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What Really Happened: The Death of Hitler

von Robert J. Hutchinson

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Think You Know Everything about the death of Hitler? Think Again. After World War II, 50 percent of Americans polled said they didn't believe Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun had committed suicide in their bunker in 1945, as captured Nazi officials claimed. Instead, they believed the dictator faked his death and escaped, perhaps to Argentina.  This wasn't a crazy opinion: Joseph Stalin told Allied leaders that Soviet forces never discovered Hitler's body and that he personally believed the Nazi leader had escaped justice.  At least two German submarines crossed the Atlantic and landed on the coast of Argentina in July 1945.  Plus, there were numerous reports of top Nazi officials successfully fleeing to South America where there was a large German colony.   Incredible as it sounds, the mystery surrounding Adolf Hitler's final days only deepened in 2009 when a U.S. forensic team announced that a piece of Hitler's skull held in Soviet archives was not actually Hitler's. International interest increased further in 2014 when the FBI released previously classified files detailing investigations surrounding Hitler's possible escape. And the following year, The History Channel launched a three-year reality TV series investigating if it was possible Hitler did somehow survive. So what really happened? Popular history writer Robert J. Hutchinson, author of What Really Happened: The Lincoln Assassination, takes a fresh look at the evidence and discovers, once and for all, the truth about Hitler's last week in Berlin. Among the questions the book explores are... *  What did surviving Nazi eyewitnesses really say about the Führer's final days in the bunker--and could they have been lying to aid Hitler's escape? *  If Hitler didn't escape, why did the Allies not find his body? *  What about Hitler's proven use of body doubles? Could Hitler have used a body double in the bunker while he and Eva Braun flew to safety in a long-range aircraft that took off from a runway in Berlin's Tiergarten? *  Why did the FBI continue to investigate reports of Hitler's survival for more than a decade after World War II--reports that were only declassified in 2014? *  What about sensational claims in books such as The Grey Wolfthat Hitler and Eva Braun lived in an isolated chalet in the Andes - and that Hitler died in 1962? *  Why were forensic tests on crucial physical evidence only conducted in 2016, more than 70 years after World War II ended? *  And lots MORE.… (mehr)
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This book does not do what it says on the tin. A third of the book is concerned with previous attempts on Hitler's life including a large section on Valkyrie. It spends some time summing up the basics of WWII and Hitler's rise to power, something it ironically criticises the book Grey Wolf for doing - that's the book this book is primarily written as a response/rebuttal to. While the case for Hitler's escape might have a ton of holes this book doesn't do a great job of actively attacking it in the third of the content that's actually about that topic. It restates the official narrative, goes over how the facts changed through the years mostly due to Soviet mind games, and then the various attempts to spin a flight to Argentina over the years.
You can do better just reading some news articles and wikipedia. ( )
  A.Godhelm | Oct 20, 2023 |
I was initially skeptical at first, not so much about the author's thesis (Hitler really is dead, and died in 1945), but by the fact that he literally spends one half of the book talking about Hitler's rise to power, and a great deal on the failed July 20, 1944 coup. I do realize, having finished the book, the ultimate logic as to how it explains Hitler's decisions and mind-set in the last few weeks of his life. The second half of the book is pretty good, in that it uses some of the latest information available (information that Hugh Trevor-Roper didn't have) to show that Hitler really did kill himself in 1945, and the Russians had the bodies for decades afterward -- and still have parts of him to this day. The most refreshing thing about the book is the debunking of the various conspiracy theories about Hitler being alive after the war. Curiously, the author doesn't choose to focus on one significant point -- the wretched state of Hitler's health in the final weeks of the war, which would have made travel very difficult. ( )
  EricCostello | Sep 11, 2020 |
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Think You Know Everything about the death of Hitler? Think Again. After World War II, 50 percent of Americans polled said they didn't believe Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun had committed suicide in their bunker in 1945, as captured Nazi officials claimed. Instead, they believed the dictator faked his death and escaped, perhaps to Argentina.  This wasn't a crazy opinion: Joseph Stalin told Allied leaders that Soviet forces never discovered Hitler's body and that he personally believed the Nazi leader had escaped justice.  At least two German submarines crossed the Atlantic and landed on the coast of Argentina in July 1945.  Plus, there were numerous reports of top Nazi officials successfully fleeing to South America where there was a large German colony.   Incredible as it sounds, the mystery surrounding Adolf Hitler's final days only deepened in 2009 when a U.S. forensic team announced that a piece of Hitler's skull held in Soviet archives was not actually Hitler's. International interest increased further in 2014 when the FBI released previously classified files detailing investigations surrounding Hitler's possible escape. And the following year, The History Channel launched a three-year reality TV series investigating if it was possible Hitler did somehow survive. So what really happened? Popular history writer Robert J. Hutchinson, author of What Really Happened: The Lincoln Assassination, takes a fresh look at the evidence and discovers, once and for all, the truth about Hitler's last week in Berlin. Among the questions the book explores are... *  What did surviving Nazi eyewitnesses really say about the Führer's final days in the bunker--and could they have been lying to aid Hitler's escape? *  If Hitler didn't escape, why did the Allies not find his body? *  What about Hitler's proven use of body doubles? Could Hitler have used a body double in the bunker while he and Eva Braun flew to safety in a long-range aircraft that took off from a runway in Berlin's Tiergarten? *  Why did the FBI continue to investigate reports of Hitler's survival for more than a decade after World War II--reports that were only declassified in 2014? *  What about sensational claims in books such as The Grey Wolfthat Hitler and Eva Braun lived in an isolated chalet in the Andes - and that Hitler died in 1962? *  Why were forensic tests on crucial physical evidence only conducted in 2016, more than 70 years after World War II ended? *  And lots MORE.

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