special need for this yet. Everyone can draw conclusions about why the competent authorities do not want to conduct a genetic examination on their own.

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