Hitler fleeing to Argentina

There have been a couple of media items lately regarding the possibility that Hitler fled to Argentina after the Second World War. It's the revival of a long-standing conspiracy theory.

For example, a five month old radio podcast from the Jeff Rense radio show claiming that Martin Bormann forced Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler at gunpoint and under the influence of drugs to board a plane and flee to Argentina.

Another example is a two year old article in Britain's Daily Mail, which shows their (Hitler and Eva Braun's) possible escape route:

From: here 

A third example is this more recent October 31 2013 Herald Sun article: 

Did Hitler escape to Argentina? The bizarre new theory that has historians at war:

This weekend, it emerged that the story of Hitler's supposed escape to Argentina has become the subject of a bitter plagiarism row. In their book, Grey Wolf: The Escape Of Adolf Hitler, British authors Gerrard Williams and Simon Dunstan argued that the Führer escaped exactly in the manner described above, and did indeed see out his days in South America.

The article author, Guy Waters, ends up concluding that there weren't any credible eyewitness accounts of Hitler leaving -- there would have been too much of a cover up had he left Berlin -- and that Hitler did not flee to Argentina.

There were claims that Hitler's skull was in Moscow, but it turned out to be the skull of a 40 year old woman. I suppose not finding clear evidence of Hitler's remains has in part fuelled the conspiracy theories all these years.

In any case, the main reason I believe Hitler died in Berlin as popular history has it, is not because of any of the above factors, but because of Hitler's character.

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Hitler would be remembered by history as the bumbling oaf who started the greatest human made tragedy of all time. The invasion of the Soviet Union was a mistake, and came at a time when Hitler most overestimated his own leadership prowess after the conquest of France.  Some say Hitler's already huge ego was even further pumped up by injections of the drug pervitin from his personal doctor Morell.

Hitler had an unshakable, if misguided belief, that the German and Aryan people were superior. And Hitler genuinely believed in himself as their messiah. Hitler was many things, but being a hypocrite was not one of them. Hitler may have been a murderous thug, but he was absolutely genuine in my opinion.

If Hitler's German people were not up to the racial struggle against the Bolsheviks he had chosen for them, then they were inferior and deserved to lose the war. And if Adolf Hitler was the leader of a failed people then he too deserved death.

If he expected the German soldier to die at his post then he would die likewise.  That was the thing about Hitler.  Life wasn't a game to him, he played for keeps.

He viewed life as a Darwinian struggle for survival. It was a primitive view that was not unusual for the time. 

His policy in the East was one of racist annihilation. When he invaded Poland, he implemented all his wild racist fantasies. So, for example, Jews in Warsaw were rounded up and shot for the mere crime of being Jewish.

He starved the Ukrainians so that the Germans could occupy the Ukraine, which was to become the bread basket of Greater Germania.  This made the Ukrainians rebel and fight the Nazis when they could have been allies. Hitler was also determined to kill or starve most Slavs in the region of Greater Germania, with a few kept as slaves for the master race.

So when the Russians came to Germany Hitler was only reaping the whirlwind he had created by his brutal policies in the East. The Russians advanced on a crumbling Berlin in April 1945.  

Hitler's thousand year Reich was coming to an end after only 12 years. Yet he was determined to stand fast and see it out to the end.  His vision for the German people would die with him.

Many of his staff urged him to flee, but true to his wish he would stay in Berlin and commit suicide in his capital. He couldn't stand to see a Germany in ruin, especially when it was all of his making.

He knew what happened to Mussolini -- being strung up in the street on meat hooks -- and was determined to meet the same fate. At 2:30pm 30 April 1945 Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun retired to an office in the Fuhrer bunker.

There would have been little time for Hitler to reflect on what might have been. All he had done and how close he had come to a glory that would truly befit the title of thousand year Reich. And he would have been the patron saint of that Reich. Instead it ended in the ultimate failure of suicide.

Eva Braun took cyanide and died almost instantly. Hitler took cyanide and shot himself simultaneously  There was then an at least partial burning of the bodies as per Hitler's instructions, with the remains probably being disposed of somewhere in the grounds of the Reich Chancellery.

Hitler gambled with the fate of a nation and failed. Who wouldn't want to be dead if they were responsible for such a calamity? There's no way he fled to Argentina only to spend years contemplating his massive failure.

What Greater Germania may have looked like if Hitler had have won WW2.  (From here.)