Hitler's Final Days in the Bunker

Via worldnewsdaily
November 2015

Moscow| A team of Russian historians cataloging heirlooms recently donated by Artem Fyidorovich Stergeev [Josef Stalin’s adopted son] before he died in 2008, believes that they have identified the skull of Adolf Hitler among the donated items.

The experts of the Hermitage museum in St-Petersburg, led by Professor Ivan Iourikanov, were searching through the 17,324 items of a collection which they had received from a personal donator, in order to determine the historical value of the various artifacts.

The collection was constituted of objects which were part of the family heirloom of Artem Fyodorovich Sergeev, the adopted son of Josef Stalin, and were donated to the museum when he died in 2008.

Three Mysterious Skulls

Among the many items donated by M. Sergeev where a dozen firearms, some personal journals belonging to his father, and three human skulls of unknown origins.

The scientists undertook a series of tests to identify the bones, and were finally able to identify their owners.

The first two skulls were rapidly identified as belonging to one of Stalin’s main opponents in the Bolshevik movement in the 1930′s, Grigory Yevseevich Zinoviev, who was executed in 1936, and Stalin’s second wife, Nadezhda Sergeevna Alliluyeva, who is presumed to have committed suicide in 1932.

The analysis of the third and final skull took much longer, since the features and dentition did not fit any of the known relatives of Josef Stalin, nor any Soviet leader.

The Skull of Adolf Hitler

The various tests and analysis of the teeth and bones, allowed the historians to determine that the skull belonged to a man in his late 50s or early 60s, who had grown up in either Bavaria or Austria. He is estimated to have measured between 1,70 m and 1,80 m, and some clues suggest that the man had eaten meat for most of his life, but had been following a strictly vegetarian diet for some years at the time of his death.

Using some 3D forensic facial reconstruction techniques, they were able to determine the physical appearance of the individual.

By comparing the skull’s teeth with the Führer's dental files, which the Soviet forces had obtained in 1945 after tracking down an assistant to Hitler’s dentist, they were able to confirm that the skull was, indeed, Adolf Hitler’s.

A Collection of Morbid Trophies

According to Professor Iourikanov, the skulls were probably collected and kept by the Soviet leader, Josef Stalin, acting as eerie reminders of his fallen adversaries.

“The skulls all bear some small dents and cuts, which we identified as knife marks” said the renowned historian. “This suggests that the skulls were skinned, emptied and cleaned, probably to be kept as trophies. In fact, they were found on the site of Stalin's death, laying over the fireplace of his Kuntsevo residence. They must have been precious to him, but nobody made a great deal about it at the time, and even his adoptive son had completely forgotten about them. This could be the historical discovery of the century".

The Museum has not decided yet, whether they will make the skulls available to the public. The direction of the Hermitage explains that the bones are clearly of great historical values, but they fear that the skull of Hitler could become a site of pilgrimage for Nazi sympathizers.

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Andreia Fernandez
Press Examiner
18 October 2015

DNA tests performed on a fragment of the skull of Adolf Hitler have indicated that it was "clearly" that of a woman. Researchers at Harvard University carried out analysis on the bone that had been held in the Russian State Archives in Moscow for many years.

The research in the genetics laboratory at the University was led by Professor of Anthropology Hans Verner, and is said to have completely astonished the scientists.

Similar tests carried out at the University of Connecticut in 2009 had come to the same conclusion. However, those tests produced several flaws, which led to the dismissal of the findings by the science world. The latest tests used advanced technology which was not available in 2009. PhD student James O’Connor told reporters that the skull fragment is 100% female.

A Swiss author and historian, Abraham Zerlig, claimed in a book he published in 1976 that Hitler was, indeed a woman. He had been a teacher at the University of West Berlin in the early 1970’s and had access to Hitler’s personal medical records. He became friendly with Dr Helmut Lang, who had been Hitler’s personal physician and had noted several physical anomalies that led him to believe Hitler was, indeed, a woman.

Zerlig had the opportunity to discuss these anomalies in detail with Dr Lang which he then presented in his book "Die Frau hinter Hitler" [The woman behind Hitler]. He said in an interview on German television this week that at last the work of his friend Dr Lang had been vindicated. 
 

 

A 120-Year-Old Hitler Might Be Walking Around Somewhere
Dan Amira
Daily Intelligencer
September 2009

After testing the supposed skull of Adolf Hitler,  a team of scientists from the University of Connecticut has concluded that it actually couldn’t be Hitler’s skull at all, but that of a woman who died under the age of 40.

This raises some tantalizing possibilities, which we list below in descending order of plausibility:

• The Russians removed the wrong corpse from the ditch outside Hitler’s Bunker.

• The right corpse was removed, but at some point in the past 60 years it was switched, purposely or by mistake, with the skull previously thought to be Hitler’s skull. The real skull is in the private collection of some rich Russian oligarch, or in a secret underground government vault.

• Hitler escaped the Bunker and lived out the rest of his life as an unassuming shop clerk in a small German town, selling cheese and dry goods until he died without notice in the mid-seventies.

• Hitler was actually a woman under 40.

• Hitler escaped and is still walking around somewhere. Keep your eyes peeled for a 120-year-old German man, because he’s probably Hitler.

Britain hatched a bizarre plan to win the Second World War by turning Hitler into a Woman
Daily Mirror
15 August 2011

The Allies secretly schemed to smuggle female sex hormones into the Führer’s food in an attempt to curb his aggression. If the plot – like something out of TV comedy "Blackadder" – had gone ahead, it could have turned Herr Hitler into Her Hitler.

It was just one of a number of outlandish ideas to break the war’s stalemate, according to a new book by a leading academic.

The hare-brained schemes are revealed for the first time in "Secret Weapons: Technology, Science And The Race To Win World War II". They have come to light now because of the recent publication of documents not previously seen because of their sensitive nature.

The book by Professor Brian Ford, a fellow at Cardiff University and pioneer of popular science, revealed that the British Government was serious about giving Hitler a sex change.

He said:

"There was an allied plan that they would smuggle estrogen into Hitler’s food and change his sex so he would become more feminine and less aggressive. Their research had showed the importance of sex hormones – they were beginning to be used in sex therapy in London. The plan was to give sex hormones to Hitler and counterbalance his unnecessary aggression".

Professor Ford said the plan was perfectly feasible because British spies were in place to lace his food.

"There were agents who would be able to get it into his food – it would have been entirely possible. He had testers who used to taste his food. There was no mileage to putting poison in his food because they would immediately fall victim to it. Sex hormones were a different matter. They only affected you if you took them for weeks or months on end, so no one would have ever realised that the hormones were in the food".
 

Adolf Hitler Alive in Argentina Until 1990 and Knew Pope Francis
February 18, 2015
The Damien Zone
A website dedicated to human stupidity and dumbness
 
New photographs and stories have appeared on the FBI website which prove that Adolf Hitler did not die in his Bunker in 1945. Not only did he live and flee to Argentina, he died in 1990 — living to the age of 101.

According to eyewitnesses, he was a quiet man who liked  to entertain guests in his lakefront home and loved to make fun of Jimmy Carter who he referred to as, "The worst President in the history of the USA". Of course there is another element to this story that is stranger than fiction.

New information has shown that the defeated Nazi leader fled Germany days before the Russian army overran his country.  The remains that were found were impostors. There is, however, some reason to believe that Hitler’s wife Eva Braun,  may have actually been killed in the Bunker to make the murder-suicide seem more realistic.

According to witnesses who are long dead, Hitler did not kill Eva himself because he placed such a high moral value on human life.  He had someone else do it.  There were witnesses to this and one stated in sworn testimony that Hitler "cringed a little' when he heard the distant gunshot that killed Eva Braun.

According to secret documents, Hitler fled to Flores, Argentina where he went unnoticed in the crowded and squalid barrio adjacent to Buenos Aires.

According to forensic experts who are now searching for a possible grave or tomb, Hitler shaved the top of his head to appear bald, got rid of the mustache and stopped dying his hair until it grew in gray.  He also changed his named to Hans Müller where he spoke fluent Spanish and often played with the local children who were very poor and hungry.

Hitler lived a quiet life in a small apartment in Flores for about four years and then he moved to a small lakefront home near the town of Guamini where he lived off the land with another man who has yet to be identified.

Most of the people questioned in this most recent investigation were alive as children and knew Hitler as kindly Hans Müller who lived in a rundown house with his dog Kiki.  The local kids said he was a nice man who often patted them on the heads and told them to stay out of the sun and to avoid pawn shops.

"Each morning there was a young boy with a donkey and a cart.  His name was Jorge  Bergoglio,  He would deliver milk and eggs to Senor Hans Müller and for that he would be given small amounts of money and a prayer card," said Herve Florinas who is now 81 and living with his life partner Ramondo in Santiago, Chile.

As a child. I was always very jealous of Jorge Bergoglio," continued Florinas.  "He always managed to have money and nice clothes while the rest of us were starving and without shoes". 

"One day we tied him up and ate his donkey.  My father used the animal’s hide to make shoes for me and several of the children from the slums.  When Jorge found out, he screamed and cried and stomped his feet.  

"I remember vividly that Hans Müller found this to be very funny overall but he was annoyed by Jorge’s incessant crying.  Finally Hans Müller slapped Jorge across the face and yelled, ‘You can act like a man,’ and from then on Jorge became very quiet and religious and he wanted everybody to like him".

"The Damien Zone" noticed that Herve Florina’s memory is either not what it used to be,  or maybe he is simply suffering from the ravages of being old and gay in Argentina. In one sense Herve seemed to enjoy telling his dead donkey story in great detail and poking fun at little Jorge Mario Bergoglio.  But with regards to his brush with Hitler,  he left out the most important ingredient to his story.  Turns out that he did not know the best part of his own story.

While little Herve,  may have had the unique experience of knowing Adolf Hitler after WW2,  he was blissfully unaware that he was witness to the strangest paring of people, and the crossing of paths, in the history of the world.

We had to tell him the missing element to his story — one about which he was amazingly surprised.

:I did not know that Jorge Bergoglio grew up to be Pope Francis.  Oh my god, I so totally did not know that.  What a strange coincidence," said Florinas.

"I was a little confused and hungry at the time I guess and I didn’t put two and two together.  When I knew Hans Müller, who turned out to be Adolf Hitler, I had only just recently met my life partner in the garbage dump behind our shack.  I guess I was so in love that I didn’t pay attention to Nazis and Popes and things like that.

“That was in 1946, and who can remember that far back?  I knew that Jorge was an annoying kid and. there was no doubt about that because that’s why we ate his donkey and made shoes with his skin, but I totally didn’t know that the little boy who delivered groceries to Adolf Hitler grew up to be Pope Francis.  Isn’t that something?”

The little boy with the donkey and groceries — Jorge Mario Bergoglio — grew up to be none other than Pope Francis.

It’s true — Pope Francis used to be Adolf Hitler’s delivery boy!|

Adolf Hitler confirmed to have lived in Argentina until 1957
1 April 2009

Until yesterday, we had learned that Adolf Hitler and his wife Eva Braun committed suicide in Hitler's Berlin Bunker as Soviet troops fought only blocks away. New investigations had shown that while remains were found in the Bunker, none of them was that of Hitler's.

"The escape of Hitler had always been a myth," said United States Federal Bureau of Investigations spokesperson Andrew Schumacher. "Today, we concluded that it was true. Artifacts recently discovered in Argentina indicated that Hitler had escaped by submarine to Argentina and lived for over 10 years."

According to the information made public by the FBI, the case on Hitler took a backseat in the late 1940s, but it was never officially closed. Despite a very small budget, the team was able to track down several European and South American leads, ultimately finding a cellar in an unassuming house in an unnamed village some distance from the relatively remote town of Iruya in Northern Argentina. In the cellar, a metal WW2-era German Army ammunition box was found. Among the few items inside was a photo of Hitler, weary in appearance, shaking hands with a German Navy submarine captain. In the background, the presence of floss silk trees, unique to South America, is undeniable; this photograph serves as one of the key pieces of evidence of Hitler’s escape. It is hypothesized that Hitler had taken one of the final flights out of Berlin and left behind him an anonymous body double [who might had been murdered for the Soviets to discover]. Via the Norwegian coast, he was taken by a submarine to Argentina.

Other artifacts found in the ammunition box include an Iron Cross medal, a Luger pistol, a fountain pen with a dried-up bottle of ink, a program to the 1 April 1938 Berlin production of Richard Wagner's "Die Walküre", cut-out comic strips from 1940s and 1950s newspapers, a strand of hair which DNA testing concluded to be dog hair of German Shepherd breed, a rubber bouncy ball, a voodoo doll named Stalin, a coin that is presumably the first Mark he made as a boy, some glass marbles, a wooden spork, and several German military operations manuals.

Some conspiracy theorists place Hitler in the center of various plots aimed at toppling the US government. In actuality, however, his life could not be any more different. The post-war profile of Hitler that the profile FBI released had him raising chickens and planting cabbage for a living. "Herr Schmidt", as he came to be known, made the best Sauerkraut in town. An older village resident remembered that "Herr Schmidt fed his chickens in the courtyard every morning right after dawn, making clucking noises as he threw feed onto the ground. Sometimes when he saw me, he would run back into the house and return with a jar of Sauerkraut as a gift".

Another resident shared that Hitler sometimes performed scenes from "Tristan and Isolde" under the full moon in front of the chicken shack to a poultry audience. The folks in town seemed to think of "Herr Schmidt" as a strange man, but all agree that they put up with him because his Sauerkraut was so delicious.

"Off the official record, many of us at the Bureau are rather disgusted that he was never brought to justice, and instead lived in simple comfort for the remainder of his life," commented Schumacher during an interview with the Steve Inskeep of American radio program 'Morning Edition of National Public Radio'.

"However, we can at least be glad that he seemed to have given up his ambitions after fleeing to Argentina".

Since Hitler's death in about the first week of April 1957, the house had been sold several times. A previous owner tore down the chicken shack to expand the cabbage lot, and the present owner Mr. Hernández reported that he had nearly thrown out everything in the cellar, but only stopped because there was so much "junk" in there and he did not really need the storage space. Little did he realize the historical importance of the metal box in the cellar, which contained proof that the house was at one time owned by a man who is widely considered the most evil man in human history, and was the two-time recipient of Best Cabbage Dish Award of the Iruya Town Fair of 1952 and 1953. Mr. Hernández was given Hitler's rubber bouncy ball by the chief FBI field agent in charge of the project; he is reported to be setting up an eBay account to see if the bouncy ball can fetch some money to help him pay for his son's upcoming wedding.

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At the bottom of every page in the report released to the public by the FBI noted, in fine print "in case you have not yet realized, this entire news article is fictional and should not be taken seriously".

 The Hitler FBI Files

The Federal Bureau of Investigations  declassified their Adolf Hitler files in 2014, which entertain the idea that Hitler survived World War II and went into hiding. The FBI investigated claims that the Nazi leader had faked his own death, and the newly released files show lab reports on Hitler's marriage certificate, will, as well as other political documents.  

"In the aftermath of Germany’s surrender in 1945, western Allied forces suspected that Hitler had committed suicide but did not immediately find evidence of his death. At the time, it was feared that Hitler may have escaped in the closing days of the war, and searches were made to determine if he was still alive. FBI Files indicate that the Bureau investigated some of the rumors of Hitler’s survival".

The Bureau has made 867 pages of files and documents public, hundreds of which are devoted to speculation that Hitler escaped Germany and lived safely in Argentina with other Nazi leaders, body doubles, and possibly even Eva Braun after the war. 

In all the documents, names have been blacked-out.
The documents also contain letters from people who either claim to have seen Hitler or know his whereabouts.

The papers include correspondence from FBI agents discussing interviews with informants and officials on such topics as political assassinations, payments and American Jews.

J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI at the time, issued signed confirmation receipts on many of the reports and letters

1. Why did the AJR [Association of Jewish Refugees] Journal in 1948 report Hitler to be on top of the list of the 10 most wanted war criminals?
2. Why did the CIA in 1956 follow evidence of people having seen Hitler in LaFalda/Argentina in the same hotel the FBI had searched for him in 1947, the FBI files however having been closed in 1947?
3. Why were those FBI files not closed in 1945?

After all wasn't Hitler dead???

Did Hitler Come Up in the JFK Files? Of Course He Did.
The CIA got wind he might be living down in Venezuela.

Charles P. Pierce 
Esquire Magazine
1 November, 2017

The release of some of the last of the government’s files concerning the assassination of President John F. Kennedy got seriously buried by other news. It was already pretty clear by theamount of material being dumped into the public domain that any news coming out of the release of the files would be buried by the sheer volume of the material. But that doesn’t make what  "The Miami Herald" found any less weird.

But a handful of recently-declassified CIA documents, unveiled with the highly anticipated JFK files last week, show that the Central Intelligence Agency was investigating whether Hitler escaped from Europe and was hiding in Colombia in 1954. The first document, dated 3 October, 1955, says that an unnamed CIA agent referred to as “CIMELODY-3” was contacted by “a trusted friend who served under his command in Europe and who is presently residing in Maracaibo [Venezuela]. That friend, who also remained anonymous, told the CIA agent that a former German SS trooper named Phillip Citroen told him that Hitler was actually still alive — and that the former dictator could no longer be prosecuted as a criminal of war because it had been over 10 years since the end of World War II.

According to that CIA memo, Citroen told a former member of the CIA base in Maricaibo that he met a person “who strongly resembled and claimed to be” Hitler in “Residencias Coloniales,” which was located in Tunja, Colombia. The document says that Citroen claimed many former Nazis were living in that area — and that they held the alleged Hitler in high esteem, “addressing him as ‘der Führer’ and affording him the Nazi salute and storm-trooper adulation". But the CIA remained skeptical — in a letter dated 4 November 1955, higher-ups casted doubt on the reports. “It is felt that enormous efforts [spent trying to confirm the rumors] could be expanded on this matter with remote possibilities of establishing anything concrete", the letter said. "Therefore, we suggest that this matter be dropped".
 

New Story: Hitler Was Wed in 1913
The Telegraph [Brisbane, Qld]
5 January 1946 

NEW YORK: Hitler married Eva Braun in 1913, Antonl Gronowlcz, Polish author and journalist, told the "New York Post".

"Documents indicating that they were married last April and died amidst the rains of Berlin", sald Gronowlcz, "were false, and part of a pattern being woven to portray the Führer as a martyr.

"Actually the wedding took place just before the First World War in the tiny Austrian mountain village of Wolocz".

Gronowlcz clalms he had copies of the Hitler—Braun marriage certificate, but they were I stolen as he travelled from Gcrmany to Prague.  

Residents of Wolocz told him that in 1913 Hitler was taken from Munich to the village of a cousln, Pastor Johann Hoffmann [also related to the man who later became Hitler's offlcial photographer].

Hitler, unscrupulously obtained an appointment as local chief of police and courted and married the pastor's foster-daughter, Eva Braun, who was then 16 years a old. "

The story accepted by the Allies is too pat", according to Gronowlcz.

"I don't believe that Eva Braun came to Berlin to die with Hitler," he said. "I am sure he is alive now — in 8outh America, possibly Argentina".

"Hitler would not kill himself. He is not so heroic.

"He would do everything possible to save his own life".

Mitchell Salter
7 March 2014

What is the Hitler Paranormal Conspiracy?

The Hitler Paranormal Conspiracy is the believe that Hitler was involved in Occult and Paranormal activities. This ranges from Hitler performing experiments to research ESP, to sending Nazi elites 200 years into the future.

There are many Conspiracies about the Paranormal activities involving Hitler, but in this article we will be focusing on Hitler's connections with the Thule Society, The Spear of Destiny, Nazi UFOs, Time Travel, and finally Hitler's Death.

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Like the Ahnenerbe section of the SS, and due to its occult background, the Thule Society has become the center of many conspiracy theories concerning Nazi Germany.

Such theories include the creation of space crafts and secret weapons.

The Thule Society also believed that the master race lived in the center of the earth and believed in the Hollow Earth Theory.

Hitler, however, has never been proven to haven been  a member of the Thule Society despite the connections he had with them.

The Thule Society, originally the Studiengruppe für Germanisches Altertum [Study Group for Germanic Antiquity] was founded 17 August 1918, as the Munich branch of the Germanenorden, a secret Society a.k.a. the "Order of Teutons" [1912].

Hitler came into connection with the Thule Society because of Johann Dietrich Eckart, who was one of the main reasons that the Nazi party came into power,  by introducing Hitler to many influential parties.

Eckart exerted considerable influence on Hitler and is strongly believed to have helped establish the theories and beliefs of the Nazi Party. Many believe this because the mission of the Thule society was to create a master race and to eliminate the lesser races.

The Thule Society even helped Hitler with his speaking skills, some have even suggested that the society somehow granted him magic powers that contributed to his later success.

In partnership with the Thule Society and the Nazi Party, the Vril Society developed a series of flying disc prototypes.

The German UFO theories describe supposedly successful attempts to develop advanced aircraft or spacecraft prior to and during World War II, and further assert the post-war survival of these craft in secret underground bases in Antarctica, South America or the United States, along with their creators. According to the limited available information on the UFOs, various potential code-names or sub-classifications of Nazi UFO craft have all been referenced.

In 1953, when Avro Canada announced that it was developing the VZ-9-AV Avrocar, a circular jet aircraft with an estimated speed of 1,500 mph [2,400 km/h], German engineer Georg Klein claimed that such designs had been developed during the Third Reich.

A CIA report dated 27 May 1954, states:  

"A German newspaper [not further identified] recently published an interview with George Klein, famous German engineer and aircraft expert, describing the experimental construction of 'flying saucers' carried out by him from 1941 to 1945. Klein stated that he was present when, in 1945, the first piloted 'flying saucer' took off and reached a speed of 1,3000 miles per hour within 3 minutes.

"The experiments resulted in three designs: one designed by Richard Miethe was a disc-shaped aircraft, 135 feet in diameter, which did not rotate; another designed by Klaus Habermohl and Rudolf  Schriever, consisted of a large rotating ring, in the centre of which was a round, stationary cabin for the crew.

"When the Soviets occupied Prague, the Germans destroyed every trace of the 'Flying Saucer' project and nothing more was heard of Habermohl and his assistants".  

Klaus Habermohl, a BMW engineer who worked as part of the Flugzeug Special Projects Group in Prague, was the man who developed the radial-flow jet engine in the 1930s, described in various articles as a system of "adjustable" nozzles, of great significance just ten years later.

Radial-flow allowed for VTOL performance and used the little-known "Coanda" effect.

 He was captured by the Russians in Prague on or about 11 May 1945. He undoubtedly helped in the construction of a Soviet Disc.

The German newspaper appears to have been "Welt am Sonntag" for [different dates are given] 25 or 26  April 1953. The article is titled "Erste 'Flugscheibe' flog 1945 in Prag", and there is a photo of George Klein pointing at a vague diagram of a disc.

One of the world’s leading experts on Nazi Germany says Hitler mastered time itself, sending “time warriors” centuries into the future to conquer a world that is yet to be!

Dr. Kurt Fischer told a symposium in Mysen, Norway, that evidence accumulated over the past 64 years has convinced him that the Nazis developed a crude but working time machine before the fall of Germany in 1945.

He says parts of the machine and tattered blueprints were recovered from a bombed-out Bunker in Berlin by Allied forces. And he suspects that Hitler, long obsessed with paranormal science, might have used the device to propel himself into the future and back on numerous occasions.

"Volumes have been written about the Nazis’ heavy water experiments and Hitler’s obsession with perfecting the atom bomb", said Dr. Fischer. “But the cutting edge of Nazi technology was concerned with nothing less than the mastery of time and space itself".

“There is evidence to suggest that they did, in fact, open a portal. It could not help them alter the course of World War II. But there is a very real possibility that it gave them a chance to win an even greater victory – the control and domination of our future.”

Fischer provided ample documentation for his broader theories during his presentation in Norway.

In a dramatic videotaped interview, secret Nazi physicist Erich Kreiner – now deceased – confirmed that he was one of 28 scientists who conducted the time-travel experiments.

He refused to name his colleagues and appeared to be addled or intentionally evasive when asked to discuss specifics. But he did say the Nazi goal was to send 5,000 elite troops to Germany in the year 2145, which was then 200 years into the future.

“There was some measure of success,” he said, adding that several technicians were sent decades into the future and returned to their own time before Germany fell to the Allies.

“I don’t know if there is a connection. But German police reported that a man in Nazi uniform appeared at a power plant near Dresden last August and later vanished from a heavily guarded cell,” said Dr. Fischer. “Was that man a Nazi time traveler? Unfortunately, we’ll never know for sure".

Components of the purported time machine that were recovered from the Berlin Bunker have long since been lost, he added. But detailed descriptions contained in Allied inventory reports suggest that it was no bigger than a filing cabinet and was designed to generate light and ultra-high frequency sound waves.

“It’s a chilling prospect, but the greatest threat to our future may not be an enemy that exists today,” said Dr. Fischer. “It might be the Nazis – and a world controlled by a madman".

Many people have heard that Hitler killed himself on 30 April 1945 while hidden in his Bunker as Soviet forces marched towards his position, but not many people know that 30 April /1 May  is actually a day where Witches gathered to worship their gods. This day is known as Walpurgis Night, but over time has been changed to May day. Some believe that Hitler performed a sacrifice so that he could get away, this theory is unlikely but it does not help that Hitler's body has never been confirmed to have been found.

In 2009, DNA tests were performed on a skull Soviet officials had long believed to be Hitler's. According to the American researchers, the tests revealed that the skull was actually that of a woman less than 40 years old.

The most popular conspiracy concerning Hitler's death is that Hitler in fact escaped. Theories tend to differ on where Hitler went when he escaped, some believe that he went to a secret Nazi base on the moon while some believe he went to the center of the earth to meet up with the secret army he had there. Some even say that Hitler is in the US military base -the US Navy Exchange, San Diego,  Bougainville Road- that is shaped like a Swastika.

While many of these theories may never be proven there are countless examples of Hitler dappling in the occult that seem to have points that just can not be ignored.

Hitler working with Paranormal forces and having connections with occultism has become very popular in the media involving sci-fi movies and games, movies like "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "Hellboy", "Captain America", "Nazis at the Center of the Earth", "Hannibal Rising", and  games like "COD Nazi Zombies", "BloodRayne", "Lost Horizon", "Wolfenstein: The New Order".

Believe what you want about Hitler but he actually did have friends.

One was Dr. Walter Stein. According to him when Hitler was young he started getting into the occult, essentially the more he read the more he thought it was real.

Walter Johannes Stein was an Austrian philosopher, Waldorf school teacher, Grail researcher, and one of the pioneers of Anthroposophy.

After the First World War, Stein started teaching History and German Literature at the first Waldorf School in Stuttgart, and began his research on the Grail, which culminated in 1928 with his book "The Ninth Century and the Holy Grail".

In this work, he attempted to identify historical people and events represented in the Grail epic and to interpret "Parzival" as an esoteric document representing the human path of inner development

Stein is one of the chief characters in Trevor Ravenscroft's books "The Spear of Destiny" and "The Cup of Destiny".

Hitler actually said in his book "Mein Kampf" [My Struggle] that those were the most vital years of his life and from those years he learned how to lead the Nazi party.

Stein got to know Hitler because they shared a mutual interest in the Spear of Destiny.|

Essentially the Spear of Destiny is what was supposed to have punctured the side of Christ during His Crucifixion.

According to the Legend whoever has the Spear has the power to conquer the world, however if you were to lose it, you would  die.

On 12 March 1938 Hitler got the Spear of Destiny and immediately sent it to Nuremberg the spiritual capital of Nazi Germany.

At 2:10 on 30 April 1945 the Spear  fell into the hands of General George Patton and in fulfillment of the Legend Hitler killed himself later that day.

Coincidence... most likely.

Many people claim to have the original Spear: The Vatican in Rome says it has it...a museum in Vienna says it has it...it was on the sunken U-Boat the U-534 [proved false].

U-534 [Kapitänleutnant Werner Nollau] had sailed from Copenhagen on 5 May 1945. Later that day she was sunk by an RAF Liberator maritime patrol bomber [Warrant Officer J D Nicol RAF] east of Anholt Island in the Kattegat. Somehow tales of escaping Nazi leaders, bullion, jewels and art treasures grew and she was raised from the depths on 24 August 1993. Nothing other than ammunition was aboard, but U-534 is now a superb museum exhibit in Birkenhead.

One of the most interesting theories behind it is that a pseudonymous "Capt. Wilhelm Bernhart" said that under a Maximilian Hartmann, Hitler had actually sent the real Spear to Antarctica for safe keeping and that Maximilian Hartmann in 1979 came back for the treasures. Then the Spear was hidden somewhere in Europe by a secret Nazi society.

As far as the media is concerned this theory is pretty much put to rest because it is so old and multiple people claim they have the real Spear so.... there really is no way to tell who is right.

The Paranormal Conspiracy theory is relatively ridiculous because  Hitler himself did not really believe in it at all......

"Contact with Hitler's Spirit"
Advocate [Burnie, Tas]
27 September 1949

FRANKFURT, Contact was made with Hitler's spirit in a séance at an undisclosed place on 6 July, claims the Stuttgart periodical "Neues Europa".

It quoted Hitler its saying:

"All rumors that I am living in South America are false. I voluntarily passed over to the beyond on 30 April 1945.

 "I invoke you all to reconstruct in peace and harmony that which was destroyed by war through my guilt. You must overcome our nationalist arrogance and dangerous militarism".

The "revelations*' ended with a crisp, "You may call me again whenever necessary."

Other newspapers attributed the "appearance" of Hitler's spirit in spiritualist periodicals to the money-earning power of articles dealing with the new "Hitler Legend."

Adolf - Ghost Of
The Beverley Times [WA]
8 April 1954

Rumors that Hitler is still living bob up now and then. . . . At last, however, that elusive figure has been provided with a ghost!

The phantom of the late Adolf is said to "walk" the corridors of Landsberg Prison, where he wrote "Mein Kampf," but nobody has yet succeeded in holding the apparition in conversation.

"Serpents of Fire": German Secret Weapons, UFOs and the Hitler/Hollow Earth Connection
30 April 2014

69 years ago the Third Reich ended and rumors about Hitler's death began. It is probably more correct to say that Conspiracy Theories regarding Hitler's possible escape from Nazi Germany, as Soviet soldiers closed in on his Bunker stronghold, have never been closed. The final days and hours of the Führer and the Reich he led continue to fascinate and even to mystify.

The official record states that Hitler and his newlywed wife, Eva Braun, committed suicide late in the afternoon of 30 April 1945, by gun and cyanide. According to some witnesses, their bodies were taken outside, doused with Petrol and set ablaze. Attempts were made to destroy the bodies as completely as possible, but the conditions made the task difficult, so eventually, what was left of them was covered and abandoned in a bomb crater where they were found by Soviet soldiers who soon captured the compound.

At that point the record gets a little confusing, a situation that was not helped by the Soviets themselves who used the idea of Hitler's possible escape and survival as a Propaganda device to throw their Western allies off track. Given all the evidence, it is difficult to know what Stalin really believed about Hitler's final fate, although it's also quite clear that various U.S. Intelligence assets were checking out the rumors about Hitler's survival for many years to come.

"Serpents of Fire", a classic Conspiracy book, by Paranormal and Conspiracy author, Gray Barker, is resurrected, re-edited and retooled for a new readership by Andy Colvin. Barker published his books privately through a press he called Saucerian Books. Colvin has chosen to reissue Barker's best using that model: New Saucerian Books. It is appropriate and fun.

Barker, whose reputation is notorious, [he researched and wrote about UFOs, ghosts, government cover-ups and  Hitler, and also played the double agent trickster with other investigators, like John A. Keel, flagrantly tried to profit from the scary experiences of others and even hoaxed certain events for publicity, some are convinced that he was a "spook" himself.,

He is in rare form in "Serpents of Fire", co-written with Ruth Anne Leedy, as he scoots from rumors of Hitler's escape to Nazi-Alien technologies, the Hollow Earth theory, the Grail and Reichstag Occultism. It is classic Barker, one large conspiracy bag fits all, and it is just so much fun.

The thing about Barker is that he's a pretty good writer. He tells a helluva yarn and, you, the reader, really, really want to believe it. And as with all such forays into unofficial and unusual knowledge, he does uncover some pretty strange things.

According to his sources, and some of them are good ones, culled from primary documents and published interviews, Hitler had planned various methods of escape and the official story told of his discouragement and despair in that bleak April does not seem to track with other statements of defiance and intended survival that he apparently, really made. Add to this the fact that the Soviets hid evidence regarding Hitler's demise and even used the rumor of his survival as an Intelligence ploy to throw the West off and the idea of Conspiracy sometimes seems rather well founded.

The latest forensic evidence, again, at least what is officially accepted, even by the "authoritative" Wikipedia entry, has concluded that Hitler was definitely dead at the time the Soviets found his body [he would probably be dead by now in any event even if he had escaped]. But then, there is that "skull story", that the so-called Smoking Gun was really a woman's skull. Mystery upon mystery. But the symbol of Hitler, an anti-Messiah if there ever was one, has survived as historians have discovered just how weird the Nazis really were.

Nazi scientists really did investigate the possibility of saucer shaped craft, time travel and some of them were obsessed with occultism, Hollow Earth theories and the possibility that the Aryan Race had descended from superior alien life forms. When one places these preoccupations next to the very real "conspiracy" of Paperclip, that brought many Nazi scientists, including some who had experimented on human beings, to the U.S. to work on American government projects, including rocketry, improved nuclear weaponry and technology that would protect American astronauts in space, well, much else becomes easier to believe.

Barker simply stuffs it all together here-the real with the fanciful, true horrors with the simply bizarre and the mix is a little uncanny, even when the information he presents, since the original manuscript was written decades ago, is dated. For example, Josef Mengele was still alive when the book was written and plate tectonics had not yet become accepted knowledge to be taught in schools. [Mengele had escaped, incidentally].

But where Barker really shines is in his ability to detect the power of a symbol, a living, vital, if vicious symbol. And that, Hitler certainly became. And remains so - a form of survival that can survive either reality of his passing.

Barker's stories fundamentally influenced the course of UFO and conspiracy narratives in the United States. It was Barker who broke the genuinely strange, sinister and sad story of Morris K. Jessup, an aspiring astronomer [who was really a used car salesman, despite having a degree in astronomy] and the fate of his book, "he Case for UFOs" [1953] which ended with Jessup's mysterious suicide.

Barker also published the initial accounts, of the "Men in Black" phenomena that seem to plague many UFO experiencers

His 1956 book "They Knew Too Much about Flying Saucers" made the Men in Black [M.I.B.] feared within UFO circles during the late 1950s and 1960s. In it, Gray told about alleged brushes between the sinister M.I.B. and a Connecticut man, Albert K. Bender, who set the pace for what is now the stereotypical M.I.B. story: Someone sees a UFO and tries to tell the world about it. Without warning, three men in black suits and driving a big black car confront the witness. Afterwards, the witness appears too frightened to talk further about the UFO -- or anything else.

In account after account within the pages of "They Knew Too Much" and subsequent writings by others [including John Keel, who began using the shorthand "M.I.B" in his writings], the mysterious trio -- who at times seem to have uncanny mental powers and weird, otherworldly faces -- squelch all discussion about supposedly true UFO encounters. The whole notion smacked of a huge, pre-Watergate conspiracy.

In July 1997, the news came that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency indeed may have participated in a cover-up not unlike that supposedly initiated by the fabled M.I.B.

U.S. Intelligence Historian Gerald K. Haines wrote an unclassified article for "Studies of Intelligence", a CIA journal.revealing that during the 1950s the U.S. Air Force and other agencies actually did conspire to suppress the UFO issue and to concoct false cover stories to explain sightings of such super-secret U.S. spy planes as the U-2 and later the SR-71 Blackbird.


So, Bender, Barker, and the rest indeed may have been inspired by a grain [or several grains] of truth.

Hitler was "buried in British territory – in Jesus Christ's tomb"
Adolf Hitler survived the end of World War 2 and fled to a British territory – and is now buried in Jesus Christ's tomb, explosive new claims suggest.
Patrick Knox
The Daily Star
29 May 2016

Using never seen before FBI documents, respected ex-UN war crimes investigator John Cencich and journalist Gerrard Williams concluded Hitler escaped the fall of the Third Reich in 1945.

Following an investigation they found Hitler slipped away from Berlin moments before the Soviets invaded – making his way to the Canary Islands and then South America.

But now a conspiracy theory suggests the evil Nazi dictator may have actually taken sanctuary after the war in remote Kashmir in India which was then British colony.

What is more extraordinary is that the evil dictator – who despised all forms of religion in favour of his warped death cult – is buried in a shrine reputed to be Jesus Christ's final resting place.

The theory that Hitler fled to Kashmir via the Middle East and Afghanistan has been floating around among Kashmiris for years.

But it has only gained traction after the investigation by Mr Cencich and Mr Williams concluded Hitler escaped the fall of the Third Reich alive.

Spearheading the theory is respected Kashmiri writer and historian Farooq Renzu Shah.

He insists:

"Hitler escaped to Kashmir, India, where his grave is in Rozbal garden".

In the shabby backstreets of Srinagar is an old building known as the Rozabal shrine.

But it is padlocked tight and it has a watchman guarding it to make sure no-one goes near the corpse.

Mr Shah believes the truth about Hitler could be found in official documents which he is now calling to be declassified.

He claims Adolf was pals with an Indian nationalist and Nazi sympathiser called Subhas Chandra Bose.

Bose collaborated with the Japanese in the fight against British rule in India.

Bose shared a hatred of the British with Axis powers Japan and Germany because of their colonization of India. He headed the Indian National Army – devoted to booting out the Brits.

He even lived in Third Reich for a spell during the war and formed a good friendship with Hitler.

Using his connections in India, he was said to have arranged a safe haven for the Nazi chief among the then Maharaja of Kashmir who kept the world’s most hated man in his palace, lavishing him in a life of luxury amid stunning scenery.

It is unclear from the theory when he died.

But Hitler was suffering the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease and could have only lived a few more years with medicine available in the 1940s.

It is claimed he was then taken to a tomb in Rozabal which is reputed to be the final resting place of Christ – the least likely place anyone would expect the fugitive Führer to be buried.

But because the site is holy an exhumation is unlikely any time soon because of strict laws safeguarding spiritual sites.

Yet while the theory remains that Hitler escaped his Bunker in Berlin and fled to a safe haven, Russia insists he did die and it has the bones to prove it.

According to Russian government authorities, the Führer’s skull and jaw with some teeth intact are safely stored away in one of Vladimir Putin's vaults in Moscow.

This has raised the prospect of Hitler being cloned should any DNA remain in his bones.

But the remains have not been confirmed as Adolf's and some claim the Soviet Union faked the discovery to avoid the embarrassment of Hitler escaping under their noses.

Yet until the bones with the Russians and those in Kashmir can be subject to DNA tests we will never know the true fate of Adolf Hitler.

-- NARA has a file named ENTRY 216 boxes 250/64/34/02 [box 8] which details Hitler's proposed escape to India in 1945.

In almost any scenario involving science fiction time travel, the default action is to kill Hitler.  So terrible that a human being as he was, there are many reasons why this is probably not a good idea
The Guardian
26 March 2014  

If you find yourself suddenly having access to a time machine, what is the first thing you do?  If you answered "kill Adolf Hitler", then congratulations, you are a science fiction character.  Actually, the whole issue of "access to a time machine" suggests that already, but the desire to kill Hitler proves it.  Any character science fiction time travel [at least those created by Western society] seems to want to kill Hitler, so much so that there is a trope of how impossible.

That attempt on Hitler has become an element of science fiction plot common, says it all.  What about Stalin?  He was definitely worse, killing 20 million people to feed hisr own ideology.  But no, Stalin went on his way undisturbed by time travelers, all of whom are busy focusing on Hitler.

It is understandable.  Who would not want to avoid the holocaust?  It is probably the worst in history.  And I only say "probably" because I know the whole story, and the human capacity to be horrible is not to be underestimated.  But as noble as it seems, killing the Führer through time travel is a terrible idea, for reasons of real life, and not just fiction.  So you should you have a time machine and make plans to kill Hitler, here are some reasons why you should not

Ethical Dilemma

Could you really kill another human being?  Despite implying pop culture, human beings in general, are not predisposed to kill each other. This is not an absolute, of course. Abstract thinking homicide is relatively common, and many humans end up taking the lives of others because of complex circumstances, as brutal upbringing/environment or possibly psychiatric illness.  And, of course, some people are just evil.  It seems difficult to reconcile these motivations with the mindset that plans to kill Hitler as an altruistic act.

But let us assume that you are willing to kill one to save millions of people.  All history to visit, and his first port of call involves killing.  Fine.  Whatever.  When do you kill Hitler?  As a child, Hitler had done nothing monstrous enough to justify his murder, which would have you to be willing to take his life then?  "Minority Report" wrestled with this problem, and that was on a much smaller scale.

Maybe later, when the Reich is in place, but he had not committed genocide yet.  But this would be too late?  Once everything has been created, removing Hitler would change anything?  This brings us to another reason not to.

General Context

Stephen Fry dealt with this beautifully in his book "Making History".  No claims, the problem is that many assume Hitler was the sole cause of the Second World War and all the associated horrors.  Unfortunately, this is an oversimplification.  Germany in the 1930s was not a Utopia of peace lovers baskets that were suddenly and severely corrupted by the charismatic Hitler mustache.  Political tensions and conflicts were all there, the results of a previous world war and a great depression;  Hitler was able to take advantage of this.  But if he had not, for example, because he had been removed by a traveler walking time, then there is nothing to say that no one else would.

Problems rarely exist in isolation.  As you can enter and start a tumor because it is connected with the wider body that react badly to a strong intrusion, removing the main figurehead does not necessarily prevent events that were as much a product of the wider context socio- political situation. 

 Chaos Theory

There is the oft-cited example of the Butterfly Effect, that is, very small changes in a complex can have very large effects system.  You can criticize Hitler for many valid reasons, but one thing he was not was "insignificant" and if it were, there would be no desire to kill.  So even if you succeeded, given the impact he had on so many lives, that will drastically alter the future/present, even if turned out to be "better" without Hitler.

Say who replaced him was ineffective and the war ended with the least loss of life and destruction.  In this timeline, German rocket scientists maybe not did not end up in the US space program  It would lose some of its best minds, and occurs more slowly [or not?] The space race resulted in an impressive amount of scientific and technology spin-off, a thread that eventually led to time travel.  Now that you have changed things, time travel was not invented in this life, so you either fade and everything falls apart, or your machine time does.  So now you are stranded in wartime Berlin.  And you just killed the beloved leader of one of the most powerful military machines in history. 

Culture

This may seem a minor issue, but it is unwise to dismiss Hitler and how his actions shaped the society of those who opposed him.  The Nazis have been almost unanimously considered the "bad guys".  The phenomenon of Godwin's law emphasizes the cultural reflection of Nazi = evil and wrong.  Anyone who agrees with them at the present time is [rightly] condemned en masse.  Without this stark and horrible example of how prejudice and fascism can lead to atrocities, would such things be as vilified as they are today?  The existence of Hitler probably served to unite his enemies at the social level, which has significant ramifications.

And let's not overlook the consequences of the war that led to major changes in terms of equality and similar in society as a whole.  This does not mean that these things would not happen anyway, but it probably occurred much faster due to the presence of Hitler.  It is impossible to say how many may have suffered and died over the years, if people had not joined to fight Hitler.  Is this something that you want to run the risk of change?

Hitler Lost

This is overlooked surprisingly often, so it bears repeating: Hitler did not win.  What you think about the present, we do not live in a bleak wasteland dominated by a global Reich.  Because Hitler and his armies lost.  Although it was a costly victory, it was still technically a victory, so why risk coming back and interfering with a result you favor?  And no doubt, it was due to the incompetence of Hitler as a war strategist who panned out the way he did.

In a way, Hitler had the perfect combination of drive, charisma, malice and incompetence to unite the world against him and ensure that his forces lost.  It is as unlikely a combination of factors that the only way to consciously make this happen would be to go back in time and remove any other person who would stop it.
 

The Victory Strategy Räder Proposed to Hitler

Erich Räder [chief of the German Navy] felt that the senior army generals had a "purely continental outlook," did not understand the war-winning opportunities that had opened up on the south shore of the Mediterranean, and would never counsel Hitler correctly.

Although the OKH and OKW did advise Hitler to send troops to North Africa, their proposals lacked Räder's urgency. Never did Walther von Brauchitsch, Franz Halder, Alfred Jodl, or Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, chief of staff of the OKW, express the conviction that the war could be won in the Mediterranean, although Keitel told Benito Mussolini that capture of Cairo was more important than capture of Lond

Part of their hesitancy lay in the knowledge that Hitler had been fixed for a long time on destroying the Soviet Union and gaining Lebensraum for the German people. Their careers depended upon not rocking that boat. However, they never stressed to Hitler, as did Räder, that victory in the Mediterranean would make it easier, in the end, to achieve victory over the Soviet Union.

Once Axis forces overran Egypt and the Suez Canal, they would close the eastern Mediterranean to the Royal Navy. The British fleet would immediately retreat into the Red Sea, because it could not be supplied sufficiently by means of convoys through the western Mediterranean.

Whether or not the Germans seized Gibraltar by a direct attack -and this was virtually excluded because of [Spanish dictator Francisco] Franco's opposition- Britain strategically would be paralyzed.

The Axis could move at will into the Middle East, for the British had no substantial forces there. Thus, not only would Syria and Palestine fall, but German Panzers could seize Iraq and Iran with little effort. These two countries produced much of the world's oil, and their capture would provide ample amounts of Germany's single most-needed strategic material.

The advance on the southern frontier of Turkey would put the Turks in an impossible position. Hitler was already in the process of gaining Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria as Allies. Therefore, Turkey could be approached either by way of Bulgaria across the Bosporus at Istanbul or from northern Iraq and Syria. Turkey would be forced to join the Axis or grant passage for Axis forces and supplies. A defiant stance would result in the swift defeat of the Turkish army and disaster.

Passage through Turkey would reduce the importance of Malta and Gibraltar. However, both could be eliminated without the active support of Franco and without direct assault.

German forces could easily occupy French North Africa [Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia] with or without Vichy France's cooperation. From French Morocco, they could approach from the south the small strip of Morocco along the Strait of Gibraltar ruled by Spain. Spain would be forced to grant transit rights, or stand aside if German forces occupied the strip without permission. Spain could not resist for fear of a German attack into the heart of Spain from France. Consequently, German airfields and batteries could be set up along the south shore of the strait. This would close it to Britain---without an expensive military assault on the rock of Gibraltar.

Furthermore, closing the Strait of Gibraltar would force the British to abandon Malta, because they could not supply it.

With the Royal Navy out of the Mediterranean, it would become an Axis lake. This would permit German forces to occupy all of western Africa, including the French base at Dakar, in Senegal. Aircraft, ships, and submarines from Dakar could close down much of Britain's convoy traffic through the South Atlantic, even without seizure of the Cape Verde islands.

In the Middle East the strategic payoff would be even greater. German forces in Iran would block that country as a route for supplies to the Soviet Union from Britain and the United States. Russia would be left with only the ports of Murmansk on the Barents Sea and Archangel on the White Sea through which goods from the west could be funneled. This would require dangerous passages in atrocious weather, with constant danger of attacks by German ships and aircraft stationed in Norway.

Even more important, the Soviet Union's major oil fields were in the Caucasus and along the western shore of the Caspian Sea, just north of Iran. Germany could threaten not only an attack directly from Poland and Romania in the west but also from the south through the Caucasus to the Soviet oil fields. This danger of envelopment and quick loss of oil would immobilize Stalin, and obligate him to provide Germany with whatever grain and raw materials it might need. In other words, Germany -without loss of a single soldier- would have the benefits of the Soviet Union's vast materials storehouse, as well as delivery of tin, rubber, and other goods from southeast Asia by way of the Trans-Siberian Railway.

A German position in Iran also would pose a huge threat to India, agitating for independence under Mohandas K. Gandhi and other leaders. From Iran Germany could invade India through the Khyber and other passes, invasion routes long before and long after Alexander the Great made the passage in 326 B.C. Germany would not actually have to do a thing. The threat alone would force Britain to commit every possible soldier to defend its crown jewel. Germany, again without the expenditure of a single man, could immobilize Britain.

In possession of the Middle East, all of North and West Africa, and Europe, its armed forces virtually intact, its economy able to exploit the resources of three continents, Germany would be virtually invincible. Britain's defiance on the periphery of Europe would become increasingly irrelevant. Germany would not have to inaugurate an all-out U-Boat war against its shipping. Britain's remaining strength would have to be expended in protecting its empire and the convoys to and from the home islands.

The United States would have no hope of launching an invasion against the mainland of Europe and an undefeated and waiting German army until it had spent years building a vast navy, army, and air force, not to speak of the transports, landing craft, vehicles, and weapons necessary for such a giant undertaking. It is possible that the United States would take on this task, but the chances for its success would be extremely small. Far more likely, the American people would turn first to counter the expansion of Japan in the Pacific.

Meanwhile Germany could consolidate its empire, bring subject nations into an economic union, and grow more powerful economically, militarily, and politically every day. Before long, the world would become accustomed to the new German Empire and insist on a return to normal international trade.

This at last would give Hitler the opportunity he had sought for decades. He never wanted more of the Soviet Union than the region west of the Ural mountains. Once a de facto cease-fire had been achieved, Hitler could strike at European Russia from south and west, drive Stalin and the surviving Soviets into Siberia, and get the Lebensraum he coveted.

Hitler, Northwest Africa and the Path Toward America
Was Adolf Hitler preparing to conquer the United States? 

Some historians dismiss the idea that Hitler planned to conquer the world as Propaganda or wishful thinking by a dictator whose whims changed daily, but Hitler's strategy in Northwest Africa, especially during the crucial years from the Fall of France in 1940 to Operation Torch in 1942, were designed to secure air and naval bases in preparation for the German-American war that he expected. It was to fight America, not isolate Britain that was Germany's real goal during this period. 

Hitler's pre-war plans were or a large surface fleet and very long range bombers, were better suited for combat in the Western Hemisphere than in Europe. More important, the defeat of France and the rise of the Vichy French regime showed Hitler's true intentions. He relentlessly pressed Vichy for the right to build bases in French North Africa, especially at Casablanca, on the Atlantic coast of Morocco. He pressed Franco's Spain for the right to create bases in the Canary Islands and even for Portuguese islands such as the Azores, which would be vital outposts in a transatlantic battle.  

Could those bases not have been intended as defensive bulwarks against an American drive to relieve Britain, rather than as beachheads for a D-Day at New York? If Hitler's strategy against the U.S. had been defensive, it would have been more logical for Hitler to agree to support Vichy and Spain against an Allied invasion. Yet Hitler would not agree to mere sharing of these countries' bases, but outright control of their own facilities.

One cannot define Hitler's desire to steal strategically favorable positions before his future enemy could do so as defensively motivated; one may as well argue, as Hitler did, that the Germans were defending themselves when they attacked Poland, France and the Soviet Union. One may as well argue that that bombers and battleships are defensive weapons.

Hitler contemplated war with America, however, it was not the overriding German goal in the West. Was the plan to seize Gibraltar aimed at isolating Britain or keeping the U.S. out of the Mediterranean? The answer is that it could have been both.

The political backstabbing was almost comical. Those who think the infighting between the Allied leaders was bad should take a look at the fracas between Germany and its partners. Italy wanted parts of French North Africa, Spain wanted to grab Morocco, while Vichy was determined to keep its African empire intact and fend off the piranhas [including Britain and De Gaulle]. Above them all sat Hitler, the master manipulator who thought he could trick everyone into co-operating, and instead had his plans frustrated by French pride and Spanish stubbornness.

The Führer looks less like a devious warlord and more like the father of squabbling siblings. Most interesting is how close Hitler came to actually getting his unlikely, mismatched Mediterranean coalition together. Contrary to popular belief, Franco was quite prepared to join the Axis and to assist in taking Gibraltar, as long as he could get his hands on French Morocco. Vichy was eager to fight the British in Central Africa, figuring that it might as well get its spoils from what seemed like the inevitable victory of Germany. It is terrifying to see just how close Nazi Germany came to forming an Axis coalition that would have dominated the Mediterranean.

Fortunately, Hitler's own hesitations and deviousness destroyed that opportunity. He vacillated between backing Vichy and Spain, and satisfied neither. Despite the willingness of Vichy to join the wolf pack scenting blood from a wounded Britain, the Führer never could quite get over his distrust of France.

In the end, everyone wanted a piece of the pie, but no one was prepared to share his slice.

Before the winter of 1941, Germany appeared to be moving toward a swift victory over the Soviet Union. Alfred Rosenberg, Reich Kommisar for Eastern Affairs, was ordered to print the motto "Deutschland Welt Reich" [German World Empire] and Hitler made known his intention of further conquest following victory over Russia. These plans appeared to include an invasion of the United States.

In Autumn of 1940, the attack on the US was fixed for the long-term future. This appears in Luftwaffe documents, one of which dated 29 October 1940 mentions the "...extraordinary interest of the Führer in the occupation of the Atlantic Islands. In line with this interest...with the co-operation of Spain is the seizure of Gibraltar and Spanish and Portuguese islands, along other operations in the North Atlantic".

In July 1941, the Führer ordered that planning an attack against the United States be continued.

Operations supposedly related to the planned invasion of the United States

Orders to send German saboteurs to U.S. territory, along with spies and collaborators

German forces sent agents to Greenland to install a base for secret operations in the area, along with use of the radio station in Saint Pierre Miquelon Island, under the administration of France

German submarine missions to Atlantic coasts and Caribbean area, with submarines such as U-134, U-853 and others.

Maritime reconnaissance flights by German flying boats Blohm und Voss Bv 222 C-0 "Wiking" from France and Norway to the north and central Atlantic area to watch Iceland, Greenland, and the Canadian and coasts.

The alleged collaboration between Schutzstaffel [SS] and All American SS unit "Amerikan Frei Korps" or "George Washington Brigade" towards the invasion of the U.S. Also, some Americans were recruited to American versions of the German Wehrmacht and SS services to provide aid to invading German forces.
 
The projected use of submarines with V-1/V-2 Launchers against American coasts.

The Luftwaffe analyzed the possible use of "'V-weapons" against the US in a plan to launch a squadron of Junkers Ju 290 long range recon aircraft armed with Fieseler Fi-103 [V-1] rockets. The Kriegsmarine considered a similar idea with submarine-based V-1/V-2 launchers against United States coasts. Similarly, the Wehrmacht created the "Division zur Vergeltung" [Reprisal Division] or "Div.z. V" through which a special unit was organized. From islands or just offshore, this unit would use the "Langrohrkanone LRK 15 F-58" also knowed as "HDP Kanone" or V-3, or the ultra long-range version of the multi-phase mid-range missile V-4 "Rheinbote" against U.S. soil.

Other special weapons were envisioned for possible use against the United States too, such as:

A9

The A9 was a further development of the "A4" rocket. No prototype was ever developed before the end of the war, although a variant, the A4b, was produced. The A9 would have been used as the upper stage for an intercontinental missile or a manned craft. The A10 was to have been used for the lower stage.

A10

The A10, which was never built, was intended to serve as the first stage for the A9, to help it to reach an intercontinental range. New York City and other targets in the northeastern U.S. were its intended targets. Test Stand VII was built at Peenemünde for use in the A10's development.

The A10 was designed to have a diameter of 4.12 meters and to exceed the A4 in its size. It was to be fueled with alcohol and liquid oxygen.

Also, the planned use of special mobile launchers from French coasts for launching one ultra long-range multi-stage V-4 "Rheinbote" missile or other similar type.

A plan to use one Junkers Ju 290 long-range reconnaissance plane armed with four V-1 rockets against United States territory.

A Kriegsmarine or Luftwaffe attack against the Panama Canal, U.S. territory at the time. The former would use submarines to strike the Atlantic side of the Canal. The latter would pretend a squadron of ultra long-range bombers from France to North Africa, were continuing to South America in support of a neutral country.

On 11 December 1941 Germany declared war on the United States.

Why did Adolf Hitler Declare War on the United States of America?

One of the problems in researching Nazi WWII politics and the resulting policies that occurred in Germany during the 1930s thru to the end of the 2nd World War is that many of reasons behind the decisions were never documented. Some high ranking people in the Third Reich kept diaries, Josef Göbbels for example, but the writers often recorded what happened, the decisions that were made, but seldom the reasons behind the decisions that were made.

When Germany invaded Poland on  September 1939 both England and France hesitated. Both nations pursued political solutions in an effort to stop Germany from continuing its attack. This proved to be useless and on 3 September the United Kingdom [Egland] decred War against Germany as did France. Then they did nothing. Sitzkrieg settled in along the Western Front.

The Soviet Union [USSR} also did not protest - but of course the Soviet-Nazi Treaty signed in August was the reason why. Late in September Soviet forces invaded Poland from the east and occupied the rest of the nation as negotiated in the Treaty. Later on the Stalin's Soviet annexed Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia into the Soviet Union. German units actually had to pull out of the land it had captured anywhere from 20 to 100 miles due to treaty.

The pullback actually affected the campaign that Germany launched against the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941. The extra 100 miles, 6 days of time, that had to be re-conquered from the Soviets played a significant role when the Germans were stopped only 20 miles from the center of Moscow in November 1941.

The start of the war saw the U-Boat fleet with 58 modern submarines on hand. All German forces had been told that war would not occur until 1941, and here it was September 1939. Regardless, the German Underseeboot fleet went into action and started gaining successes against naval and merchant ship

The same strategy of a U-Boat blockade that was pursued in World War I was again instituted. The Type VII U-Boat, however, was much better than its World War I counterpart. The tactics had also changed: They were centrally controlled and cordinated by Admiral Karl Dönitz using Enigma encoded messages.

The British Navy again instituted the convoy system after a few months and ships sailing from the world ports, when there was time enough to co-ordinate a convoy -and enough escorts were around- for protection from the U-Boat arm of the Kriegsmarine

America again declared its neutrality but the same problem that the German Navy of World War I experienced now occurred again: Neutral ships would again sail to England to help her more than German friendly nations to Germany. [Swedish ships were the only exception] The ability to defeat submarines had vastly improved during the inter-war years, especially by using aircraft. This forced the U-Boats to range farther from Germany to be truly effective. Long range bombers, seaplanes, and aircraft carriers now roamed the sea lanes looking for submarines.

America's politicians in charge, President Franklin Roosevelt leading the way, were clearly on the side of England and France. The United States enacted several pieces of legislation and policies that clearly helped England: 

• Destroyers for bases [50 old WW I flush deck destroyers, needing major overhaul before use, but still 50 warships is 50 warships] in exchange for US being granted leases to use British islands in the Atlantic for bases
• Escorting of convoys as far as Iceland using American destroyers. This effectively prevented U-Boat attacks along that part of the route [which still resulted in the loss of the 'USS Reuben James'.
• The enactment of the Lend-Lease Act so that Britain did not have to pay cash at time of purchase for war material.

Even with these brazen acts, from war's start in 1939 thru December 1941, American ships could still sail the world's oceans to the allied nations without being attacked by German U-Boats.

When the war broke out the US population as a whole did not favor getting involved. The USA had gotten into the Great War in 1917, and the political aims of that war was never fulfilled — witness the failed League of Nations and now state of war in Europe. The population of the US was very much East coast and Midwest centered. A significant part of the population was only one or two generations removed from when their forbears had emigrated to the US. The losses in the 1st World War though greatly below that of other nations] was still remembered. The basic attitude was "they're at it again, let them figure it out themselves". To openly support the United Kingdom, the commonwealth nations, France, and all the others for war would quickly become divisive and be defeated - there was no compelling threat, directly or indirectly, seen, or reasoned to be found, for Germany going against the United States of America.

"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger".

-- Hermann Wilhelm Göring at the Nuremberg trials  1946

Which Date Should Live in Infamy?
By Jon Meacham
The New York Times - Sunday Review
10 December 2016 

Winston Churchill was ebullient; he thought it was all over at last. On the evening of Sunday, 7 December 1941, hosting a small birthday dinner at Chequers, the prime minister’s country retreat, for Kathleen Harriman, the daughter of the American diplomat W. Averell Harriman, Churchill heard the news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor from the BBC. "At this very moment I knew the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death", he wrote in his war memoirs. "So we had won after all!" After standing alone against Berlin since the German invasion of Poland on the first day of September 1939, struggling to engage an isolationist America, Churchill "slept the sleep of the saved and thankful".

So the prevailing story of World War II goes even now, 75 years later. The attack on Pearl Harbor, an occasion of ceremonial remembrance commemorated once more last week, propelled the United States into the global contest against Japanese imperialism and European totalitarianism; within four years a once-isolationist America would achieve a superpower status from which it has yet to fall.

Yet the reality, as usual, is more complicated. The story of America’s entry into World War II three-quarters of a century ago offers us a window into the contingencies of history and the perennial risk that the nation’s isolationist tendencies — tendencies once more evident in our politics as the president-elect of the United States in 2016 revives the old slogan America First — can be durably potent even in moments of existential crisis.

In reaction to the bloodshed of World War I and to the cataclysm of the Great Depression —a global phenomenon— the United States spent the interwar years deeply skeptical of engagement overseas. Constricted by neutrality acts produced by isolationist sentiment and by the popular agitation of groups such as America First, Franklin D. Roosevelt was forced to maneuver carefully as the Nazi threat grew in Europe. For 27 months, from the invasion of Poland through the Battle of Britain, the fall of France, the U-boat war in the Atlantic and Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet Union, America was the most reluctant of warriors.

With the news of Pearl Harbor, Churchill, who had long —and largely unsuccessfully— wooed Roosevelt, believed he now had a full partner in the war against the Axis. "He was quite naturally in a high state of excitement", noted Anthony Eden, the foreign secretary. Churchill was eager to travel to Washington to lay plans for Allied strategy. Eden, however, "was not sure that the Americans would want him so soon".

Eden was right. When Roosevelt dictated his speech declaring war on Japan to his secretary Grace Tully, it concerned only one nation: Japan. Cabinet members, including Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Secretary of War Henry Stimson, wanted F.D.R. to move against Hitler, but the president’s political instincts told him to hold off. In a conversation with the British ambassador in Washington, Lord Halifax, Roosevelt was explicit about his concerns: "I seem to be conscious of a still lingering distinction in some quarters of the public between war with Japan and war with Germany".

Isolationist opinion about the Pacific had evaporated in the heat of Pearl Harbor; it was less certain whether Americans were willing to engage fully in Europe as well. From its national headquarters in Chicago, America First was disbanding and released a statement supporting war against Japan, but, as the historian Wayne S. Cole has written, the isolationist group’s remarks were deliberately "phrased to leave the door open for possible continued opposition to participation in the European war".

From afar, frustrated by the Eastern Front, Hitler solved Roosevelt’s problem by unilaterally declaring war on the United States on Thursday, 11 Dember.

Hitler’s motives remain mysterious. He was bound to join Japan under the Tripartite Pact only if Japan had been attacked, and treaties never meant that much to the Führer in any event. The best historical thinking is that Hitler believed he could win the war against American shipping in the Atlantic if he had a free hand, and he apparently decided that Japan’s bold stroke in the Pacific gave him the opening he needed to control the Atlantic.

And there was his grandiose vision of the destiny of National Socialism. "I understand only too well that a worldwide distance separates Roosevelt’s ideas and my ideas", Hitler said in his speech declaring war. "Roosevelt comes from a rich family and belongs to the class whose path is smoothed in the democracies. I was the only child of a small, poor family and had to fight my way by work and industry". As for Germany, "It needs charity neither from Mr. Roosevelt nor from Mr. Churchill", he said. "It wants only its rights! It will secure for itself this right to live even if thousands of Churchills and Roosevelts conspire against it".

Hitler had badly misjudged Roosevelt’s nation. "I don’t see much future for the Americans", Hitler said in January 1942. "Everything about the behavior of American society reveals that it’s half Judaized, and the other half Negrified. How can one expect a state like that to hold together?"

What Hitler saw as America’s fatal weakness —our diversity— was of course the nation’s ultimate strength. That he had to force America’s hand by making his declaration of 11 December before the United States could itself decide to make war on Nazi Germany is an uncomfortable reminder of the truth of an old observation attributed to the thankful Winston Churchill: "One can always count on the Americans to do the right thing — after we’ve exhausted every other possibility".

-- Jon Meacham is the author, among other books, of "Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship" 

Is there a possibility that Hitler could have managed to take advantage of political, regional, and ethnic divisions in America in the 1940s, and defeated the U.S?

It certainly would not have been possible for Hitler to stage a successful naval invasion across the Atlantic to take the Eastern Seaboard, irrespective of whether or not America succeeded in Europe. He simply did not have a Navy that was large enough for that task.

Here are various ways in which the Germans would have defeated America, assuming that they had succeeded in their mission to conquer the Soviet Union:

1. They might have attempted to conquer Alaska, based on their ability to control Siberia and the Arctic regions of Russia. From there, they would have rolled over poorly defended Canada, from which they would have launched a massive invasion from the sparsely populated North-Western U.S.

2. Using the historic grievances that Mexico has, especially over territorial loss in the 1848 war, Hitler could have encouraged the Mexicans to stage a massive military invasion from the South [something similar to what their illegal are already doing]. Given that many South Americans had pro-axis fascist feelings during the war, Brazil and Argentina could have send their own armies as well, to support the Mexicans. And, considering that Latin America continued to trade with Germany in the war years, Germany would have been able to move massive armaments and troops to South America, to support an invasion from Mexico. As a reward, Mexico would have been rewarded with the return of California, New Mexico and Arizona. The rest of South America would have had a chance to be freed from American regional dominance that has existed since the Monroe Doctrine.

3. Hitler could have reached out to the anti-FDR right-wing, the likes of Charles Lindberg, Henry Ford, Rev. Charles Coughlin, and their many followers who were influential in the America First Movement. He could have used the resentment that Irish-Americans and German-Americans had for Anglo elites who wanted to save Britain, a nation that many in both groups disliked [Many Irishmen resented going to help Britain: The Republic of Ireland made a conscious decision to stay neutral in the war to the very end].

4. Germany could have offered the South a second chance. If the South militarily supported the defeat of the Yankees, they could get back the Confederate States of America. The CSA would have been a fully independent right-wing nation that was allied to Germany, like Franco's Spain. They would have been allowed to preserve their system of segregation, a system that Germans approved of.

5. In the 1940s, Eugenics was highly favored by both liberal and conservative elites in New England. American race scientists like H. Goddard, Carl Bingham, Madison Grant, and Lothrop Stoddard were standard readings in the school system in Nazi Germany. A shared interest in race issues would have brought the Nazis and the New England Eugenicists together.

A combination of all those forces would have overwhelmed the FDR administration.
 

Bormann sent a telegram to Dönitz informing him that he was "successor" to Hitler and not Reich President as specified in his Testament [with Göbbels as Chancellor] 

Hugh Trevor-Roper explains in "The Last Days of Hitler" that Bormann had an insatiable lust for power and that his only hope of exercising power in a post-Hitler administration was to make himself available to a new leader who would want to make use of his services. Since Göbbels had a rather hostile relationship with Bormann and would never select him as his administrator, it was in Bormann's interest to make Dönitz believe that he was the new "Führer" rather than just President. Since Bormann had the luxury of knowing that Göbbels had already stated his intention to commit suicide in the Bunker and would not be fulfilling his role as chancellor, Bormann was not risking anything by failing to clarify the testament any further. By the time Dönitz received a copy of the testament, Göbbels would be dead and as head of government Dönitz would be free to rule as the sole authority - hopefully with Bormann as his Deputy.

On the Internet is an Alternative History:  

As the Russians were surrounding Berlin, Hermann Göring sent a letter to Hitler carefully requesting that he succeed as head of the German government.  Göring had long been designated to take over if anything happened to Hitler.  Hitler's secretay Martin Borman read the letter first.  The top Nazis did not trust Göring or each other.  Borman then asked Hitler to appoint another successor and place Göring under house arrest.  Between Borman and Hitler, Admiral Karl Dönitz was chosen.  The other top Nazis found Dönitz acceptable. 

Josef Göbbels who was staying in the Berlin Bunker then shot Hitler so Dönitz could take over and surrender, something Hitler would never do.   

How We Duped the Nazi Postal Service into Sending Stamps Bearing Hitler’s Skull
By Karl Fabricius
26 November 2009

It was 5 February 1945 and the war was in its endgame. In the skies over the Reich, planes dropped their bombs on a mail train bound for Linz, before a second wave of more insidiouslyincendiary cargo was released. Mailbags filled with around 3800 Propaganda letters – some containing sinister stamps of Hitler wearing a grinning skull – were dropped into the wreckage, ready to be recovered and delivered to the Germans by the postal service. It was the first mission of Operation Cornflakes.

Operation Cornflakes was a WWII Office of Strategic Services [OSS} Psychological Operations campaign designed to dupe the German postal service into inadvertently distributing propaganda through the mail. Nearly 100,000 properly addressed envelopes were stuffed with anti-Nazi subversive material like the Allies’ German language propaganda leaflet, with the aim of it ultimately landing on the breakfast tables of German households each morning – cue the Kellogs-inspired code name.

Adding subliminal insult to psychological injury, forged postage stamps were enclosed subtly designed to resemble the standard stamp bearing Adolf Hitler’s face – except that close inspection would reveal his face had been manipulated to look like an exposed skull, or similarly unbecoming imagery.

Furthermore, the country-identifying text along the bottom of the stamp was changed from "Deutsches Reich" [German Empire] to read "Futsches Reich" [Collapsed or Lost Empire].

The operation involved planes airdropping false mail sacks in amongst the debris and confusion of mail trains halted by bombing and strafing fire. During the clean-up of the wreck, postal service agents would, with luck, confuse the fake sacks for the real thing and deliver them as normal, presuming they had come from the damaged train. Special bombs were designed tocarry several mailbags and explode 50 ft above the ground, thus allowing the cargo to reach its target intact.

                        Das Neue Deutschland, the Allies’ German language propaganda news sheet

The final official total for Cornflakes is 20 missions over three months, with 320 fake German mail bags dropped, each containing 300 letters. Yet the questions is whether a) this most famous of OSS black ops was successful and b) it was ever detected on the ground. The answer to the second part of the question is: yes. Much of the mail was stamped with pseudo-legitimate business return addresses, among the best known – and most critical – "Wiener Giro – und Cassenverein".

"Cassenverein" was the first OSS item to be identified as a forgery by the German authorities. After an air raid on 16 March 1945 near St. Pölten, German security police found and opened a mailbag containing letters addressed to citizens in the Cologne area. As the mail was about to be forwarded, a keen-eyed clerk noticed the misspelling: Cassenverein should have read "Kassenverein". The Nazis became suspicious, the envelopes were opened, and the propaganda was discovered.

The game was up; but was Cornflakes a success? A CIA report states that the OSS “objectives were to weaken further the will of the German people to fight, to increase confusion in the communication and transport services, and to convince the German people that there was an anti-Nazi underground in Germany especially active in business and banking circles". Yet in truth it is hard to gauge how much influence those of the 96,000 dropped letters delivered had, particularly on people’s thinking.

Still, whether or not the message Cornflakes sought to impart and the disruption it strived to create had any impact, there seems something intriguingly both crude and sophisticated about the campaign. Despite the initially destructive means of ensuring the subversive material was disseminated, disseminated it was – and according to a pretty creative plan – especially in view of the Hitler "Death’s-head stamp” that would have beamed back at recipients of the letters.

Perhaps it is the grisly parody of Hitler wearing a death’s head mask – the Führer represented by the propagandists as “the personification of death” – that still strikes a sensational chord with us today. It has certainly given rise to a whole series of Hitler skull facsimiles and reproductions made by later forgers and fakers. The other fascination of course is that this was PSYOP operation, and humankind is always likely to be enthralled by such attempts at control. As the saying goes: "Capture their minds and their hearts and souls will follow".

The surname ‘Hitler’ did not exist before the 1870s. It was adopted by Adolf Hitler’s father, Alois, apparently as a combination of Heidler and Huttler [the surnames of two relatives]. Prior to this, Alois Hitler’s surname was Schicklgruber. Some of Hitler’s political opponents would later refer to him disparagingly as "Herr Shicklgruber".

Hitler was a mediocre artist who painted watercolours, mainly of landscapes, buildings and street scenes. While living in Vienna Hitler also painted postcards, which he sold for modest amounts. Hitler’s paintings are worth large amounts of money today, though more for curiosity than their artistic value.

Hitler had one surviving adult sibling, a sister named Paula. She lived and worked in Vienna during the interwar period, using the adopted surname ‘Wolf’ to conceal her connection with the radical German politician. Paula Hitler died in 1960, aged 64.

Adolf Hitler’s first "Deutsche Arbeitpartei" membership card listed him as member number 555. In reality he was the 55th member [the party began its numbering from 500, to create an impression
of a much larger organisation]. 

 Hitler signed his membership card
using two ‘t’s in his surname.

Hitler’s 1924 autobiography was transcribed by his supporters, particularly Rudolf Hess, because Hitler could not type, was slow with his hand-writing and was a poor speller. He initially wanted to call his book “My Long Struggle against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice”, however his publisher opted for the shorter title "Mein Kampf" [My Struggle].

The Nazis hardly ever called themselves “Nazis”. The term – an abbreviation for National Socialist – was developed by the German press. Hitler disliked it intensely and it was rarely used within the party itself.

The Swastika [or Hakenkreuz] was a common symbol throughout Europe prior to the advent of Nazism. It was used both as a religious symbol in Christian churches and eastern religions, as well as a symbol of good luck. As a choirboy, Hitler had admired Swastikas on the walls of his local cathedral. He adapted it by placing it on a background of red [symbolising the workers] and white [symbolising German nationalism].

Before Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, the Stormtroopers of the SA carried American-made handguns, stamped with Made in the USA.

Emil Maurice, Hitler’s head bodyguard and a co-founder of the SS was part-Jewish. Maurice’s Jewish heritage was uncovered by an investigation in 1935. Hitler then granted him ‘"Honorary Aryan" status. Several other high-ranking Nazis or military officers had their Jewish heritage "over-looked" or "forgiven" on Hitler’s orders.

Adolf Hitler was well known for his aversion to meat, which allegedly began after he was present at an autopsy. A vegetarian for most of his adult life, Hitler’s cooks were under strict instructions not to add any meat products to his meals. Hitler also planned to introduce post-war policies to wind back Germany’s consumption of meat.

Though he shunned meat, Hitler was a voracious "sweet tooth", consuming large amounts of cake, pastries, chocolate and sugar. He sometimes took as many as five teaspoons of sugar in his tea.

Hitler also abstained from drinking alcohol and greatly disliked people smoking in his presence. People who had appointments with Hitler were advised not to smoke for several hours beforehand, and not to wear clothing or uniforms that smelled of tobacco.

Adolf Hitler’s personal doctor, Theodor Morell, was an unorthodox physician because of his heavy use of drugs [other Nazis called him the "Reich Injection Master"].

Morell "treated" Hitler with a cocktail of drugs and other substances, often without telling the Führer exactly what was being given. Among them were methamphetamine, atropine, caffeine, testosterone, proteins, morphine, e.coli bacteria and various vitamin compounds.

Hitler was an avid cinema buff. He particularly liked Hollywood movies, which he viewed in a private cinema room. The Nazi leader reportedly enjoyed "King Kong" [1933] "Lives of a Bengal Lancer" [1935] and the films of Charlie Chaplin – but his favourite movie of all was said to be the animated Disney feature "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" [1937].

Hitler had dreams of playing a musical instrument. He had short but unsuccessful lessons in piano and violin, and also dabbled in the flute and harmonica. In the end he settled for whistling, which he did frequently.

One of the NSDAP’s celebrated heroes was Horst Wessel, a 22-year-old taxi driver, amateur musician and university drop-out. In 1928 Wessel joined the SA and became a street-level commander. In 1930 he married a teenage prostitute then was murdered, shot in the face, probably in retaliation for not paying his rent.

Despite his apparent unimportance Wessel had been a favourite of Josef Göbbels, who portrayed his murder as a political killing carried out by Communists. The Nazi propaganda chief set one of Wessel’s poems to music and adopted it as the NSDAP anthem.

In propaganda, the Nazis explained the "Night of the Long Knives" as a purge of homosexuals and sexual deviants from the SA. Ernst Röhm was indeed homosexual, a fact widely known in party ranks. On the night of his arrest in 1934, Röhm was found in a hotel with a teenage member of the SA, who was allegedly his lover.

The Nazis produced their own range of Christmas decorations and wrapping paper, featuring Swastikas and Iron Crosses. Nazi Christmas propaganda also de-emphasised the role of Jesus Christ – who was of course born Jewish.

Connected to Nazi ideas about racial purity was their frequent use of “blood” in slogans and policies: Blut und Boden [Blood and Soi]), Deutsches Blut [German blood], Blutorden [Blood Order], Blutfahne [Blood Banner] and Blutschande [Blood Shame].

In the mid-1930s Hitler had a close friendship, perhaps even a sexual relationship, with Unity Mitford. A daughter of English nobility, Mitford was obsessed with Hitler: she traveled to Germany, learned German and manipulated her way into his inner circle. Mitford was a self-proclaimed anti-Semite who was described as being “more Nazi than the Nazis”. Ironically, Unity Mitford was conceived in a small Canadian town named Swastika, while her parents were traveling abroad.

In 1937 Hitler played an elaborate practical joke on Ernst Hanfstängl, one of his advisors, by giving him false orders to parachute into a Communist-held area of Spain.  

Hanfstängl was so annoyed by this joke that he defected, later supplying important information to the United States.

In 1939 a Nazi-ordered expedition arrived in Antarctica and claimed a portion for Germany, calling it New Swabia. Their intention was to set up a whaling station and possibly a naval base.

Though Hitler frowned upon infidelity, most high-ranking Nazis had at least one mistress. Heinrich Himmler’s affair with a young secretary, Hedwig Potthast, led to an illegitimate child; Himmler "borrowed" money from party funds to set her up in out-of-the-way accommodation.

Heinrich Himmler also set up a government agency called Lebensborn [spring of life] to provide for children without one or both parents.

The government provided financial assistance to single mothers, provided their children were demonstrably Aryan. There was some suggestion that by the early 1940s, Lebensborn had become a "breeding program", encouraging SS officers to impregnate single women before they went off to war.

Nazi aeronautics experts developed the world’s first flying wing aircraft, the Horten Ho 229. The flying wing design allowed for longer ranges with greater secrecy. It was later incorporated into US ‘Stealth’ bombers.

According to popular culture, Nazism had close links to mysticism and occultist practices, such as Satanic rituals. The evidence on this is scarce, however both Hitler and Himmler were known to have frequently consulted fortune-tellers.

The Nazis’ ‘Thousand-Year Reich’ lasted just over 12 years.