This came out from a comment left on our Nazis in Colour post about Hitler dying in Brazil as a big drug dealer.
Given that my only knowledge of Hitler’s death comes from Wikipedia, I accepted the general notion that he topped himself with his Walther PPK in the Führerbunker on April 30th, 1945. However, after a second of Googling, an interesting article turned up.
A year after Hitler’s death, fragments of his skull fragments dug up by Russian forces, and ABC News reports that recently a US archaeologist by the name of Nick Bellantoni visited Moscow to work on those very fragments. He returned to the United States with a sample from the skull and a sample of blood from the sofa on which Hitler is said to have committed suicide.
After doing some complex DNA tests on the bone sample, Bellantoni concluded that the it wasn’t as robust as a male bone tends to be, and that it corresponded to a woman between the ages of 20 and 40. This startling discovery has been refuted by Vasily Khristoforov, the director of Russia’s FSB intelligence service archives who insists bones are definitely Hitler’s; the vice president of the Russian state archive, Vladimir Kozlov, however is not so sure, saying “No one claimed that was Hitler’s skull.”
Did the Führer pull a fast one and escape death? Read the full article and let us know what you think.
Oh, and in other news, Hayibo.com reports that terrorist extraordinaire Osama bin Laden has been found in KwaZulu-Natal’s upmarket Umhlanga neighbourhood, posing as a woman. Read that article.
3 replies on “The Russians Have Hitler’s Skull. Or Do They?”
Very nice article OLP. Quite interesting… :)
an interesting theory, but i highly doubt it could be true. escaping germany during that period in time would’ve near impossible. the only way for hitler to escape would’ve been to have either the russians or allied forces to help him.
plus, even if he had managed to escape, there is nowhere he could hide without being ratted out… hitler wasn’t very popular at the end of the war, even amoungst his inner sanctum.
the most likely outcome, hitler was captured by the russians and executed in st. petersburg or moscow. :skeleton:
o and for the girly skull… hitler was just a very angry school girl with height issues.
:peace:
I wonder whose skull the Russians have? It can’t be Eva Braun’s because the skull has an exit wound and she was reported to have poisoned herself. Apparently Stalin wasn’t convinced by the skull fragment either.
I agree with you easy. Bringing death to 6 million Jews wouldn’t have left him high up on many Christmas lists, so escape would have been nigh impossible.
Going back to the Brazil connection, I was only made aware of the Josef Mengele’s genetic experiments with twins in the town Candido Godoi. Freaky stuff.