The Death of Hitler

Dan Snow's History Hit

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4.7 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Did Hitler shoot himself in the Führerbunker, or did he slip past the Soviets and escape to South America? There have been innumerable documentaries, newspaper articles and twitter threads written by conspiracy theorists to back up the case for escape. Luke Daly Groves has made it his mission to take on the conspiracy theorists, and smash their arguments using historical method. With the help of recently declassified MI5 files, previously unpublished sketches of Hitler's bunker and eyewitness accounts of intelligence officers, this made for a fascinating discussion. Enjoy.

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0:00.0	Hello,
0:00.5	folks, Dan Snow here.
0:01.6	I am throwing a party to celebrate 10 years of Dan Snow's history hit.
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0:24.0	Hello, everyone. Welcome to Dan Snow's history hit.
0:27.7	75 years ago this spring, Adolf Hitler shot himself in a bunker under the streets of Berlin.
0:36.3	At that time, a battlefield as the Red Army smashed
0:39.5	its way in to Hitler's capital. The Reich in Hitler's dreams that would last a thousand years
0:46.9	was over in just over a decade. Now, Hitler's death has been fertile ground for conspiracy theorists ever since,
0:56.0	and Luke Daly Groves has made it his business to take on those conspiracy theories and crush
1:01.9	them. He is a historian at the University of Leeds, and he has just written a book called
1:06.9	Hitler's Death, The Case Against Conspiracy, in which he absolutely takes it to those on the internet who believe that Hitler escaped through a long tunnel, then got on an aircraft and a U-boat and ended up in South America. Luke's on fire in this podcast and in his book. I'm sure you'll agree. It's great talking to. If you want to watch programs about the end of the Second World War 75 years ago, this spring, please do so at History Hit TV. It's like Netflix for history, lots of history documentaries, for the true history geek in all of us. Go over there and use the code Pod 1 and you'll get a month for free so you can check it out. Watch as much to your like. Listen to us everything you want. And then they'll get the first month after that for just $1, 1 euro or one pound. So it's pretty darn cheap, two months for just one pound euro or dollar.
1:49.2	So please go and check that out. In the meantime, enjoy Luke Dalygroves.
1:58.2	Thanks for coming on the show. Thanks very much for having me on.
2:01.2	This is a big deal.
2:02.2	Did Hitler die in the bunker in May 1945?
2:05.7	Yep, 100% absolutely dead.
2:08.2	Why are we even talking about this?
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