[Perdogg]

They long believed that British intelligence officer and historian Hugh Trevor-Roper’s investigation into Hitler’s death was “unprofessional,” because Russian troops did not allow access to many forensic investigators.

Not true. HTR was allowed unhindered access the Bunker and he was able to interview Harry Mengershausen who admitted to burying Hitler's remains and took HTR to the burial spot.

[PUGACHEV]

The trouble with Trevor-Roper’s book is that at the time he did his investigation, he was working for British Intelligence, and he was ordered by Dick White the head of British counterintelligence (and later MI5 and MI6) specifically to rebut Stalin’s accusations that Hitler had not died in the bunker but had escaped to somewhere in the West. What conclusion would you expect him to reach under those circumstances?

[SunkenCiv]

Heh... “patient Adolf Hitler”... there was a US intel file on that character, and this was written about by none other than Long John Nebel, prior to 1965. Hitler committed suicide in order to avoid capture (by the Soviet Red Army, no less) and prosecution for his many crimes.

For its part, the USSR accused the western Allies of secretly harboring Hitler, after their own investigators had already determined that, not only was Hitler dead, but Stalin actually had the fragments of Hitler’s skull; not many years after the war ended in Europe, a fake diary (sourced in the USSR) emerged which purported to document Hitler’s escape aboard a U-boat; turned out the purported U-boat had been sunk in the Baltic or North Sea (I forget) in the closing weeks of the war. In the 1970s the Soviets concocted a whole set of “Hitler diaries” which showed up without real provenance in some German (or maybe E German) antique store.

Thanks Perdogg.

[DaveA37]

Maybe some day we will see the real truth about the death and quick burying of Osama bin Laden too. I have my doubts we got the real story there too.