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DonViejo

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Thu Jan 16, 2014, 01:47 PM Jan 2014

Conspiracy Theorist Argues That Hitler Escaped to Argentina [View all]


According to a new book by prolific conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi, the Fuhrer didn’t commit suicide but instead escaped Berlin with the help of the U.S. government.

Jerome R. Corsi is a bona fide conspiracy theorist. Since 2004’s Unfit for Command, the New York Times best-selling--and widely denounced--takedown of then-presidential candidate John Kerry, Corsi has churned out a constant stream of articles and books pushing unsubstantiated ideas on everything from the origin of oil to the U.S.’s role in 9/11 to Barack Obama’s nationality--all the while waving his Harvard PhD. as some kind of evidence that he’s not a complete and utter wingnut.

Corsi’s latest hypothesis, detailed in his new book Hunting Hitler, is that the German dictator didn’t actually kill himself alongside wife Eva Braun in his Berlin bunker as history books would have us believe. According to Corsi, Hitler actually escaped Germany as the Third Reich fell, and he did it with the help of none other than the U.S. government.

Corsi’s argument is that there’s no real proof Hitler didn’t escape. The world has long been willing to accept the idea that Hitler shot himself while Braun took cyanide, but where is the photographic evidence? The world’s most notorious genocidal maniac shot himself in a private bunker and no one took pictures? Corsi doesn’t buy it.

What really solidified Corsi’s suspicions, however, was the fact that, in 2009, an American archaeologist examined skull fragments long pointed to as proof of Hitler’s suicide by the Russian Federation State Archive, and found that they didn’t belong to Hitler at all. Then there were alleged doubts from both Stalin and Eisenhower about Hitler’s death. And the U.S.’s inability to obtain any of the Fuhrer’s physical remains. And the absence of any testimony from witnesses who heard the shots from the bunker. All this led Corsi to conclude that U.S. intelligence agents, including Allen Dulles, who later became director of the CIA, helped Hitler and Braun escape to Argentina. There, Corsi claims, the two retired peacefully in a mansion built by German expats hidden by the Bariloche forests.

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/16/conspiracy-theorist-argues-that-hitler-escaped-to-argentina.html

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For some reason, I just knew the following type comment would be appearing below the article in this OP:

truthdeliverer 1 hour ago

Hitler's son is sitting in the Oval Oriface.
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He was talking about Bush41 and Bush43. Octafish Jan 2014 #1
Naw, he resides in the deep with Bin Ladin. NV Whino Jan 2014 #2
Actually, Hitler escaped to the secret Nazi base in Antarctica, then to the Nazi moon base...... LongTomH Jan 2014 #3
Actually, there was a documentary on the Nazi moon base: It was called "Iron Sky". DetlefK Jan 2014 #7
Hate to have to tell ya this, pal; but, "Iron Sky" wasn't a documentary! LongTomH Jan 2014 #11
I saw that documentary! zappaman Jan 2014 #12
I tried to watch that. Warren DeMontague Jan 2014 #24
I thought Hitler was still alive? zappaman Jan 2014 #4
Ever seen Bubba Ho-tep FSogol Jan 2014 #19
Yes, I've seen that documentary. n/t zappaman Jan 2014 #20
LOL. I guess more research went into it than Corsi's "book" n/t FSogol Jan 2014 #21
Oh that's an original one snooper2 Jan 2014 #5
Oh my Aerows Jan 2014 #6
The biggest problem with the Hitler suicide theory is the bodies. former9thward Jan 2014 #8
The Soviets found the bodies econoclast Jan 2014 #16
The Soviets had to stop because they were up against the American Army. former9thward Jan 2014 #18
Way ahead of you. Archae Jan 2014 #9
Hardly new, fairly sure that one has been floating around for decades Lurks Often Jan 2014 #10
Enough people survived the bunker so that the events of 30 April 1945 there struggle4progress Jan 2014 #13
It's true! Behind the Aegis Jan 2014 #14
Well ... It's nice to see that's finally settled. In_The_Wind Jan 2014 #17
Seems legit . . . HughBeaumont Jan 2014 #15
Damn he is NOT the first one to suggest this nadinbrzezinski Jan 2014 #22
Either way he is most certainly dead now. By the way when I was in highschool there were stories jwirr Jan 2014 #23
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