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[1] [2] The news of Hitler's death was announced on German radio the next day, 1 May. [3] Eyewitnesses who saw Hitler's body immediately after his suicide testified that he died from a self-inflicted gunshot, presumably to the temple.
The Death of Adolf Hitler: Unknown Documents from Soviet Archives [a] is a 1968 book by Soviet journalist Lev Bezymenski, who served as an interpreter in the Battle of Berlin. The book gives details of the purported Soviet autopsies of Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun, Joseph and Magda Goebbels, their children, and General Hans Krebs.
In 1944 (prior to D-Day), the United States Secret Service imagined several ways Hitler could potentially disguise his appearance to evade capture. [1]Fringe and conspiracy theories about the death of Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945, contradict the accepted fact that he committed suicide in the Führerbunker on 30 April 1945.
The corpse of an apparent Hitler body double with a gunshot wound to the forehead, a battered right temple, and sunken vestibules (filmed by the Soviets). Although there is no evidence that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler used look-alikes as political decoys during his life, some stories propagated as early as 1939 assert his death and replacement with an imposter.
As a result of the 20 July 1944 assassination attempt on Hitler – in which he survived a bomb explosion at his Wolf's Lair headquarters – both of his eardrums were punctured, and he had numerous superficial wounds, including blisters, burns, and 200 wood splinters on his hands and legs, cuts on his forehead, abrasions and swelling on his left arm, and a right arm that was swollen, painful ...
In 1940, the Nazis seized a Claude Monet pastel and seven other works of art from Adalbert "Bela" and Hilda Parlagi, a Jewish couple forced to flee their Vienna home after Austria was annexed into ...
Adolf Hitler [a] (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party , [ c ] becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.
In his 1995 book on Hitler's death, German historian Anton Joachimsthaler criticized the 1947 book for implying (in its discussion of a double, summary of government reports and conclusion) that Hitler escaped—possibly with his secretary Martin Bormann and/or plundered Nazi gold—to the Alps, Japan, or South America. [25]