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Youth Leader SaysHe Saw Hitler) od lA d Eva Broun Dead in Bunker | AN | High Nuzi Discloses How He Helped Burn Bocies in Garden (Fram Yesterday's Last Edition.) By the Associated Press NUEARNBERG, Germany, Oct. 9—Hitler’s suicide and funeral pyre were descrived vividly for:g: American tavestigitors today by a Gernmicn who apparently was .the only high Nazi to survive the Fuehrer's death watch. __ATUnurTAxmans, leader of the: # Hiller Youth after Baldur von Schi-|F*: : rach became gauleiter of Vienna. ta ¥ asserted under inteProgation that he} hs, saw Hitler and EvasBraun dead in! their Teriin air raic bunker and that, Blankets Thrown Over Faces, Then Goebbels told Axmann}to «. ” get blankets. They threw fhe. ' blankets over the, fuces of tne dhad = * Abide . . Bide Leer f COMPS, eric. pKa, Hite *'s chauffeur, was \iold io carry the. | y bedies into the courtyard. This Fuehrer's booted iegs. . Almost 90 gallons of gasoline was’ poured over the two bodies, at match was thrown and the bodies burst into fame, When the bodies were burned, several S.S. men saidumped what was left in a shel] ‘idjferater in the same spot where: 11S. & Gen, Egelein, the husbang of .- * Eva Braun's sister, was shot for i$ iz . he helped burn the bocies in the © ying to escape from the bunker: | r garden of the Reichschancellery. Dirt was smoothed over the crated > _ Axmnnn. under automatic arrest! {ta conceal the grave. ! because of his high rank in Nazi + When Axmann concluded thi party councils. appeared eager to teil istory, Von Wenck was brought a the story of Hitler's “Viking funeral" ‘the Nuernberg jal for interroga-" -’ and to dispel rumors that the Fueh-! 6, Hon, ‘ rer survived. veh ’ aR ee fis Story was Colained by Walter. pti Meme 0 ae: —7Rqap. chuof of the evidence division BM ag sy a. al cae mY en ermenintanel, fags resu.t of a bows by H.R. Trevor gags ‘ we Age bb 7 Riper, Britisn intelligence officer, | ARTHUR AXMANN. \ : Mz, Daly: when desceriied events leading up to ; ~ ir ' Hine:'s ceath. Mr. Roper had re-- ~ 4: AP Wirephotg | Mr. B as marncd cauaily in one passage that Ordered Bodies Burned. Atv. Clegg f- Axkmann war with Hither in those On April 30 everybody in ‘tbe A ; days. bunker knew Hitler had deciard an Axmann spoke inipneciy as Be ou suicide, Apparently recalling ay dd. ltold the officers his stor, often fore Mussolini's Ignominicus death at (i Mr. Nichaly getfully leaning forvard on his the hands of Ilalian partisans, Hit- Fal stuinp of an arm—he was wounded ler ordered that his body and thal t. -f Mr. Rosen |... on the Russian front. He had been of Eva be burned. Cy Mr. Tracy interrogated frequently since his Late that night—or /t might have Ht re op poof capture in Decemoer, 1945, but this been early May 1—Paul Joseph ares | az | Mr. Egan... uy, was the first time oe divulged his Goebbels took Axmann by the hand Bl c Lae yg, cf Mec Gurasa,..- own role in Hitler's last day. = and said, “The Fuehrer is dead.” A .y- Mr. Barbo _ This is his story, as made avail- The Hmping Httle propaganda min- we - ma) e t. Barbo ate able by the oMicers to whom it was ister Jed Axmann into the death #3 tat ry "hf f Mir Mobr 3 told: en , chamber. - R <a 6 a Me. Pennices,. Axmann was in Hitler's heacquar-: Hitler was altting upright on the [& “4 dy tr tonington iters from April 22, 1945. onward. biven had shat himeale He LIL through the mouth, and there ws blood on his temples from the con-: tussion, Eva evidently had taken poison. Her hend resied on the : ’ Fuchrer’s shoulder, There was some Mm Wernck to rescue him. -Von SiVenck was cut off by the Rubsians indication that Hitter, too, had 6 “and hi . hlicted, but Hi LAKET POION NTS @S &8 GOUbBIC BS= vbnd fis arty annlitc ted, Sul Bit- surance he would not fall allve into ler did not Jearn of that until the Russian hands. There Was no ques iast day—aApril 30. at ° _ Hitter had been told that Reichs- wore ire poo ye Puehrer, and marshal Hermann Goering and Axmaun remained in the ro Gesfipo Chie! Heinrich Himmler : . Ve had Tecerted him, In his last faw about 15 minutes with Goebbeh. eo Porc ie abel aN anls iffu Io . . . silently staring at the Macab dayd he became a s.rangely changed tableau. Axmann noted such 1 mar He strode up and down te elevant thi tab l bunker floor almost ceaselessly and ings as the pictures ; ‘spoke to no one, cut “he was cal. ee ask ee ees on the floor, Hit- R ‘under the Fuchrer's orders. Hitler had told Axmann that only the Hitler Youth Battallous could be rdeper.ded upen to kecp open twa Weidge: which would enable Gen. v feet 4 SR aad Be Mae