Despite claims made to the contrary during his interrogation, Kempka later admitted that when Hitler and Eva Braun locked themselves in a room of the "Führerbunker" to commit suicide, he was not nearby; he was present after the event had occurred. By that time, Hitler and Braun's bodies had already been carried out of the study-office of the "Führerbunker". There, Kempka took Braun's lifeless body from Martin Bormann and carried it halfway up the exit stairs before handing it over to Günsche, who carried it outside from the bunker exit and placed it on the ground of the Chancellery garden next to Hitler's corpse to be burned.