Hitler’s Death: The Case Against Conspiracy

Abbreviations

Illustrations

Preface

Introduction: Is History Wrong?

1 The Evolution of Facts and Conspiracies

I Hitler Waves

II A New Approach

2 British Intelligence and Rumours of Survival

I ‘Sheer Poppycock': The Foreign Office Investigates

II ‘Baumgart is Telling Lies': The War Office Files

III Double Trouble: Debunking the Escape Theories

3 American Intelligence and Rumours of Survival

I ‘A Dollar to a Doughnut': Hitler in America?

II Hitler in Argentina?

III Recurrent Legends: The CIA Investigations

IV ‘Is Hitler Dead?' American Military Intelligence Investigates

V Hitler Everywhere? The Importance of Context

4 Political Motivations? British, American and Soviet Conduct

I Why Trevor-Roper? Investigating the British Investigations

II Preventing a Hitler Myth: Rumours, Motivations and Context

III Triumph of the Wills

IV Anglo-American Solidarity

V Appeasing the Soviets? British Intelligence and Soviet Conduct

5 Helping Hitler Escape? The Hunt for Hitler's Henchmen

I Bormann is the Key?

II The Hunt for Heinrich ‘Gestapo' Mu¨ller

III The Mass Suicide

IV ‘ Why Not Hitler?' Real Escapes from the Bunker

6 The Evidence Still Stands

I Positive and Consistent Evidence

II Alternative Versions of Hitler's Death

III The Skull Changes Everything?

Conclusion: ‘The Onus is on Hitler'

Acknowledgements

Bibliography

Notes

Index

Luke Daly-Groves is a PhD researcher based at the University of Leeds. His doctoral research analyses Anglo-American intelligence relations in occupied Germany. In 2015 he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree with First Class Honours in History from the University of Central Lancashire and was awarded the Sydney Lee Prize for History. In 2016 he was awarded the degree of Master of Arts in Modern History with Distinction from the University of Leeds. His MA dissertation won the Marion Sharples Prize.