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I doubt the ongoing debate over Hitler's fate will stop, but this is a rare example of rational attempts to ascertain what happened. This new study by a French team, ostensibly given access to a surviving jawbone, seems substantive if not conclusive.
FULL STORY: https://www.yahoo.com/news/adolf-hitler-really-dead-scientific-153647102.html
ABSTRACT FOR THE CITED PAPER: https://www.ejinme.com/article/S0953-6205(18)30191-2/abstract
Adolf Hitler really is dead: scientific study debunks conspiracy theories that he escaped to South America
A peer-reviewed study in an academic journal has proved what you might have assumed you already knew: Adolf Hitler is dead and has been since he killed himself in his bunker in April 1945.
That scientists are devoting serious attention to proving this more than 70 years after the event may initially seem bizarre.
But almost from the moment the Führer died, a cottage industry of conspiracy theories sprang up to say he was still alive.
Hitler has been “spotted” emerging from a German U-boat in Argentina with Eva Braun in 1945, surrounded by adoring fugitive Nazis in 1950s Columbia, and approaching the end of his days in the 1980s as a happy nonagenarian with a younger Brazilian girlfriend.
Now, though, French scientists have been allowed to examine a jawbone that has been jealously guarded in the archives of the Russian secret service since the 1940s.
The analysis published in the peer-reviewed European Journal of Internal Medicine suggests that in this instance the Russians were telling the truth: Hitler killed himself, SS soldiers burnt his body, Soviet troops found the charred remains, and the jawbone ended up in Moscow.
The snappily entitled study – The remains of Adolf Hitler: A biomedical analysis and definitive identification – recounts how the French researchers were allowed access to the jawbone in the archives of Russia’s FSB – the successor to the KGB– in March and July 2017.
The lead author of the research, Professor Philippe Charlier, told a French documentary that it had been possible to compare the jawbone held by the Russians to Hitler’s dental records, thus allowing the Führer to be identified by his false teeth. ...
FULL STORY: https://www.yahoo.com/news/adolf-hitler-really-dead-scientific-153647102.html
ABSTRACT FOR THE CITED PAPER: https://www.ejinme.com/article/S0953-6205(18)30191-2/abstract