On April 30, 1945,
Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his Führerbunker. Though many conspiracy
activists state otherwise, claiming that Hitler and his wife, Eva Braun,
survived and escaped the city of Berlin that day. While subject to some
exposure in popular culture, examples being books such as Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf, these viewpoints provide no factual
evidence towards the case.
Others believe that at
the Führerbunker, the corpses of "Hitler" and "Braun" were
those of doubles who were mercilessly shot, but again, there is no evidence
supporting these fringe theories that any doubles were killed. Gustav Weber was
Hitler’s main double, but given that there was no shortage of corpses in
wartime Berlin, such a killing would have been unnecessary.
There was also a skull
fragment with a bullet-hole found outside Hitler’s bunker and kept in Russia’s
federal archives in Moscow, and for decades was believed to be that of
Hitler’s. However, in 2009 samples of the skull were DNA-tested at the
University of Connecticut by archaeologist and bone specialist Nick Bellantoni
and colleagues, it was found to be that of a woman aged under 40.
Furthermore, some
supposed “Declassified” FBI documents were believed to have containing a number
of alleged sighting of Hitler along with conspiracy theories of his escape from
Germany. Regarding the subject, the FBI officially stated that the information
within those documents pertaining to the escape and sightings of Hitler cannot
be verified.
Today, there are an
endless amount of theories suggesting Hitler’s escape, imprisonment and torture
in Russia, supposed sighting and staged doubles, none of which hold any
evidence supporting their claims. Aside from that, fringe theories will
continue to exist as they so famously spark people’s curiosity and give us
debunkers some notion to write about.
Works cited: Figure 1, http://tapnewswire.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/hitler1v2.jpg
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