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Forget the clandestine submarine trips to South America, the supposed disappearing act from the firestorms around Berlin in 1945 and the ostensible lurking of one of history’s greatest criminals somewhere beyond the reach of the international community.
Adolf Hitler did indeed die in his bunker in April 1945—and the few charred fragments left of his bones and dental work prove that the conspiracy theories about his escape from under the march of the Allies at the end of World War II are bogus, according to a new study in the European Journal of Internal Medicine.
The French team, led by Philippe Charlier of the UFR des Sciences de la Santé, were among the few to actually get a good hard look at the part of a jaw and upper skull, which were the only mortal remains of the infamous German dictator.
“Previous identification(s) of Nazi leaders and relatives have been published in the biomedical literature, but it has to be said that all the published studies dealing with the authenticity of the remains of Adolf Hitler were carried out without any direct access to the remains, i.e. skull and jaws,” they write.
The two fragments...