All the bodies, found at the end of February by a team of German-Polish researchers in the house of this close friend of Hitler, were devoid of hands and feet. An investigation has been opened.
The skeletons of five people were discovered under the former home of top Nazi leader and Hitler close Hermann Göring, located near the town of Kętrzyn, in northeastern Poland, reports Le Parisien according to the information from the German media Der Spiegel.
Forensic expertise made it possible to identify the bodies of three adults, a teenager and a newborn. Notable fact: they all lack hands and feet. It is possible that these bones, thinner than the others, have decomposed, or that their limbs have been amputated. Furthermore, no remains of clothing or other personal property were found. The five people were possibly stripped naked before being buried.
These remains were found on February 24 by a German-Polish team of amateur historians and archaeologists. Specialists were carrying out a classic search of this house, which was burned in 1945 and located in Adolf Hitler’s headquarters, nicknamed the “wolf’s den” (“Wolfsschanze”). One of them then noticed the remains of an old wooden floor and dug. A human skull lay 10 centimeters underground, near water pipes. Police later discovered the other skeletons.
“The most horrible thing we found”
“We were completely surprised,” said Oktavian Bartoszewski, leader of the research team, according to the Belgian news agency Belga.
Before adding according to The Guardian: “It’s the most horrible thing we found. They were all lying next to each other, in the same direction.”
For this archaeologist, it is likely that the bodies were buried after the construction of the house. “Those who laid the pipes should have otherwise discovered the human remains,” he stressed, according to Belga.
The investigation opened should perhaps help to clarify some gray areas: was the creator of the Gestapo, former commander of the Luftwaffe (German air force), and major art looter aware of the existence of these bodies or were they buried after WWII and have nothing to do with the Nazi regime?
Hermann Göring was the highest-ranking Nazi dignitary tried at the Nuremberg trials from 1945 to 1946. Condemned to hang, the man who presented himself at the bar as the highest-ranking Nazi official after Hitler, proud of the actions of the Third Reich, s He committed suicide in prison in October 1946 shortly after the cyanide capsule verdict.
