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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He had a good suggestion - dip your fries in a vanilla shake. I tried it and it was delicious. He even got some ice cream on his mustache.
Correct. We can all be certain history happened.
Nope; he's part of a singing quartet performing in Vegas backing up Elvis. Jesse James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are the other three.
Jesse, Butch, and the Kid are all considerably older!
Sonic? I see him every night pretending to be President of the United States.
The Germans burned both Hitler and Eva Braun after they were dead, thus no uniforms, in fact they may have stripped the bodies before burning, which would mean no evidence at all. The Russians were relying on German prisoners to tell them where Hitler was buried, it’s just possible the Germans didn’t tell the truth, isn’t it?
That idiot Hitler even got the details of what would happen to his body after the war wrong. He assumed the Russians would display it like a trophy. In reality the alies would have cremated the body and dumped the ash in the river to make sure his where he was buried did not become a place of pilgrimage by Germans under occupation.
The bodies were dug up again and this last time they only found this piece of skull with a hole in it. So they made a trophy of it but they themselves were not sure if it was Hitler. They do have Hitler's couch he committed suicide on with the blood stains but that is also in pieces.
To answer Hodar's question - the reason it was not easily identifiable was that the Nazis burned the bodies with gasoline in a bomb crater that could have been hit again and scattering the parts here and there.
HE’s DEAD!!!!! Who gives a rats-butt who has his skull.
Everybody knows that Hitylaer is hiding out with Elvis.
According to a translated interview with one of the surviving Red Army guys, Eva Braun’s body was in adequate shape to do an autopsy, and she was pregnant when she died. As you said, the preference was cremation, but the RA added that they didn’t have a crematorium (ironic, in the ruins of the Third Reich) so the remains were buried after identity was verified. Later they were exhumed (how much later he didn’t say, but it must have been the better part of a year) because Stalin wanted to see proof. The USSR had claimed that Hitler had been given sanctuary in the west. Also there was a phony diary which claimed that Hitler had tried to escape via U-Boat, which was detected and sunk in the Baltic, or in the North Sea (I forget).
I think Hitler had some issues.
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