Alleged doubles of Adolf Hitler

There is no evidence that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler used look-alikes as political decoys during his life, but it has often been the subject of debate. Some stories about his death and replacement by a double were propagated several years before his death, after which the Soviet Union claimed that the dictator had in fact used a double to fake his death and escape Berlin. Western scholars regard the Soviet claims as disinformation. The Soviets supposedly found a number of similar bodies, with only Hitler's dental remains ever positively identified.^[a][b][c]

The most prominent evidence of a Hitler double is Soviet footage of a body with a gunshot wound to the forehead, ostensibly found in the Reich Chancellery garden; the Soviets sometimes implied this to be the body of Hitler himself. Conspiracy theorists cite the alleged body as evidence that Hitler faked his death.

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