What Really Happened The Death of Hi..., Robert J. Hutchinson
What Really Happened The Death of Hi..., Robert J. Hutchinson
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What Really Happened: The Death of Hitler

Author: Robert J. Hutchinson

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 8 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/04/2020


Synopsis

After World War II, 50 percent of Americans polled said they didn’t believe Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun had committed suicide in their bunker in 1945, as captured Nazi officials claimed. Instead, they believed the dictator faked his death and escaped, perhaps to Argentina.This wasn’t a crazy opinion: Joseph Stalin told Allied leaders that Soviet forces never discovered Hitler’s body and that he personally believed the Nazi leader had escaped justice.At least two German submarines crossed the Atlantic and landed on the coast of Argentina in July 1945. Plus, there were numerous reports of top Nazi officials successfully fleeing to South America, where there was a large German colony.So what really happened?Popular history writer Robert J. Hutchinson, author of What Really Happened: The Lincoln Assassination, takes a fresh look at the evidence and discovers, once and for all, the truth about Hitler’s last week in Berlin. Among the questions the book explores are:What did surviving Nazi eyewitnesses really say about the Führer’s final days in the bunker—and could they have been lying to aid Hitler’s escape?If Hitler didn’t escape, why did the Allies not find his body?What about Hitler’s proven use of body doubles? Could Hitler have used a body double in the bunker while he and Eva Braun flew to safety in a long-range aircraft that took off from a runway in Berlin’s Tiergarten?Why did the FBI continue to investigate reports of Hitler’s survival for more than a decade after World War II—reports that were only declassified in 2014?What about sensational claims in books such as The Grey Wolf that Hitler and Eva Braun lived in an isolated chalet in the Andes—and that Hitler died in 1962?Why were forensic tests on crucial physical evidence only conducted in 2016, more than seventy years after World War II ended?And much more

About Robert J. Hutchinson

Robert J. Hutchinson is an award-winning writer, speaker, and author of numerous books of popular history, including What Really Happened: The Lincoln Assassination, The Dawn of Christianity, and The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Bible. The general editor of the What Really Happened™ series, Hutchinson gives talks on historical topics to groups throughout the United States and Europe. He blogs at www.RobertHutchinson.com.

About Grover Gardner

Alexander Adams is a pseudonym for narrator Grover Gardner. His most high-profile book to date is the unabridged novelization of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, recorded in a joint effort by BOT and Random House under the Adams moniker. He lives in Maryland.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Cia on August 03, 2021

Interesting book with many surprises, even to someone who knows the era well. The major problem is that it is poorly edited, and is therefore repetitious in places and in consistent in details like capitalization of titles. Annoying and distracting.......more

Goodreads review by Eleanor on January 22, 2023

Hutchinson does not pander to the fantasies of conspiracy theorists ! Not sure why I picked this up, not really the intended audience .......more

Goodreads review by One on August 03, 2022

4 stars I was watching a documentary about the capitulation of the Nazi government at the end of WWII, a lot of the footage was striking and there is almost no better sight than seeing the liberation of Europe from tyranny and watch the Nazi's recognize that they were fucked. One of the really striki......more

Goodreads review by Janalyn, the blind reviewer on September 25, 2020

This is the second book in this Siri’s But I’ve read and I must say Bob we’re really great. I love history and I am aware of all historians disagree and pretty much believe what they want despite how much it may ruin or exalt someone who doesn’t deserve it. In this book what really happened the deat......more

Goodreads review by Mariel on February 04, 2021

What Really Happened: The Death of Hitler by Robert J. Hutchinson I received a complimentary copy and I am voluntarily leaving a review. Western Allied forces did not enter Berlin for almost two months after Germany formally surrendered. The question of what had happened to Hitler or even if he was al......more


Quotes

“An excellent primer and clarifier on the circumstances of Hitler’s death. Robert Hutchinson provides a well-written antidote to ‘fake history.’" Roger Moorhouse, British historian and author of Killing Hitler

“What Really Happened: The Death of Hitler is by turns an historical account, a Cold War political narrative, and a forensic detective story, while being consistently fascinating and engaging…with an unerring sense of the important details while maintaining a dynamic and vigorous narrative throughout. What Really Happened: The Death of Hitler is an excellent summation of more than seventy years of myth, mystery, and misdirection about where, when, and how Adolf Hitler met his end.” Daniel Allen Butler, author of Field Marshal