What Happened to Hitler's Corpse? - War Against Humanity 136

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  • Joseph Stalin claims that Adolf Hitler managed to escape Berlin and is now living somewhere in hiding. It’s complete nonsense of course. But it raises some interesting questions. What remains do we have of Hitler? How do we know they belong to the Fuhrer? And, why is Stalin spreading these far-fetched lies?
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Komentáře • 602

  • @WorldWarTwo
    @WorldWarTwo  Před 9 dny +113

    The fate of Hitler’s remains is a fascinating insight into the early Cold War and the manipulation of history that is still so prevalent in the 21st century. Join the Timeghost Army so we can continue fighting the battle for truth www.patreon.com/TimeGhostHistory

    • @ralphranzinger4197
      @ralphranzinger4197 Před 9 dny +4

      That's in the movie..... in the comics Hitler dies 1945..... but the BUAP Stories are even crazier than what we learn from the movie. And the occult cold War..... boy, that is some good stuff.

    • @eduardogutierrez4698
      @eduardogutierrez4698 Před 8 dny +1

      That thumbnail sent shivers down my spine the moment the notification came...

    • @spartacus-olsson
      @spartacus-olsson Před 7 dny

      For all the people reposting links to speculative fiction about how Hitler escaped, or whatever…. Please don’t - it’s scientifically established that he died in Berlin, on April 30, 1945.
      In 2017 an independent international team of forensic scientists led by French coroner, forensic pathologist and paleopathologist Philippe Charlier, were given unrestricted access to the jawbone in the Moscow archives. By comparing the jawbone and X-rays of the jawbone to the five X-ray plates of Hitler’s skull, they conclusively showed that they match. That’s a match that is equivalent to a fingerprint, or iris comparison. They also performed a variety of forensic chemical tests on the jawbone to confirm its authenticity. The study was presented in the European Journal of Internal Medicine for peer review. That review confirmed Charlier’s conclusion that “there is no possible doubt. Our study proves that Hitler died in 1945 [in Berlin]."

    • @astralclub5964
      @astralclub5964 Před 6 dny

      If you understand the Fuhrer’s psychology, you’d know that Gotterdammerung in Berlin was his preferred ending to running and hiding like a hunted rat!. But conspiracy nuts want to think he’s living in Antartica or on the Moon!

    • @TheHardys01
      @TheHardys01 Před 6 dny

      ​@@spartacus-olssonThere's more "evidence" that Osama was kllled than there is for Hitler.
      "There is no possible doubt"
      That's a lot of faith yur putting in there.

  • @patrikcath1025
    @patrikcath1025 Před 9 dny +495

    Some conspiracy theorists keep insisting he's still alive, and somehow completely disregard the fact he would be almost 130 years old by now.

    • @mrvn000
      @mrvn000 Před 9 dny +58

      Nazy technology.

    • @amogusenjoyer
      @amogusenjoyer Před 9 dny +31

      I've never heard of anyone saying he's still alive these days. The conspiracy theories usually are about post war escape, no? But maybe I've never came across the weirdos who would believe something like that haha.

    • @pronstorestiffi
      @pronstorestiffi Před 9 dny +60

      130 is nothing when you are in a mecha body.

    • @johncox2865
      @johncox2865 Před 9 dny +30

      Hitler was born in April of 1889. If he was alive today, he would be 135 years old.

    • @alexamerling79
      @alexamerling79 Před 9 dny +35

      Nah he's on the moon.

  • @eyeyayayay
    @eyeyayayay Před 9 dny +344

    When they filmed the dark comedy, "Death of Stalin", the costume director reduced the number of medals on Zhukov's uniform because he thought the audience would never believe the number of medals he actually wore in real life

    • @neilwilson5785
      @neilwilson5785 Před 9 dny +48

      And he was still badass in that movie. Maybe the two AK-47s hidden in his jacket helped.

    • @lc1138
      @lc1138 Před 9 dny +40

      A wide chest was mandatory to become soviet general.

    • @evocorporation6537
      @evocorporation6537 Před 8 dny +56

      His role in that movie was hilarious. Up till he's introduced everyone's playing their political intrigue games, and then megachad Zhukov just burst through the door; makes fun of everyone, knows he's untouchable and is done taking a shit from anyone, hits Stalin's son and just goes along with the coup just to fuck up Beria. Not even for power.

    • @PaulRudd1941
      @PaulRudd1941 Před 8 dny

      ​@evocorporation6537 Even when Stalin was alive, he knew he could never execute Zhukov without throwing all his power and credibility away.
      Zhukov fucked Germany. He can handle a fat lump in a waist coat.

    • @markberman6708
      @markberman6708 Před 8 dny +9

      Epic movie!!!

  • @danielwillens5876
    @danielwillens5876 Před 9 dny +230

    "Find Hitler's Dentist!" would be a great title for a Mel Brooks film!

    • @dudesqr
      @dudesqr Před 8 dny +7

      I hear he's producing Space Balls 2

    • @j.4332
      @j.4332 Před 8 dny

      Its not well known Mel Brooks served in 63rd Div in Europe..

    • @frankmueller2781
      @frankmueller2781 Před 2 dny

      ​@@dudesqrthen perhaps film "Find Hitler's Balls"!

  • @Crabby303
    @Crabby303 Před 9 dny +159

    Stalin accusing Zhukov of egoism is just too funny, he obviously didn't have one iota of self-reflection lol.

    • @111doomer
      @111doomer Před 9 dny +32

      Soviet internal politics. Party ruled until '42 which didn't go great, then the arny was given some leg room, things like old style shoulder boards etc, then with the European war over the party needed to take control again. Time to reign in Zhukov and others a little less they get too powerful.
      Stalin really was a cowardly little shit.

    • @Crabby303
      @Crabby303 Před 8 dny +14

      @@111doomer Yup, behind every oversized ego is massive insecurity

  • @igorGriffiths
    @igorGriffiths Před 8 dny +30

    One of the many reasons for Stalin perpetuating the myth of Hitlers escape was he knew the free press in the West would lap it up and go chasing ghosts, which they have and still do to this day.

    • @p.strobus7569
      @p.strobus7569 Před 7 dny

      He also wanted to give a kick to the West is Bad lie on which Soviet and now modern Russian propaganda relies. They don’t call the West Fash for funsies, the lie that the West is harboring mustache boy is necessary for claiming that any who oppose Moscow are his minions.

    • @whysoserious8666
      @whysoserious8666 Před 7 dny +3

      Now it’s just called trolling 😂

  • @gizmophoto3577
    @gizmophoto3577 Před 8 dny +29

    I am pleased to see that the thumbnail for this episode is an image created by Erwin Blumenfeld. His art has been an inspiration to me over the past couple years. He deserves to be better known.

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  Před 8 dny +12

      Mikolaj's idea! Thanks for the comment.

    • @gizmophoto3577
      @gizmophoto3577 Před 8 dny +4

      @@WorldWarTwo Cheers to Mikolaj!

    • @MikiUchman
      @MikiUchman Před 8 dny +4

      ​@@gizmophoto3577 Thanks! Seeing the subject of this episodes, his collages were my immediate go-to:) Blumenfeld's work is one of my inspirations too, especially in photography.

  • @blueboats
    @blueboats Před 9 dny +50

    The need for a persistent external enemy to keep your subjects paranoid and loyal

    • @joestevenson6605
      @joestevenson6605 Před 7 dny +2

      Exactly. They needed a new Goldstein to replace Trotsky.

  • @Derpleton14
    @Derpleton14 Před 9 dny +174

    Pretty sure he's on the dark side of the moon

  • @LtHavoc1983
    @LtHavoc1983 Před 8 dny +17

    I am always reminded of Rod Serlings closing narration of the stellar Twilight Zone Episode "He´s Alive": "Where will he go next, this phantom from another time, this resurrected ghost of a previous nightmare - Chicago? Los Angeles? Miami, Florida? Vincennes, Indiana? Syracuse, New York? Anyplace, everyplace, where there's hate, where there's prejudice, where there's bigotry. He's alive. He's alive so long as these evils exist. Remember that when he comes to your town. Remember it when you hear his voice speaking out through others. Remember it when you hear a name called, a minority attacked, any blind, unreasoning assault on a people or any human being. He's alive because through these things we keep him alive."

    • @darrylkraatz1482
      @darrylkraatz1482 Před 7 dny +2

      Very fitting, never saw the episode but profound words.

    • @LtHavoc1983
      @LtHavoc1983 Před 7 dny +6

      @@darrylkraatz1482 I highly recommend it, it has a young Dennis Hooper playing a Neo-Nazi leader, who struggles to gain a following, until....well, you have to see it, saying more would spoil it.

    • @whodoobucrew2960
      @whodoobucrew2960 Před dnem

      As someone with family from (near) Vincennes, Indiana, it is very funny that he names that city specifically

  • @JagerLange
    @JagerLange Před 9 dny +44

    He'd be 135 years old so I'd certainly hope so.

  • @GaldirEonai
    @GaldirEonai Před 9 dny +99

    Two theories from me:
    1.) It seems like Stalin couldn't believe that Hitler was dead because he could not comprehend that _anyone_ would stay and die in Berlin if they still had an escape route open. He fundamentally believed that everyone else was exactly the same he was, concerned entirely with their own survival to the exclusion of all other concerns.
    2.) The conflicting stories may have originated in various branches of the soviet apparatus each finding various remains and immediately going "we've found Hitler!" without checking more closely while the investigation into Hitler's actual remains was ongoing but kept secret due to soviet compartmentalization. The bullet-riddled, beaten corpse for example might very well have been our old friend Fegelein...

    • @JLAvey
      @JLAvey Před 9 dny +15

      On your point one, that attitude is actually quite common with out species. The notion of judging everybody on one's own values might even be the default setting. That's why Stalin was always griping about the Allies taking their time getting around to invade France in order to bleed the Red Army dry-- because if the situation was reversed, it's precisely what he would have done.
      It takes far more of a leap than it should to realize other people have other perspectives.

    • @neilwilson5785
      @neilwilson5785 Před 9 dny +8

      Whatever you think about Stalin, he was not a coward. More of a ruthless thug.

    • @antoniofernandesmarchetti1097
      @antoniofernandesmarchetti1097 Před 9 dny +2

      Fegelein is still alive! We hang out this weekend! Good company, but still traumatized because of what Ultron tried to do with him!

    • @satazs6195
      @satazs6195 Před 9 dny +11

      Actually, Stalin stayed, and was going to stay in Moscow in the winter of 1941 when it looked like the Germans were going to take the city, and when everyone else was evacuating and the situation looked grim. Though it's possible that he would have eventually fled, had the Germans reached and encircled the city in force.

    • @riograndedosulball248
      @riograndedosulball248 Před 9 dny +10

      ​@@neilwilson5785didn't he spend three days despairing in his room at the start of Barbarossa, without coming out to address the situation?
      That's one thing about thugs.
      They are cowards.

  • @rrice1705
    @rrice1705 Před 9 dny +45

    That's incredible the x-rays were not compared with the dental remains until 2017. I'd always thought that, as of April 1945, everyone just knew or at least assumed Hitler was in fact dead. Didn't realize the uncertainty about it, especially in the years immediately afterward. Thank you for telling the story so comprehensively, Spartacus!

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  Před 8 dny +8

      Thanks for watching!

    • @v44n7
      @v44n7 Před 6 dny

      as Argentinian the myth is quite alive even today that Hitler escaped Berlin. Just dental remains as proof of his body is quite odd to me. The Nazis were quite aware and had experiences dealing with bodies, the remains, and especially the dental remains of Jews. So I am sorry to hesitate of the sudden "Oh yes Hitler was cremated, here is the dental proof of it"...

  • @mattw785
    @mattw785 Před 9 dny +65

    Hands down this is the best WWII channel on YT. I consider this to be equal to the Battlefield series from the late 90s.

    • @extrahistory8956
      @extrahistory8956 Před 9 dny +2

      Well, it helos that they have covered campaigns and battles that the Battlefield series hasn't

    • @browngreen933
      @browngreen933 Před 8 dny +2

      Felton and Military1945 are better.

    • @extrahistory8956
      @extrahistory8956 Před 8 dny +7

      @@browngreen933 Not really? Especially on the military side. I don't think Felton has given a measured coverage of tactics, logistic and combined that with graphics in the same way that these guys have, nor has he covered the politics of the China-India-Burma or the North African front to the same degree, nor any sort coverage on the East African, Borneo (1945) and Ichi Go

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  Před 8 dny +6

      Thank you very much for the kind words.

  • @PumaTwoU
    @PumaTwoU Před 8 dny +7

    Best summation I have ever heard of all the twists, turns and lies that followed Hitler's death. Tough to pull al the strings together. Excellent job.

  • @whtghst8105
    @whtghst8105 Před 8 dny +6

    We rarely hear about the Jews that survived in hiding throughout the war.
    It must have been an incredibly tense time being in the shadow death.
    The stress and anxiety must have been its own terror.

  • @Salentu03
    @Salentu03 Před 9 dny +65

    After the war, Hugo Blaschke took a job at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant as the deputy chief engineer. Some said that he was neither great nor terrible at it.

    • @finnyishere3532
      @finnyishere3532 Před 9 dny +7

      He only got up to 3.6 Röntgen before the whole thing blew up in his face

    • @Conn30Mtenor
      @Conn30Mtenor Před 9 dny +5

      That wasn't graphite on the roof.

    • @dudesqr
      @dudesqr Před 8 dny +6

      It's not 3.6 Röntgen....
      It's 15,000

  • @gregcampwriter
    @gregcampwriter Před 9 dny +72

    This is one of the many flaws of the Soviet system: If you act as if no one is trustworthy, no evidence that anyone offers will be enough if said evidence points to a politically undesirable conclusion.

    • @neilwilson5785
      @neilwilson5785 Před 9 dny +1

      It's like the 'post truth' world of Putin and Trump. Reality is despised, and the opinion of powerful men is not to be questioned.

    • @ilokivi
      @ilokivi Před 8 dny +1

      And there was I, regarding Hitler’s death as a politically desirable outcome. Silly.

    • @shaft9000
      @shaft9000 Před 8 dny

      Sounds a lot like the MSM pushing Russiagate ad nausea from 2016-2020 and beyond...

    • @LarcR
      @LarcR Před 8 dny +5

      Whatever the Soviet government said then just as whatever the Russian government says now, it could/can all be safely assumed to be a lie.

    • @p.strobus7569
      @p.strobus7569 Před 7 dny +1

      @@ilokivi His death was desired. What was not desired was lack of brutal punishment. Their system was focused on revenge (like sentencing a hygienist who treated him to eight years in prison) and anything that cheated them of their prey was not desired.

  • @ramjam720
    @ramjam720 Před 8 dny +14

    This reminds me of the Chevy Chase opening of Weekend Update on SNL. "I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not. Our top story tonight; Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead."

    • @george217
      @george217 Před 8 dny

      "No he's not. He and his brother, (The Immortal) got away..."

  • @renater.540
    @renater.540 Před 7 dny +6

    Anyone else having a "dejà-vu" experience in comparing past Soviet and present Russian press release tactics?

  • @brettbosley779
    @brettbosley779 Před 8 dny +59

    The notion that such a narcissist as Hitler could lie low for the better part of a century is one of the most absurd parts of these theories.

    • @brazenatheist1676
      @brazenatheist1676 Před 8 dny +1

      Yeah, definitely a good point. It's hard to think he could even get away with being hidden that long regardless.

    • @brettbosley779
      @brettbosley779 Před 8 dny +8

      @@brazenatheist1676 he went out of his way to be recognized. Hell, his propaganda *still* works.

    • @michaelfodor6280
      @michaelfodor6280 Před 8 dny +15

      And he would be a political (thermonuclear) hot potato. Any nation hosting Hitler would face the possibility of having the Soviet and US navies lingering off the coast, negotiating between themselves as to how to divide the country. And the Mossad would be in there as well, since the agent that captures Hitler would be the most popular Jew since Jesus.
      Also Hitler would have gone mad if he was alive, knowing that there was an entire country of Jews created (indirectly) by his policies.

    • @dodojesus4529
      @dodojesus4529 Před 7 dny

      Youd get a "unafilliated" team of heavily armed and equiped soldiers dropping in and turning hitler into minced meat instantly

    • @Tecmaster96
      @Tecmaster96 Před 7 dny

      @@michaelfodor6280i agree with all of that except the part about Israel. Hitler discussed deporting all the Jews into a land for them outside of europe often before the war. Obviously they would have been far more mistreated in this scenario, but a country for jews outside of Europe was not outside possibility for him.

  • @dardell2001
    @dardell2001 Před 9 dny +23

    Are we sure that the Red Skull didn't snatch up Hitler's body for some nefarious Hydra project? I mean it's about as possible as that madman surviving imo

    • @andmos1001
      @andmos1001 Před 9 dny +4

      To be fair, the comic where correct in some aspects of this:
      The USSR did snatch Hitlers body up for some nefarious project. That being propaganda

    • @sdelmonte
      @sdelmonte Před 9 dny +2

      Google "Hate Monger" and "Marvel Comics" if are not a a comics fan.

    • @rainkloud
      @rainkloud Před 7 dny

      Don’t be stupid! Everyone knows that Hitler survived, fled to castle Wolfenstein and was robotisized with 4 chain guns.
      It was only thanks to American OSS agent B.J. Blazkowicz that senor hitler was finally decommissioned for good.
      Sad to see so many young people not know their history.

  • @barrygray3615
    @barrygray3615 Před 9 dny +7

    22:08 Isn’t this the third decade of the century? Fascinating episode, I never knew about any of this.

    • @freshnuub438
      @freshnuub438 Před 8 dny

      Here in my end of the world we call it the second. Others call it third.

  • @dazzlingurbanite9268
    @dazzlingurbanite9268 Před 9 dny +10

    You are one of the few historians that call Ava, Ava Hitler. Other historians acknowledge the fact that they were married in the bunker but they will not call her by her married name. I don't really care either way but I just found it interesting that some do but most wont.
    This was a good show. Thank you.

    • @spartacus-olsson
      @spartacus-olsson Před 8 dny +17

      We’re sticklers for that study of thing. She officially changed her name just after the ‘ceremony’ this she died Eva Hitler. Now, the reason this is often ignored is simple: it’s confusing in any text and cumbersome to deal with two names, and her time as Frau Hitler lasted less than 24 hours… note that we call call her Eva Braun at least once in the script for this video, which I realized while recording, but decided to not go back and re-record, because it was confusing that way anyway.

  • @user-ed9qr9kp8o
    @user-ed9qr9kp8o Před 7 dny +1

    Thanks, keep up the AWESOME work!

  • @chrisd997
    @chrisd997 Před 4 dny +1

    Dear Spartacus, for the first time I caught you! 15:59 you forgot the Moon! Nur spass :)

  • @jamesbodnarchuk3322
    @jamesbodnarchuk3322 Před 9 dny +3

    Lookin sharp as always Sparti❤

  • @Joseplh
    @Joseplh Před 9 dny +10

    12:00 I hear birds, anyone else?

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  Před 8 dny +7

      Yep, where the studio is located in the hotter seasons they tend to get pretty loud!

  • @johnskitt6616
    @johnskitt6616 Před 9 dny +2

    Superb, thank you Sparty & team

  • @DominicBHaven-qm6nx
    @DominicBHaven-qm6nx Před 9 dny +6

    Still crazy after all these years. Great video, seems like the mystery is over. Somebody will always speculate that he escaped by submarine or some other way. The simple truth is not appealing enough to the suspicious.

    • @planderlinde1969
      @planderlinde1969 Před 9 dny +3

      Yeah the idea he somehow escaped is ludacris when you take into account that during the battle of Berlin the city was completely encircled by the Red Army and the Soviets and allies had compete control over all possible routes of escape. Also at this time Hitler would 56 years old with a deteriorating mental and physical state trying to escape an active war zone.

  • @dustinalessi6602
    @dustinalessi6602 Před 5 dny

    I really appreciate Spartacus I was worried some topics wouldn't be covered but Spartacus has done a great job tying up loose ends that didn't make it to the regular

  • @SEAZNDragon
    @SEAZNDragon Před 8 dny +8

    If anyone has a few hours to spare Mark Felton did a multipart series about Hitler's and Braun's bodies. He does a deep dive on the contractions between witnesses, reports, and the bodies themselves.

    • @spartacus-olsson
      @spartacus-olsson Před 8 dny +9

      I hate to tell you, but his conclusions in that series are not up to the professional historiographical standards.

    • @whysoserious8666
      @whysoserious8666 Před 7 dny

      @@spartacus-olssonmark does a Himmler death video. I’d like to see a time ghost episode. Have you done one already?

    • @spartacus-olsson
      @spartacus-olsson Před 7 dny

      @@whysoserious8666 we have not - at the moment it’s not on our schedule. If we do it, it will be part of our legacy content after the chronological coverage ends, until then we’re fully blocked out.

  • @rockheart3645
    @rockheart3645 Před 5 dny +1

    My Grand worked at the harbour in Esbjerg Denmark.. He swor on his grave that hitler and some other borded a sub at the harbour in the nighttime and sailed of.. He told my granny the next morning.. then they were told that he was dead.. they never belived it..

  • @NigelDeForrest-Pearce-cv6ek

    Very Well Done!!!

  • @jamesbodnarchuk3322
    @jamesbodnarchuk3322 Před 9 dny +10

    I truly believe Hitler& Ava died in that bunker❤

  • @joeylair2191
    @joeylair2191 Před 6 dny

    Thank you Sparty and Indy. I so appreciate the final comments about how people malign the past for a variety of reasons. History is not always lost, even though events are remembered differently by people over time. Again thank you for what you all are doing! :)

  • @lanagro
    @lanagro Před 9 dny +73

    Dr. Mark Felton has an excellent , truthful, accurate series on this very subject.

    • @stevew6138
      @stevew6138 Před 9 dny +3

      You beat me to the comment, and I agree 100%.

    • @harlockmbb
      @harlockmbb Před 9 dny +1

      Mark Felton has great content because and is always researching in government archives as they become avaliable.

    • @SmackheadGaming
      @SmackheadGaming Před 9 dny +20

      Is this meant to be ironic or something

    • @mattheweagles5123
      @mattheweagles5123 Před 9 dny +13

      The internet needs a sarcastic font

    • @darthos6257
      @darthos6257 Před 9 dny +17

      Dr. Mark 'Wikipedia' Felton?

  • @golden_smaug
    @golden_smaug Před 6 dny

    I love the formality you treat this subject with

  • @davidhatton583
    @davidhatton583 Před 4 dny +1

    Sorry Sparty but ‘Rare Stairs’ instead of Rear stairs had me giggling. I think they were RARE indeed to be such a historic passageway for a very brief time.

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  Před 16 minutami

      If not rare, then at least secret…

  • @markmierzejewski9534
    @markmierzejewski9534 Před 9 dny +20

    Some say that he is even cryogenically frozen on the dark side of the moon…

    • @bryansammis998
      @bryansammis998 Před 9 dny

      I thought Antarctica?

    • @angrydoggy9170
      @angrydoggy9170 Před 9 dny +4

      @@bryansammis998They probably moved him to the secret base on Antarctica where the launching pad to the moon was located.

    • @arashimiyazawa8165
      @arashimiyazawa8165 Před 9 dny +6

      @@bryansammis998 They had to relocate to the moon due to global warming

    • @croatbruhmoment2910
      @croatbruhmoment2910 Před 9 dny

      "some"? like mark felton?

  • @erfquake1
    @erfquake1 Před 8 dny +6

    I read an article once about Joseph Mengele's fairly-boring death by drowning in 1979 in South America. The Mossad had been hunting him for decades but the trail had run cold, and they refused to accept that anyone that evil could have died so uneventfully. The article wrapped up saying it is human nature that those who would wish someone's death so passionately would refuse to believe just as passionately that it was true.

  • @Doc_Tar
    @Doc_Tar Před 9 dny +11

    Thank you, Spartacus for clearing up so much gossip and false rumor on this subject.

  • @ralphranzinger4197
    @ralphranzinger4197 Před 9 dny +12

    Another great episode I was looking forward to. The Fall of the iron curtain and opening of the sovjet archives was without any doubt a golden opportunity for historians and scholars all over the World.

  • @naveenraj2008eee
    @naveenraj2008eee Před 8 dny +3

    Hi Sparty.
    Great explanation.
    Nice to hear what is truth.

  • @dabidibup
    @dabidibup Před 9 dny +8

    Even if he escaped, he lost the war. What secret plans could he run behind the scenes that he wouldn't also screw up? The myth is more powerful than the body would be, the myth leaves the door open. Closing it confidently is saying we never need to refer to it again. To never forget, is to admit the utility of observing dangers

  • @millipedic
    @millipedic Před 8 dny +5

    Excellent Sparty! I've seen a number of sensationalist you tube vids about various aspects of this controversy, but this is the first I've seen that tied it all together, in your inimitable way.

  • @christosvoskresye
    @christosvoskresye Před 8 dny +1

    I hope you later go into more detail about both (1) how rumors of Hitler's escape have been used by both governments and fringe movements and (2) what the popularity of such rumors says about society.

  • @gsilcoful
    @gsilcoful Před 8 dny +2

    Thanks!

  • @davidsigalow7349
    @davidsigalow7349 Před 9 dny +37

    Historians have always been puzzled by the note they found in der Fuhrerbunker:
    "I am not yet dead.
    I can sing and I can dance.
    I am not yet dead.
    I've been played by Bruno Ganz.
    I am not yet dead.
    No need to call the Reds.
    I'm going out for strudel
    'Cause I'm not yet dead."

    • @freppie_
      @freppie_ Před 9 dny +3

      and Baumgartner testifying he flew him out of Berlin.

    • @hnnsy
      @hnnsy Před 9 dny

      @@freppie_ not to mention the countless eye witness reports of him in South America. Some as recent as 2 years ago......

    • @freppie_
      @freppie_ Před 9 dny

      @@hnnsy 2 years ago seems a little of a stretch, but there we're indeed a lil too many accounts of him being seen.

    • @ComradeGustaf
      @ComradeGustaf Před 9 dny

      @@hnnsylol those arent exactly reliable considering he’d be a 133 year old meth addict

    • @croatbruhmoment2910
      @croatbruhmoment2910 Před 9 dny +5

      are the people in this reply section not reading this at all and thinking it's serious?

  • @billcampbell9611
    @billcampbell9611 Před 9 dny +3

    Wow! Thank you very much for detailing the identification of Hitler and Eva’s dental work; over the years I had heard considerable misinformation about his identification (or lack thereof). His death was quite certain, however: with his irrational delusions, he most certainly could not have quietly slinked away to live out his life, but instead he would have again begun spouting his inflammatory rhetoric elsewhere.

  • @ihn
    @ihn Před 7 dny +1

    Your German pronunciation is extremely good.

  • @AndrewC.McPherson-xf5zw
    @AndrewC.McPherson-xf5zw Před 7 dny +2

    Sparty pronounces The Furher's name right. Its not pronounced as "Hitler" it is "Hitla". Fyi.

  • @lewdachris7721
    @lewdachris7721 Před 9 dny +45

    Dr Mark Felton did a fascinating multi video lesson on this subject.

    • @sgufanboy
      @sgufanboy Před 9 dny

      Came here to say this if no-one else had. Fascinating.
      For anyone interested basically the idea is that the corpse of Hitler is a fake but he was probably buried somewhere else in the compound so that the Soviets would never find his real body

    • @Jimbotheone
      @Jimbotheone Před 9 dny +9

      Mark Felton is also very helpful in examining all evidence and arguments objectively before giving his opinion. There was enough oddities about the claimed bodies to make someone question if they are the true bodies of the Hitlers. However, whether or not they are dead is less unclear.

    • @danieldayton7814
      @danieldayton7814 Před 8 dny +1

      ​​@@JimbotheoneI was going to say what you two gentlemen said. Mark Felton did a great job looking at the different problems of what happened to Hitler. The question of Hitler's fate isn't as cut and dry and "don't you dare question it as this video portrays." There are a few holes in the story. (Personally I believe Hitler did die in the bunker and the dental records are the proof. But at least one body double probably made it to Argentina)

    • @ihollander6736
      @ihollander6736 Před 6 dny

      Mark Felton is a plagiarist pos who literally got hired by David Cameron once to "make Britain's history look better" he's a consumate hack and I wouldn't trust a word he says
      Amongst near countless examples I think my favourite was his once-implying that the only reason Vietnam 'fell' to communism is because the British Army wasn't there to stop it.
      It would be hilarious if he wasn't so extensively watched. Alas...

  • @El_Presidente_5337
    @El_Presidente_5337 Před 9 dny +1

    There is a little among us on the stone that weighs down the pages of the book in the lower left.

    • @spartacus-olsson
      @spartacus-olsson Před 9 dny

      It’s somewhat relevant… it’s a beach stone, and has pieces of shrapnel embedded in it. It witnessed the coming of a great armada, and the first men to storm the shores of occupied Europe and pass through the gates of hell, on the way to heaven, through the Nazi lines.

  • @drmarkintexas-400
    @drmarkintexas-400 Před 9 dny +4

    🙏🏆🎖️🤗
    Thank you for sharing this

  • @yshaikalmanovitch393
    @yshaikalmanovitch393 Před 4 dny

    Mark Felton had an interesting eposide on the question of identifying Hitler's body. He argues that while there is no reason to suspect that Hitler survived and escaped from the bunker, there are enough evidence to cast doubts on whether or not those were indeed the bodies of Hitler and Eva Brown that were recovered by the Soviets and that NKVD forensic analysis could not reach a conclusive outcome. He suggests a possible alternative theory, according to which the dentals were removed and "planted" on two different bodies while the bodies of Hitler and and his wife were burried on a different spot in the garden to avoid being captured and displayed by the Soviets as trophies, as this was a main concern to Hitler.

  • @user-ed9qr9kp8o
    @user-ed9qr9kp8o Před 6 dny +3

    Hello TGA and company. This is a follow up to a post I submitted yesterday regarding a video I recommended from Author/Historian and CZcamsr Mark Felton. After doing some research myself I can easily understand why I received the rebuke that I did from the members of this channel and Spartacus himself. Apparently, Dr. Felton really is a known plagiarist and sometimes fails miserably in one of the most critical elements of any respectable research: a bibliography. When I was working on both my BA and MA any work that I presented either for a grade or a professional paper presentation would NOT have even been accepted and graded without said bibliography. I made the rather naive assumption that because Felton has a PhD by his name that his work was credible; an assumption that after 48 years of reading, studying and most of all loving history is something I should be embarrassed by, and truthfully, I am. My apologies. As the saying goes you are certainly NEVER too old to learn. Thanks, TGA for the professional/critical feedback it was well deserved. Randy Forman, a proud, and now somewhat humbled Texan.

    • @spartacus-olsson
      @spartacus-olsson Před 6 dny +2

      This is possibly the most gracious response to an exchange we’ve received on the channel. Heartfelt thanks both for the gesture itself, and the thorough reasoning. ❤

    • @user-ed9qr9kp8o
      @user-ed9qr9kp8o Před 6 dny +1

      @@spartacus-olsson A thousand thank-yous Mr. Olsson, I take that as a great compliment. Some people might consider it anachronistic and archaic, but when I was reared up in Texas I was raised to live by a code. One of the things my father taught me was that it takes a real man to admit when he is wrong. I see being wrong as an opportunity for growth and learning. After some further research regarding the claims of plagiarism concerning Dr. Felton, I actually unsubscribed from his channel this morning. Besides, between your channel, Sabaton, The Chieftan and The Imperial War Museum channel I have practically a lifetime of content to study and absorb anyway. For those of y'all not familiar with Texas or Texan culture we have a well-deserved reputation for being arrogant, loud-mouth braggarts. In reference to my last posting about being a "somewhat humbled Texan", I have a question for you. What is rarer than a humble Texan? A blizzard in downtown Dallas in mid-August! Have a fabulous day sir!

    • @spartacus-olsson
      @spartacus-olsson Před 6 dny +1

      @@user-ed9qr9kp8o and the very same to you!

  • @browngreen933
    @browngreen933 Před 8 dny +1

    My hunch is that the Mythos surrounding A.H. will just keep growing.

    • @kirbyculp3449
      @kirbyculp3449 Před 7 dny

      Well, there is Hitler Chicken in Thailand.

    • @mattevans4377
      @mattevans4377 Před 7 dny

      Because, him being the mere mortal he actually was, terrifies people. It means any mere mortal can become like him, and no one wants to believe they are anything like him.
      Well, except maybe a few crazies, but you get my point.

  • @necrophagus9
    @necrophagus9 Před 8 dny

    It's really something that so many people don't realize how bad open air cremations are at burning human remains.

  • @matthewmcmacken6716
    @matthewmcmacken6716 Před 8 dny +3

    Shout out to Eva... she stood by her man until... 'der ende'.

  • @pokepha8379
    @pokepha8379 Před 5 dny

    Minor correction for the end: We're in the third decade of this century (00s, 10s, 20s)

  • @markwilliams2620
    @markwilliams2620 Před 5 dny

    "That Hitler's dead!"
    "He's not dead, he's just sleeping".

  • @konst80hum
    @konst80hum Před 7 dny

    Fascinating!

  • @hannahskipper2764
    @hannahskipper2764 Před 8 dny +1

    This whole story of claims and counterclaims and lies would be laughable if I didn't also remember how terrifing it must have been, particularly in the waning days of the war and right after the surreneder, to not know the exact truth, without a doubt. I do wish they'd caught him alive though. Talk about the trial of the century...

  • @followingtheapocalypsesson4337

    Hitler would be around 130 years old, if he we're alive today.
    i.e: please knock it off that he's alive somehow. Sheesh...

  • @LILSLB
    @LILSLB Před 8 hodinami

    He is definitely dead because his health was deteriorating at the end of the war, since so many high ranked Nazis escaped to South America and also to North Africa it’s just hard believe the fact that he killed himself

  • @melburns4378
    @melburns4378 Před 8 dny +4

    He's having a soft veggie, burger at Elvis's Atlantis retirement home. He dropped his dentures years ago and his dentist doesn't return calls - he's Fuhrerious.

  • @fredaaron762
    @fredaaron762 Před 5 dny

    These rumors also gave rise to the truly dreadful horror movie, They Saved Hitler's Brain.

  • @jeffwright4491
    @jeffwright4491 Před 3 dny

    Hitler was in rather bad health at the end of the war and not really in any shape to go on the run for any extended period. It is interesting though to speculate on what he would have done had he gotten out. That and by the photo Kathe Heusermann was pretty hot.

  • @jamesgardiner6749
    @jamesgardiner6749 Před 9 dny +3

    So where are those dental fragments now?

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  Před 9 dny +5

      Russia.
      -TimeGhost Ambassador

    • @ericcarlson3746
      @ericcarlson3746 Před 6 dny

      they were bought by that billionaire that funds Clarence Thomas

  • @whtghst8105
    @whtghst8105 Před 8 dny

    The fog of war was running rampant during ww2. This is one sampling of many.

  • @j.4332
    @j.4332 Před 8 dny

    I like how Spartacus does the full German pronunciations..Imagine youre a German Panzer commander.."This is Tiger battalion 505!We need emergency fuel supply-our recon has a way to destroy Zhukovs headquarters!..whaddya mean you used it all to burn the Fuhrer?"

  • @tygrkhat4087
    @tygrkhat4087 Před 9 dny +3

    One of my favorite novels is "The Berkut" by Joseph Heywood. Two SS men get Hitler out of Berlin, while Stalin sends a dedicated team to find and capture der Fuehrer. It's a fun read.

    • @TheBigheadValley
      @TheBigheadValley Před 8 dny +1

      I read that too and agree it was a fun read. Alternative historical fiction is interesting.

  • @jonathanstempleton7864
    @jonathanstempleton7864 Před 9 dny +26

    There's a bloke who works down my chip shop swears he's Hitler

    • @TheUltrahypnotoad
      @TheUltrahypnotoad Před 9 dny +6

      But he's a liar, and I'm not sure about you.

    • @neilwilson5785
      @neilwilson5785 Před 9 dny +8

      @@TheUltrahypnotoad This sums up the social media landscape of 2024 quite well

    • @Lukronius
      @Lukronius Před 8 dny +1

      Ol’ Chipler. Great bloke.

    • @shawnr771
      @shawnr771 Před 8 dny

      The authorities should charge him with war crimes.
      Put him on trial and see how long he sticks to his story.

  • @Weeboslav
    @Weeboslav Před 9 dny +4

    My sister-in-law is convinced that mustache man survived the war and fled to the Argentina. Could someone convince her otherwise?Let's say that it's more likely that my late mother would rise up from her grave than to my sister-in-law change her mind on her beliefs,regardless how absurd they could be...

    • @HypervoxelRBX
      @HypervoxelRBX Před 9 dny +4

      she probably consumed the Hunting Hitler series too hard and took the words from the faulty 'historians' as objective

  • @welcometonebalia
    @welcometonebalia Před 9 dny +2

    Not true! I bought his skull on Ebay, complete with the little moustache and stuff!
    (Thank you.)

  • @sailordude2094
    @sailordude2094 Před 9 dny +21

    After watching Mark Felton on this subject, all my thinking about Hitler's corpse has changed.

    • @matthisbonnet5951
      @matthisbonnet5951 Před 9 dny +9

      I was also very skeptical of Mark Felton’s videos about the deaths of Hitler and Martin Borman.
      Besides, a WAH on the death of Martin Borman could also be very interesting.
      So I don’t know how to position myself on Mark Felton’s videos.
      On the one hand, I have the impression that he does in-depth research on certain subjects and on the other, I have the impression that he seeks sensationalism more than anything else on other subjects.

    • @Piddel
      @Piddel Před 9 dny +4

      @@matthisbonnet5951 Mark Felton has done so many videos on basically the same subject he is running out of content on WW2 that a major audience would watch. This is why he is using clickbait-like titels. If he would spend atleast a bit of time to edit his videos not with standard windows movie maker from 2011 his audience could easily watch other videos than the 7th "what happened to hitlers gun?" or 4th "hitlers secret vehicles".

    • @GBOAC
      @GBOAC Před 9 dny +5

      Felton is a not a historian, he makes convincing sounding videos from fringe theories. Fine if you take it with a grain of salt just like the History Channel but look a bit further if you value proper historical consensus.

    • @JuleyC
      @JuleyC Před 8 dny +3

      @@GBOAC Uh yes Dr Mark Felton is a Historian

    • @llywrch7116
      @llywrch7116 Před 8 dny +1

      @@PiddelIMHO, there are still a lot of WWII topics Felton could cover. The activities of the US 10th Mountain Division is one, as is the Brazilian Expeditionary Force. But to do a quality feature on the latter would likely require fluency in Portuguese, & I don't know how willing Felton is to take on that challenge.

  • @kimepp2216
    @kimepp2216 Před 22 hodinami

    Hitler's death by his own hand in the bunker is so anticlimatic it must be true.
    If he had any courage he would have armed his party with weapons, sought out a battle in the Reichchancellery and gone down in a blaze of glory.
    If the Soviets had found him he would have had a huge public trial and probably ended his days kept in a small cage at Stalin's house.
    If the Allies caught him he would have had a front row seat at Nuremburg and a date with the hangman.
    He was likely the most identifiable person to the entire world by the end of ww2. He would not have been able to hide anywhere for long.
    Hitler would have killed himself because it was the option he suffered the least.

  • @EnderGrad
    @EnderGrad Před 8 dny +1

    The thumbnail looks like something you'd see on a poorly made creepypasta story from 2011

  • @samdumaquis2033
    @samdumaquis2033 Před 7 dny

    Interesting

  • @volodyadykun6490
    @volodyadykun6490 Před 9 dny +5

    By now definitely I would say😄

  • @willblack5419
    @willblack5419 Před 8 dny +2

    Did H have a double with similar dental work? If my “punishment” for telling the truth is the same for lying then why tell the truth? Only thing we know is a dental bridge was found. There is an opinion that it is a match for H due to an x-ray reviewed against a description of the dental work. How many cancers/fractures/foreign bodies are missed today with x-rays? IMHO

    • @spartacus-olsson
      @spartacus-olsson Před 8 dny

      Well… opinions aside, that’s not possible. Dental forensics is an established science, and it’s virtually impossible to create a double that includes actual teeth, much the same way you can’t fake fingerprints, or irises. It’s too complex… sure, you can build a model in resin or something, but not the actual teeth and the jawbone, or for that matter not any biological piece of anatomy that fits the original 100%.
      In the case of Hitler’s jawbone, four of the teeth are his own, and the other are prosthetics on the bridge. Because the jaw and exact placement of teeth are unique to each one of us, it’s also impossible to fake the dental work, so you get a triple whammy. A. The jaw matches. B. The teeth match, and C. The bridge matches. Since we have five X-ray plates of his skull from different angles, the match is incontestable.
      Now, while we might be careful to say that it’s definitely impossible to fake all of this in 2024, we can say for certain that it was definitely impossible in 1945. As in absolutely impossible beyond even the slightest doubt.

    • @p.strobus7569
      @p.strobus7569 Před 7 dny

      Occam is your friend, please listen to him. There is no evidence that he had or used one and the notion that a microphone hogging narcissist would allow ANYONE to look like him or take his place in anything is just silly.

  • @juricatomicic4829
    @juricatomicic4829 Před 8 dny +1

    I wonder what would Hitler say on all those conspiracy theories about his death. I know that I would be in disbelief and cringe while finding out about it, haha.
    Btw, Hitler artwork on thumbnail reminds me of Pazuzu from The Exorcist

  • @ADayintheLifeoftheTw
    @ADayintheLifeoftheTw Před 9 dny +3

    Well yeah, of course he is dead, the fool would have been over 100 years old.

  • @MsKatjie
    @MsKatjie Před 8 dny

    I am sure the crumbling demirouge, would have remembered the stark images, of a Southern mate. At least, they were ultimately shot. Mercy for the unforgiven!
    But if even his yucky dead form, was retrieved by the Soviets. dignity for the deceased, was not a phrase that came to mind.! Poor fellow, how harsh life became. Having to choose between the unthinkable or blowing ones' self away on the day of the wedding!

  • @mrmeowmeow710
    @mrmeowmeow710 Před 8 dny

    👍👍loved it great work

  • @Roamor1
    @Roamor1 Před 9 dny +2

    Thank you.

  • @j.4332
    @j.4332 Před 8 dny +1

    Is the French officer at about 13.40 Lattre de Tassigny?

  • @averagejoesmiling456
    @averagejoesmiling456 Před 8 dny +5

    Naw . . . he's with Elvis, man! 🤣🤣

  • @andyharding8630
    @andyharding8630 Před 8 dny +1

    Brilliant thank you 👍

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  Před 8 dny

      Thank you for the comment and thanks for watching.

  • @blackhathacker82
    @blackhathacker82 Před 9 dny +3

    Mr Spartacus impressive pointy mustache if i may say
    cultural

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  Před 8 dny +1

      Quite a dapper chap he is! Thanks for the comment.

  • @CrimsonTemplar2
    @CrimsonTemplar2 Před 9 dny +2

    Excellent video. Good work Sparty & team.

    • @WorldWarTwo
      @WorldWarTwo  Před 8 dny

      Thanks for the comment, and thanks for watching!

  • @johnbiddle1829
    @johnbiddle1829 Před 8 dny +1

    We're actually into the 3rd decade of the 21st century!

  • @thecliffdweller1212
    @thecliffdweller1212 Před 7 dny

    I'm a Boomer born '55. By mid '60s I had read Shirer's two books 'Rise and Fall of the Third Reich' and 'The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler' as well as Chirchill and Eisenhower. Just think how grammar school kids love dinosaurs today, that's how I was about WWII until I discovered GIRLS (but that's another story) I am trying to think when I discovered the Soviet disinformation plots. That would have been in the 1970 as I was preparing for college. I remember the female corpse story and followed the post-Soviet documents releases that confirmed what was IMHO solid speculative forensics without the final "bridgework" story.
    It's fun to look back at how my understanding of these events differed and changed over those years.

  • @jacktapping1898
    @jacktapping1898 Před 8 dny +1

    Wouldn’t the dental work melt in the fire? Resin and gold melt easily

    • @spartacus-olsson
      @spartacus-olsson Před 8 dny +2

      Not necessarily- fires don’t burn objects uniformly without external energy added. All you have to do to see this is look at an open wood fire… when the fire dies down you’ll most often find that some pieces of wood remain, and even that what has been burnt isn’t all ashes, but a mix of of wood, charcoal, and ash.

    • @jacktapping1898
      @jacktapping1898 Před 8 dny

      @@spartacus-olsson thank you for your reply

  • @marcelotononBR
    @marcelotononBR Před 6 dny

    May the algorithm bless you all

  • @shawnr771
    @shawnr771 Před 8 dny

    Thank you for the lesson.

  • @drewstar412
    @drewstar412 Před 7 dny

    What an interesting case. I remember in the 1970s, there was still strong debate on what happened to Adolf Hitler. It's up there with D.B. Cooper, and other VIP disappearance cases. Always figured, this was one of those files, that would still be classified, long after the standard 25 years of the window of declassification, would pass. I would have expected Hitler to get out of Germany way before the end of the war. Time Ghost Army...you almost had me reach for my tin foil hat here. hehe.

  • @qpid8110
    @qpid8110 Před 8 dny

    But what does the Chair of Infinite Knowledge think? *watches as it creeps into the frame.*

  • @onemoreminute0543
    @onemoreminute0543 Před 8 dny

    The best conspiracy theory I heard about Hitler surviving was that he escaped and lived as a hermit in a cave in Italy with hundreds of tinned beans to keep him fed 🤣