Reports of Adolf Hitler’s death filled newspapers around the globe, but was he *really* dead? Like, for real??
Misinformation from the Soviet Union left people all over the world fearing that Hitler might have escaped the bunker. Soon, British and American intelligence stepped in to conduct their own investigations. Over time, the truth emerged. (But Hitler didn’t, because he was super dead.)
Remember, kids, history hoes always cite their sources! For this episode, Norm pulled from:
Daly-Groves, Luke. Hitler’s Death: The Case against Conspiracy. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 2019.
Joachimsthaler, Anton, and Helmut Bögler. The Last Days of Hitler: The Legends, the Evidence, the Truth. London, New York: Arms and Armour Press ; Distributed in the USA by Sterling Pub. Co., 1996.
Petrova, Ada, and Peter Watson. The Death of Hitler: The Full Story with New Evidence from Secret Russian Archives. New York: Norton, 1995.
Riaud, Xavier. “Dental Identifications of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun.” Journal of Dental Problems and Solutions 1, no. 1 (October 2014): 6–10.
Trevor-Roper, Hugh R. The Last Days of Hitler. Seventh edition. London: Pan Books, 1995.
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