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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
One of my favorite bad movies is “The Frozen Dead” ; it’s about a Nazi scientist who froze Nazi leaders in hopes of reviving them decades later in order to revive the 3rd Reich.
It’s a classic!
Alex Jones just got a tingle down his leg.
It’s Eva Braun’s skull
Hitler shot her through the head
Actually, I REALLY did see a guy at a gun show yesterday that looked just like Hitler. Except his hair was very blonde & he was bit young to be the original...
No, he lived long enough to sire a manchurian candidate spawn...and that is why Obama doesn’t want to release the birth certificate ;-)
Oh no they saved Hitler’s brain!
Actually, he was at the UN this week.
This is what happens when the gov’t gets involved.
I remember that scene with good ole Inga Swenson.
The fragment of skull has been through so many hands, and Hitler’s remains so mishandled that the truth will never be known. And I suspect it was the Soviets’ intention that that be the case.
Considering he was born in 1889, yes, he’s dead.
And just because the Soviets have been carting around the wrong bones doesn’t mean he didn’t die in the bunker. There were an awful lot of dead, mangled, burnt bodies lying around Berlin at that time.
I'm pretty much a Jedi Master when it comes to cheesiness.
Secret Nazi submarine base in Antarctica...
I give you, BACON HITLER.
(I love the internet.)
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