The key issue for me is the predatory marketing of baby formula to mothers in developing countries. Like heroin, you give the first fixes free. Unlike heroin, it is almost impossible to restart lactation if the mother has not been breastfeeding regularly. So the best case scenario is that a large proportion of the family income goes on formula for the next few years, while the mother-child dyad miss out on the profound and numerous health (physical and emotional) benefits of breastfeeding. The worst case scenario is that there is not a local supply of clean drinking water to make up the formula, and the infants die, either from malnutrition or from pathogens in the water.
Plus their chocolate isn't even that good.
Technically there were about 50 u-boats unaccounted for after WW2, but some have since been discovered as wrecks. It is plausible that there are operational u-boats out there somewhere, but they would be hopelessly obsolete now. There isn't much evidence that they formed any major part of the ratlines. There was no need. The world at the time was in chaos, and provided you had decently forged papers, nobody much cared who you were or where you were going post-war, as the world was overflowing with refugees. Why take a cramped stinky u-boat cruise when you can sit on a comfortable ocean liner and smoke, eat well, and chat up the girls?
Firstly, there is this article link, but the DNA was matched against Hitler's living relatives and his dental records for a match. The whole Hitler survival myth is sensationalism, much like the ongoing story of nazi super-scientists creating super weapons that are still current. Unless you seriously believe in the myth of Aryans being supermen with magical powers, there is no reason to believe these other stories.
There is a documentary on UK tv , Quest 9pm fridays, called Hunting Hitler, which is looking into this, also I read a book a few years ago dealing with this that convinced me he didn't die in the bunker, ( forget the name of the book and author but will try and find it ).
I wasn’t aware that there had been a DNA match with the skull fragments and Hitlers relatives, I too was under the impression that the DNA test confirmed the bone fragments to be that of a woman. The dentures I know about and agree they were a definite match. Even if he had escaped it would appear that towards the end of the war he was showing advanced symptoms of Parkinson’s so probably wouldn’t actually have lasted long.
No, don't try and deflect the blame. You've "taken a bullet", as you call it, for posting that crass remark about "selling chocolate to the masses."Looks like once again I take a bullet for other people's 'misdeeds'
LGL,
Go back to the start of this Nestle business, and next time, if it still offends you, pick on the right person.
INT21.
To be fair, the main person pushing the Hitler survived WW2 story was actually Stalin, who was convinced the allies were hiding him. While the Soviets were sitting on the actual remains of Hitler, they had no means of verifying them other than dental records, which weren't 100% conclusive, merely highly suggestive. It wasn't even as if the discovery of DNA meant that suddenly everybody wanted to DNA check the remains; that took ages to come about, but my understanding is that Hitler has a number of surviving relatives, and they were able to sample their DNA to get a positive match.
