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What Really Happened: The Death of Hitler
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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Summary
After World War II, 50 percent of Americans polled said they didn’t believe Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun had committed suicide in their bunker in 1945, as captured Nazi officials claimed. Instead, they believed the dictator faked his death and escaped, perhaps to Argentina.
This wasn’t a crazy opinion: Joseph Stalin told Allied leaders that Soviet forces never discovered Hitler’s body and that he personally believed the Nazi leader had escaped justice.
At least two German submarines crossed the Atlantic and landed on the coast of Argentina in July 1945. Plus, there were numerous reports of top Nazi officials successfully fleeing to South America, where there was a large German colony.
So what really happened?
Popular history writer Robert J. Hutchinson, author of What Really Happened: The Lincoln Assassination, takes a fresh look at the evidence and discovers, once and for all, the truth about Hitler’s last week in Berlin. Among the questions the book explores are:
- What did surviving Nazi eyewitnesses really say about the Führer’s final days in the bunker - and could they have been lying to aid Hitler’s escape?
- If Hitler didn’t escape, why did the Allies not find his body?
- What about Hitler’s proven use of body doubles? Could Hitler have used a body double in the bunker while he and Eva Braun flew to safety in a long-range aircraft that took off from a runway in Berlin’s Tiergarten?
- Why did the FBI continue to investigate reports of Hitler’s survival for more than a decade after World War II - reports that were only declassified in 2014?
- What about sensational claims in books such as The Grey Wolf that Hitler and Eva Braun lived in an isolated chalet in the Andes - and that Hitler died in 1962?
- Why were forensic tests on crucial physical evidence only conducted in 2016, more than 70 years after World War II ended?
- And much more
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- Ed berns
- 21-08-20
misleading
it's really the life of Hitler. it only gets to the death in the last chapters. interesting but just a rehash of millions of other books on Hitler
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- Anonymous User
- 22-01-23
Excellent reading
Brilliant. Puts an end to all conspiracy theories. Well narrated and deals only with facts
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- David Memery
- 07-08-22
Poor editing
Overall a good listen, but I had to mark it down as points were repeated. for example, a statement would be made followed directly by an 'eye-witness account' which said the exact same thing. The choice should have been made as to using either the witness account or making the statement, the use of both on a number of occasions was simply annoying and frustrating just to make the book longer.
Even when this narrative technique was not employed a fact would be mentioned over and over again, I believe the author told us 5 or 6 times that Hitler's secretary, Frau Junge, wrote a book leading to a film.
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- Anne
- 12-04-22
absolutely brilliant
really well written and narrated. packed with credible information. highly recommended for anyone interested in Hitlers last days.
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- james
- 14-03-24
interesting
there were some interesting facts in here but it seemed vague in places. other than that it was good.
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- Ash Lucas
- 03-02-24
Interesting study of the different myths around Hitler’ death.
I liked the discussion about each theory, it was thorough and interesting. I would recommend this.
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- Janet Jones
- 14-08-23
Interesting....
and informative throughout the book, even though the author did repeat himself on several occasions. The narrator was very good.
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- Helliemoo
- 08-08-23
Fascinating
This book is both fascinating and informative. I’ve learnt such a lot. I’d definitely recommend
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- davew80
- 07-05-23
Very in depth
A great in depth and conclusive look at what happened to not only Hitler, but other members of the Nazi Party. Well written and well narrated.
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- d a oliver
- 05-05-23
Well written
Interesting listen. Well performed. A few issues with the book skipping back but nothing major
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