after the suicide of hitler and eva braun, the two bodies were carried up the stairs to ground level and through the bunker's emergency exit to the garden behind the reich chancellery, where they were doused with petrol. after the first attempts to ignite the petrol did not work, linge went back inside the bunker and returned with a thick roll of papers. martin bormann lit the papers and threw the torch onto the bodies. as the two corpses caught fire, a small group, including bormann, linge, otto günsche, joseph goebbels, erich kempka, peter högl, ewald lindloff, and hans reisser, raised their arms in salute as they stood just inside the bunker doorway.