the year of april in the year 1945 also brought the end of the war in europe the soviet red army was charging in to call dibs on berlin hitler had no options left but to witness his empire of hate crumbled to the ground on april 30th 1945 soviet soldiers charged to the fjords bunker to apprehend the chief conspirator of the second world war but all they found were heaps of rubble and ash according to the witnesses president bunker hitler had locked himself and his new wife eva braun up in his study and killed themselves before
their security personnel burned corpses and buried them in the ground but was it truly the case welcome to nutty history and today let's explore if hitler faked his death and escaped the fall of berlin it had been less than two days since adolf hitler proposed and married his longtime mistress and secretary eva braun at 1am on the morning of april 30th 1945 field marshal wilhelm keitel reported to hitler that berlin was breached this was the end for germany in the second world war the last fort was about to fall and it seems hitler had nowhere
to run with the soviets only about a half a kilometer away from the bunker hitler had lunch with his wife in the afternoon and then they moved to his study after a few minutes hitler's adjutant auto gunje who was stationed outside the study heard a gunshot goonje along with hitler's valet heinz linge unlocked the room after a while to find the corpses of the fuhrer and his wife they found hitler with a gun wound on his temple and eva braun had chewed a cyanide capsule hitler had left a set of specific instructions for his funeral
to make sure his body wouldn't be desecrated the way mussolini and his mistress's corpses were besmirched in italy a few days ago following the orders goonche and linge took the corpses of hitler and braun to the garden behind the right chancellory douse them with petrol and burned the bodies before burying them in the ground the first news of hitler's suicide was announced by the germans themselves on may 1st the reichsender hamburg radio station interrupted their normal program to announce that hitler had died that afternoon and karl donitz would be replacing him as the new president
of germany [Music] joseph stalin was informed of hitler's supposed suicide 13 hours later the soviet dictator responded with a demand of unconditional surrender from germany and he ordered the red army smurfs unit to find the corpse but when stalin was asked at the potsdam conference in july 1945 about the whereabouts of hitler stalin shocked the world with his reply according to the dictator hitler wasn't dead like everybody had believed but was living in either spain or argentina the shocking reveal created a massive controversy and debate on the international platform in the same month british newspapers
repeated comments from a soviet officer that a charred body discovered by the soviets was quote a very poor double american newspapers also repeated dubious quotes such as that of the russian garrison commander of berlin who claimed that hitler had quote gone into hiding somewhere in europe the hype from western media created enough doubts in the minds of experts to cast shadows on what was till now an accepted fact that hitler was dead so this begs the question if hitler really fooled the world by faking his death where would he have gone the first detailed investigation
by western powers began in november 1945 after dick white then head of counterintelligence in the british sector of berlin had their agent hugh trevor roper investigate the matter to counter the soviet claims a report by british agent roper concluded that hitler indeed died by his own hands but the report left some doubts regarding the conduct of soviets who were the first ones to find hitler's supposed remains for starters the smersh agents who found the fewer bunker and the reich chancellory contaminated and almost destroyed the crime scene which had already endured heavy shelling during hitler's suicide
and cremation in the open moreover soviet authorities never produced the formal death statement of adolf hitler to trevor roper which was supposedly handled by warmock general hans krebs while negotiating a temporary surrender on april 30th after hitler's presumed death surprisingly these soviets had announced hitler's death after capturing berlin but later they kept on changing their official stance on hitler's death or escape some of the soviet officers were intentionally avoiding the topic giving more flames to the speculation that the death of the fuhrer was merely a hoax and if that was the case how did hitler
get away with the soviets playing hide and seek with the establishment of hitler's death in western media giving wind to flames the rumors and theories about hitler's escape from berlin ran amok since the fall of berlin many amateur historians and conspiracy theorists have written about the possibility of hitler's escape and how he could have done it the whole affair was sensationalized to the point that the federal bureau of investigation started documenting every rumor of hitler's appearance in history an fbi report in the months following the nazi's surrender listed the multiple destinations where hitler was said
to have been seen alive the report listed possibilities as varied as they were contradictory rumors had reached the agency that he had been killed in the bunker or that he had escaped from berlin by air or in a submarine some claim hitler was living on an island far from the baltic in a fortress in the rhineland in a spanish monastery or a south american camp there were also claims that hitler fled to japan the last standing access power to regroup and plan an invasion of europe from the east on october 19 1945 more than two
months after japan's surrender and a half a year after hitler's reported suicide in his berlin bunker a u.s newspaper reported that hitler had planned to escape to japan citing japanese sources this newspaper based its report on one of the documents dated october 21st 1945 and compiled by the now defunct central liaison office the intermediary between tokyo and the allied occupation powers however the liaison office responded quickly to deny the existence of any such plan to rescue hitler or his wife another theory states that hitler escaped to spain on a plane with the help of spain's
dictator general franco this claim originated from none other than general franco's driver he had stated that on the night of april 30th 1945 he was sent to pick up the fur at madrid airport a venezuelan named julio barrero rivas also claimed later that hitler lived peacefully for the rest of his days in spain and was buried in a cemetery in galicia in the northwest part of spain the historians who believe in this theory claim that hitler exited the bunker beneath the chancellery in berlin via a tunnel which took him to templehoff airport and from there
a helicopter took him to spain but the theory that has garnered the most strength and debate over the years of a possible escape of hitler is that he fled to argentina many factors support this theory with the strongest being that argentina was a nazi haven many nazis who managed to escape the defeat of germany chose argentina as their retreat argentine general juan peron who later became president for three terms secretly ordered diplomats and intelligence officers to establish escape routes which later became nicknamed rat lines the routes or rat lines were designed to go through ports
in spain and italy to smuggle thousands of former ss officers and nazi party members out of europe to south america so if the supreme leader of the nazi party would have chosen to escape argentina would have been the perfect place to hide for the rest of his life but was it possible we will talk about it in the next video in the series of hitler's escape until then we recommend you watch a video about what happened to the nazis after the second world war or the secret origins of the fourth reich and the rise of
the actual super villain otto scorsani thanks for watching nutty history
