Didn’t see this one coming. Newsmax is reporting:
A skull long believed to be Adolf Hitler’s is actually the remains of a woman, according to a scientist who has taken DNA samples from it.
Soviet troops found the skull among charred remains outside Hitler’s bunker in Berlin in 1945. The Russians said at the time that the remains confirmed that the Nazi dictator had shot himself on April 30, 1945, and then been cremated along with his wife Eva Braun.
But University of Connecticut archaeologist and bone specialist Nick Bellantoni says the skull belonged to a woman under age 40, and not Hitler, who was 56 when he died, Britain’s Sky News reported.
Bellantoni is convinced the skull is not Braun’s because it has a bullet wound, and Braun is thought to have killed herself by taking cyanide.
Bellantoni flew to Moscow to take DNA swabs of the skull at the State Archives, according to Britain’s Daily Mail.
The Russians have claimed that dental records confirm that the skull is Hitler’s.
But his dental records “were destroyed on the orders of Martin Bormann in 1944, so there were no records of top Nazi leaders with which to compare the charred findings,” historian and journalist Gerrard Williams told Sky News.
“There is no forensic evidence whatsoever that Hitler died in the bunker.”
So this leads to one or two conclusions. Hitler was a chick or…HE’S STILL ALIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Either one freaks me out.
September 29, 2009 at 2:38 am
I always knew the Russian skull was a hoax! How could that secret cult of Neo-Nazis be preserving his living head in a jar in a secret lab deep in the jungles of South America if the Russians had his skull?
September 29, 2009 at 3:31 am
I seen the show about this on the history channel this week. They, the Russians, also had a blood stain couch that they said had Hitler's blood on it.
The blood, on the couch, did turn out to be MALE blood, but without DNA evidence from a living decedent of Hitler there's no way to prove or disprove that the blood belong to Hitler.
Hitler does have LIVING decedents here in the USA but they refused to give blood, they actually refused to respond to the history channels request for blood.
For more see: History Channel: MysteryQuest
September 29, 2009 at 3:59 am
Reminds me of the song "Karma Police" by Radiohead
Karma police,
arrest this girl,
her hitler hairdo is making me feel ill.
September 29, 2009 at 4:02 am
Wait, the Russians lied?
YOU'RE KIDDING!!!!
September 29, 2009 at 11:37 am
He's hiding in the mountains of Pakistan with bin Laden.
September 29, 2009 at 11:38 am
The Weekly World News reported that Hitler was a woman about 15 years ago, and that Hitler was quite dead at the time. So, why is this news now?!?
September 29, 2009 at 11:41 am
Wow. Scooped by the Weekly World News. That's embarrasing.
But they're not going to beat me on that Wolf boy story I've been investigating.
September 29, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Hmm, I don't think we'd have to worry too much about him being alive (apart from the head in a jar in south america), since he'd be over 110 years old at this point.
September 29, 2009 at 2:24 pm
The skull is probably Eva Braun's. Hitler's remains were probably destroyed by the Russians.
October 1, 2009 at 9:09 pm
John C. Wright covered this too…
First water on the moon, then the skull, and now THIS!