![]() ![]() The story of why it’s taken more than 70 years to ID Hitler’s teeth is as screwy as the Fuhrer’s teeth, themselves. Researchers did not find any gunpowder residue on the jaw, which suggests that if Hitler did shoot himself, it was done through the forehead or the neck, not the mouth. Bluish stains on some of the false teeth indicate that he may have taken cyanide to end his life. The team did not find any remains of meat in the teeth, which is also consistent with Hitler’s vegetarianism. He did not flee to Argentina in a submarine, he is not in a hidden base in Antarctica or on the dark side of the moon.” “We can stop all the conspiracy theories about Hitler. Our study proves that Hitler died in 1945," Philippe Charlier, lead author of the study in the European Journal of Internal Medicine, tells AFP. “The teeth are authentic, there is no possible doubt. The teeth appear to match X-rays taken of Hitler in 1944 and descriptions provided to the Soviets by Hitler’s dentist and his dental assistant. That, according to the forensic team, made ID’ing his jawbone relatively simple. It's well-documented that the Nazi leader had notoriously bad teeth and gum disease (which led to some extremely bad breath in the last years of his life ) by the end, he had only a few of his original chompers left, which left him with a complicated set of bridges and dentures. "Adolf Hitler definitely died in 1945," reports Agence-France Presse, which explains that in March and July of 2017, Russia’s FSB, the successor to the Soviet Union's KGB, gave a team of French pathologists access to Hitler’s jawbone and teeth. (The Russian State Archive, for its part, denies that Bellantoni's team was ever given access to examine the skull.)īut now, reports Deutsche Welle, a study of the Fuhrer’s purported teeth in the Russian State Archive found them to be an exact match, confirming that Hitler did indeed die in his bunker, likely by taking cyanide and shooting himself in the head. It didn’t help things that when Connecticut archaeologist and bone specialist Nick Bellantoni examined fragments of the skull believed to be Hitler's in 2009, he claimed on the History Channel documentary, "Hilter's Escape," that the skull with the bullet wound actually belonged to a woman under the age of 40. ![]() This proved fodder enough for conspiracy theorists, who wanted to argue that Hitler did not die in the bunker, but rather managed, somehow, to escape like other high-ranking Nazi officials, including Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele, who were able to slink off to South America to live out their lives after the collapse of the Third Reich. Days later, his remains were captured by the Red Army and were subsequently locked behind the Iron Curtain for decades. On April 30, 1945, as Allied forces converged on the capital of Nazi Germany, Hitler killed himself inside his Führerbunker. ![]()
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