Posted on 09/27/2009 10:23:10 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Adolf Hitler may not have shot himself dead and perhaps did not even die in his bunker, it emerged yesterday.
A skull fragment believed for decades to be the Nazi leader’s has turned out to be that of a woman under 40 after DNA analysis.
Scientists and historians had long thought it to be conclusive proof that Hitler shot himself in the head after taking a cyanide pill on 30 April 1945 rather than face the ignominy of capture.
The piece of skull - complete with bullet hole - had been taken from outside the Fuhrer’s bunker by the Russian Army and preserved by Soviet intelligence.
Now the story of Hitler’s death will have to rewritten as a mystery - and conspiracy theorists are likely to latch on to the possibility that he may not have died in the bunker at all.
The traditional story is that Hitler committed suicide with Eva Braun as the Russians bombarded Berlin.
Although some historians doubted he shot himself and suggested it was Nazi propaganda to make him a hero, the hole in the skull fragment seemed to settle the argument when it was put on display in Moscow in 2000.
But DNA analysis has now been performed on the bone by American researchers.
'We know the skull corresponds to a woman between the ages of 20 and 40,' said University of Connecticut archeologist Nick Bellantoni.
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That doesn’t mean he didn’t die in the bunker. They just had the wrong skull.
Evidently, they were wrong.
Hitler’s dead? I just saw him at Sonic Drive-In last Tuesday.
Ach du lieber!!! I liked the episode of the old sitcom Soap where Hitler was waiting tables in some outdoor cafe in South America.
Uh...he’s dead.
He’s working as Obama’s Jewish Outreach Czar.
Goering had 2 but they were small
Himler, had something similar
But 0bama, has no balls at all
Hmmmm..., has anyone ever seen Obama and Hitler together...?
Holy CRAP!!!! HITLER WAS A WOMAN!??
</sarcasm>
"I cannot take the indignity of being captured alive, here is a piece of my skull, I committed suicide. .... honest. Don't bother looking for my body, as I ate myself in a desperate attempt at suicide, and this skull is all that is left. .... I mean, I'm a vegitarian and I can't eat all of myself, by myself ... I think I got full on the salad course".
It boggles the mind.
Maybe Hitler really was a woman...!!!!!!
Were the remains of Eva Braun found?
Off to google...
Tatt
This is exactly the kind of thing that makes people question how accurate history is ...
Fascinating and creepy.
Great minds and all....
< /s> sorta
I remember that there were a lot of bad films about escaped Nazi scientists trying to bring back the Fuhrer. Maybe this will get a few more made.
almost all our current generation of super-rich owe the seeds of their fortune to the Nazi’s one way or another.
germany was the #1 investment destination for the world, including US money, until the last 3 years of the war when pearl harbor forced us into the war.
the rich and powerful of the day loved facism, of course they didnt totally hang their golden boy out to dry. Hitler died peacefully in Paraguay or Argentina, in a castle. they took care of the man that made them rich.
A. Hitler (b. 1889, d. ....) age 120+.
Supposedly the SS burnt Hitler and Eva Braun after their suicide and threw the remains in a ditch. The skull fragment was supposed to be a remnant of the burnt corpse... but it’s strange that it isn’t charred in the first place.
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