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Hitler's teeth analysis dispels myths of Nazi leader's survival
To all the CT tin-hats ... Hitler did indeed commit suicide 73 years ago. After the fall of Berlin and the Fuhrer's Bunker in early May 1945, interpreter Elena Rzhevskaya was taken to the Soviet Union and sentenced to 10 years in a gulag, six of them in solitary confinement for assisting with Hitler's bridgework. The Rzhevskaya memoirs, which appeared in Russian in 1965, were only published in English in March 2018.
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5/21/18
Adolf Hitler had extremely bad teeth. What may sound like one of countless bits of minutiae stoking the public's lurid fascination with the Nazi leader is in fact a piece of evidence in our historical knowledge of Hitler's suicide on April 30, 1945. A team of French pathologists was recently allowed to inspect a set of teeth kept in Moscow that were recovered in Berlin in early May 1945 — the first time that Russian authorities had allowed anyone to examine the remains in over 70 years. And the researchers' conclusions, published late last week in the European Journal of Internal Medicine, are unambiguous. "The teeth are authentic — there is no possible doubt," lead pathologist Philippe Charlier told the AFP news agency. "Our study proves that Hitler died in 1945." The research team was also allowed to look at fragments of Hitler's skull to confirm the means by which he committed suicide. The teeth matched descriptions provided by Hitler's dentist and revealed no trace of meat — consistent with the fact that the Führer was vegetarian. The new findings should, but probably won't, put an end to crackpot notions that the Nazi leader somehow escaped the destruction of the final days of World War II.
"We can stop all the conspiracy theories about Hitler," Charlier said. "He did not flee to Argentina in a submarine; he is not in a hidden base in Antarctica or on the dark side of the moon." Instead, Hitler's story ended the way every respectable historian believes it did: with a joint suicide in the Führerbunker in the ruins of the Nazi capital. Mindful that Italians had defiled the corpse of Benito Mussolini, Hitler had left instructions for how his and Braun's bodies were to be disposed of. They were taken outside the bunker and burnt. It wouldn't be until May 5 that Soviet forces discovered a charred body in a bomb crater and identified it as Hitler's. The Soviets compared the corpse's teeth, which contained conspicuous and unusual prostheses and bridgework, with descriptions provided by the dental assistant Kathe Heusermann. Later, Hitler's personal dentist, Hugo Blaschke, would confirm the information to the Allies. "His teeth were in such bad shape that his dentist was with him in the bunker," Liubov Summ, the granddaughter of Heusermann's Russian interpreter, Elena Rzhevskaya, told the Times of Israel newspaper. "There are photos that are very unpleasant to look at."
To all the CT tin-hats ... Hitler did indeed commit suicide 73 years ago. After the fall of Berlin and the Fuhrer's Bunker in early May 1945, interpreter Elena Rzhevskaya was taken to the Soviet Union and sentenced to 10 years in a gulag, six of them in solitary confinement for assisting with Hitler's bridgework. The Rzhevskaya memoirs, which appeared in Russian in 1965, were only published in English in March 2018.
Related: French Researchers: Hitler Really Did Die In The Bunker In 1945
Memoirs of a Wartime Interpreter: From the Battle for Moscow to Hitler's Bunker