A wise old psychologist who lived throughout most of the twentieth century noted the psychic thirst to keep thinking about Hitler. “He always comes back. There’s always one more story, one more movie, one more theory. Always, he comes back.”
Now comes the latest story regarding something you thought was long settled. Hitler killed himself in his bunker as the dream of his thousand-year Reich collapsed in ruins around him, you read in your history book. As Joseph Stalin’s troops closed in.
No, the counter-theory goes. He actually planned an escape to Argentina, and lived there surrounded by other ultra-nasty Nazis as they lived a quiet fascism, deeply hidden away. That’s never been proven, but with the number of “doubles” that Hitler had as assassination-decoys, it’s actually possible. Reasonably plausible that a Hitler look-a-like was found burned by the Russians that spring, with the actual monster on the lam in a planned escape.
Plausible, but apparently not the case if we believe the report published by French researchers. And, if we believe a Russian researcher’s notes from the time about Hitler’s teeth, one of the few things that would survive a charred body in recognizable form.