EPISODE 75: Flight Of Grey Wolf: Hitler’s Escape
EPISODE 75: Flight Of Grey Wolf: Hitler’s Escape  
Podcast: The Fact Hunter
Published On: Mon Sep 13 2021
Description: On May 1st 1945, Admiral Karl Donitz took to a German radio station to announce that the Nazi Fuhrer Adolf Hitler was dead.Although Donitz told the German people Hitler had died heroically defending the Reich, he and his wife Eva Braun actually committed suicide on April 30th whilst holed up in his Berlin bunker.Hitler had killed himself with a gunshot and Braun used cyanide. The bodies of the pair were then taken outside to the Reich Chancellery garden, doused in petrol and burnt.This official account of how Hitler died. However, privately the Allies doubted the story. Several senior figures in Allied intelligence believed Hitler may have escaped. Russian leader Joseph Stalin was certain Hitler had actually fled, and told this to the Americans.thefacthunter.com