What Really Happened: The Death of Hitler

By: Robert J. Hutchinson

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

After World War II, 50 percent of Americans polled said they didn’t believe Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun had committed suicide in their bunker in 1945, as captured Nazi officials claimed. Instead, they believed the dictator faked his death and escaped, perhaps to Argentina.

This wasn’t a crazy opinion: Joseph Stalin told Allied leaders that Soviet forces never discovered Hitler’s body and that he personally believed the Nazi leader had escaped justice.

At least two German submarines crossed the Atlantic and landed on the coast of Argentina in July 1945. Plus, there were numerous reports of top Nazi officials successfully fleeing to South America, where there was a large German colony.

So what really happened?

Popular history writer Robert J. Hutchinson, author of What Really Happened: The Lincoln Assassination, takes a fresh look at the evidence and discovers, once and for all, the truth about Hitler’s last week in Berlin. Among the questions the book explores are:

• What did surviving Nazi eyewitnesses really say about the Führer’s final days in the bunker - and could they have been lying to aid Hitler’s escape?
• If Hitler didn’t escape, why did the Allies not find his body?
• What about Hitler’s proven use of body doubles? Could Hitler have used a body double in the bunker while he and Eva Braun flew to safety in a long-range aircraft that took off from a runway in Berlin’s Tiergarten?
• Why did the FBI continue to investigate reports of Hitler’s survival for more than a decade after World War II - reports that were only declassified in 2014?
• What about sensational claims in books such as The Grey Wolf that Hitler and Eva Braun lived in an isolated chalet in the Andes - and that Hitler died in 1962?
• Why were forensic tests on crucial physical evidence only conducted in 2016, more than 70 years after World War II ended?
• And much more

©2020 Robert J. Hutchinson (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing

Loved this book!

This book is a great listen. It will really open your eyes to the atrocities committed by the Nazi’s-highly entertaining and wonderfully narrated a must listen!! Gets to the facts-but very historically accurate

Very informative didn't seem too biased

Regardless regardless Grover Gardner is one of my absolute favorite narrators raiders in fact, I listen to this book because he narrated it

Definitive Demise of Der Fuhrer.

First of all, the narrator is the best ever. Excellent pronunciation of German words and overall delivery is concise. In depth research by the author lays to rest any doubts about the death and remains of a ghoulish monster known as Hitler.

Got it Because of Grover

I wasn’t sure whether or not to get this book, then I saw that the narrator was Grover Gardner. I bought it immediately. I’d pay to hear Grover read the phone book. He’s the best in the business. Great book too. Very interesting.

a thorough debunking of the dis-information campaign begun by Stalin and embraced by neonazis.

Great clear writing combine to a healthy dose of skepticism. I especially appreciated the citation and evaluation of multiple, sometimes contradictory, sources. It clears the fog around the cowardly end of one of histories greatest, murderous villains.