Hermann Rothman, a German Jew working for British intelligence, woke up that morning in 1945 with little idea of what information he was about to receive, or how special and unique his mission would become.
The intelligence officers did not yet know that Heinz Lorenz, press secretary to Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, had been arrested by British authorities for possessing forged documents.
The report prepared by the Joint Intelligence Committee’s investigating officer on Hitler’s death in 1945 states that when the guard put his hand on Lorenz’s shoulder, he felt some papers under his clothes.Some documents were found in his jacket that Adolf Hitler’s personal secretary, Martin Bormann, had ordered Lorenz to take out of Berlin.
Inheritance without property
In his last political “will,” Hitler described all his activities and aspirations, that is, everything he wanted to do. He said “Everything I have, if it has any value, will go to the party. If the party no longer exists, it will go to the government. And if the government also collapses, there is no need for my decision.”
This is part of Hitler’s stated last will, which he wrote and signed on a separate sheet of paper along with his political will in Berlin at 4 a.m. on April 29, 1945. He committed suicide the next day.
Hitler and his billions of taka wealth
Estimating Hitler’s wealth was not easy. To calculate his wealth, various studies, documentaries, and various sources of income, such as tickets with Hitler’s image that were used to collect donations, were examined in detail.
Author Chris Wheaton did a lot of research on the subject and published a book detailing Hitler’s wealth in 2005. Where it is revealed that Hitler was the richest man in Europe until six days before his death on April 24, 1945. In 2003, his wealth was estimated at between 1.35 billion and 43.5 billion euros in 2003 euros, in terms of the value of the euro at the time.
Meanwhile During the investigation, US intelligence agencies found Hitler’s $350 million in certain bank accounts, which emerged decades later in declassified documents.Recently, some bank accounts believed to belong to Hitler have been found in Switzerland. There is more information that various parties agree on about Hitler’s finances.
Hitler’s assets and their confiscation
After Hitler’s suicide, the Nazis were defeated and the Allies confiscated Hitler’s assets. Hitler’s last wish and will, “All that is mine belongs to the party,” could not be carried out due to the dissolution of his party.
His second option was the ‘state’, which also no longer existed as the Nazi state. He said, ‘If the state is destroyed, then there is no need for my decisions’.The victorious Allies ultimately decided to transfer Hitler’s assets to the state of Bavaria, where he was registered as an official resident.
Their house on the hill was looted and then bombed. In 1952, the Bavarian state government demolished what was left of the house to prevent it from becoming a tourist attraction. His old apartment building was later converted into a police station.
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