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That month, 68% of Americans polled thought Hitler was still alive. [2] When asked at the Potsdam Conference in July 1945 how Hitler had died, Stalin said he was either living "in Spain or Argentina." [3] In July 1945, British newspapers repeated comments from a Soviet officer that a charred body discovered by the Soviets was "a very poor ...
German scholar Hellmuth Auerbach puts the death toll in the Hitler era at 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust and 7 million other victims of the Nazis. [219] Dieter Pohl puts the total number of victims of the Nazi era at between 12 and 14 million persons, including 5.6–5.7 million Jews. [220]
This is a list of the last surviving people suspected of participation in Nazi war crimes, based on wanted lists published by Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Beginning in 2002, Zuroff produced an Annual Status Report on the Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi war criminals which from 2004 to 2018 included a list of the ...
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths that are either directly or indirectly caused by war.These numbers include the deaths of military personnel which are the direct results of a battle or other military wartime actions, as well as wartime/war-related deaths of civilians which are often results of war-induced epidemics, famines, genocide, etc. Due to incomplete records, the ...
This is a list of victims of Nazism who were noted for their achievements. Many on the lists below were of Jewish and Polish origin, although Soviet POWs , Jehovah's Witnesses , Serbs , Catholics , Roma and dissidents were also murdered.
The book and film concerns the allegations by its makers that Adolf Hitler did not die in his Berlin bunker in 1945 but escaped, along with wife Eva Braun, her brother-in-law Hermann Fegelein and several other Nazi officials, to Argentina staying first at a large ranch 29 kilometres (18 mi) from Bariloche owned by relatives of Prince Bernhard and later lived 10 kilometres (6 mi) east of ...
Adolf Hitler (right) and his chauffeur Julius Schreck (left), both wearers of the toothbrush moustache—their only substantial physical similarity (1925). The 1939 book The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler alleges that the Nazi Party used four people as doubles for Hitler, including the author, who claims that the real dictator died in 1938 and that he subsequently took his place. [11]
Erich Priebke (29 July 1913 – 11 October 2013) was a German mid-level SS commander in the SS police force (SiPo) of Nazi Germany. [1] In 1996, he was convicted of war crimes in Italy for commanding the unit which was responsible for the Ardeatine massacre in Rome on 24 March 1944 in which 335 Italian civilians were killed in retaliation for a partisan attack that killed 33 men of the German ...