(12-07-2024, 12:42 PM)F2d5thCav Wrote: The bit I find hard to swallow about the "Hitler survival" speculation is the personality of the man himself.Exactly. Sebastian Haffner said Hitler was the "suicide par excellence", that he exhibited suicidal tendencies in his early career. Rudolf Hess addressed these same points when he was interviewed in Spandau prison.
He would NOT have been content to sit quietly for decades in an out-of-the-way corner of the world.
The truth may be buried in Soviet archives. Or not.
Cheers--
From The Loneliest Man in the World, p.g. 62-63:
"If he had continued to live, this would not have benefited the nation, for he would have shared the fate of those who died in the Nuremberg drama. He would thus not have been able to take part in the revival of the National Socialist Reich if he had tried to save himself for this purpose." Hitler raised his concerns about being captured by the enemy/paraded around. Hess added that Hitler could have been induced to condemn Germany under severe mental strain/exhaustion. (For instance, George Weidenfeld interviewed Albert Speer, when he noticed his exhaustion, he seized on the opportunity to ask him about Himmler, Speer let slip his admiration for Himmler. "At one and the same time Speer revealed himself as the technocrat and the civilized European.")
As I no longer have the book in my possession, I'm going off of memory: "There were stories that he escaped to South America but they were not true. He would never have run away. So far as I am concerned he definitely committed suicide. I haven't the slightest doubt in my mind. It would have been entirely against his nature..."
Hitler's pilot Hans Baur said he had offered to help Hitler get away to Argentine, Japan, any friendly nation which sympathized with his hatred of the Jews, but Hitler declined. On the other hand, Hitler was against sacrificing his soldiers, he repeatedly turning down Hanna Reitsch's proposal for German kamikaze pilots. His reason: it was not German.
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Seen from a karmic angle, Philippe Nizier claimed many suicides were fatal punishment of mass-murderers, who were given the chance to expiate their crimes. According to Daniil Andreev, such people are sent into a place of purgatory called Fukabirn. Andreev claims there is a possible future where Hitler returns as a rebel leader. German clairvoyants warn about how this new emerging movement would cause more catastrophes than the Antichrist's reign. (Feldpostbriefe, Franz Kugelbeer)
Noteworthy dream: https://old.reddit.com/r/Dreams/comments...my_dreams/
The only thing about Hitler's escape theory which deserves consideration is the claim about Hitler having a few daughters. Apparently, Hitler really did have at least 1 daughter, perhaps 2-3 daughters. He insisted he did not want a son, but afaik he never said anything about daughters. Finding his heir was one of his biggest concerns, he personally hoped to appoint Hans-Ulrich Rudel, but the latter evaded him.
However, the truth about whether Hitler sired additional children is not for someone like Donald Trump to reveal to the world.