Review of Hitler: A Career (1977) by Brad M — 19 Feb 2017

With the "Trump is Hitler" sentiment that is rampant in today's social and political commentary, I thought I would watch a documentary on the real Hitler to see if I could draw any parallels before Hitler rose to power and became a genocidal egomaniac warmonger.

This is a very well done documentary, but one of the most surprising things I found out from this was that the story of how Hitler was killed leaves a lot of question marks.

Hitler's body was never really able to be identified, Russian soldiers found charred remains and the narrative was that it was Hitler.

I googled it, and found out that in 2009 the bone fragments from the body that was claimed to be Hitler's were analyzed, and they turned out to be from a female.

So Hitler may not actually have been killed in German at the end of the war like we've all been told.

He was born in 1889, so I don't think we have to worry that he's still alive now - but Hitler could have lived for a very long time after the war and we would not have known it.

Does this matter? Probably not. Is it interesting? You tell me.