Believe It or Not
Seven decades after Adolf Hitler’s death, conspiracy theorists still posit that he survived the World War II by escaping to Argentina – or perhaps to the dark side of the moon.
Those theories, however, can now be put to rest on account of French pathologists’ analysis of the Führer’s teeth, NPR reported.
Russia’s state intelligence service has held Hitler’s dental remains since the end of World War II, and it was only last year that a team of foreign researchers was allowed to study them.
Researchers confirmed that the teeth indeed belonged to the notorious Nazi leader by cross-referencing the sample with descriptions of Hitler’s dental hygiene from those who knew it best – his dentists.
Hitler had such bad teeth that by the time he died only a few of them were original. According to Deutsche Welle, Hitler’s personal dentist, Hugo Blaschke, and his assistant, Kathe Heusermann, described “conspicuous and unusual prostheses and bridgework” that were done to fill the gaps. The researchers said the teeth matched those descriptions.
Moreover, traces of meat were absent from the examined teeth – consistent with reports that Hitler was a vegetarian toward the end of his life.
“The teeth are authentic — there is no possible doubt,” lead pathologist Philippe Charlier was quoted by Agence France-Presse as saying. “Our study proves that Hitler died in 1945.”
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