The U.S. Army Found Hitler's Sister in 1945. Her Answers Are Still on File.

In May 1945, a 25-year-old American counterintelligence sergeant from Philadelphia rode into Berchtesgaden with the 101st Airborne. Within weeks his team had pulled Hitler's burned conference records out of a hole in the woods, and found a quiet woman living under the name "Wolf": Hitler's sister. This is what she told the U.S. Army, from their own reports, and what one American agent wrote at the bottom of his file. Was somebody in your family in Berchtesgaden in 1945, with the 3rd Infantry Division or the 101st Airborne? Or did they vacation at the General Walker Hotel? Tell us in the comments. SOURCES University of Pennsylvania Libraries, George R. Allen Papers, Ms. Coll. 647: COLL.647 101st Airborne Division CIC Detachment, interrogation of Frau Paula Wolff, July 12, 1945 (transcription by Michael Williams): Report on Paula Wolf (Hitler), Berchtesgaden, June 5, 1946, U.S. National Archives, RG 319, IRR XE575580 (transcription by Michael Williams): U.S. National Archives, The Text Message blog, "USA Exhibit 787: Stenographic Notes and Transcriptions of Hitler's Military Conferences," FILM FOOTAGE (public domain: U.S. Army Signal Corps and other U.S. government films, Universal Newsreels and Prelinger Archives, via the Internet Archive) LAST OF THE GERMAN ARMY SURRENDERS, ENNS, AUSTRIA ; 101ST AIRBORNE DIV, MIESBACH, GERMANY ; MEXICAN GENERALS VISIT, AUGSBURG, GERMANY https://archive.org/details/111-adc-4458 101ST AIRBORNE AT HITLER'S BERGHOF, BERCHTESGADEN, GERMANY ; WIRE TEAM, DELIZSCH, GERMANY https://archive.org/details/111-adc-4490 Germany Gives Up, 1945/05/08 https://archive.org/details/1945-05-08_Germany_Gives_Up Awards To Soviets & 101st Airborne, 05/14/1945 https://archive.org/details/ADC-4363b Nuremberg Trials, 11/21/1945 https://archive.org/details/ADC-9927 Amateur Film European Trip 1930s (Part I) https://archive.org/details/EuropeanTrip Here is Germany https://archive.org/details/HERE_IS_GERMANY Miracle on the Delaware https://archive.org/details/Miracleo1955 Postwar Germany: 28 Months After V-E Day (Part I) https://archive.org/details/PostwarG Postwar Germany: 28 Months After V-E Day (Part III) https://archive.org/details/PostwarG_3 Safeguarding Military Information https://archive.org/details/Safeguar1941 Secretary's Day, The https://archive.org/details/Secretar1947 Basic Typing, Part I: Methods (Part I) https://archive.org/details/basic_typing_1 The Nazis Strike https://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.36068 PHOTOGRAPHS (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, no known restrictions on publication) Franz-Josefs Square, Linz, Austria ([1898]). Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2019630195/ The great Rathhaus, Vienna, Austria (tower 320 ft. high) ([1902]). Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2019631567/ Church of St. Stephen, Vienna, Austria ([1906]). Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2019631570/ The Votiv-Kirche, the memorial of a king, (towers 325 ft.), Vienna, Austria. ([1902]). Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2019631566/ MUSIC Interloper by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100401 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ #WWII #History #Berchtesgaden #101stAirborne #WorldWar2 #AmericanHistory #Documentary