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Martin Bormann and Adolf Hitler. Archival photoMOSCOW, April 29Adolf Hitler's personal secretary, «Grey Eminence» Martin Bormann, in early May 1945, hoped to the last by plane to escape from Berlin surrounded by Soviet troops, but he did not succeed, follows from new archival documents released by the FSB of Russia. We are talking about documents from the investigation file on Hitler's personal pilot, former SS Gruppenführer, Police Lieutenant General Hans Baur, which is stored in the FSB department for the Novgorod region. Among these materials is Baur's handwritten testimony during interrogation at the NKVD of the USSR in December 1945.Gestapo chief Müller committed suicide immediately after Hitler In them, Baur, in particular, reported how on the evening of May 1, 1945, the day after Hitler's suicide, the members of the Nazi elite and the military who remained in the Reich Chancellery tried to escape. «All who were in the imperial chancellery were divided into battle groups, which from 9 pm began to leave the shelter unnoticed by the Russians. I was included in the group of General Rattenhuber, «Baur wrote. SS Gruppenführer Hans Rattenhuber was Hitler's bodyguard chief. This group at 10 pm on May 1 left the Reich Chancellery through a service passage and proceeded into the tunnel of the Berlin metro at the Kaiserhof station. Weidenammbrücke, we met with Bormann and Naumann,» Baur recalled. SS Brigadeführer Werner Naumann had by then been appointed to the post of German Reich Minister of Propaganda instead of Joseph Goebbels. The station was under heavy artillery fire from Soviet troops, who also fired heavily from machine guns, Baur added. «At the corner of Friedrichstrasse and Ziegelstrasse, the fire was completely wild. Government adviser Hegel was killed before my eyes,» Hitler's chief pilot testified. intelligence: “I still need you as a pilot,” Baur wrote. The last time Baur saw Bormann, according to his recollections, was at 3 am on May 2, 1945, when he, together with Naumann and Hitler’s personal surgeon Ludwig Stumpfegger, “turned behind corner on Ziegelstrasse». «What happened to him next, I don’t know, but I assume that he was killed, since the shelling in this area was very strong … We failed to break through,» Baur noted. At first, Bormann's body was not found, therefore for many years, his fate remained in doubt.Due to lack of evidence of Bormann's death, the Nuremberg Tribunal condemned him in absentia to death by hanging.Conspiracy theories were put forward that Bormann allegedly managed to escape from Berlin and move to Latins what America. And the first head of foreign intelligence of the FRG, one of the leaders of Nazi intelligence on the Eastern Front, Reinhard Gehlen, in his memoirs, without citing any evidence, claimed that Bormann was a Soviet agent and fled to Moscow. But in December 1972, during construction work in Berlin, there were the remains of two people were found. All available information, including preserved medical records, indicated that we were talking about Bormann and Stumpfegger. A quarter of a century later, in 1998, a DNA examination commissioned by the German government finally established that Bormann died in Berlin on May 2, 1945. During the break through the bridge, he was seriously wounded, with which there was no chance to escape from Berlin, and committed suicide. In August 1999, Bormann's remains were cremated and scattered over the Baltic Sea.