S5 Ep25: The Hitler Diaries

Crimes of the Centuries

Amber Hunt and Audioboom

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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When a major German magazine announced it had uncovered Adolf Hitler’s long-lost diaries, the world took notice. But what began as a journalistic coup turned into a scandal that rattled media empires — and left a permanent stain on the truth.

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0:00.0	Some crimes are so heartbreaking or shocking, they change laws, change society, or even
0:28.6	earn the label, Crime of the Century. But the stories that made headlines and decades past
0:35.1	aren't necessarily remembered today.
0:44.1	I'm Amber Hunt, a journalist and author, and in each episode of this show, I'll examine a case that's maybe lesser known today, but was huge when it happened.
0:50.0	This is Crimes of the Centuries.
1:02.4	Music This is Crimes of the Centuries. On April 21st, 1945, two German aircraft were loaded with precious cargo and hauled to a runway just miles from the encroaching Soviet army.
1:13.8	Things were already going disastrously for the Nazis, but this scene underlined their desperation.
1:20.8	The planes had to be pulled to the runway by oxen, as fuel was too scarce to waste, even on a mission like this.
1:28.7	This assignment was supposed to be straightforward.
1:31.9	Take a few people and a few select boxes from the underground bunker that Adolf Hitler,
1:37.4	Eva Braun, and their closest associates had retreated to in the final days of the war.
1:43.2	Most every other artifact that had been stored
1:45.8	there, documents, maps, telegrams, directives were even then being incinerated in an open-air
1:52.9	pit just outside the bunker entrance. The only papers that remained had been boxed up by an
1:59.3	underling named Julius Schaubb,
2:01.4	and placed in the care of experienced pilot Frederick Anton Gundelfinger.
2:07.0	Per Mark Felton's book, Hitler's lost secret documents.
2:10.6	The fact that whatever was inside those 10 zinc boxes was not consigned to a bonfire by
2:16.1	Schaubb on Hitler's orders.
2:17.9	He indicates that they were to be saved as part of Hitler's legacy.
2:22.0	The boxes would not reach their Bavarian destination.
2:25.2	The plane they were on, piloted by Gundelfinger, was shot out of the sky, exploding on earthly
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