Personally I don’t believe it.
He was too self centered.
I think he made his way to Argentina
and died there in his old age.
Doesn’t matter the war stopped
and most the bad guys were tried.
God is our ultimate judge.
I’m sure Hitler’s soul ended
up where it belongs.
Stalin was absolutely certain Hitler survived and went to South America.
Bariloche
Agreed. A burned body no one could recognize? What a croc.
I watched a few documentaries to that effect, and it is quite plausible he did escape to South America.
The biggest problem with his death is that his supposed corpse was in the hands of the communists who did little to preserve any evidence at all that could be forensically examined.
“Personally I don’t believe it.
He was too self centered.
I think he made his way to Argentina
and died there in his old age.”
Yep...
Goebbels, Himmler, Spiers, and Goehring didn’t get out (although Eichmann did) so I doubt Hitler did.
He died in the bunker.
The Russians had that area of Berlin boxed in with a great number of troops. A few days before Hitler killed himself, Hanna Reitsch flew a small airplane close to the ruins of the Chancellery, and tried to get Hitler to leave with her. He refused. It is a known fact that her plane was the last German plane to leave Berlin, and it a known fact the Hitler was not in the plane when it landed. Hanna was deeply depressed that Hitler did not come with her.
Wikipedia excerpt:
Shortly after midnight on 29 April, Hitler ordered Reitsch and von Greim to fly out of Berlin in an Arado Ar 96 (which had been flown to the Tiergarten by the pilot who stowed Reitsch in his fuselage), asserting that they could get General Walther Wenck to save Berlin.[37] Von Greim was ordered to get the Luftwaffe to attack the Soviet forces that had just reached Potsdamer Platz and to make sure Himmler was punished for his treachery in making unauthorised contact with the Western Allies regarding surrender terms.[Note 1] Troops of the Soviet 3rd Shock Army, which was fighting its way through the Tiergarten from the north, tried to shoot the plane down fearing that Hitler was escaping in it, but it took off successfully.[38][39][Note 2]Reitsch was soon captured along with von Greim and the two were interviewed together by U.S. military intelligence officers.[Note 3] When asked about being ordered to leave the Führerbunker on 29 April 1945,[44] Reitsch and von Greim reportedly repeated the same answer: "It was the blackest day when we could not die at our Führer's side." Reitsch stated, "We should all kneel down in reverence and prayer before the altar of the Fatherland," referring to the Führerbunker.[45] Reitsch dismissed assertions of Hitler's survival, saying, "He had no reason to live and the tragedy was that he knew it ... perhaps better than anyone else did." Reitsch claimed Hitler's initial motivation was "how to give his people a life free from economic insufficiencies and social maladjustments", but gambled with the lives of people: "the first great wrong, his first great failure". She criticised his incompetence as a leader (e.g. his selection of the wrong persons for office), and stated that Hitler had transformed ideologically, and become a despot. Reitsch stated repeatedly that never again must an individual have so much control over any country.[46] Reitsch was held for eighteen months;[47] von Greim killed himself on 24 May 1945.
Hanna has an incredible list of accomplishments; and, was a super-duper NAZI.