英国一知名媒体日前透露说，希特勒生前佩戴的金质纳粹党徽在俄罗斯不翼而飞，而此前一直负责保管这枚徽章的俄罗斯联邦安全局则否认了这个说法。

　　据《泰晤士报》网站11月19日报道，这枚徽章的主人是德国纳粹首领希特勒。二战结束后，它和其他战利品一起交由克格勃（前苏联国家安全委员会）保存。苏联解体以后，俄罗斯联邦安全局接管了这些战利品。为了纪念二战胜利60周年，俄罗斯联邦安全局今年首次安排它在一场特殊展览上亮相。而徽章却在展览中不翼而飞。

　　尽管俄联邦安全局强调这枚徽章只是复制品，但该国许多专家相信徽章是真的。展出这枚徽章的俄罗斯国家档案馆工作人员也表示，“直到徽章被盗以后，人们才开始说它不是原物”。档案馆的闭路电视拍摄下了盗贼的行窃过程。案件调查人员估计，窃贼是受宝物收藏家或新纳粹分子的委托行窃的。而这枚徽章的价值约为300万欧元。

　　报道说，俄联邦安全局的档案显示，1945年苏军攻克柏林时，这枚徽章是在发现希特勒、爱娃以及纳粹宣传部长戈培尔夫妇尸体的地下室被找到的。一起被发现的物品还包括一些文件、个人物品、制服和希特勒与爱娃两人的颚骨等物。其中，希特勒和戈培尔两人的纳粹党徽被定为了战利品。这两枚徽章制作于1934年，当时希特勒向纳粹党徒颁发了第一批共1万枚党徽。希特勒这枚党徽的背面有“1号”的标识。

　　Russian security service is embarrassed as exhibition loses the Nazi leader's No 1 party membership badge.

　　IT WAS, until recently, one of the most sinister and valuable trophies in the archives of the Russian agency that succeeded the KGB.

　　For five decades Adolf Hitler’s gold Nazi party membership badge lay in a special room in the depths of the Lubyanka, the headquarters of the Federal Security Service (FSB), along with other trophies from the Third Reich.

　　Only this year did the FSB put it on display for the first time at a special exhibition to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. But, to its enormous embarrassment, the badge was stolen from the exhibition, The Times has learnt.

　　Investigators say that they have little hope of retrieving the trophy, whose theft, they believe, was commissioned by a wealthy collector, possibly a neo-Nazi. They say that the burglar was clearly a professional, who cased the exhibition and used climbing equipment to lower himself from the roof and in through a window after removing the glass. “It could have been smuggled abroad or could still be in the country,” an investigator, who declined to be identified, said.

　　The FSB insists that the badge was a copy and of no value. But many Russian experts believe that it was the original and could be worth up to ?3 million (?2.1 million). “Only after it was stolen did people start saying it wasn’t the original,” said a source at the State Archive of the Russian Federation, where the exhibition was held.

　　One theory is that the theft, on June 30, may have been ordered by one of Russia’s neo-Nazi groups, which have become increasingly active in the past five years, with a string of deadly attacks on foreigners and non-Slavic Russians.

　　The FSB, which inherited the KGB archives after the collapse of the Soviet Union, revealed that it possessed the badge in a catalogue published in 1996.

　　The catalogue listed several items taken from the bunker where Soviet troops found the bodies of Hitler, Eva Braun and Joseph and Magda Goebbels — all of whom committed suicide — in 1945. They included documents, personal belongings, uniforms and the jawbones of Hitler and Eva Braun. But the prize trophies were Hitler’s and Goebbels’ party membership badges — among 10,000 issued to its first members in 1934. Hitler’s was marked “No 1” on the reverse side.

　　Many historians believe that Hitler gave the badge to Magda Goebbels as a token of thanks just before killing himself on April 30, 1945. Goebbels and his wife had refused to leave Berlin and moved into Hitler’s bunker on April 22, 1945. They committed suicide on May 1 after killing their six children.

　　Soviet military intelligence officers sent the items to Moscow in 1948. In 1954 Ivan Serov, the KGB chief, handed them to the KGB archive, where they were stored in a special room for the next 51 years.

　　The public caught its first glimpse of the badge in 2003 in a photograph at an exhibition to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of Soviet military intelligence. But it was not put on display until this year.

　　A notice announcing the exhibition read: “Among the exhibits will be such rare items as the scorched map from Hitler’s bunker and his personal NSDAP membership badge.” Closed-circuit television footage showed that the burglar was a man of slight build acting alone. He triggered sensors as he scaled the 3m (10ft) wall around the museum, but guards thought that it was a cat. He also set off an alarm when sensors detected him entering the exhibition hall. But he quickly smashed the window of the display cabinet with a hammer and snatched the badge, along with eight other items, before climbing out of the window using a rope.

　　“If only our policemen on guard hadn’t been tying up the laces on their boots,” the investigator said, “he would have been caught on the spot.”