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INTRODUCTION 3

plan with the use of a double? Fegelein had left the bunker but protested
when captured by an SS search party that he planned to return. He was
later shot by a firing squad in the chancellery garden for desertion. Yet,
days earlier, Hitler had urged others in the bunker to flee. “Get out! Get
out!” he cried. “Go to South Germany. I’ll stay here. It is all over anyhow.”
Why make Fegelein the exception?
Evidence that Fegelein was privy to secret knowledge comes from Kris-
tina Reiman, an actress who met with Fegelein in Berlin on April 27. She
told author Glenn B. Infield, “He was very worried. We had several drinks
together and he kept repeating that there were two Hitlers in Berlin. . . . I
thought he was drunk. Just before he left me, however, he said that if the
fuehrer ever discovered that he, Fegelein, knew his secret, Hitler would
kill him.”
To fake Hitler’s death would have been simple. A Hitler double could
have been secreted into the bunker any time prior to his reported suicide.
After Hitler got Eva to take poison—or a dead duplicate Eva brought
in—the double, dressed in the fuehrer’s clothing, could have been shot, a
poison capsule placed in his mouth, and left to be covered by Bormann
and retrieved by the unsuspecting valet Linge.
Hitler could have then passed from the study through his living quar-
ters to a small conference room containing a stairway to the garden above.
Hitler had instructed Linge to wait “at least ten minutes before entering
the room.” While Linge and others from the entourage waited in the hall-
way outside Hitler’s study, the fuehrer’s party and an armed SS escort
could have made their way to a secluded spot to await darkness.
Under the cover of night, Hitler could have moved along Hermann
Goering Strasse, then cut across the Tiergarten to the Zoo Station near
Adolf Hitler Platz. From there, they could have followed the rail lines to
the Reichssportfeld and crossed the Scharndorfestrasse to the Piechelsdorf
Bridge, a short walk to the Havel River, where a Ju-52 fl oatplane would
have been waiting to fly the fuehrer out.
Indeed a Ju-52 pontoon plane had landed on the Havel the previous
night, at the radioed request of someone in the Fuehrerbunker. It took off
that same night. Author Infield has suspected this was a practice run for
the following night.