Caroline Sharples
Senior lecturer in history at the University of Roehampton specializing in post-war memories of National Socialism and representations of the Holocaust; author of The Long Death of Adolf Hitler (Yale UP, 2026).
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Mar 8, 2026 • 55min
298 - The Long Death of Adolf Hitler
Caroline Sharples, historian and author who studies Hitler's death and its aftermath, explores how confusion, rumor, and politics shaped responses in April 1945. She traces changing plans for Hitler's legacy, fragmented news and public reactions, contested forensic evidence, and why myths about escape and uncertainty have persisted.
Mar 10, 2026 • 45min
Caroline Sharples, "The Long Death of Adolf Hitler: An Investigative History" (Yale UP, 2026)
Caroline Sharples, a senior lecturer at the University of Roehampton and author of The Long Death of Adolf Hitler, explores how Hitler’s death became a global mystery. She traces wartime expectations, Allied and Soviet secrecy, forensic dental evidence, and the culture of conspiracy and spectacle that kept his fate open to debate.
Mar 10, 2026 • 45min
Caroline Sharples, "The Long Death of Adolf Hitler: An Investigative History" (Yale UP, 2026)
Dr. Caroline Sharples, senior lecturer in history at the University of Roehampton and author of The Long Death of Adolf Hitler, explores how Hitler’s private suicide created a global vacuum of proof. She traces wartime imaginaries, Allied and Soviet investigations, dental forensics, and the cultural afterlife of doubt and conspiracy. The conversation also touches on humor, legal limbo, and the politics of evidence.
