Thanks to The Death of Hitler: The Final Word, we now know unequivocally that Adolf Hitler died in his Berlin bunker on April 30, 1945. Because you still weren't sure, were you?
The conspiracies began to flow from the very beginning—the Soviets helped spread them. "Hitler has escaped!" reported the news agency TASS on May 2, 1945. Stalin later told U.S. envoy Harry Hopkins that he presumed Hitler and his henchmen Josef Goebbels and Martin Bormann were somewhere in hiding. Then there was that German submarine, U-530, that made its way to Argentina in July 1945. Who was on board?
The History Channel series Hunting Hitler: The Final Evidence tackled this very subject. But as Brian Lowry put it in Variety, "if viewers were to take a shot of alcohol every time someone uses a phrase like, ‘There could have been … ‘ or, ‘There's a chance that Hitler might have come here … ‘ or, ‘If there was in fact a bunker …,' they would be plastered by the second or third commercial break."
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