The Specter of Hitler's Survival
Historical Blindness
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Operation Myth Was a Disinformation Campaign to Make the World Believe Hitler Had Survived
Operation Myth was not Stalin's disinformation campaign to make the world believe Hitler had survived. They collected pieces of a couch with blood stains on it, which they tested and asserted were of Hitler's blood type. Sifting through the earth of the crater from which the burnt remains believed to be Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun had been unearthed,. Also discovered the skull fragment with the bullet hole in it that would cause such controversy years later. Finally, they hauled key witnesses out of their Soviet prisons to interrogate and cross-interrogate them again. These were the witnesses in the bunker whom Hugh Trevor Roper most wanted to question. From them they confirmed that Hitler andEva Braun had withdrawn to their room
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