No, Adolf Hitler Didn't Survive The War And Go To Live On The Moon

It probably shouldn't be controversial at this point to say that Adolf Hitler isn't alive and living on the moon, but you can never be too sure. Anyway, here it goes, Hitler isn't alive, and he isn't living on the moon.

A team of French researchers have completed one of the few studies of Hitler's corpse that has been allowed since the end of the Second World War and confirmed that, as most people have known for more than seven decades, the Führer did, in fact, die in Berlin in May 1945.

The team of pathologists studied a set of Hitler's teeth, which were removed from the bunker in 1945 and taken to Moscow. They were the first scientists to be allowed to inspect them in 70 years and they concluded that they were unmistakably those of Adolf Hitler.

"The teeth are authentic - there is no possible doubt," said Philippe Charlier, the head of the pathology team. "Our study proves that Hitler died in 1945."

Among the supporting evidence for the pathologists was that the teeth contained no traces of meat - Hitler, of course, was a strict vegetarian - and a thorough cross-referencing against dental records kept by the former Nazi leader's personal dentist.

The team also examined parts of his skull in order to confirm whether he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, as has long been thought to have been the case.

"We can stop all the conspiracy theories about Hitler," added Charlier. "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."

There have been several long-standing conspiracy theories about Hitler and the higher echelons of the Nazi Party. Some held that he escaped to South America, while some of the most unusual said that he had gone to live on the moon.

There was an established smuggling route - known as the Ratlines - that moved many prominent members of the Nazi Party out of Berlin in the chaos that surrounded the end of the Second World War, with Adolf Eichmann, one of the key architects of the Holocaust, escaping through this method and living on in Argentina before his capture by Israeli special forces in 1960.

The Nazis on the Moon theory was linked to conspiracy theories about the Luftwaffe's aerial capacities, but few serious people have ever believed it.

It has seen the most prominence via the movie Iron Sky, a low budget Nazisploitation film with the tagline "In 1945, the Nazis went to the moon - in 2012 they're coming back." Get that on Netflix.

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Topics: World News, History, Moon

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