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Otto Günsche - A Short Biography

Otto Günsche is dead

The man who cremated Hitler's corpse died at 86 in Germany

By Joe F. Bodenstein

Berlin (bpb) Hitler's last adjutant Otto Günsche has died at the age of 86 years. According to confirmation from relatives, Otto Günsche's heart failed already on October 2, Günsche belonged to the closest circle around Hitler. He also spent the last hours with the German Chancellor in the Führer Bunker on April 30, After Hitler's suicide, Günsche set his corpse on fire, in the presence of the Chief of the Chancellery Martin Bormann.

Günsche lived in the most recent years withdrawn, as a widower in Nordrhein-Westfallen near Düsseldorf. According to a report from his close circle of friends, at the celebration of his 86th birthday on September 24, Günsche said that he felt "very well under the circumstances". Eight days later he died in his house in Lohmar. The corpse was cremated. It was announced that the ashes Hitler biography movie!