Adolf Hitler FBI files

ADOLF HITLER FBI FILES

867 pages of files copied from FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., covering matters investigated in the United States by the bureau related to Adolf Hitler. Files contain approximately 350 narrative pages.

Files document the FBI's treatment of a wide variety of "alive" sightings of Hitler after the war. The bureau maintained files relating to sightings in Argentina. Contains FBI lab reports on authenticating Hitler's marriage certificate, will, and other political documents. Files contain reporting of information given to the bureau of an alleged plot by a group of Jewish Americans in New York to assassinate Hitler in 1933. In 1933 information by a citizen was given to the German embassy in Washington, of the alleged plan. The German embassy informed the FBI of the information it received. A memorandum written by J. Edgar Hoover in 1941 tells of information from a confidential source about a new succession plan Hitler made in case of his death.

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