Posted: Oct 21, 2011 9:11 am
lordshipmayhem wrote:Actually, it's not "grounded in hearsay". We have direct witnesses who were able to swear that they waited outside the small room (which only had one entrance), heard the shot and entered the room to find the bodies of Hitler and Eva. Their statements were witnessed (the Russians wanted to be damned sure that the bastard was dead, and didn't take any one person's word for it, but insisted on corroboration), and fit in with the skeletal remains that are currently sitting in Russian archives. The dental work on the supposed skull of Hitler matches the historical dental records seized from Hitler's dentist's files.
Hearsay would be someone saying, "Well, General so-and-so said he waited in the hallway," or worse yet, "somebody (name unavailable, just 'somebody') told me (fill in the blank)."
Yes, you're right about the hearsay thingy. What I should have said is that the only evidence regards Hitler's death was that of testimony.
Regarding the skull:
American researchers claim to have demonstrated that the skull fragment, secretly preserved for decades by Soviet intelligence, belonged to a woman under 40, whose identity is unknown. DNA analyses performed on the bone, now held by the Russian State Archive in Moscow, have been processed at the genetics lab of the University of Connecticut. The results, broadcast in the US by a History Channel documentary, Hitler's Escape, astonished scientists.
... http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/se ... l-fragment
The same story reported by the BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8281839.stm
That's a serious problem.