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Originally Posted by elysiantraveller
The final hours of Hitler's life are fairly well documented by bunker survivors many of whom were captured and tortured by the Soviets.
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Yeah, very well documented. No one agrees, the bodies were burned, the skull fragments the Soviet's thought were his were proven to be a woman's, and the "remains" were later conveniently exhumed, cremated, and scattered as if no one would would be interested in proving that he was actually dead. And of course if he had escaped, I'm sure the first thing other loyal Nazis would have done is rat him out and not make up a story about him being dead.
Conspiracy theories exist because the evidence is sketchy and the official story does not make any sense. In this case, we know the US helped Nazi scientists escape and we know other ranking Nazis escaped on their own.
Does that prove he escaped too?
Absolutely not.
The official story may in fact be correct or at least close enough to be considered accurate. That may be the most likely scenario. The problem is there is no real evidence for it and there were also reports of Nazis living in South America from multiple sources, troves of Nazi materials found in that area, and that's where some of the ex Nazis were captured.
"Adolf Hitler killed himself by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin.[a][b][c] His wife Eva Braun committed suicide with him by taking cyanide.[d] That afternoon, in accordance with Hitler's prior instructions, their remains were carried up the stairs through the bunker's emergency exit, doused in petrol, and set alight in the Reich Chancellery garden outside the bunker.[1] Records in the Soviet archives show that their burnt remains were recovered and interred in successive locations[e] until 1970, when they were again exhumed, cremated, and the ashes scattered.[f]
Accounts differ as to the cause of death; one states that he died by poison only[g] and another that he died by a self-inflicted gunshot while biting down on a cyanide capsule.[h] Contemporary historians have rejected these accounts as being either Soviet propaganda[i][j] or an attempted compromise in order to reconcile the different conclusions.[h][k] One eyewitness recorded that the body showed signs of having been shot through the mouth, but this has been proven unlikely.[l][m] There is also controversy regarding the authenticity of skull and jaw fragments which were recovered.[n][o] In 2009, American researchers performed DNA tests on a skull Soviet officials had long believed to be that of Hitler. The tests and examination revealed that the skull was actually that of a woman less than 40 years old. The jaw fragments which had been recovered were not tested.[2][3][p]"
