April 1945 . TheBattle of Seelow Heightsis underway . The confederative USA are closing in on Berlin , and the German United States Army has failed to push back both the Soviet and the Allied fronts . Adolf Hitler , locked in his Fuhrerbunker , knows the war is lost . He determine to marry his schoolmistress , Eva Braun , enjoy a Champagne breakfast , write out his last will and testament , and then place suicide with his new wife . Their body are then burned in conformity with their wishes , and the earth breathes a collective sigh of succour .
But not everyone believesthis official lineabout Hitler ’s remainder . That ’s why Matt Frederick , Ben Bowlin and Noel Brown tackle the account and intrigue behindWhat bump to Hitler?in this episode of the hooey They Do n’t Want You To Know podcast .
One of history ’s greatest villains , Hitler was responsible for creating a brutallyfascistand anti-Semite regimen in Germany that direct to World War II and numerous atrocity like the Holocaust . It ’s intelligible that his death was eagerly anticipated the cosmos over , as many recollect that the end of the man would mean the end of the state of war . Hitler ’s escort reportedthat he had project Hitler ’s and Braun ’s bodies before they were taken to the chancellery and burned . But the want of bodies sparked rumors that they really break loose during the last time of day of the warfare .
It ’s certainly possible — as many as 9,000Nazis escapedto South America and survive to advanced old age , let in the " Angel of Death " Dr. Josef Mengele . That ’s because Juan Peron , chairman of Argentina , ran a fascist - angle government activity sympathetic to the Reich ’s aim and maintained disinterest throughout the state of war . Peron also aid shew " ratline , " interface through which Nazis could be smuggled out of Europe by means of Italy and Spain .
Did Adolf Hitler and his new wife use the ratline to get on a boat in Spain and get off to Argentina or Brazil?Some multitude cogitate so , and that he live as long as 1978 . TheFBI exert filesin which Hitler sightings are describe , although never verify , and did n’t declare Hitler formally dead until 1956 . In June 2017 , a trove ofNazi artifacts were discoveredbehind a hidden rampart in a home in Buenos Aires , Argentina and breathed Modern life-time into this theory .
It ’s also been theorized that Hitler and a figure of his SS men escaped to thesecret fortress in Antarcticacalled Base 221 . The Germans claimed they created the basis in 1938 when a Nazi pleasure trip key a huge hugger-mugger cave where they made contact with extraterrestrial or unearth alien technologies that allowed them to build advanced weapon arrangement . Perhaps Hitler escaped to that cold and desolate piazza to rebuild his vision for humanity , with alien tech to help oneself ? Though this story seems a lot more improbable than affectionate and gay South America .
A mint of the misinformation swirl around Hitler ’s whereabouts is due in part toRussian propagandaafter the war . Josef Stalin was obsess with piddle sure that Hitler was numb , and ordered his Soviet Army to exhume any remains they could rule . The soldiers preserve ashes and some jawbone shard identified as Hitler ’s , but Stalin was happy to let the Allies retrieve he might still be out there somewhere .
Those preserved bone shard have now been tested and thesecret Russian files release , so if you want to know what Matt , Ben and Noel think happened to Hitler ( and about hisalleged opioid dependency ) melodic line in to this installment ofStuff They Do n’t desire You to Know .
