Did Hitler kill himself?

World War 2 ended 64 years ago, and yet there are still many unsolved mysteries. One of them is, did Adolf Hitler kill himself? While we are all told that the dictator shot himself after taking cyanide during the final phases of the Russian capture of Berlin on April 30, 1945, new evidence have emerged that Hitler may not have shot himself. Apparently, the skull that is supposedly Hitler’s is that of a woman aged below 40. It is not Hitler’s skull!

The accepted theory all this while is that Hitler and his mistress Eva Braun’s body was wrapped, taken outside the bunker by his generals, placed in a bomb crater, doused with petrol, and burnt. But this finding reopens the mystery again. Did Hitler really die in that bunker?

The piece of skull was taken by Russian soldiers outside Hitler’s bunker and preserved all these years. Apparently the body which the skull belonged to had teeth that matched Hitler’s dental records, acording to former Hitler dentists. But recently, American researchers from the University of Connecticut got the chance to perform some tests on the skull fragment and determined the skull belongs to a woman aged between 20-40 years old.

The old skull fragment that is not Hitler's

“The bone seemed very thin; male bone tends to be more robust. And the sutures  where the skull plates come together seemed to correspond to someone under 40,” said university archeologist Nick Bellantoni.

Bellantoni flew to Moscow to get DNA samples and was also shown the bloodstained sofa on which Hitler and his mistress Eva Braun supposedly killed themselves.

Back in USA, the DNA samples were tested using the same methods used by forensic crime labs. To their surprise, the DNA results did not match Hitler’s.

So, if Hitler did not die on that fateful day, then what happened to him? He is probably dead by now; he was 56 in 1945. But did he “fake his own death” and lived out the rest of his days on the beach? That is the question.

Source: Daily Mail