“Wouldn’t the soviets have exposed the lie though?’
In fact, the Soviets started the Hitler escaped claims. To discredit and smear the West, associating us with Nazi sympathies. Their claim was they were the only serious opposition to Hitler.
> In fact, the Soviets started the Hitler escaped claims. <
You’re right in every regard.
I had an aunt who collected unusual things. She had a newspaper (from San Francisco, I think) that was published in early May 1945. That was right after Berlin fell to the Soviets.
The headline read “Hitler Dead!”
The subtitle: “Russians cry fake!”
Funny how I remember that from so many decades ago. My aunt is gone now. I don’t know what happened to that newspaper.