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Anyone ever wonder what he'd look like without that moustache?

So Russia finally announced what happened with Hitler’s remains. Apparently he died from a combination of cyanide poisoning and a self inflicted gun shot wound. The Russians buried the remains in a forest near the town of Rathenau, Germany in June of 1945. When the Soviets decided to give up the garrison there in 1970 they disinterred the remains, burned them, and threw them in a river under direct orders from Yuri Andropov, the then Chief of the KGB.

I have to admit I am kind of surprised how right we got his demise having never been explicitly told what happened. I guess there goes any chance of a zombie Hitler or someone finding the Führer enjoying the remaining years of his retirement in a nice assisted living community in South America. If he had managed to stay alive he would be 120 by now and in the running for the oldest living person.

It’s amazing to hear that they just burned the remains of Hitler, Braun, Goebbels and his family and tossed them out but I can see how they might believe it would prevent their graves from becoming a kind of facist mecca.

I’d debate how successful they were as Nazi Germany continues to be, for most people, one of the most fascinating pieces of modern history. As somewhat of a WWII history buff myself I think it’s interesting to find out what finally happened to the remains of the most rotten core of Nazi Germany. “als Partisanen auszurotten,” indeed!