How Do We Know All This About Hitler's Death?

Stalin wanted to sow confusion amongst the Western Allies about Hitler's death so he started to hint that very strongly that Hitler had survived. This is incidentally not what the initial Red Army report said immediately after Hitler's death but that was then suppressed. Stalin wanted to suggest he might still be alive in case the Western Allies then said all right we're not going to occupy Germany in a serious way you know there's no danger of Hitler coming back. Everyone's thinking historically interestingly about Napoleon who was exiled to the Un- tough comprehensive evidence shows it would have been impossible for him to return even if he were alive.