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Adolf Hitler DID die in his Berlin bunker – scientists use Nazi leader’s jawbone to disprove conspiracy theories that he escaped to South America
SCIENTISTS claim they can finally prove Adolf Hitler definitely died in his Berlin bunker after taking cyanide and shooting himself in the head.
After studying the Nazi dictator’s jawbone and false teeth, French researchers say they can at last dispel decades-old conspiracy theories the Fuhrer was spirited away in 1945.
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Popular theories included the possibility he fled aboard a submarine to South America or even to a secret Nazi base in Antarctica.
But rare access to fragments of Hitler’s teeth - held by the Russian government – is said to show he killed himself before German soldiers burnt his body,
Professor Philippe Charlier – the study’s lead author – told a French TV documentary it had been possible to compare Hitler’s dental records with the jawbone held in Russia.
This enabled the German tyrant, who was 56 when he died, to be identified by his five false teeth.
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“We first identified him by his dentures, which were extremely unusual, in completely extraordinary shapes,” Prof Charlier told the documentary.
“There was a perfect anatomical and technological correspondence.”
In other supportive evidence, analysis of tiny samples from Hitler’s few remaining real teeth found no traces of meat, significant because the Nazi leader was a vegetarian.
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Examination of the dentures and jawbone also appeared to correspond with the accepted account that Hitler swallowed cyanide before a bullet was fired into his skull as his Third Reich crumbled.
The analysis has been published in the peer-reviewed European Journal of Internal Medicine and contradicts earlier claims part of the skull belonged to a woman.
A University of Connecticut study in 2009 caused a sensation by claiming that a skull fragment with a bullet hole – stored in a different location to the jawbone – was from a woman.
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The American academics had been able to examine and take DNA samples from the skull fragment that ended up in the Russian State Archive in Moscow.
They did not, however, examine the jawbone in the possession of the Russians.
The American findings were used by a TV production team as the basis for a documentary that was broadcast on the History Channel called Hitler's Escape.
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