How Did Hitler Escape

Riley Griffin
Mr. Bergmann
Senior English P5
4/7/2016

Hitler’s Escape On April 30, 1945 Adolf Hitler committed suicide…or did he? One of the most popular conspiracy theories is that the Fuhrer and his new wife, Eva Braun, escaped to Argentina. FBI documents from September of 1945 admit that Hitler, like many other Nazi leaders, could be hiding in Argentina after arriving by submarine. There is evidence that Hitler escaped found in the remaining bone fragments that the Soviets claimed were Hitler’s. In 2009 it was found out that the skull piece and jawbone belonged to a woman between 20-40 years of age and the DNA did not match Hitler or Eva Braun. With this evidence it is possible that Hitler escaped from Germany and that the FBI knew his
location and covered up his escape (“FBI”). The truth as we are told may or may not be correct.
According to History.com Hitler stayed in an underground bunker in Berlin. Hitler and his wife took cyanide pills and Hitler shot himself in the head. Their bodies were hastily cremated by some of the Nazi soldiers. When the Soviets arrived, they collected his ashes and moved them continuously so that a memorial could not be built as Hitler’s final resting place. No comment on the falsified remains, possibility of escape, or FBI involvement were made. (“History”)
A complete story from the Washington Post breaks down the most popular theories. It confirms that Hitler was in Berlin and states the catalyst for conspiracy was a false radio announcement saying that Hitler had died in battle when he had really committed suicide. This report, along with the absence of bodies, only fueled conspiracies. Through all this Trevor-Roper attempted to find the truth through these
conspiracies.(Petrova)
On 1 November 1945, Trevor-Roper gave a press conference in Berlin where he outlined the conclusions of his inquiry.
His investigations showed that Hitler had committed suicide at on 30 April 1945, and that Eva Braun had died with him. In Hitler's case, the manner of death was by shooting - the Fuhrer had put a pistol in his mouth and pulled the trigger. In the case of Eva Braun, she had taken one of the cyanide capsules that everyone living in the Bunker had been issued with. He claimed that it was not a doppelganger that was burned, there wasn’t enough time to get the ganger from the bunker, Hitler was apparently in too poor health to have escaped, and Eva Braun would not have been willing to be replaced by a doppelganger. In a briefcase recovered from the bunker several papers were found. Here was Hitler's Will and Political Testament. This confirmed what Trevor-Roper had been told about the last days in the Bunker. There was also Goebbels's Appendix to Hitler's Political Testament - further corroborative evidence that the picture Trevor-Roper was building up was essentially correct. Third, and perhaps most intriguing of all, there was the marriage contract of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun. All these pointed to the conclusion that Hitler was planning something very dramatic.
(Petrova)
In 1947 Trevor-Roper's report was published under the title The Last Days of Hitler. The book ought to have solved the mystery once and for all, to have killed speculation forever. It was meticulously researched, well written and generally convincing. But several points were left unresolved that didn’t come to light until recently.(Petrova) The remains were still unaccounted for in both reports, and there was no mention of Argentinian escape hidden by the FBI. Neither report even mentioned that the remains of Hitler were not actually Hitler’s and that there are absolutely no remains of Eva Braun. The method of Hitler’s suicide also differed between sources. One said that he committed suicide by both cyanide and a bullet through the brain. The other said that his wife was the only one to take the cyanide capsule while Hitler shot himself.
The conspiracy ignores the eye witness accounts that Hitler was burned. It ignores the blood stained on the bunker’s couch. And it ignores the fact that the FBI information was from before Hitler’s apparent death.
In my opinion, I agree with the conspiracy. The facts that the method of suicide, and the absence of remains just proves that we do not know. The fact that the Soviets had false remains this whole time makes it seem to me that they were trying to cover up the fact that Hitler had escaped. Yes the true articles did say that he was hastily cremated, but I only see three reasons why they would do such a thing. The first would be to keep Hitler’s loyals from making a memorial. The second would be to prevent a Mussolini-type desecration of his corpse. The third, and most likely, would be to hide the fact that it was not Hitler. The conspiracy is more convincing because of the amount of detail and the wavering details of his suicide.
There are conspiracies because the honest truth is not always honest. All the details are hardly ever released and precedent with conspiracies that have come true, like the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance, creates suspicious minds. Works Cited
"FBI Releases Documents Proving Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun Fled to Argentina in a Submarine." – TIP. 02 Feb. 2012. Web. 08 Apr. 2016. http://topinfopost.com/2014/02/12/historians-lied-hitler-did-not-die-in-germany

Petrova, Ada, and Peter Watson. "The Death of HiItler." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 1995. Web. 08 Apr. 2016. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/deathofhitler.htm
"Adolf Hitler Commits Suicide." History.com. A&E Television Networks. Web. 08 Apr. 2016. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/adolf-hitler-commits-suicide