Hilter rumor or fact?

Question

I heard that Hilter didn't die in the bunker, he had his doctors do plastic surgery on a double who they killed in his place, to keep the Allies from hunting him. And that he started a new neo nazi group here in the US. Did anyone else hear this?

Answer 1

After the cessation of hostilities between Allied and Nazi forces, there were tons of rumors as to where Adolph Hitler was. Of course, he was the most hated man alive. The plastic surgery rumor really has no plausiblity, because one has to undertand the mindframe of Hitler prior to Germany's loss.

Hitler was a maniacal egotist. In his mind, and at his peak of power, he revered himself as almost god-like. The savior of Germany. As the tide turned against Germany, he began making less and less public apprearances. He withdrew to himself, blaming others for the losses. Never did he blame himself, or any decision that he personally made. As the Russians and the Allied forces moved closer to Berlin and laid seige to the city, he became even more hostile towards his own General Staff. Many were shot for treason, and he blamed everybody but himself for the losses. Eventually, he blamed the German people themselves. THEY let HIM down, and they deserved to die for that. So he pretty much left them to their doom, and the Russians were more than glad to bring it to them.

If there was any ounce of lucid sanity in the man, he realized that he could not allow himself to be captured and to receive the punishment of a Russian rope. Or an Allied rope for that matter. His ego certainly wouldn't allow that. There was no way out of Berlin, he and his staff were pretty much boxed in.

So in the bunker, according to Russian reports, he crushed a cyanide capsule in his mouth, and finished the job with a pistol shot to the head. His subordinates took his body, and the body of Eva Braun outside the bunker and burned their bodies.

Think about it, Stalin would have loved nothing better than to catch Hitler alive. That would have been the ultimate feather in his cap, he would have proclaimed himself forever the hero of the Soviet Union. Dangling Hitler on a Russian rope would have been the ultimate moral victory and one-upmanship on the Allies. There would have been no need to have lied about the death of Hitler in the bunker. There would have been no way to even fabricate a "live capture" of Hitler. So they settled for capturing Berlin, and discovering the bodies.

The Allies would have loved to have captured Hitler, put him on trial, and hanged him. It didn't happen.


Hitler died in the bunker, as history claims.

Answer 2

I have heard it too. But I do believe Hitler died in the bunker and Eva Braun and Hitler's bodies were burned with gasoline but not good enough when the Russians discovered them. There is in Moscow , a piece of Hitler's skull with a bullet hole in the place where Hitler supposedly killed himself. There are many rumors. I read once that Hitler survived the bunker and was eventually run over by a car in Berlin but the teeth forensics did not match him. What you have been hearing about are there were several dopplegangers posing as a double at several events due to Hitler's safety was severely compromised by the events of the war and that what was discovered by people who thought it was Hitler. Hitler died on April 30, 1945 with EvaBraun and this is what history will probably say about even after we are gone.

Answer 3

How Hitler Died
Friday, Aug. 09, 1968
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It was April 30, 1945, and Berlin, the capital of Adolf Hitler's tottering Third Reich, was a shattered, flaming inferno. Tanks and troops of Soviet General Vasily Chuikov's Eighth Guards army had fought to within a few blocks of the Reich Chancellery. The end was clearly at hand. Some time after lunch that day, Hitler and his wife of one day, Eva Braun, retired to their suite in the Führer's underground bunker to take their lives. They left instructions that their bodies be burned.

The war was over seven days later. Yet for two decades, mystery shrouded the exact circumstances of the dictator's death. In the West it was surmised, from testimony by Germans who were in the bunker at the time, that Hitler had shot himself. The Soviets said nothing. In a book published last week, Lev Bezymenski, a former Red army intelligence officer, reveals that the Russians not only found Hitler's body after taking the bunker but that they also performed an exhaustive autopsy. It showed that Hitler had died by cyanide poisoning, not by a bullet.*

In The Death of Adolf Hitler (Harcourt, Brace & World; $3.95), Author Bezymenski, now a Soviet journalist, says that on May 4, 1945, a Soviet private came across two partially burned, badly disfigured bodies in a shell crater outside the Führerbunker. The Russians, having mistaken another corpse for Hitler's, at first buried the two bodies, but unearthed them again when a Soviet counterintelligence officer had second thoughts. On May 8, a team of Russian forensic experts performed autopsies in a Berlin hospital mortuary. Their full reports are reproduced verbatim in grisly detail that even notes the discovery that Hitler had only one testicle. Glass splinters, apparently from poison ampoules, were found in the mouths of both bodies. There were no visible gunshot wounds—although part of Hitler's cranium was missing—and "the marked smell of bitter almonds and the presence of cyanide compounds in internal organs" led the Soviet doctors to conclude that the deaths of both Hitler and Eva were caused by cyanide. A meticulous comparison of Hitler's dental records and the teeth found on the corpse convinced the Soviets that they had found the body of the Führer. Eva was similarly identified. Stalin showed "considerable interest in the fate of Hitler," Bezymenski observes with seemingly unconscious irony. Yet the Soviets kept their findings secret. The Kremlin wanted to hold the autopsy reports back, the author claims, "in case someone might try to slip into the role of 'the Führer saved by a miracle,' " and to continue the investigation in order to rule out all possibility of error. Clearly, neither reason matters any longer—as proved by the fact that Bezymenski was allowed to publish his book.

* A similar, although not as well documented account of Hitler's death appeared in the Soviet magazine Znamya in 1965.
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Answer 4

If he wanted a double killed, why would he have the body burned? Wouldn't he want it left so the allies would find it and confirm he "died"?

And while there are neo-Nazi groups in the US, I doubt Hitler had much to do with founding them, aside from serving as a role model.

I do think you have the makings of a good novel, though.

Answer 5

Craaaaaaaap. Neo Nazi Craaaaaap.

Answer 6

There are many rumors about Hitler. Some say he went to Argentina. Others say Elvis, or Jim Morrison is still alive. In all likelihood, Hitler died in the bunker just as we're told. I'm about 99.99 percent sure.
If he were still alive today, he'd be 118 years old. So it's kind of a moot point anyway.

Answer 7

The English and human beings and Canadians and an excellent sort of Europeans gained worldwide warfare 2 and likewise inclusive of the Jews. Hitler substitute into an evil guy, yet regrettably the worldwide has a lot of those nevertheless committing horrendous crimes against not just to their very own human beings yet many others too. So like me, you too, could be very grateful to the tens of millions of people who sacrificed their lives so we are able to stay freely.

Answer 8

That would be HITLER and there is no doubt that he died of a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head. The Germans tried to burn his remains, but enough was recovered by the Russians to make a positive identification. Even had Hitler escaped Berlin, his days were numbered as he suffered from an advanced case of syphilis as diagnosed by his personal physician who also left us this tidbit of historical trivia. Adolph Hitler had only one testicle.

Answer 9

I have been reading all about World War II for the last 45 years, I think I have heard or maybe read about this rumor, but no proof nor evidence has ever been presented.

No serious historian supports this theory.

Answer 10

There was considerable forensic analysis done to establish that Hitler was the one found in the bunker. It was obviously of considerable interest at the time.