Conspiracy Theories about Adolf Hitler's Death

         Adolf Hitler killed himself in the spring of April 1945 in his "Fuhrerbunker" in Berlin. A fuhrerbunker was an air raid shelter and the final headquarters for the Nazi Party. Suicide by gunshot, and his wife of one day beside him following his lead taking a fatal dose of cyanide. But did they really die that day? Hitler had left instruction for his body to be taken upstairs and lit on fire with petrol to dispose of him. Records in the Soviet archives show that their burnt remains were recovered and buried in successive locations until 1946. In 1970, they were again cremated, and the ashes scattered.
        The account on Hitler's cause of death differ slightly, some say that he died by poison and others say he died by a self-inflicted gunshot while biting down on a cyanide capsule. Modern day historians have rejected these accounts as being either Soviet propaganda One eyewitness stated that Hitler's corpse seemed to have been shot through the mouth, but this has been proven unlikely. Dental remains found on Hitler's corpse were matched with his dental records in 1945. In 2009, American researchers performed DNA testing on a skull fragment that Soviet officials had long believed to be Hitler's. The DNA test and examination indicated that it belonged to a woman less than 40 years old.
      For political reasons, the Soviet Union presented various versions of Hitler's fate. In the years immediately after the war, the Soviets maintained their stance firmly that Hitler was not dead, but had fled instead. Stalin claimed that Hitler was living comfortably in Spain or Argentina. By 1947 51% of Americans actually believed that Hitler was in fact alive. Overall American historians and the CIA have managed to disprove all conspiracies about his death, but the fact remains we can never be 100% certain...