Adolf Hitler's Suicide

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Adolf Hitler was a political leader in Germany and was the leader of the Nazi Party. His died on April 30, 1945 in Berlin, Germany. He and his wife took shelter in a bunker and because allied forces were regaining land and coming after Hitler and his army, he believed the only way out was death. Him and his wife both committed suicide. One of Hitler’s wishes before he died was to have his body burned along with his wife’s. This leads to many different theories because there was no body, many people believe he did not die while others believe he did. The death of Adolf Hitler can be ruled as a suicide because of textual support and history. Due to the pressure of allied forces, Germans began to be pushed back towards Berlin. There were many …show more content…

In the bunker where they were located, there was noise of partying but when Hitler shot himself, none of the survivors heard he gun shot. Both Hitler and his wife’s bodies were both hastily burned because Soviet forces were closing in on the chancellery. Stalin wanted to find Hitler’s body, finding his body had become a major political issue and Moscow had announced that his death was actually a trick. There was a body that was discovered in the chancellery garden that had similar features to Hitler, but they had declared that it was not Hitler’s body, no one knows how the body got their and it still remains a mystery. On May 4th, Hitler and his wife’s body were found in in the chancellery garden, the bodies were then taken to Buch in northeast Berlin. Through dental checks they found that the body was actually Hitler’s and on May 7th, Moscow was informed that they found Hitler’s body. It is claimed that his body was buried beneath an army parade ground in Magdeburg. In the 1990’s, Russian authorities claimed they exhumed Hitler’s body, burned it, and then flushed the ashes in the sewage system. As to whether or not they found Hitler’s body still remains a mystery (“Adolf Hitler commits …show more content…

While the remains of two bodies were found by the Society army intelligence, the identity of the bodies are a bit wary. Gerrard Williams, a historian, said that the bodies that were found were actually body doubles. A team of former CIA investigators support this theory because Hitler was known to have a body doubt for security reasons. The people who knew Hitler said that he had too much respect to execute his body double. The death of Hitler is based solely on testimonies from the people who were there. People believe that the testimonies that were given were based on lies. A piece of evidence for Hitler’s death is a piece of a skull fragment with a bullet hole that was found in 1946. The bone was analyzed and it was found that it belonged to a women under the age of forty, not a man in his fifties. Moscow says that this isn’t actually a solid piece of evidence, the solid piece of evidence that Moscow has is a piece of a jaw bone. The saw bone was analyzed by Hitler’s dentist and he confirmed that the jaw bone matched Hitler’s, though there has been no other analysis to confirm that it is Hitler’s jawbone. People believe that Hitler’s dentist was forced to say that it was in fact Hitler’s jaw to conceal the truth. The Russians destroyed all of the records, remains and facilities that were involved with the autopsy to prevent them from becoming sites for Neo-Nazis. There is a lot of speculation around the death of

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