If Hitler did not die in the forties, he has to be dead by now. If he were still alive he would be 117 years old.
The conspiracy theories involving Hitler's death are mostly due to the fact that the body was cremated and the remains documented poorly.
from answers.com...
"After intense street-to-street combat, when Soviet troops were spotted within a block or two of the Reich Chancellory in the city centre, Hitler committed suicide in the Führerbunker on April 30 1945 by means of a self-delivered shot to the head (it is likely he simultaneously bit into a cyanide ampoule). Hitler's body and that of Eva Braun (his long-term mistress whom he had married the day before) were put in a bomb crater, partially burned with gasoline by Führerbunker aides and hastily buried in the Chancellory garden as Russian shells poured down and Red Army infantry continued to advance only two or three hundred metres away. He also had his dog Blondi poisoned around the same time.
When Russian forces reached the Chancellory, they found his body and an autopsy was performed using dental records (and German dental assistants who were familiar with them) to confirm the identification. To avoid any possibility of creating a potential shrine, the remains of Hitler and Braun were repeatedly moved, then secretly buried by SMERSH at their new headquarters in Magdeburg. In April 1970, when the facility was about to be turned over to the East German government, the remains were reportedly exhumed, thoroughly cremated, and the ashes finally dumped unceremoniously into the Elbe. According to the Russian Federal Security Service, a fragment of human skull stored in its archives and displayed to the public in a 2000 exhibition came from the remains of Hitler's body uncovered by the Red Army in Berlin, and is all that remains of Hitler; however, the authenticity of the skull has been challenged by many historians and researchers."
2007-01-06 20:52:13
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answered by Benji Duncan 2
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He shot himself in the head while simultaneously biting on a cyanide capsule. Eva Braun took Cyanide too. Their bodies were partially burnt by his staff.
2007-01-06 21:49:35
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answered by Tanks 5
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Hitler relocated to the Führerbunker on January 16, 1945, where he presided over the rapid disintegration of his Third Reich as the Allies advanced from both east and west. By late April, Soviet forces had entered Berlin itself and were battling their way to the centre of the city where the Chancellery was located. Realizing that defeat was imminent, Hitler began making preparations for his suicide.
Hitler, having dictated his last will and testament to secretary Traudl Junge, signed them at 04:00 on April 29. Shortly after midnight on April 29, 1945, Hitler married Eva Braun in a small civil ceremony in a map room within the bunker complex, before finally retiring to bed at around 04:00.
Shortly after noon on April 30, Hitler had a short meeting with Party Secretary Bormann before eating a small lunch consisting of spaghetti with a light sauce. Hitler and Eva Braun then said their personal farewells to members of the Führerbunker staff and fellow occupants, including the Goebbels family, Bormann, the secretaries, and several military officers. At around 14:30, as Soviet forces raised their banner over the neighbouring Reichstag, Adolf and Eva Hitler went into Hitler's personal study.
Some witnesses later reported hearing a loud gunshot at around 15:30 (the Goebbels' young son is said to have declared, "A direct hit!" thinking it was a bomb overhead). After waiting a few minutes, Hitler's valet, Heinz Linge, with Bormann at his side, opened the door to the study. Linge later stated he immediately noted a scent of burned almonds in the small study, a common observation made in the presence of prussic acid, a form of cyanide. The Hitlers were both sitting on a small sofa, Eva on the left, Adolf to the right. Eva's body slumped away from Adolf's. Hitler appeared to have shot himself in the right temple (though one source claims it was his mouth) with a 7.65 mm pistol which lay at his feet. Blood was dripping from Adolf's right temple and had made a large stain on the right arm of the sofa. Eva had no visible physical wounds and Linge assumed she had poisoned herself.
Several witnesses stated the two bodies were carried to a small, bombed-out garden outside the bunker complex, where they were doused with petrol and set alight by Linge and members of Hitler's personal SS bodyguard. The SS guards and Linge later noted the fire did not completely destroy the corpses, but Soviet shelling of the bunker compound made further cremation attempts impossible and the remains were later covered up in a shallow bomb crater.
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2007-01-07 00:13:56
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answered by catzpaw 6
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Most complete answer so far: Tanks.
Thanks, tanks.
The only thing you left out was the irreversible brain rot caused by syphillus contracted perhaps in his days in Vienna pre WW I.
2007-01-06 23:56:36
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answered by Anonymous
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He died of embarrassment at people misspelling his name
2007-01-06 20:49:47
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answered by Cthullu 3
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Hitler committed suicide in his bunker near the end of WWII. or so they say... Eva Braun was there, but isn't talking.
2007-01-06 20:44:44
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answered by just_another_anglophone 2
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He poisoned himself.
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2007-01-06 20:48:17
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answered by Anonymous
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poisoned himself then shot himself to make certain
2007-01-07 06:44:56
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answered by Marvin R 7
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he commited suicide by shooting himself in the head or mouth, n his wife poisoned her self
2007-01-06 23:20:41
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answered by Shoobie 2
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He committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.
2007-01-06 21:15:38
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answered by Anonymous
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