The Death of Hitler

Dan Snow's History Hit

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4.7 • 13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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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 the historical method. With the help of recently declassified MI5 files, previously unpublished sketches of Hitler's bunker and eyewitness accounts from intelligence officers, this made for a fascinating discussion. Enjoy. Warning: some strong language.

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0:00.0	Hello,
0:00.6	folks, Dan Snow here.
0:01.6	I am throwing a party to celebrate 10 years of Dan Snow's history hit.
0:06.1	I'd love for you to be there.
0:07.5	Join me for a very special live recording of the podcast in London,
0:10.4	in England on the 12th of September to celebrate the 10 years.
0:14.1	You can find out more about it and get tickets with the link in the show notes.
0:17.6	Look forward to seeing you there.
0:28.5	Hi everybody. Welcome to Dans Notes History at 76 years ago this week.
0:33.0	Adolf Hitler shot himself in the Furo bunker beneath the streets of Berlin.
0:38.8	One of our most successful ever podcast features the brilliant academic, Luke Daly-Gros, who has painstakingly, painstakingly gone through all of the evidence that we have about Hitler's
0:43.7	death and proved that the conspiracy theories about Hitler's survival and escaped in South America
0:49.0	are absolute nonsense. He hasn't just done that. He isn't just written a brilliant book.
0:52.8	He sits on the internet like a fire watcher, putting out fires when they flare up on the dry heathery moors of the
0:59.1	internet. Is that metaphor working? Yes, I think so. So he puts out those fires and he makes
1:03.4	sure that anyone that watches dodgy YouTube films or reads dodgy articles, which clearly prove
1:09.9	that survived the Second World War are put right immediately.
1:13.2	He's a wonderful academic. He's a great contributor. It's great to have him on the podcast.
1:16.3	This is actually a repeat of the podcast we recorded years ago with him. It proved so popular
1:20.6	that we want to get it back on this time of year and just let everyone glory in his scholarship.
1:26.8	If you want to watch programs about VE Day, the end of the Second World War, you can do so at
1:30.7	HistoryHit.com.com. You can also listen to all the back episodes of this podcast without any
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