In the wake of new revelations, the histories of Hitler's death may need to be rewritten – and left open-ended.
© 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe and several overseas regions and territories. A Picardy plumber has long maintained that he is the grandson of Adolf Hitler. The only positive physical proof that Hitler had shot himself had suddenly been rendered worthless. Photograph: Mikhail Metzel/AP Alexis Loret … A part of the skull was absent, presumably blown away by Hitler's suicide shot, but what remained of his jaw coincided with his dental records, a fact reportedly confirmed when the Russians showed his surviving dental work to the captured assistants of Hitler's dentist. All rights reserved. DNA analyses performed on the bone, now held by the Russian State Archive in Moscow, have been processed at the genetics lab of the University of Connecticut. "We were very lucky to get a reading, despite the limited amount of genetic information," she said.The result was extraordinary. "Sixty-four years later, the world is still in the dark about what really happened in Hitler's bunker on 30 April 1945. According to witnesses, the bodies of Hitler and Braun had been wrapped in blankets and carried to the garden just outside the Berlin bunker, placed in a bomb crater, doused with petrol and set ablaze.But the skull fragment the Russians dug up outside the Führerbunker in 1946 could never have belonged to Hitler. It could be anyone.
In 1946 a second secret mission was dispatched to Berlin. Alexis Loret. The Russians also took fragments of Hitler's bloodstained sofa.Even this failed to satisfy Stalin, who clamped a secrecy order on all matters related to Hitler's death. The results, broadcast in the US by a History Channel documentary, According to Connecticut archaeologist and bone specialist Nick Bellantoni, it was clear from the outset that something was amiss.
But could the fragment of skull belong to Eva Braun, who died at 33 and was laid alongside her beloved Führer in the same crater? We didn’t know how to react,” he added.In a diary entry from September 30, 1944, royal engineer Leonard Wilkes—one of the first to land on Normandy beaches on D-Day—wrote: “An interesting day today.”A painting of Hitler dated 1916 shows him with the then-19-year-old Frenchwoman as he met her: in the hayfields wearing a red scarf over her head.Appearing on TV, Loret pleaded for help in finding out once and for all if he is Hitler’s grandchild.“There are always some doubts, but if DNA test is negative – well, there’s nothing to do then,” Loret said.“If positive – my thoughts will be confirmed.
Some historians expressed doubt that the Führer had shot himself, speculating that accounts of Hitler's death had been embellished to present his suicide in a suitably heroic light. He never met his father, but he did fight the Nazis during WWII. Edmé passed away in After 1643, at age 58. [1] Jean-Marie Loret was told decades ago that his father was one of the most infamous men ever to have lived: Adolf Hitler. Born 10 January 1975 (age 45) Saint Lô, ... La philo selon Philippe (5 episodes, 1995–1996) External links.
"I had the reference photos the Soviets took of the sofa in 1945 and I was seeing the exact same stains on the fragments of wood and fabric in front of me, so I knew I was working with the real thing. And just in case you don’t believe him, Loret is having a DNA test to prove it.The bone fragments are currently held in a Russian vault by the former KGB.Which, to the Frenchman’s mind, is the concrete proof needed to convince him that his late father, Jean-Marie Loret, was Hitler’s illegitimate son. Not a lot, apparently.According to archaeologist and bone specialist Nick Bellantoni, “The bone seemed very thin; male bone tends to be more robust. Philippe Loret, 62, believes that his grandmother, Charlotte Lobjoie, ... Their son Jean-Marie Loret died in 1985 at the age of 67. They had one son: Philippe LORET. To her surprise, a small amount of viable DNA was extracted. At the university's centre for applied genetics, Linda Strausbaugh closed her lab for three days to work exclusively on the Hitler project.
"We know the skull corresponds to a woman between the ages of 20 and 40," said Bellantoni, but he is sceptical about the Braun thesis. "And the sutures where the skull plates come together seemed to correspond to someone under 40." He was allowed only one hour with the Hitler trove, during which time he applied cotton swabs and took DNA samples. "We used the same routines and controls that would have been used in a crime lab," she said.
History tells us that, thankfully, Adolf Hitler, the Führer of Nazi Germany and one of the architects of the Holocaust,…