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..... With the remains in their possession, the team disguised themselves
as fishermen and drove into the mountains, stopping at a cliff along a
small stream. There, in a spot screened by trees, they lit two
campfires. One was to make soup. The other, to further burn the remains.
Gumenyuk has called the second cremation a waste of a can of
gasoline, but the remains were finally burned to ashes. They collected
these in a rucksack, which Gumenyuk took onto the cliff and opened up
into the wind. With that, one of history’s greatest monsters
disappeared, a brown cloud of dust in the wind.
Today, Gumenyuk is 73-years-old and retired from the KGB. He is the
only surviving member of the team that disposed of Hitler’s remains and
the only living person who knows where the ashes were spread. Still
afraid the peaceful woods would become a pilgrimage site, he has vowed
to take his secret to his grave. Despite the large amounts of money he’s
been offered to reveal the location and the attention he’s gotten for
what he did, Gumenyuk doesn’t seem to think his task was all that
special. “Twenty seconds—and job was done,” he told The Sun last year. “It was just the last flight of the Führer.”
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