Adolf Hitler’s suicide is now called into question after American researchers checked out the buller-punctured skull fragment recently. That skull fragment – long held by Russian authorities along with some jawbones said to be Hitler’s.
The History Channel will be broadcast a documentary program entitled to “Hitler’s Escape.” Adolf Hilter committed suicide along with his wife Eva Braun in the Berlin bunker in April, 1945.
Connecticut archaeologist Nich Bellantoni was tasked with examining the skull and blood samples for the History Channel program. His initial forensic exam showed that it didn’t match what he knew to be Hitler’s biology. ”The bone was very small and thin, and normally male bones are much more robust in our species. I thought it probably came from a woman or a younger man.”
Linda Strausbaugh, professor of molecular and cell biology, had help from two former students – Craig O’Connor and Heather Nelson; who work in the New York medical examiner’s office. They determined the the DNA came from a 20 to 40 year old woman – but were not sure if that was from Braun or not since they had nothing to comapre her DNA to.
Witnesses never reported that Eva Braun was shot in the ehad as well. She was thought to have died of cyanide poisoning only.
The DNA bloodstain swabs showed at least some of it came from a man according to Strausbaugh. ”The DNA is relatively degraded and we don’t have a full range of markers that we’d like to have.
Russians have said that Hitler and Braun’s bodies were removed from a shell crater outside the bunker shortly after he had died. An autopsy (now allegedly) showed Hitler’s body was missing part of his cranium. A Soviet team returned to the crater in 1946 and found the missing cranium that the University of Connecticut team examined.
The Soviet said the rest of Hitler’s body was buried beneath a Soviet army parade ground in the former East Germany city of Magdeburg. Then his remains were exhumed in 1970 and incinerated, and the ashes were flushed into the city’s sewage system.
Both Bellantoni and Strausbaugh said there is nothing in their examinations that changes the timeline any – that Hitler died in the bunker, the body carried out tot he crater to be burned, etc. But the punctured skull fragment they have now “..raises a question: If this is not him who is it? And two, what really happened there.” Bellantoni stated to reporters.
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Ref. Telegraph.co.uk. By Andrew Osborn, Sept 28, 2009. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/world-war-2/6237028/Adolf-Hitler-suicide-story-questioned-after-tests-reveal-skull-is-a-womans.html)
Hitler Alive – Weird Conspiracy Theories by Tom Chivers on Sept 29, 2009 (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/6242144/Adolf-Hitler-alive-weird-conspiracy-theories.html)
comcast.net. Sept 29, 2009. by Pat Eaton-Robb, AP. (http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20090929/US.Hitler_s.Skull/)
Adolf Hitler’s suicide is now called into question after American researchers checked out the bullet-punctured skull fragment recently. That skull fragment – long held by Russian authorities along with some jawbones said to be Hitler’s.
The History Channel will be broadcast a documentary program entitled to “Hitler’s Escape.” Adolf Hilter committed suicide along with his wife Eva Braun in the Berlin bunker in April, 1945.
Connecticut archaeologist Nich Bellantoni was tasked with examining the skull and blood samples for the History Channel program. His initial forensic exam showed that it didn’t match what he knew to be Hitler’s biology. ”The bone was very small and thin, and normally male bones are much more robust in our species. I thought it probably came from a woman or a younger man.”
Linda Strausbaugh, professor of molecular and cell biology, had help from two former students – Craig O’Connor and Heather Nelson; who work in the New York medical examiner’s office. They determined the the DNA came from a 20 to 40 year old woman – but were not sure if that was from Braun or not since they had nothing to comapre her DNA to.
Witnesses never reported that Eva Braun was shot in the head as well. She was thought to have died of cyanide poisoning only.
The DNA bloodstain swabs showed at least some of it came from a man according to Strausbaugh. ”The DNA is relatively degraded and we don’t have a full range of markers that we’d like to have.”
Russians have said that Hitler and Braun’s bodies were removed from a shell crater outside the bunker shortly after he had died. An autopsy (now allegedly) showed Hitler’s body was missing part of his cranium. A Soviet team returned to the crater in 1946 and found the missing cranium that the University of Connecticut team examined.
The Soviet said the rest of Hitler’s body was buried beneath a Soviet army parade ground in the former East Germany city of Magdeburg. Then his remains were exhumed in 1970 and incinerated, and the ashes were flushed into the city’s sewage system.
Both Bellantoni and Strausbaugh said there is nothing in their examinations that changes the timeline any – that Hitler died in the bunker, the body carried out tot he crater to be burned, etc. But the punctured skull fragment they have now “..raises a question: If this is not him who is it? And two, what really happened there.” Bellantoni stated to reporters.
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Ref. Telegraph.co.uk. By Andrew Osborn, Sept 28, 2009. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/world-war-2/6237028/Adolf-Hitler-suicide-story-questioned-after-tests-reveal-skull-is-a-womans.html)
comcast.net. Sept 29, 2009. by Pat Eaton-Robb, AP. (http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20090929/US.Hitler_s.Skull/)
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