very true...now did anyone here read the excellent novel 'the berkut' by Joseph heywood? in it a double died in the bunker and an SS commando (no, not THAT commando) smuggles him out of Berlin and then...well, you'll just have to read it. its great and worth tracking down. Yes, he COULD have lived...but his beloved dream was dead...could he have survived the heartbreak and humiliation of defeat? its an interesting question and after having read all the Hitler biographies, I have to say that he would not have been able to go on after the defeat of Germany.

Kate

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In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility:but when the blast of war blows in our ears,then imitate the action of the tiger;stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;then lend the eye a terrible aspect. William Shakespeare

If Hitler did escaped, he would ordered any officer to stay defending Berlin to the last bullet, to the last man till the last man died.

I think escaping was to much of a risk for Hitler.

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I think it's very likely the little punk A did the same as Napoleon did to his troops in Russia - left them there to die for an unfullfilled dream

no matter I saw Addi walking his dog this morn while on an early morning ride

Damn

Mhhh, If Adolf was too weak to kill himself, how could he possible flee then?

All the German troops almost surrendered, if Adolf did escaped they would still be fighting, out of intervieuws from those who defended Berlin, they mostly all said "We stopped fighting when we heared that Hitler died.. It can sound stupid but we all thought we still could win"

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I knew it, so the other guy was Elvis Presley then?

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I have read a few books on the last days and the Bunker and I can only conclude there is conflicting statements given by the surviving members of the Bunker. Hitler feared being captured by the Russians as he believed he would be put in a zoo. Hitler did his best to destroy Germany in the last months along with his people, so I hardly think Hitler was going to do a midnight flip from the bunker, do you?

He was dying anyway, pumped up to his eyeballs with a mixture of exotic drugs and let us not forget he has Parkinson's as well. As far as I am concerned that Hitler died in the bunker and good rid ons to that bastard.

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Regards, Richard

There is no real proof that sh*t for brains killed himseld in that bunker. Just hearsay. But what's to it. Even if he escaped he surely wil not have lived for long after that.
Parkinson, syfilles, oldage, they caught up with him.
And for his Dentals, don't you think they would, at least a bit, have been melted in that fire?