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Originally Posted by Rochard
They believed her was in a bunker and that it was near the German Chancellery in the center of Berlin, but not exactly where. Narrowing down the location to a five block or ten block radius isn't too helpful, and even less so when there is a way going on, movement is limited, and bombs are raining down.
As for his body, it was laid to rest outside of the main bunker entrance in the garden of the German Chancellery building. I would imagine it was near where the Goebbels killed themselves. That entire area was bombed to death so it's highly unlikely that any remains of his body would have been found - between the fire the bombing, there would have been only fragments left. Keep in mind the Russians didn't exactly have time to deploy a forensics team - There was a war going on. The war went on for another week and even then was still a very dangerous place.
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the the Russian encirclement of Berlin clamped down around the Chancellory almost from the beginning. They knew where they were going.
The Russians had plenty of time to manhandle the HItler's corpse and that's exactly what they did, they buried him and dug him up several times, if memory serves, within that week.