Hitler's fate escape?

WILD TALES ABOUT DICTATOR'S GETAWAY 80 YEARS AFTER DEATH

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• THIS week marks the 80th anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s death, in a bunker under Berlin, as the fascist dictator’s defeated regime crumbled around him at the end of World War Two.

Evidence, including eye-witness testimony and dental records, shows the 56-year-old Nazi leader and his wife Eva Braun took their own lives on April 30, 1945, as Allied forces closed in.

But that hasn’t stopped some conspiracy theorists insisting the tyrant escaped in secret to live on. Here JAMES MOORE debunks some of the far-fetched Führer fantasies...

Escape to... South America?

IN THE aftermath of the war, theories that Hitler escaped Berlin in 1945 were promoted by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, left, who reckoned the despot had fled to "Spain or Argentina".

A decade later, the CIA received information that a man called Philip Citroen, who claimed to have been in the SS, had taken a photo with Adolf Hitler in Colombia. He was apparently using the name Adolf Schrittelmayor.

Controversial 2011 book Grey Wolf: The Escape Of Adolf Hitler suggests Hitler and Braun had escaped via a secret tunnel.

They then flew by plane to Denmark and Spain, before travelling to Argentina via submarine.

It alleges that they lived on there in a Bavarian-style house in the Andes, near the Chilean border.