From John F Kennady to Princess Diana, the death of most famous people is still in controversy. However, the death of Hitler brought some of the nonsensical conspiracy theories that topped them all. Hitler was the leader of the Nazi party, the Chancellor of Gemany from 1934 to 1945. Adolf Hitler was known for his cruelty and his period was often referred as the darkest chapter in human history. He and his wife of one day, committed suicide by Gunshot and by taking the cyanide. Even though he died, the conspiracy theories of him still stay alive. While many conspiracy theorists believed that he didn’t die, some fought over their cause of the death. One version said that he died by taking poison only while others claim that he died by a gunshot.
Many people claimed that they had seen in multiple places in various getups. Almost half of the population believed that Hitler was alive. Some claimed that they had seen him in Ireland disguising himself as a woman. Some claimed that he consverted to Islam and seen in Egypt. They went on by adding almost all the countries into the list. As there will be no end to the number of conspiracy theories, let us go through some of the famous and crazy conspiracy theories.
Conspiracy Theory – Adolf Hitler and his wife escaped to Argentina:
Fact: No, it isn’t true
Adolf Hitler was seemed to be kind of a traveller to many conspiracy theorists. Many people seem to have witnessed him in multiple places in disguise. How do people come to the conclusion that he is Hitler? As he is not the type to kill himself, many come to the conclusion that the whole thing was a lie. They believed that the death was a show put off by the Hitler couples to escape from Allied forces. Hitler and his wife Eva Braun were said to have departed from Norway to Southern Argentina through the U-boat U977 along with U-530 which took almost two and half months to reach the destination. Hitler and his wife has been married for 40 hours and died by committing suicied is the fact. Yet conspiracy theorists believed that they live happily in some small village in Argentina and the suicide was just a coverup. This theory is found to be a hoax, as the dental remains in the corpse matched with Hitler.
Conspiracy Theory – Hitler and Eva Braun escaped to South America:
Fact: No, they didn’t
The CIA documents stated that Hitler may have been seen alive in South America in 1954. As there is no accurate evidence of his presence and as per his death reports, this theory was dismissed. Media and the conspiracy theorist came up with the great idea to increase their rating by producing Hitler’s escape to South America, which attracted almost 3 million people for each season.
Conspiracy Theory – Adolf Hitler went to Antarctica:
Fact: No, it is not true
As some conspiracy theorists and people were shocked by the death of Hitler, they came up with a new idea that he escaped to Antarctica and as you know the convincing story follows it. They claimed that he built a secret base in 1930s for the Nazi’s protection. This thoery originated when German Nazi Grand Admiral Karl Donitz stated that the German submarine fleet is proud of having built for the Furher in another part of the world. He said it is an impregnable fortress, a Shangri-la on land.
Conspiracy Theory – Hitler died due to Parkinson’s disease:
Fact: No’ it is not true
Researchers claimed that he may have suffered from Parkinson’s disease, as he displayed some of its features including palilalia, unflinching mental rigidity, inflexibility and pedantry. He also took methamphetamine for other idiopathic symptoms like depression, disturbed sleep and proneness to temper tantrums. Though there are many reports that claimed that he had Parkinson’s disease, he did not die from it. As per the evidence from his death report, the cause of his death is said to be gunshot. Thus this theory is found to be fake.
Conspiracy Theory – Hitler went on to the moon:
Fact: No, he didn’t
After his death, you may witness many conspiracy theories that he went to different places like Argentina, Amsterdam, Britain and many other places. However, the conspiracy theorist with the extra dose of imagination accused that he may have gone to the moon. They even gave us valuable reasons(LOL). Many conspiracy theorists believed that he was the one to bring lots of new innovations into the world and was always ahead of NASA. conspiracy theorists claimed that he had built a secret bunker during his period for himself which has the ability to travel to the moon. Conspiracy theorists not only accused him, they also said that Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson headed to the moon. Some believed that he had contact with aliens and he was selected by the reptilian rulers or the aliens to rule the entire world. They claimed that he sure had everything prepared beforehand and joined the aliens when the allied forces defeated the Nazi’s plan of world domination. As you may know, it is one of the fake theories that was believed by the conspiracy theories.
Conspiracy Theory – He cloned himself:
Fact: No, he didn’t
When you thought the theory “Hitler went to the moon” was insane. Conspiracy theorists test our insanity level by providing a theory that he may have cloned himself. Adolf Hitler who had interest in the new technology was said to have cloned himself with the help of his friend Dr Joseph Mengele. This theory arises as the result of multiple witnesses of Hitler in different places. They also believed that he may have helped his friend to do the experiment as he was into biotechnology.
I personally think that many conspiracy theorists want the icon of evil to be alive, thus creating more half baked ideas without any evidence. They believe that they know better than thousands of Historians and think that they need to bring out the truth. There was even a program called Hunting Hitler which claimed to have witnesses indicating that Hitler escaped from Germany. Yet all the theories were debunked with proper evidence by historian Richard J. Evans.
“Adolf Hitler Can’t Believe People Are Linking His Anti-Semitic Rhetoric to the Holocaust”
Adolf Hitler remained a fully communicating member of the Roman Catholic church right up until the day of his death. He spoke glowingly and often about his love for Catholicism and Christianity. He was greatly admired by the Catholics up to the highest levels of the church.
There were no “top people” who escaped to Argentina or anywhere else. The highest ranking Nazi to disappear with no clear record of his fate was Gestapo chief Heinrich Muller. Everyone above him was accounted for. People like Adolf Eichmann, Joseph Mengele, Klaus Barbie & Walter Rauff et al were all middle and lower level functionaries who carried out the orders given by the people above them. None of them are known to have even met Hitler.
In some countries they do. Most countries have lists of names that are illegal with some lists being shorter than others. Obviously you can’t name your child Adolf Hitler in Germany less obviously you can’t name your child “&” in the US iirc. Which you wouldn’t even think about prior to reading about it. But yeah, in some countries doctors can see a name and go “that child is gonna have a rough time with that” and veto.