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Skeptoid #507: No, Hitler Did Not Escape

Skeptoid

Brian Dunning

Skeptic, Social Sciences, Skepticism, Paranormal, Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, Science, History

4.63K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2016

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

There is no truth to the popular myth that Hitler escaped Berlin and went to Argentina.

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0:00.0

One of the claims often put forth by alternative history theorists is that Adolf Hitler managed

0:09.5

to survive the fall of Berlin and lived out his life in comfort in South America.

0:15.2

But if there's any validity to this theory, then why is it something that no historians

0:19.9

take seriously at all?

0:22.3

Well the best way to answer this question is to give the proofs that tell us Hitler did

0:27.1

in facts die in Berlin and show how we know what we know.

0:32.5

And we're doing that up next on Skeptoid.

0:36.0

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0:41.5

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0:47.2

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0:49.3

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0:52.6

But you can combat wacko theories and support science journalism at Skeptoid with your

0:57.7

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0:58.7

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1:03.5

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That's 877-215-0277 or Skeptoid.com slash giving.

1:19.8

Your listening to Skeptoid, I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

1:33.9

No Hitler did not escape.

1:37.0

Whatever else they may have been, Hitler and the Nazis will always be grist for the mill

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