There is no doubt that 66 years after, mystery still shrouds the exact circumstances of the death of Adolf Hitler, the Nazi dictator.
Proof to this is that British journalist Gerrard Williams and co-author Simon Dunstan had just published a book debunking claims that on April 30, 1945, Hitler and his wife of one day, Eva Braun, retired to their suite in the Fuhrer’s underground bunker to take their lives as the tanks and troops of Soviet General Vasily Chuikov’s Eight Guards army were fast closing in on the Reich Chancellery.
What happened instead, according to Williams, is that in his researches of newly declassified documents and forensic tests, it all pointed to the Hitlers being allowed to escape and secretly flown out of Germany and taken to then fascist-controlled Argentina.
“We didn’t want to re-write history, but the evidence we’ve discovered about the escape of Adolf Hitler is just too overwhelming to ignore,” Williams said.
“There is no forensic evidence for his, or Eva Braun’s deaths, and the stories from the eyewitnesses to their continued survival in Argentina are compelling.”
The book also mentions that Hitler lived in Argentina for 17 years and has allegedly raised two daughters, until his death in 1962.
But, the controversy over Hitler’s death does not actually end with the publication of this book, which is now being made into a film.
It is even now more confusing.
While the West have always been made to believe that Hitler committed suicide by shooting himself in the head and being burned later, as was his last minute instruction to his aides, Lev Bezymenski, a former Red army intelligence officer, has revealed in a book he has written that the Russians not only found Hitler’s body after taking the bunker, but that they also performed an exhaustive autopsy that showed that Hitler had died by cyanide poisoning.
Whether Hitler died by a bullet wound or by cyanide poisoning may not be a very significant question, given the choice on whether he and Eva had to end their lives, literally, with a bang or a whimper.
The more compelling question would be: Could Hitler have decided to flee Nazi Germany with all his ill-gotten wealth and be a traitor to his people and country? This scenario seems to be very unlikely to have happen.
Also, Williams may find it hard to refute what Rochus Misch, a former bodyguard of Hitler, has written in his memoirs, “The Last Witness.”
Rochus was by the Fuhrer’s side for five years and saw Hitler’s remains after he committed suicide as the Russian tanks closed in. He is thought to be the last remaining member/survivor of the group who hid in the Fuhrerbunker during the assault.
Lastly, if the Israeli intelligence were so successful in ferreting out Nazi criminals in South America, which has been known to be the sanctuary of Nazis, do you think Hitler would have escaped the Israeli fine comb, he who was the most wanted criminal of them all?