298 - The Long Death of Adolf Hitler

In April 1945, as the Third Reich collapsed around him, Adolf Hitler died in the Führerbunker in Berlin. It is one of the most famous deaths in modern history and yet, in many ways, one of the least securely witnessed. There was no public body, no official announcement at the moment it happened, and no single, uncontested account. What followed was confusion, rumour, investigation, and decades of speculation. Today I am joined by historian Caroline Sharples to talk about the death of Hitler itself. Why it unfolded as it did, how news of his death was received, how governments and intelligence services tried to verify what had happened, and why uncertainty and myth filled the vacuum almost immediately. Caroline is the author of ' The Long Death of Adolf Hitler: An Investigative History ', a study of the aftermath of April 1945 and the cultural and political consequences of a death that was widely anticipated but never conclusively seen. patreon.com/ww2podcast

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298 - The Long Death of Adolf Hitler is an episode from The WW2 Podcast by Angus Wallace.

This episode is 55:18 long.

This episode was published on Mar 8, 2026.

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