Where a Hitler doppelganger was going to go is immaterial. My question is: WHY was he still there at the very end of the war? Considering Hitler had made virtually no public appearances for a considerable amount of time, and was hardly likely to start doing so from April 30th onwards, why was a doppelganger still in the chancellery? Other members here have pointed out that Hitler had numerous doppelgangers, and indeed he did - but clearly those others had been released and/or were not required, so what was special about this one? (IIRC, his name is known but I can't recall it off the top of my head)
Adam - you've answered your own question. Hitler's body double was in the Chancellery because that's where Hitler's body double was SUPPOSED to be.
The question of where he was supposed to go is not immaterial...as long as you don't grasp that
he was exactly where he was supposed to be. Do you think he had a
choice??? How exactly whas he supposed to walk through the SS security detail at ther Chancellery and take off
into the middle of The Battle of Berlin?
Have you (and others) actually bothered to have a glance at any of the other threads that i've mentioned and linked, or are you just arguing for the sake of arguing? Because if it's the latter, i'm really not interested.
Yes...and I also know a LOT more about this than you obviously do. That's not a cheeky answer - just a statement of truth. For example - you could pay some attention to the major discrepanices in statements between the various "witnesses" in
Soviet hands after VE Day to events in and outside the Bunker...and the discrepancies among the various witnesses in
Allied hands
As they say "no two people see the same thing" in relation to crimes and major events etc.. - but some of the discrepancies are very odd and very major...
And it doesn't help that some of them later, privately....changed their stories entirely! Like Linge.
Hitler stated very early on that he would not leave Berlin. See, even you're admitting now a possibility that Hitler might have chosen to escape.
No. I'm noting that a large number of those around him wanted him to leave if possible - and there were times when Hitler's firmness of mind on that
seemed to waiver...
to those around him. Not necessarily to Hitler.
But even though I believe he could have done, it's apparent that he had no use for that doppelganger, isn't it?
Didn't he??? I think it's patently obvious that there was one
last use for the body double
If not necessarily by Hitler...
He wasn't cremated, he wasn't in the chancellery, ...
Actually - that's where he was found IIRC.
...and even the Russians took little time to realise that this wasn't THE genuine Hitler - he wasn't that close to him in appearance at all, look at the photo.
1/ death changes us all
The face sags, loses tension etc.
2/ The Russians ALSO had to contend with all the nother Hitler fakes found in the Bunker and Chancellery.
3/ there seems to have been some division of responsibility...
unintentional...that sprung up. The Red Army (reporting to Zhukov) searched the Bunker etc. - but it was
the SMERSH investigative team that took possession of the
cremated bodies and carried out the autopsy and investigation into Hitler's last days for Stalin. As a result of
that...
4/ ...what's clear is that there was some considerable delay
on the part of Zhukov and the Red Army at issuing any sort of a final opinion on the matter; as late as the end of may, Zhukov was telling Western journalists that the Red Army was still turning up Hitler bodies in the Bunker!
and of course -
5/ that photo
has been fooling the stupid, the gullible and the conspiracy theorists for decades!
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